A post on the Video Talk board alerts that there’s a telenovella on the Telefutura network called “Las Vias del Amor” in which a young actress smokes occasionally. And while we haven’t caught it (we don’t get Telefutura here, as far as we can tell) it bought to mind all of the telenovellas featured on Telemundo and Univision 5-10 years ago, when it seemed to be required that most of the Latina actress smoked throughout the episodes. Not all of the smoking was great, but enough of it was to make the shows “must tape” events each night – and we know we’re not the only ones to have compilation tapes of the best stuff stored away, for occasional viewing
It’s not only the public sightings that we miss from the good old days

It’s interesting how the mind works when it comes to sightings. Sometimes you can become so fixated on a fantasy woman that you need to watch her again and again on video – or return to the place where you first saw her, in hopes of seeing her again and again.
But then there’s the exact opposite – and we experienced one of those this week.
While walking in an outdoor shopping mall we approached a bench where there was obviously a young woman sitting and smoking. Due to our own circumstances that day, there was no way we could hang around and watch, so it was going to be just a “walk-by” sighting.
But what a sighting it was. In our first glimpse of the 25-ish, dark-haired woman, she was beginning to inhale. And she was *still* inhaling as we walked directly past her – the SAME single drag. It was, without exaggeration, an inhale of longer than 15 seconds.
That wasn’t the best part.
As we walked past, we were able to get a full-on look at the girl. And as we saw her still dragging on her all-white cigarette with the cherry still glowing, with almost 15 seconds worth of smoke inside her — her eyes were almost completely closed, with a look of pure rapture on her face. We doubt she was in orgasm, but it’s the best way we could define the look.
We didn’t get to see her exhale – and never saw her again. And that may be for the good – we’re almost afraid that the 15 seconds of amazing sighting could only have been diminished.