Entirely dependent on who is smoking.
If I see an unhappy/unhealthy person smoking, I think they are likely to have a lot of problems, and are smoking just to make it through their sad lives.
If I see a young kid smoking, I mostly want to hit him for trying to look cool.
A happy fellow, anybody walking along smiling and smoking and having a good time, I think isnt necesarily cool, but it gives off a fun loving carefree vibe that is. Good looking person acting like this does = cool.
A pretty girl smoking is just about the hottest thing a girl can do with her clothes on for me.
But really alot of you guys need to stop being so whiney, it's very uncool and you are bringing down the mood, just get on with your happy healthy lives and stop giving a fuck about nothing.
PS. perhaps a little insensitive, but how many of you actually shed a tear for your grandparents dying? I cant imagine I will, not that i dont think he's a cool guy, just that he isnt an integral part of my family system, and it does not affect me. The grandparents dying thing gets thrown around like mad, but it doesnt really mean much to me.
Old people die, and they do their job damn well, smokers do it slightly better but we shouldn't praise them for being the best old people they can be, as they smell like death... wait, no, all old people do.