{"id":3067,"date":"2009-07-24T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2009-07-24T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:23:30","slug":"smoking-portrayed-as-%e2%80%98sexy%e2%80%99-in-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/smoking-portrayed-as-%e2%80%98sexy%e2%80%99-in-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking portrayed as \u2018sexy\u2019 in Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Leonardo DiCaprio smoking pensively on the Titanic deck is classic Marlboro Man. The swells in first class, trading cigarettes are Dunhill. The rough-and-tumble crowd in steerage rolling their own could be taken as a coded reference to the no-frills, non-additive, no-bull Winston, while Kate Winslet blowing smoke in her mother\u2019s face is very much \u2018You\u2019ve come a long way, baby\u2019 &#8211; Virginia Slims.\u201d In \u2018Titanic,\u2019 smoking is sexy, social, sophisticated, genuine and rebellious, and in the end virtually everyone dies &#8211; which is the most perfect touch of all.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: Malcolm Gladwell, \u201cThe Talk Of the Town, NEW YORKER. 913198 p31.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo DiCaprio smoking pensively on the Titanic deck is classic Marlboro Man. The swells in first class, trading cigarettes are Dunhill. The rough-and-tumble crowd in steerage rolling their own could be taken as a coded reference to the no-frills, non-additive, no-bull Winston, while Kate Winslet blowing smoke in her mother\u2019s face is very much \u2018You\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}