For those hording toilet paper

Black X-Mas (2006)

What is it about cinema and female characters that smoke? It is some sort of cinematic fetish because when a beautiful woman lights one up, and the director takes his camera in nice and close, the lips eclipsing the butt of the cigarette, sucking in deeply, and puffing out the smoke as if releasing all the tensions of the day, I just become transfixed. Because of what we now know accompanies this practice, to show characters lighting up and taking that huff and puff often brings a backlash, but as a visual, it does elicit a response from me. I can't help it, seeing Lacey Chabert in this particular scene, before biting the big one, left me once again compelled.