We look at what is being advertised in magazines, commercials and on television as a guide to what is in style or appropriate in our society. Whatever is shown we tend to think is what we should be doing or wearing because that is accepted in our world. Smoking is a big advertising market. We see many cigarette commercials and ads in magazines with either famous people or very attractive people smoking and enjoying every minute of it.
Smoking is like a normal every day thing that occurs.
It is much more common to see actors smoking in movies than on television because of all of the restrictions that TV stations have that movie companies do not have. For example, on everybody's favorite show Friends there was an episode where Chandler started smoking again. He started up again because he was stressed out about a situation going on in his life. It is a shame how lightly we take smoking. We do not even blink an eye when we see an advertisement for cigarettes.