I was watching TV the other day and ended up watching this drama called Mad Men for anyone who hasn't heard of it, it's about the ruthlessly competitive men and women who are part of an advertising firm, it is based in the 1960's and the members of the firm manipulate and exploit people to close their advertising deals. What caught my attention on this show however was the way smoking had a very glamourous appeal with all the characters, which is understandable really as the show is based in a time was smoking was still seen as glamourous, a particular scene caught my attention in where the main character, Don Draper who is the biggest ad man in the business and also it seems quite the ladies man is having a drink with a woman trying to close a business deal, at the start of this drink they flirt rediculously while smoking there cigarettes until, Draper makes a harsh comment about the business deal then the woman puts the cigarette out only halfway through being smoked ,and soon after leaves. I remember in the smoking lecture it being discussed how smoking has being used in the past in films to sexually charge a scene and this was very present in the scene in Mad Men, although it has been made very recently it seems to be a sort of homage to the way smoking was used in these more old fashioned films and showing the glamour also associated with smoking at the time.
Above is a picture of the woman Draper is talking with, and a photo of Draper himself both smoking.
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