Smoking

There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025. This may be surprising as it sounds so much but Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis. These are shockingly high figures and shows just how much smoking is taking over the world. 
 Confidence and glamour are two main things that are linked to the use of cigarettes in films at least as early as the 1920s and 30s, when female stars’ smoking in movies and publicity "shots" went far beyond ‘bad-girl’ associations, to suggest female strength and independence.


Smoking is also shockingly used when it comes to seduction and sex as the pictures demonstrate below:
For some reason in many films big movie stars are seen as more sexy whilst holding a "smelly, smokey cigarettes in their hand" it is often used in big sexy movie scenes.

Here is a link that shows some more shocking statitsics and information about smoking:http://www.hypnotize.me.uk/hypnotherapy-nlp-manchester/factsandfigures.pdf