I remember as a teen, going to see the movie Blade Runner , which had just looked so cool in the trailers. the joy of sneaking into this R rated movie though underaged still pulsating through my body, what I take most from this sci-fi cult classic is the images of thick, bluish-white smoke just billowing from Sean Youngs cigarette...literally clouds of smoke every where.
She smokes early and often in this movie, but nothing beats the first scene she is in, when she sweetly asks Harrison Ford "Do you mind if I smoke" as he is about to give here a test to determine if she is a human or a replicant (a fairly standard thing in the dark, raining, futuristic Los Angeles of the middle 21st century)...I remember my stomach tightening as those combo nose-mouth exhales flowed oout of her.
There are other smoking females, as well, with Daryl Hannah having one pretty good drag-exhale scene, and there being several instances of women smoking in advertisments, which are huge movie shorts playing always constantly on the sides of skyscrapers and huge murals.
Evidently, the writer of this story, which was filmed probably around 1980, envisioned Southern California to be a lot more smoker friendly in the next century than if appears that it is actually going to be. For you young pups, remember that you will be seeing a much younger version of the still beautiful Sean Young and Daryl Hannah, neither of whom could have been more than 21 or 22 when this was filmed. A good pickup for either a sci-fi or smoking fan who prefers a real life setting to seeing women smoke as opposed to the artifical settings most smoking sites/producers give you on the 'net.