Ben Affleck looking slim and youthful at 49 while smoking his cig

I lowkey miss enjoying a cigarette. But am happy I quit.

J Lo does a body good, I guess.

He’s looking good.

Damn thats a rough ruff ruff 49.

That looks like a “WTF have I done” face.

Are we giving this a year?

R4 no. It’s a “why is this person taking my pic?” Face. He tries to avoid being seen with cigarettes these days despite him always being caught.

I want to feel bad that he has to be followed around by paps, but then I remember that he’s lived his life to seek attention at every turn.

He doesn’t realize that it’s a bad deal.

J.Lo’s got him on testosterone replacement therapy to keep him from getting tired and fat again.

What kind of hair system is he wearing?

He’s still wearing the girdle, I see.

Wasn't there some quote a long while ago right after they broke up the first time where she said that he essentially has blue collar tastes - he's happy with a beer in each hand - or some such?

She originally dated him at the start of his career before they tried to make him over into a suave leading man. She probably lets him be the blue collar oaf he really is and he's happier being himself. Garner always struck me as a controlling, little miss perfect who probably hectored him daily about what he should be, how he should behave, and what he should like.

I don't care how butch he's trying to look

He's still loves TWO inputs- A COCK UP HIS ASS and a

COCK DOWN HIS THROAT

Ratty wig and busted face

Funny that he smokes Marlboro Light Menthols, the ultimate "chick cig."

If I had to put on a hair system and a girdle every day, I'd never leave the house.

You have to admit that since getting back together with Lopez, he always looks happy in pap pix.

He NEVER looked happy while with Garner whenever paps snagged a pic of him.

R12 his makeover was in 1998…. They dated afterwards. Idiot.

Wrong, R15. The ultimate "chick cig" is Salem Lights 100. I'm not sure who smokes those Marlboro menthols.

Marlboro Menthol Lights are the ultimate "chick cig" in the 21st Century. I don't know who even smokes Salems anymore. Are those even still around?

If you were around people under 50 who still smoke, MML are almost exclusively smoked by women.

I am so old I didn't know Marlboro had a menthol.

R14- You are one nasty person.

Please- sit next to me 😏

[quote] You have to admit that since getting back together with Lopez, he always looks happy in pap pix.

I assume JLo lapdanced the perma-frown right off his face, along with the booze puffiness.

He has slimmed down and lost the bloat, so let's give him that. Remember how fat and carb-faced he was when Jen Garner and her friend drove him to rehab?

R14- I don't know Matt D's FAG wears a WIG.

Ummm I’ve never seen a woman smoking Marlboro in general. Newport and Camel are more popular with women. Marlboro in general is a man’s cigarette

Are you kidding? TONS of women smoke Marlboro. Marlboro Lights are ubiquitous.

I guess I need to move to the signs you're getting old thread.

Salem Lights 100s? Further proof that DLers are stuck in some weird 70s/80s time warp and haven't been outside in over 30 years.

I am THE official cigarette of women everywhere.

Virginia Slims are another 70s/80s brand that nobody smokes anymore.

Are cigarettes making a comeback? Ugh

Menthols are for people riding “on the 6” north of 86th St.

R33 smoking went up by like 300% during lockdown.

I seriously have never seen a woman smoking Marlboro lights menthol.

Those are some very veiny hands.

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Well I've seen plenty r36.

[quote] You have to admit that since getting back together with Lopez, he always looks happy in pap pix.

He doesn't look happy to me. His forehead is permanently furrowed into that sad expression.

JLo probably urged him to get his new hair system (probably transplants, actually, since they're rich).

Only 36% of cigarettes sold annually are menthol cigarettes. Most cigarette smokers do non-menthol.

Menthol cigarettes Historically, menthol cigarettes have been targeted heavily toward certain racial/ethnic groups, especially African Americans.

Among African American adult, adolescent, and young adult cigarette smokers, the most popular brands are all mentholated.

Non-menthol are the most popular among white Americans.

I’m 59 and of the smokers I have know, male and female, going back to the 80s, Marlboro has usually been the brand of choice, followed by American Spirit.

That's pretty much common knowledge r41. Most black people smoke Newports.

Parliaments are popular in the Northeast, esp. the NYC Metro area.

Drunk. Wig. Girdle. Diaper. Separate bedrooms. Dildos

Use of mentholated brands varies widely by race/ethnicity. The percentage of current smokers aged 12 years or older who reported using mentholated brands was:

84.6% Black

46.9% Hispanic

38.0% Asian

28.9% White

So Ben falls within that 28.9%

R42 less than 2% of smokers buy American Spirits.

Marlboro has always been the #1 brand. 40% of smokers smoke Marlboro, with Newport in 2nd place with 14%.

I’ve seen women smoke Marlboro lights, I’ve never seen women smoke Marlboro Light Menthol. I’ve only seen men smoke the Marlboro Menthols.

I've only seen women smoke Marlboro Menthol. I can't recall ever seeing a man smoke that brand.

R48 you’re making that up.

R45 2nd/3rd marriage starter kit

Do we think he still lets the man goes up in the man thing?

Matt (not a fag) is probably missing him.

No r49 it's the truth. Marlboro Menthol Lights are exclusively a chick cig, from everything I've seen. Marb Reds, Marb Lights, Camel Lights and Parliaments are what most of the men I've known smoke, going back to the 90s.

This thread is making me want to go down to the bodega and buy a loosie or two!

R30 & all the other ciggie commentators. You’re welcome.

I thought the FDA banned menthol cigarettes?

[quote]Menthols are for people riding “on the 6” north of 86th St.

Based on a quick Google search, R34 was the first one to get it right.

To the people arguing about menthols being a "chick cig," here are some of the urban dictionary entries

[quote]cigarettes smoked by girly girls. their boyfriends will say that they only bum a marlboro menthol light when they are out of newports or parliaments but we alll know that their too pussy to smoke a newport 100s... these cigarettes also suck becasue their white on both ends and when your really drunk you light the filter on accident.

[quote]A cigarette usually smoked by overweight girls who want to fit in with the crowd. [italic]"Hey, look at the girl smoking the marlboro menthol light!" As opposed to "Hey look at the fat girl!"[/italic]

More men smoke than women. Around 17% of adult men smoke while around 13% or adult women smoke. However, women are more likely to smoke mentholated cigarettes than men are, and are more likely to die from cigarette smoking than men.

Bu what about his lonely, neglected man whole?

Priorities, kids!

Menthols may also be a starter cigarette for young people, more palatable.

[quote] Research shows that menthol cigarette use is highest among young smokers.

Yeah, Salems seem like an old-time cigarette.

The huge increase in price (cigarettes) seems to have really affected the variety of cigarettes available.

There are women who still smoke Virginia Slims. I just looked it up. They’re just a major minority now.

[quote]Menthols may also be a starter cigarette for young people, more palatable.

I notice more young people smoke menthols now. When I was a teenager in the 90s my high school was almost 100% Marlboro Reds or Lights, with a few Camel smokers. Nobody smoked menthols, which were mocked as "n-- cigs." This was a preppy school in CT that was 99% white.

Former smoker here. As teenagers, my friends and I did smoke menthols. I ended up primarily smoking Marlboro reds (box). Did smoke the Djarum clove cigarettes when partying.

R61 menthols weren’t prevalent in the 90s. Their peak popularity happened in the 00s.

Trenboline and hgh. You see the veins in his arms.

Tren makes one emotional and that would explain the crying jaunt.

Marlboro light menthols were my cigarette of choice for ten years

r63 menthols have been around for many decades.

R65 you’re within the 28.9% then.

R66 no one said they weren’t around. What was said is they weren’t prevalent. Not the same.

People were allowed to submit comments about these proposed rules thru August 2, 2022 (yesterday).

[quote]Menthol is a flavor additive with a minty taste and aroma that reduces the irritation and harshness of smoking. This increases appeal and makes menthol cigarettes easier to use, particularly for youth and young adults. Menthol also interacts with nicotine in the brain to enhance nicotine’s addictive effects. The combination of menthol’s flavor, sensory effects and interaction with nicotine in the brain increases the likelihood that youth who start using menthol cigarettes will progress to regular use. Menthol also makes it more difficult for people to quit smoking.

[quote]In 2019, there were more than 18.5 million current menthol cigarette smokers ages 12 and older in the U.S., with particularly high rates of use by youth, young adults, and African American and other racial and ethnic groups. Published modeling studies have estimated a 15 percent reduction in smoking within 40 years if menthol cigarettes were no longer available in the United States. These studies also estimate that 324,000 to 654,000 smoking attributable deaths overall (92,000 to 238,000 among African Americans) would be avoided over the course of 40 years.

I don't know how to put this delicately - white people who smoke menthols tend to be lower-class types. Newports, esp. White people who smoke Newports tend to be real bottom-rung types i.e. gross fat white trash girls and white guys who are wild druggie fucks.

Ten the stats and your dates are pointless

Many women, but yes, white smoking menthol.

CRT and smokes? Do you live in Alabama?

Newports are not the only menthol cigarettes.

Every brand has menthol or non menthol now. Newport Reds exist also, no menthol.

And grow up. Different people like different things.

r71 they're by far the most popular.

R46 What about under twelve? I try to keep abreast.

Smoking menthols is like smoking mint flavored fiberglass.

Poor Ben, pushed off his own thread by cigarette warriors!

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Did Jen gift him a new wig as a wedding present?

If smoking was harmful, I would be smoking a pack a day.

^^ I meant to type wasn't not was.

Compensation for his lack of the D.

R81 same. I am one of the people on here who is honest about the fact I like cigarettes, and actually enjoyed them very much but only quit because they aren’t healthy. I miss waking up in the morning, and smoking a cigarette with my coffee. Or smoking a cigarette after a couple of drinks with friends. If they weren’t bad for me I would gladly still be smoking.

Sigh.

By most accounts, Ben Affleck has a good size dick with a nice pink head.

Err, I forgot the obviou!

Fag!

OP- I bet his ass is still looking SCRAWNY

I'm sure J-Lo HATES that he smokes.

So: smoke on, Ben!

If Ben took off his wig, he’d look like his father.

R92- On the left we have an OLD queen and on the right a younger queen.

Is he Jewish now? I hate his hair!

He may look good but any intelligent adult (middle aged) who smokes is a fool. There is no single habit worse for you health for a laundry list of reasons than smoking.

Finger-wagging scolds are so tiresome

My parents smoke Salem menthols and they were about as white as humanly possible, so I was well into adulthood before I knew that black smokers preferred menthols and whites rarely smoked them.

Both parents died younger than they should have because of smoking, at 67 and 71. He's a fool to be 50 and still smoking.

*smoked at r97

Definitely not the present tense "smoke" because they are long dead, thanks to Salem menthols.

After mom died from esophageal cancer, she kept getting premiums sent to her from Salem. She used their gardening gloves and other little gifts to "thank" her for being a customer. The letter I sent back to them with that year's new gloves was scathing and misguided, because some poor employee who didn't have anything to do with it had to deal with what I wrote.

The muscles are nice, but now let's see a photo without the wig and showing his gigantic, garish phoenix tattoo.

R97 29% of white smokers smoke Menthol. So while not the majority, it’s ridiculous to speak as if the percentage is 1% or something.

You don’t see his stick figure legs or his plains-like ass.

[quote]29% of white smokers smoke Menthol

I know, r100. And do you know how I know this? Because I'm the one who posted the stats you just quoted back at me.

He's a cinch to play Patty and/or Selma in the live-action film of "The Simpsons."

R102 how did you post the stats when I did?

One of my great grandmothers smoked unfiltered Pall Malls like a chimney and lived to be 91. My paternal grandfather smoked unfiltered Philip Morris and lived to be 85. It really comes down to genetics.

I posted them at r97, r014. If you posted them earlier, I honestly can't find them in the thread.

R106 thank you. My stepfather smoked since he was 8 years old (yes, 8!!!!) and is healthy as a horse still to this day. It’s all about genetics.

Oh, wow, no, nonono, the health effects of smoking are not "all about genetics." That is entirely untrue.

Whether you like it or not, genetics play a role in EVERYTHING r110

Some people can smoke and live to be old. That's genetic.

That doesn't mean the health conditions caused by smoking are "all about genetics," r111. Come the fuck on.

Good God almighty, what I would do to that sexy man if I had the chance. I would do things to him that are still illegal in several states.

Even within the same family, the effects of smoking vary. Mom mom died of lung cancer, had quit smoking maybe 20 years prior to that. Two of her sisters are still alive, smoking daily.

Please post on the cigarette thread, Ben doesn’t deserve to be upstaged by menthols!

Actually R106 it’s a lot more than genetics. Educate yourself.

He is such white trash at his core

R117 NO ONE SAID ITS ONLY GENETICS. Learn to read.

He looks thinner, relatively fit & doesn't have that hangdog look he always did when shuffling behind Jen going to church or at the farmers market. But time will tell if it lasts since at some point, J-Lo is going to get sick of propping up an addict

I would never in a million years smoke a cigarette, but there's something about a good looking man with a ciggie in his mouth, especially if he holds it between his teeth as BA is doing in those photos, that is incredibly sexual to me. And when they hold the cig with their thumb and middle finger, well that's even better. That's the way a fuckin' man smokes his cigs.

Regardless of how he holds the damn cigarette, R121, he'll still smell like the bottom of a garbage can on a hot summer day after smoking.

[quote] Educate yourself.

Does that admonition ever work on-line? It's pretty worthless without further context. And yet it is dropped so frequently and easily by the lazy.

C'mon, Ben, take off your shirt and serve us up a big ole, heaping helping of outrageous, flirtatious, bodacious man titty realness.

This thread was so much better before the cigarette bores arrived. Personally I think he looks better than he has in years but I can't see this marriage lasting. If it's even real.

R124, I'm not who you're talking to, but what exactly would even be the point of posting anything that showed that that smoking caused health problems, and that just because your great aunt's brother-in-law's cousin smoked 400 packs a day for 98 years doesn't mean it's "all about genetics?" A person posting that kind of foolishness online has already made their mind up.

When is he going to write his next Oscar-winning screenplay?

[quote]This thread was so much better before the cigarette bores arrived.

Then perhaps you could choose from one of the 500 other Ben Affleck threads.

R16- I would never leave the house if I had a SCRAWNY ass looks like his.

R2, Fuck off. He looks great. But I thought he was older like mid 50s by now.

You could plant corn in the wrinkles in his forehead!

I'm sorry, but eww... He, and indeed every aspect of this latest pairing, reek of halitosis and desperation.

He looks good. I'm suprised he's still smoking, isn't J Lo a teetotaler and super health conscious? Well, I guess if he can't drink and he can't do weed or coke he has to do something.

I think his looks have turned. Even though I dislike him, I could see why DLers thought he was hot, etc. Now, I don't think he's attractive. He's actually in pretty good shape, for him. Still, unattractive, IMO.

It got a little harder to like him after learning about the smoking but I’m not going to quit on a crush so easily.

What makes him appealing to me is something about his suffering. It’s hard to put a finger on, but he makes choices that cause him tremendous pain and then just bulls on through it, no matter how public and humiliating it may be, occasionally doing really good work (I’m thinking of Argo and Changing Lanes) and never seeming to learn anything from it (I’m thinking of marrying Lopez) He just keeps on making his bonehead choices as if they were going to lead to happiness *this* time, and they never seem to.

JFC r139 you are so basic and common

R135, Matt. How many times have you asked to suck my dick when we were teens.

Wait a minute. Years ago, Ben said he saw a hypnotist to quit smoking. He inspired me to do the same.

Most actors and actresses are smokers. Unlike days of yore, they try to hide it as best they can.

Mother shtold me girl, itllll keep you thin ash a rail.

[quote]I would never in a million years smoke a cigarette, but there's something about a good looking man with a ciggie in his mouth, especially if he holds it between his teeth as BA is doing in those photos, that is incredibly sexual to me.

Agreed, some of Brad Pitt's best looks are when he looks kind of dirty and grungy with a ciggie hanging out of his mouth. You know he's thinking " thank god I can sit around and smoke and smell like BO without the old ball & chain harping at me!" Yes, it's bad & politically incorrect...but still hot

He's such a talky know nothing blowhard. I'm as libby as they come, but he makes my skin crawl. I wish he was a republican

If he’d only bend over and show hole, and an erect dic, DL would create a statue.

It won’t be long before he loses all his money playing cards starts drinking again and J Lo kicks him to the curb. Maybe Jennifer Garner will save him after that. Maybe not

He looks like an aging hustler. I’d still pay.

He looks good. he's probably living in the gym.

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