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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Politics
Alaina Demopoulos

Celebrities are smoking again: ‘Things are grungier, edgier, sleazier’

Lily-Rose Depp in close up
Lily-Rose Depp smokes in Paris in 2019. Photograph: Edward Berthelot/GC Images

Last month, Lily-Rose Depp left The Idol’s Cannes premiere in La Dolce Vita cosplay, wearing vintage Chanel, a Brigitte Bardot updo, and cat eye sunglasses. But one accessory stood out the most: a lit cigarette, which the actor and noted nepo baby conspicuously puffed as she waved for the paparazzi.

The picture was no accident. “She wants that Pinterest paparazzi pic so bad with the cigarette,” one person wrote in a comment underneath footage on @cigarettes, a popular Instagram page that documents celebrities smoking.

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