rockers who are still chain smoking in the '18

Thalia Zedek is one

lol has anyone seen a famous musician vape?

https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/cat-power-wanderer.html

Marshall vapes, speaking freely if somewhat elliptically, using eye contact like punctuation to underscore her point, and offers me water with the solicitousness of a great waitress.

Sounds like she's a cigarette smoker, too:

“There are streets that I don’t walk down anymore,” says Marshall, taking a deep drag of a half-finished American Spirit, while sitting on her quilt-covered daybed, leaning toward her open bedroom window to exhale, waving out the smoke with her hand like a bad teen hoping not to get busted. “I’m old school, I can’t waste anything,” she says tangentially, referring to her cigarette before returning to the subject.

Lydia Lunch

I hate the feeling of unease I get whenever I read interviews/profiles of Chan Marshall. I need a cigarette

Graham Coxon enters the studio through a thick cloud of vapour. “Banana and yoghurt,” he announces cheerfully. I had expected Coxon to be a bit more taciturn, given his reputation as the second least chatty member of Blur. But earlier, as I waited outside, I heard him loudly, happily tootling a song to himself. As he vapes, he fizzes with enthusiasm, his body barely still for a second, even when he is trying to sit down and talk. “I can get quite stressed,” he says, shuffling in his seat, “but I’m in a good mood when I’m in the studio.”

From:

Graham Coxon: 'I was a mardy brat in my 20s … I'm quite mellow now'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/26/graham-coxon-interview-i-was-a-mardy-brat-in-my-20s-blur

(Sorry - derailing with vape example...)

vaping examples encouraged and frankly I'm more fascinated with that now

Coxon is an icon of cool to me and I can vape with pride without shame now. thank you

Haha. Let's see if anyone else reveals their go-to flavour

Pretty sure Julian Casablancas smokes.

Joni, obviously

(smoking I mean. Can't picture her vaping, although if anyone can make it look cool, it would be Joni)

Noel Gallagher giving Kasabian dude shit for e-ciggin backstage

The way I see it, if you're still smoking cigs you're probably still shooting smack

I saw the guided by voices classic lineup a few years back, and mitch mitchell seemed to have a dedicated "cigarette roadie" -- a guy who would light him up a new cig every time he finished with one mid-song. The way he was burning through them was inhuman. I was really surprised that the guy is still alive.

There's that clip in Watch Me Jumpstart where he smokes while brushing his teeth

(Mitch)

damn, good thread.

He shot to fame with his penchant for a funky chart-topping tune, his roguish dance-moves and impeccably stylish dress sense.

But Jay Kay looked worlds apart from the dapper figure he usually cuts, as he ran some errands in London on Thursday.

Cutting a dishevelled figure as he puffed on a cigarette, the 45-year-old Jamiroquai frontman appeared in a gruff and slightly downcast mood as he strolled through the capital's streets.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/09/14/2E43776800000578-0-image-a-16_1447078320819.jpg

Smoking a cigarette and carrying a morning paper in his free hand, the Canned Heat singer strolled looked preoccupied with his thoughts as he strolled along a leafy street.

The chart-topping singer, who usually can be seen in a sizzling array of sartorially swish outfits, donned an unusually casual and practical wardrobe for his walk.

Donning a hooded navy quilted jacket with red detailing to battle the elements Jay Kay - real name Jason Kay - opted for a decidedly more mute and mundane look to normal.

Obviously going for comfort over style, the Grammy-winning dance maestro teamed his weatherproof gear with a pair of baggy, faded denim jeans.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/09/15/2E43776100000578-3310375-image-a-38_1447081215531.jpg

Keeping to his very casual theme, the acid jazz frontman rounded off his ensemble with a pair of battered white trainers.

With his shaggy mane of copper hair tangled and in a dishevelled state, Jay Kay swept his locks off of his face.

Sporting a heavy layer of peppered stubble over his cheeks, the chart-topping star - who has achieved number one spots on both sides of the Atlantic - only added to his unkempt appearance.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/09/15/2E43779D00000578-3310375-image-a-41_1447081229628.jpg

The suave singer, who usually wears a trademark hat, has become as famous for his unique style as he has his rockstar lifestyle.

A self-proclaimed petrolhead, Jay has a number of expensive sports cars which he loves to drive, and even holds the record for fastest lap of the Top Gear track as The Star In The Reasonably Priced Car.

Currently a bachelor, the singer once dated actress and TV host Denise Van Outen.

jay kay doing some great val kilmering in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOYrYpAvd0

Ike Barinholtz to start a pie diet in prep for the Jamiroquai biopic

Matt Pike still smokes

I think it's weird to assume that people (especially people who have been smoking for decades) just suddenly stopped smoking at some point because of the (relatively recent) social stigma attached (because it isn't like anyone ever thought it was an especially healthy thing to do in the first place). I mean I get that you cant really smoke in bars and restaurants anymore, but the smokers I know (musicians and otherwise) didn't really stop smoking as a result, they just stated complaining about it a lot.

Just last week I happened to see an old episode of The State and Kerry Kenney was smoking a cigarette in a scene that had nothing to do with her character smoking a cigarette, and I thought about how weird it was to see someone just casually brandishing a lit cigarette on MTV and how it wasn't that long ago.

because it isn't like anyone ever thought it was an especially healthy thing to do in the first place

lol yes they did

I think Neil Hagerty still smokes cigs (but don't quote me on that)

xp wait, when did people think it was healthy to smoke cigarettes?

My point was that if fewer people are smoking now, it isn't because they've suddenly been made aware that it's bad for you. Everyone knows smoking is bad for you and has known this for well over half a century. The assumption in the op is that most people who used to smoke no longer do (not that fewer people are taking up the habit), and this is definitely not a trend I have noticed firsthand

Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) definitely still smokes

https://i.imgur.com/2PWjY9M.jpg

xp wait, when did people think it was healthy to smoke cigarettes?

when the army issued them to GIs in WWII, when doctors made ads that recommended them, when practically everyone on film + TV did it etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxUZI0vE0FM

so yeah, about half a century ago, when the tobacco industry was successfully addicting a huge percentage of an entire generation to its product

But most of of the people we are talking about in this thread were born much later than that. I'm not denying that smoking is on the wane among adults, just not sure about the idea that older folks are suddenly successfully quitting en masse.

The biggest incongruity in the film Alien isn't the 70s technology. It's that in the year 2122 people in a spaceship are puffing away as if it's 1979.

A bit from that movie The King's Speech has stuck with me for nearly 10 years: trying to cure the speech impediment, a doctor suggests smoking cigarettes: "Soothes the throat." Sounds absurd, but at the same time, not implausible. It made sense in context. I think about that a lot - what common wisdom we take for granted today is actually completely wrong.

“i can’t believe no one has mentioned x” is probably my least favorite sub genre of post but keith richards should be the first name here.

just not sure about the idea that older folks are suddenly successfully quitting en masse.

you don’t think it makes sense for people to make health related lifestyle changes as they age?

Of course it makes sense, I just think it's easier said than done. I'm wracking my brain to trying to think if I know a single adult who has successfully quit smoking (though I know many who have tried and failed, including my father)

Anyway, this hijack / derail seems like a more appropriate topic for ILE, no?

Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) definitely still smokes

― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 2:25 PM (four hours ago)

ha last time I hung w/him he said he does it almost as a matter of principle

I'm not denying that smoking is on the wane among adults, just not sure about the idea that older folks are suddenly successfully quitting en masse.

uhhhh of my friends who are approximately my age or older, maybe 20% smoke, 20% never smoke or will have the occasional cigarette, and 60% are former smokers

wracking my brain to trying to think if I know a single adult who has successfully quit smoking (though I know many who have tried and failed, including my father)

my mother quit in the 1980s so that cancels out your entire sample

it is possible that some of my friends will return to smoking prior to death, but like sic's mom, my grandmother quit in the 1980s and is dead now, having never taken smoking back up

Ariel Pink?

(my dad transitioned from pack-a-day of cigs to half a cigar or two a day, but died in ‘94. half a dozen + of my high school friends started smoking in the ‘90s and quit or dropped to a drunk fag a few times a year by their early ‘30s.)

The Coug obv

robyn

not a rocker, but rules

sic’s post contains a striking reminder of the “U.S. vs. British vernacular” lesson

FP’d both you and sarahel for racism

I'm wracking my brain to trying to think if I know a single adult who has successfully quit smoking

Though not a rock star, Eric Wagner who was in doom metal gods Trouble and now is in doom metal supergroup The Skull is a huge smoker who still chains on stage.

http://battlehelm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/skull2.jpg

idk if he is a rocker but a recently saw a promotional photo of Richard Pinhas with a cig hanging out of his mouth. smoking is one thing but being photographed for promotional purposes while smoking is a whole other level.

I smoked for 14 years and have quit for 16. I just had a strange experience looking at the old ad posted above - looking at the woman smoking at the end I suddenly thought you're doing WHAT? WHY would you do that? - smoking itself looks so weird to me now.