The Use of Smoking and Cigarettes

I included cigarettes and the character smoking throughout the first half of the opening sequence as I wanted to strongly highlight his personality. By him smoking, I wanted it to be direct message instantly to the audience that he has bad habits and acts like a typical teenager doing things that will get him into trouble. Also another representation I wanted to add was in society today, many people smoke as a form of stress relief. The character may be smoking due to his troubled life and his bad emotions and this may occur to the audience as they begin watching the film.