Back at the harbour, veteran fishermen were gathering around chequer boards and cupped cigarettes, black-clad pensioners with sailors' rolls wandering sombrely down to the chapel.
What, then, can this revolutionary of a bygone area, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, virtuoso rhetorician, with his charismatic grin, perpetual cigarette and black leather jacket, provide us with now to address today's bleak geopolitical predicament?
The mini-narratives are, on the face of it insignificant: a couple makes a trip to the supermarket; an overweight white man leans against a wall and smokes a cigarette; a black man mows the grass verge of a highway; the sun rises and sets in spectacular skies.
Robin Wright, who plays Claire Underwood on Netflix's Emmy-winning show, smokes a cigarette in black and white, silently.
30 32 High levels of residential segregation (with high exposure to targeted tobacco advertising and easy access to single cigarettes in black neighbourhoods), and high levels of (the stress of) racial discrimination might be associated with smoking any cigarette and non-cigarette product available.
I am also entirely happy to watch Beyoncé roller-skate and crush cigarettes with black patent-leather platform stilettos.
French style also means cool girls looking intimidating on Purple Diary (hipper-than-thou website where nipples, cigarettes and black and white photography go hand in hand).
Men in their 50s and 60s (who looked 10 years older) hunched on stools at orange formica counters smoking cigarettes, sipping black coffee, eating doughnuts.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco has settled lawsuits with Illinois, Maryland and New York over a promotion for its Kool brand that the states said used hip-hop music to market the cigarettes to black children.
