Smoking Is Back on Screen and It Smells Like Nostalgia

by Reena Gupta URL Copied! There’s a scene in Nobody Wants This when Noah (Adam Brody) confirms to Joanne (Kristen Bell) that he is, in fact, the party’s resident Rabbi. His words are staggered between plumes of cigarette smoke, as a visibly bewitched Joanne holds her gaze. Smoking, in other words, appears to be back, at least in popular culture.

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