Cigarettes are back! Hollywood is pushing a new generation to light up from coast to coast

We’re smoking hot.

Yes, you read that right – cigarettes are having a moment again. Just when it seemed we’d burned that bad habit to the ground, Hollywood — ironically part of the nation’s most health obsessed state — is lighting up again. 

From trays filled with cigarettes at the Vanity Fair Oscar’s Party to Kylie Jenner smoking on the mag’s latest cover; Sarah Pidgeon’s Carolyn Bessette Kennedy taking effortless drags while skulking around John F. Kennedy Jr.’s apartment in Ryan Murphy’s FX hit “Love Story” to Jeremy Allen White’s “The Bear” character Carmy’s frequent smoke breaks outside the restaurant, smoking is well and truly back — Surgeon General’s warnings be damned.

“I’ve definitely seen an uptick in singles describing themselves as ‘sometimes’ smokers — not pack-a-day smokers, but occasional, where it’s tied to nightlife, travel, aesthetic and intimacy,” Ashleigh Rodosta, a Gotham-based matchmaker and relationship coach, told The Post. “The post-sex cigarette is also making a comeback.”

Rodosta emphasized that while having a smoke is now back in vogue, how the habit shows up in everyday life has changed in significant ways.

“What’s ironic is that many of these same people are otherwise intensely wellness-oriented — cold plunges, peptides, clean eating, the whole thing,” she continued. “So cigarettes are showing up less as a real lifestyle and more as an occasional indulgence tied to image, mood and social setting.”