Photographer captures disturbing images of children puffing on cigarettes

DailyMail ^ | 21st January 2012 | Lydia Warren

[Daffynition]

Cherubic cheeks framed with gentle ringlets - they are the faces of innocence and beauty.

But with cigarettes lingering between their fingers or pipes perched between their lips, their images are repulsive.

In an attempt to play the attractiveness and vulgarity of smoking off each other, Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens has captured 15 eerie images of children puffing on cigarettes, cigars or pipes in a collection entitled 'The Beauty of an Ugly Addiction'.

[Daffynition]

Full title: Smoke and minors: Photographer captures disturbing images of children puffing on cigarettes

Several photos at link

[Drango]

The photographer did not use real cigarettes during the shoot. Instead, she relied on sticks of chalk or cheese for props, and used candles and incense to create smoke

Move on.

[cripplecreek]

Whatever happened to candy cigarettes anyway>

We used to “smoke” them when we were kids.

[latina4dubya]

i loved those candy cigarettes...

[latina4dubya]

i loved those candy cigarettes...

[Daffynition]

>>used candles and incense to create smoke<<

...so she says. The images look like cigarette porn using children as the props.

[Sacajaweau]

Yup...Lucky Strike. And we all knew the "Call for Phillip Morris...

Burt I wish I had my comic books and baseball cards,,,,becuase I'd be filthy rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cripplecreek]

Of my sisters and I, I smoked, one sister smoked on and off for a few years and another never has.

[Krankor]

Whatever happened to candy cigarettes anyway

They banned them: Too many black kids were getting cavities from the menthol ones.

[southern rock]

These images are disturbing, but not because of the mock cigarettes.

[Daffynition]

The question arises...did you roll up the box in your T-shirt sleeve?

[cripplecreek]

The question arises...did you roll up the box in your T-shirt sleeve?

Well Duh. Of course I did. I was the coolest.

[Vaduz]

You can still find them at some swap meets in Ca.I hand them out at trick-o-ween just to see the parents go nuts.
Next year it’s going to be near beer,I will have insurance on the car updated.

[Daffynition]

A few celebs made some moolah of smoking/cig ads.

[Daffynition]

While we *date* ourselves .... I remember this in Times Square...

[RS_Rider]

I watched “View to a kill” last night, that photo looks like Grace Jones as a child.

[Daffynition]

Not sure if this is *tobacco* he's smoking....

[redhead]

"We used to “smoke” them when we were kids."

I loved them, too. I think they were flavored with ginger, because they had a "hot" cinnamon-y flavor. Yum.

[Rebelbase]

It never occurred to me that Alfalfa might have been gay.

[Grunthor]

Children shouldn’t smoke. It should be up to an adult if they want to smoke. No, they shouldn’t be ostracized for using a legal product.