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Luis Robles: A Vaping Life

When he took up smoking at the age of six, Luis Robles was just trying to be cool.

"Growing up in southeast Arizona like I did, you can't really help but see the cowboy thing, the way it gets glorified," the Red Bulls goalkeeper told us over the phone earlier this week. "At school, they always told us that we shouldn't try to be like the Marlboro man. But I wanted to be like the Marlboro man, full stop. He had the dopest hat. Just a huge, huge hat."

"I wanted that dope hat to basically, like, envelop my whole body like a womb.