Does your doll "smoke"? Why?

I don't smoke and I don't really like the smell of it. That said three of my dolls (characters) are smokers. One smokes American Spirit. He got started at a young age. His parents were going through tough times and to escape he started smoking. The other two smoke Malboros. Parker started smoking in order to fit in with the group of people he hung out with. Rodrick smokes because he likes the taste and couldn't care less if it kills him.

 

One of my dolls smoke because yolo. JK jk but there's not really a reason for it. He just seems like he might. Same with being a pothead and/or drinking. I can see that. I don't personally smoke and I dislike the smell of cigarettes and especially pot but I have to admit, smoking looks pretty damn masculine and can look classy (or trashy whichever you're aiming for). xD

 

i don't smoke, and to me smoking is absolutely disgusting.....still...i was thinking of buying a smoking pipe for one of my guy dolls, just because the personality of the character demands it...if my dolls were all like me they would be very boring, so i try to give everyone their own style and treats so that they are all different from the others...variety, that's what the world is made of. same thing with the dolls and their personalities ^^

 

I don't personally smoke, although two of my doll characters do. Paul smokes because he's kind of a degenerate like that lol. He drinks and gambles and chases women too, so he's got more than a few vices. My other doll character who smokes is Dylan (who is currently a floating head). What he's smokin' is not cigarettes, though. He's a hippie and he likes some grass now and then.

 

As a human, I abhor cigarettes. I have asthma, and cigarette smoke is one of the things that triggers it, and I've had relatives die from smoking-related illness.

But dolls with small plastic props do not fall under the same umbrella to me. I admit, when I see cigarettes that are out of scale to the doll hand holding them, I'm turned off aesthetically, though.

My current boys are non-smokers-- only one of them is even a mature mini, and he doesn't smoke. It would look really wrong to pose either of the others with a cigarette because they look like kids. (my floating head is the current embodiment-- en-head-ment?-- of a character who smokes, but he's... well, a floating head, and he represents a different aspect of that character and will eventually be his child-self when I do get around to buying a large, mature guy who really looks like himself)

Now, the girl I'm saving for may have photoshoots with a cigarette prop, if I ever bother making them. Her character is from the past, she started smoking when it was advertised as healthy, and starts trying to quit when she realizes that it makes it hard to breathe while running and that it might, in fact, not be healthy to smoke while trying to get pregnant. Her setting is such that most women having babies at that time would not have quit smoking, she is at this moment working to quit. But, doing photostories of her whole story, I would realistically include her smoking at the beginning.

It's the difference between character and creator, and while in real life, cigarettes disgust me, a tiny prop that looks like a cigarette does not, and if it is in character, then it doesn't turn me off from the doll or the artist. (likewise, while I hate cigarettes, I don't blanket-hate smokers. My grandmother smoked for over fifty years.)

 

Evan smokes because his character is a smoker. So does Adolph, and Kevin does on occasion. Their habits just correspond to their characters. I would never dream of putting a cigarette in my Francois's hand, regardless of how "cool" it might make him look. It's just not who he is, so he wouldn't do it.

To be honest, I too find smoking disgusting. It's really a gross thing, and I can't stand to be around people when they smoke. However, that doesn't cut me off from opening up my options for character creation. Sometimes the most pleasing thing about making a character, for me, is seeing how different from me I can make him or her.

 

Let's just say: yes.. Smoking has been MADE into antisocial stuff and filthy and what not. STILL some people are STILL addicted to this (amongst these are my mom) I dislike it but i'd never go as far as to use SUCH strong words as Arkady. Saying it's filthy, and what not makes you indirectly say that the person addicted is the same. Having said that in as polite a manner i can without going too far.
No, my current dolls do not smoke, but one or two might in the future because it's a human thing and makes a good flaw to pick them down from the perfection-piedestal. Not because it's cool, because alot starts smoking to talk with others in a social manner, fx. and it's only recently it became an antisocial thing in Denmark

 

my doll doesn't smoke
simply because I don't like smoking...and she doesn't look like a smoker

Also my doll has to be very very innocent O_o

she has to look like a girl who enjoys walking in a wide grassland and enjoys the cool winds blowing across the field...I just can't imagine such a girl smoking T_T

like the girl in pic below
Btw she's a korean idol, Juniel ^_^

 

My dolls don't smoke, because I don't smoke.

 

For me, it is really a part of who he is (or will be, cause I ordered him.) He started smoking when he was at the age were it was considered cool and he has not quit his bad habit. The doll that I have at home does not smoke, since she is more innocent. Maybe that is why, she is innocent and I wanted him to be far from it.

I do smoke, myself. And I find it the opposite of antisocial, as so many others here has said. It is very much a social thing, at the beginning. I started because my friends did it and do so still today. But it is not good for you and it is not cool at all. I feel sad when I see young people smoking and feeling badass. I just want to go to them and say that when they grow up they won't feel badass anymore and then it will already be a habit that is hard to break..

 

Griffin is my only doll who smokes, I guess he just likes it.

 

Well, the character to my iplehouse Chase does. But because when his character was made, the era he was put in was when they didn't know about the health risks. Though his character rarely smokes.

But I don't smoke, and I don't like it. (also only 16)

 

I don't like smoking, either, so my dolls don't smoke.

But I DO understand that it can be part of a character. It can look interesting and add to realism with a doll smoking. And... dolls don't need to worry about health risks!

I don't make characters that smoke because I would have a hard time understanding them. (My dad smoked, so it's not THAT alien to me... but I really dislike the taste and smell, so... and the expense and health risks make me want to stay away, too.)

 

ok, so i just gave a friend a cigarette for his doll, for his birthday this past year i sent him a set of dice and some poker chips. He was so excited that i bought him doll cigarettes because now he could do a gambling themed pic with his doll for fun. I am allergic to cigarettes, but even i have one for my doll as a kind of joke for me. she doesnt really like holding it (it keeps falling out of her hands) and i have no real use for it other than if i want to fly to florida and do a photoshoot with my friend and his dolls. (believe me, if i could afford to i would)
Also I know of a few people who were trying to recreate themes from other time periods where smoking was common and thought of as "cool".

 

C is my only smoker; his character started smoking after his mother more or less kicked him out of home because of....a really big... really hard to explain misunderstanding... but yes. I don't think any of my other doll characters are smokers thus far... Selvans might smoke a pipe once in a blue moon I guess but I doubt there would be much tobacco in whatever mix of aromatic herbs he would come up with.

 

I have two dolls who smoke, or rather the characters they portray smokes. There is Mikhaila, who was raised by her heavily smoking grandmother, and kinda just picked up the habit from her. Not only does smoking help her calm down when she's riled up, but since she smokes the same brand as her grandmother it also provides some comfort when she is feeling homesick. People can grow an emotional attachment to the strangest things under the right circumstances, and cigarettes is it for her (But it's mainly because it calms her down).

And then there is Tooru, who smokes for the superficial reason of cultivating his delinquent image. That said he has a poor immunity system and smoking triggers asthma-like symptoms for him (his lungs clamp up, it becomes hard to breath, gets coughing fits and general breathing problems) so majority of the time he says he smokes, but finds a convenient excuse to avoid cigarette breaks whenever they come up. He does stubbornly attempts to smoke when alone in hopes that he'll get over it, but that just ain't happening.

Personally, I grew up in a heavily smoking household but I never started smoking myself (tried to, but it didn't stick.) I won't say I dislike smoking or people who smoke, but I certainly don't like it either.

 

I have one doll who is usually always stoned, so yes he smokes weed..... My bigger dolls smoke shisha (it's flavored tobacco not weed) while resting at camp (they're a quest party).

 

Depends on the character of the doll. Plus if someone's doing a noir photo shoot then they BETTER have them smoking to convey the correct atmosphere.
I don't smoke cause it hurts my throat (that's any kind of smoke...) However the idea that somehow no one really smokes anymore is nonsense. In order to have realistic characters some are gonna smoke, some drink, etc.
And those smoking dolls could really just be toking...

 

Sanachii, what an interesting faceted character
I have one that does smoke, even though I don't, dislike it and feel really upset with the smoke (not unlike Sanachii's Toru)
My James comes from the 18th century and doesn't really believe smoking is bad for his and other's health, for how many times he is told it does. It calms him in a world where he finds so much he needs to adapt to.