• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I thought it said “firing people is hard”. I’m a manager and so my brain was like, “yeah letting people go is difficult”. But then, I got to the sex and smoking part and was thoroughly confused.

        • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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          1 hour ago

          I agree with that. But I’m surprised the act of smoking would be considered sexy, I don’t think it’s not an association I ever would have made

          • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            23 minutes ago

            I think it is commonly seen as sexy due to advertising which intentionally tried to portray smoking that way.

            Particularly in the 1960s smoking advertisements started to target women consumers, like with the Virginia Slims advert, and as smoking went from a strictly masculine activity to something liberated women do, I think the door opened for adverts to increasingly associate smoking with sexual appeal.

            However, smoking a cigarette after sex is its own phenomenon, associated with relaxing after sex but it’s probably more about the fact that smokers need their nicotine fix after having not smoked for an extended period of time.

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          We know we smell. Better off to pair up with another smoker. When I was young just about everyone I hung out with smoked so it was no problem.