are smokers 'cool?'

[opebo]

Hell yes.  I've never smoked a single cigarette and never will, but I'm perfectly able to recognize how cool they are (and I preferred to hang out with them in their smokey places).

[opebo]

i thought you used to smoke cigarettes behind the barn with your brother while talking of ways yall could kill your parents?

No we just plotted/fantasized murder, we didn't smoke cigarettes.

[opebo]

I suppose what all you fellows are missing is that it is not so much smoking which is cool, but your feeble clinging-to-life which is uncool.  You seem to think you're going to live forever.  Better just live it up while you can.