Great Women of Soaps

[YRBB]

Hell, I would get all those cigarrettes just for the colors!

[Sylph]

They do look gorgeous! Here's Black & Gold:

[YRBB]

Yep, those look great as well.

I wish soap divas would smoke more. I have nothing to do with that sport in real life, but there's something terrifically magnetic about a bitch with a long, thin cigarrette and an equally long cigarette holder!

[Sylph]

Yep. It reminds me of old Hollywood glamour, Marlene Dietrich/Rita Hayworth/Greta Garbo smoking:

[SFK]

And that's exactly why I lot of people get them! They can be quite the conversation piece.

Fantasias and B&G are the same, just sort of a "His & Hers" color option. But yes, they have a full, "round" taste that's also created by the charcoal filter (which always reminded me of smoking through a cork).

Another type my friend and I would get was the hint of clove one, a lot less potent than your average clove. I also liked the Phantoms which were very smooth and in a light brown paper. They discontinued those and a few other varieties. Just thinking about the smoking I used to do makes me nervous. So dumb. I thank God for the good sense to have quit.

[YRBB]

Exactly. But I guess it's not "politically correct" to show people smoking.... so to hell with showing something that's true to life.

Glad I'm not the only one!

[Sylph]

I can't find the Phantom on their website.

I wish they reconsidered!

But they'll be accused of glamourising smoking.

[YRBB]

And they should have the, ahem, courage not to care.

[Sylph]

Well, of course! People have brains, they can decide for themselves whether to smoke or not!

That diva with a holder element is really missing! Someone needs to correct that and quick!

[SFK]

"I also liked the Phantoms which were very smooth and in a light brown paper. They discontinued those and a few other varieties."

[Sylph]

LOL!! I am blind, I so did not see that!

I wish they had a historical overview of brands. I must find a pic of those.

[SFK]

I think the last person I saw smoking on a soap was Jonathan on GL, and Hope's doppelganger Gina smoked on DOOL before that. Wendy Moniz's Dinah smoked (lettuce cigarettes for Wendy). I agree that people are (or at least should be) wise enough to know the dangers of smoking and not be sheep who do whatever they see on TV. Problem though is that smoking in a studio with no ventilation is a problem, whereas if say OLTL had done those scenes with Stacy last week on location and out of stress Rex lit up, that's different. It's just weird to introduce it with a character who has no history of it on screen unless the decision to start smoking becomes a story point in and of itself.

[YRBB]

Exactly. Nothing on TV is going to make me want to smoke, or drink, or do drugs, or cheat. But, then again, they are writing for the lowest common denominator.

[Sylph]

I understand that. Even though, as you point out, they should be, sometimes they're just naive and gullible and take the bait, it attracts them so they have to try it. I think I've read something about Mad Men's effect on smoking, I'd have to dig that one out.

And it sure would seem weird if someone just started smoking all of a sudden, good point! They'd need to invent a character. And the truth is, very few of them would be able to pull it properly off.

[Sylph]

Especially now you'd expect people to know the dangers of smoking. Really seriously.

But then again, I can see the seduction factor too.