Smoking doesn't actually look cool, but you might need to have quit before to really see it- smokers are sucking on something that's essentially unpleasant to relieve the discomfort of the first pangs of withdrawal.

If you can put yourself back in that moment with honesty, and remember the hope and inevitable disappointment that this will be a 'good cigarette' ... lol that is not cool

There's the imagery in media with the hero smoking in a leather jacket or whatever. And then there's the reality where all smokers look homeless or otherwise unhinged where everyone avoids walking too close to them.