Comments on: Today’s Brief Question About Why You Keep A Cigarette Behind Your Ear

By: Julia Farley

Julia Farley — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:42:54 +0000

I postulate that the lovely seborrheic epithilial cells behind the ear lend a certain Je ne sais quois to the smoking experience. Some people, feigning abstract and dejected “coolness” inhale clove cigarrets. Some pay top dollar to by the french (erm. “freedom”) galoise. I suspect that this is just another plot to look and feel the testosterone soaked part of Fonzie (who clearly, clearly was doing way more than combing his hair in Al’s diner bathroom all the time).

Just sayin’

By: Just a crazy woman

Just a crazy woman — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:04:12 +0000

This month’s Vogue says that cigarettes behind the ear are out, but the rolled up pack in the t-shirt sleeve is coming back.

By: Jacquie

Jacquie — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:50:55 +0000

i think you may have answered your own question.

By: better safe than sorry

better safe than sorry — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:47:45 +0000

not a smoker, can’t offer an insight.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:30:58 +0000

I think guys do that when they are out for a bit and don’t have room in their tight pants for a whole pack. With the naked eye, he has one behind his ear, but I am sure there are others hidden elsewhere on his bod. Girls don’t usually do this because they have purses which make them the real hot shots in this story.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:01:29 +0000

Wow, do people still wear cigarettes on top of their ears? I thought that went out with, like, Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront.”

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:17:46 +0000

Personally, I’d rather see someone with a cigarette in their nose as it would be far more interesting and less “wannabe.”

By: monkeyinabox

monkeyinabox — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:05:26 +0000

It’s better than sticking it up your nose, right?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:32:21 +0000

Those who smoke at someone else’s expense generally keep a cigarette behind the ear. You see they take two when offered one so the can smoke with that generous smoker (a gregarious group if ever I saw one, smokers are) and tuck the other away for a smoke later when no one is around to bum off of. Sometimes they inconspicuously steal the lighter of the generous smoker so they can light up later, too.

I suspect the recent increase in earlobe cancer is somehow connected to tucking the cigarette behind the ear as well.