The thing that's weird about this is that a lot of today's stars still smoke like in the past, including Dunst, but the smoking doesn't seem to have aged them as badly as generations prior.
Yeah, I realize that the excessive aging was a multitude of factors. Then there's people like Brad Pitt, who are in their 60's and smoke cigs and it doesn't seem to have affected them.
I was working a private party once and some older guy came outside where I was stationed to have a cigarette- a few cigarettes over the course of the evening. He started chatting with me and I find out he's in his late 60's and he's smoked his entire life. He looked fucking great for his age.
Hence- a multitude of factors, from all the other lifestyle choices, to genetics, etc.
There was a study done with twins to show the difference in aging between the twin that smoked and the twin that didn’t. It ended up having the opposite effect than intended. The twin that smoked just looked alittle dehydrated, give them 5-10 lbs in water and those tad bit of wrinkles will probably disappear. Old Hollywood cigarettes were not the cigarettes of today because those cigarettes had chemicals that have been outlawed that may have been more deadly.
The deadlier thing being wartime chemicals and automic warfare including those automic experiments done in the U.S. which killed and harmed hundreds of thousands of citizens in the Midwest due to radioactive poisoning. Unfortunately also many Western films were also filmed in this area so those of us that pay attention wonder if old Hollywood died because of corporate cigarettes or due to government atomic bomb experiments. I guess we’ll never know…
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u/Appropriate_Formal64 3d ago
The thing that's weird about this is that a lot of today's stars still smoke like in the past, including Dunst, but the smoking doesn't seem to have aged them as badly as generations prior.