Even if they are using fake cigarettes that smoke can’t be healthy to inhale, right?
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Did a long ago
Yes
They usually smoke nicotine-free herbal cigarettes. I don’t know the long term affects but definitely better than regular cigarettes.
I think it could be considered dedication to their work, especially when you consider they usually have to film a scene several times. Cillian Murphy probably went through thousands of them when filming Peaky Blinders. Lol
From that wiki page:
Research shows that herbal cigarettes compared with regular cigarettes can be just as harmful in terms of the carcinogens they contain.
Campfire smoke is worse for you than cigarette smoke, the problem is the consistent exposure to the cigarette smoke through becoming addicted.
I’m assuming the benefit is they’re not addictive so you won’t end up smoking packs a day for years.
Nicotine is as addictive as caffeine. It’s the habit that is hard to break.
Ok but there is no reason to have a nicotine and caffeine addiction.
Yes, there’s no reason to enjoy life…lol
I smoke cigars/pipe tobacco, but I don’t drink or have caffeine, it’s a vice and it makes my life better. If you want to save people, get them to stop eating and being morbidly obese…it’s the #1 killer in the USA now.
I fully agree that people should stop eating the way they do. Again, that doesn’t make one thing more or less healthy.
To frame your argument in another example: is ok to drive without a seatbelt if you aren’t going over the speed limit.
The issue isn’t that driving without a seatbelt is only unsafe while speed. They are both safety issues independent from each other.
Again…vices exist. People do drugs, let them, people over eat…let them…but don’t whine when someone else likes a different vice.
So what? They’re smoking those so that they don’t get addicted to nicotine. Smoking 1 pack of cigarettes in a day is not that bad for you. Doing it every day for 30 years is a death sentence.
They depict stuff that humans do in real life.
Yeah and it’s noticeable that in movies that take place in modern times have less and less smoking all the time, which accurately reflects the real world drop in smoking.
Most smoking in movies you see today are either
A) Historical, when smoking was practically ubiquitous
B) Part of the character they’re playing. If you’re playing someone who is generally super unhealthy, or makes bad decisions, or is otherwise in a bad mental place, smoking can help present those negative characteristics to the viewer
Here’s my theory that is based on no research whatsoever:
Cigarette companies used to pay to have characters smoke in movies and TV shows. This would cultivate a social acceptance and “cool factor” around smoking. During the 80s and 90s, this practice came under fire and smoking in movies and TV dramatically dropped to the point of almost being non-existent.
Then time passed, vaping became popular, and people stopped caring about the impact of normalizing or even glorifying smoking. So the practice of paying studios to have characters smoke started to return. Nobody said anything, so it is becoming common place again.
It doesn’t matter if it is unhealthy, it is profitable.
That was also one of the plot pieces in Thank You For Smoking. Great movie.
There’s no version of smoking that’s totally healthy. Even just inhaling fumes from a fireplace isn’t great. I imagine a lot of em will smoke for real, or use a filler like sage or hemp
I guess you could imagine stuffing a vape into a prop cig, but that sounds high effort
Sitting in traffic every day for hours on end is really bad for you as well.
There’s certainly a history of big tobacco getting actors to smoke on screen, so that’s certainly part of it. But another reason an actor might want to smoke is it gives them a way to utilize body language in a way that’s plausible within the scene. Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, pens, eye glasses… these sorts of props are often almost invisible (as the audience just sort of takes them for granted), but can be used by an actor with intent to convey some unsaid context.
Giving somebody something to do with their hands also helps them play the part better.
Having something to fidgit with helps an actor think and get into the character more. It also helps keep things from feeling uncomfortably stiff and unnatural because many people naturally play with things with their hands when they have conversations.
Because its in the script.
I’m reminded of the story of William Davis getting hooked on cigarettes because he insisted on smoking real cigarettes instead of props in the first episodes of X Files
I mean, many of them are getting paid enough not to care and some of them would be smokers. Also, for the majority that don’t personally smoke I’m sure smoking infrequently for the occasional role wouldn’t have anywhere as near a detrimental impact to health compared to even smoking only a few times a week.
I remember reading a long time ago that there’s an herbal (no, not making a marijuana joke) alternative that can be smoked.
Especially when they need to show, e.g., underaged smoking.
But I don’t have a source to link at my fingertips just now.
In any case, probably not good to be inhaling it though.
As far as why? Because it’s in the script.
legacy of big tobacco. smoking transcends time as well - like, you arent going to see a character from pre-10 years ago “movie time” vaping, but smoking various plants has been a thing for quite a few centuries now.
It’s a job, specifically a job where you usually have to pretend to be someone you’re not.
Also, I’m always smokin’.
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I know that on some shoots like In The Cut they sometimes ran out of herbal smokes and people had to smoke real cigs and hated it
