{"id":13050,"date":"2026-04-29T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13050"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:29:04","slug":"smoking-is-back-and-yes-its-still-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13050","title":{"rendered":"Smoking is Back (and, Yes, It\u2019s Still Deadly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Smoking is back, and it\u2019s back in a big way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it might have seemed like we\u2019d wriggled free from the chokehold cigarettes had on society up through the \u201890s, just as mid-century modern furniture and vinyl have made a roaring comeback, so too has the cigarette. But unlike Eames chairs and turntables, cigarettes can kill us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have seen some of the most enviable, trend-setting young stars in Hollywood, like breakout Heated Rivalry hottie Hudson Williams (who\u2019s only 25), who smoke so openly and consistently that you would think it\u2019s clearly a concerted personal brand choice for their image. Admittedly, Williams does make smoking look very sexy and pretty damn cool, despite our better judgment and what we all know those cigs are actively doing to his hot boy lungs. He\u2019s smoking in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTvD5idDM7W\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\">campaigns for Giorgio Armani<\/a>, he\u2019s smoking on his own time while galavanting around NYC, LA, and Milan, and he\u2019s even smoking throughout his keenly curated Instagram grid, with one post from this January accompanied by the tongue-in-cheek caption, \u201chappy new year. quit smoking \u2611\ufe0f\u201d To which we say, <em>\u00a0PLEASE!!!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/smoking-is-back-and-yes-its-still-deadly\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking is back, and it\u2019s back in a big way.\u00a0 While it might have seemed like we\u2019d wriggled free from the chokehold cigarettes had on society up through the \u201890s, just as mid-century modern furniture and vinyl have made a roaring comeback, so too has the cigarette. But unlike Eames chairs and turntables, cigarettes can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[5789,5790,5791,5792,5793,5794,5795,3851,5796,5797,5798,1052,5799,5800,5801,5802,5803],"class_list":["post-13050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-celebrity-influence","tag-charli-xcx","tag-cigarette-aesthetic","tag-cigarette-culture","tag-gen-z-trends","tag-hailey-bieber","tag-hudson-williams","tag-influencer-marketing","tag-interview-magazine","tag-mel-ottenberg","tag-millennial-culture","tag-packaging-design","tag-public-health","tag-smoking-resurgence","tag-subversive-fashion","tag-tobacco-advertising","tag-vintage-vibes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}