Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh: Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter ought to realise promoting trends like smoking comes with a body count
Charli XCX started it by incorporating cigarettes as a pivotal part of her Brat summer of 2024, and Sabrina Carpenter has ensured that smoking is back with a bang after recently posing in a corset adorned by cigarette packets for a magazine. The music video for Carpenter’s song Manchild shows her smoking, too.