Does this picture look real?

Ok I do this for living but my past projects have not turned out so great so I'm reaching out to the public. Please excuse my spelling mistakes as I'm using my iPhone to type this. Anyway I'm a graphic designer/ photographer working in the Upper East Side with Vogue promoting how smoking is not good for anybody no matter how much beauty disguises. So just for the record the models are not smoking we add the smoke during editing with CS6. So the first two models my boss said looked fake (both females). He was very angry as the company is spending a ton on this project it seems so I thought out of the box males and smoking so I got a young male and did the same thing… I think its believable but I want to know from others, does this picture look too photoshopped?

Added (1). By the way for all the idiots saying oh why don't you have a slew of a team working for you… I'm new and a college student who was given the opportunity to do this project on the side but as it is a promotional photo I will get no help in return. I work privately as a photographer and GD at my own studio in manhattan. Another reason is I don't really want a team of help I want the publics help. I would really like a job here so this is why I'm trying to do this project all on my own and not with a team

Yea, it look's believable to me. Up close it kind of looks photoshopped, but from far away it looks like he's smoking.

I think so. First off, the lighting is off, the smoke can't be that bright in those areas.
First off, darken the smoke to a more greyish, you can keep the smoke that's further out brighter, as the lighting may be different, but the smoke close to the mouth, needs to be under the same lighting as the mouth, darker.
Secondly, the smoke just seems too concentrated/thick/bunched together and not natural coming out of his mouth.

I'm surprised that you are not surrounded by art directors, makeup artists, hair stylists making sure that all your photos meet the expectations of both your boss but more importantly, the client.

That said, your image is way underexposed and what really should be a vertical shot is presented as a horizontal one, my guess is to make room for the added smoke.

The other problems are as follows.

* the model is out of focus.
* the lighting is flat and when shooting smoke, there's usually matching lighting on both the model and smoke.
* and yes, because the lighting on the model has NO relationship to that of the smoke, it does look fake.

I would think that by the time someone is working as a photographer, they would know how to make sure that their exposures and composition of their shots are dead on.

Talk to the art director and ask them why they did not catch this problem during the shoot.

All I can do is suggest you reshoot the model and this time use your abundant skills as a photographer and get it right

How come a professional photographer working for Vogue has to ask a load of strangers for advice! Surely you all work as a team planning shots, analysing and discussing them.
Anyway, the photo you posted looks so unbelievable. The smoke is in too perfect a ball… It should be flowing up more and not in a cloud around the guy's face.

Working with Vogue!

Nah! You're not really are you pal.

That shot is terrible. The smoke does not look real in the slightest.
The lighting is all wrong.
The smoke cloud is wrong
and overall the picture is terrible and most certainly not something which someone working with vogue would produce.