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"Fashion loves to go back, to reference itself. And smoking helps: it says history, and style, and it works well for what it says in two dimensions. It's a bit dreamy, a bit intellectual, it gets smoky and it fills the screen. But it's in films, in stills, in photos, in something that happened before. It's in two dimensions. That's what we love. In all dimensions, in real life, well… you know, it actually stinks. It smells. And it kills. I was a smoker, hell yes. When I was a model – and the people who have a go at models who smoke, well, it kept our weight down. But it has always been far more cool on the screen than in real life. It just works better there."

There is an echo of her words when I speak to Harriet Quick, fashion features director at Vogue. "Oh, it's just fashion. Fashion loves to do this, to provoke. It's not really saying anything. But, yes, there's something about smoking which works wonderfully well on the screen or the photo. It fills the screen, gives impact. Just doesn't work that well in real life."

But that's life, and indeed death, and what we're meant to be talking about here is art, or at least styling, and expression: 2D smoking, images of smoking . Wispy, ethereal, perfumed smoking, through a glass smokily. And keep the windows closed. Sculptures should be allowed to hold cigarettes. Paintings should be allowed to contain cigarettes. Photographs should, surely, be allowed to portray cigarettes. Theatres, too. In all cases, the fourth wall protects us. From the smoke, definitely, if not from certain strangely unbusy editors and Mumsnet contributors. It's an image, a representation – do with it what your brain will allow.

Smoking doesn't make you cool. It doesn't make you clever. Actually, scratch that last: it does, a bit. Here are three differing quotes. "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"

(Läs allt här: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/03/smoking-health)

Rökning förstör hyn – över hela kroppen

Att rökare i förtid drabbas av dålig hy och rynkor i ansiktet är ingen nyhet.

Men nu avslöjar forskare att hyn påverkas likadant över hela kroppen.

– Vi undersökte hyn på kroppsdelar som inte utsatts för solljus och upptäckte att antalet cigaretter man röker per dag och totalt på ett år är kopplat till hur stora hudskador en person har, säger doktor Yolanda Helfrich vid Universitetet i Michigan enligt nyhetsbyrån Reuters.
Fler rynkor

Studien som publicerats i Archives of Dermatology, visar att rökare får betydligt fler rynkor än de som inte röker. Totalt testades 82 personer, rökare och ickerökare i åldrarna 22 till 91 år.

– När det gällde deltagare som var äldre än 65 så hade rökare betydligt fler rynkor än de som inte rökte. Liknande tecken såg vi bland de som var i åldrarna 45 till 65 år, står det att läsa i rapporten.

När hyn i framför allt ansiktet exponeras för solljus så orsakar det skador som rynkor och missfärgning. Många tidigare studier visar att rökning bidrar till att hyn åldras i förtid, men få studier har gjorts där man tittat på hy som inte har exponerats för solljus.