Pop star Sabrina Carpenter leans over a sink, a cigarette between her fingers, dressed in a corset made entirely of cigarette ...

Cigarettes are resurfacing in pop music and movies, raising fears that a yearslong decline in smoking rates could reverse.

Hamm, who starred on all seven seasons as hotshot creative director Don Draper, learned quickly how important it was that those cigarettes the core cast smoked throughout each episode were indeed fake ...

"It comes down to a kind of healthy degree of nihilism," Jared Oviatt of the Instagram account @cigfluencers told Newsweek.

Cigarettes were once unavoidable in the U.S., in restaurants, airplanes, your mom's living room — until health warnings and cultural pressure put out the hype. The big picture: Something's shifted.

For years, cigarettes were the embarrassing habit everyone was trying to hide. Public campaigns hammered home the risks, offices and bars went smoke-free, and even famous smokers kept their packs out ...

“I started smoking at the age of 12, hanging out with friends over the summer. By the time I turned 13 in October, I was smoking every day. I became a die-hard, “got-to-quit, must-quit, never-going-to ...

“Need a cigarette to make me feel better,” crooned pop star Addison Rae on her 2025 single Headphones On, while Lorde sang “this is the best cigarette of my life” in her own 2025 release What Was That ...