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fred
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posted May 15, 2008 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fred   Click Here to Email fred     Edit/Delete Message
Good for you. I totally support your filthy dirty habit. Come out of the closet smokers! And blow it in my face!

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posted May 18, 2008 11:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for WallStreetJohnny   Click Here to Email WallStreetJohnny     Edit/Delete Message
I love the ads at the top of this topic. They're all for products that help you stop smoking. You'd think in a smoking topic it would be ads for people who smoke and not for people who are trying to stop smoking.

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posted May 20, 2008 12:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Skinnylb   Click Here to Email Skinnylb     Edit/Delete Message
I had not noticed that...Yeah...take those down and put up some Camel or Winston ads

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posted June 21, 2008 07:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for indiedan   Click Here to Email indiedan     Edit/Delete Message
Broderick + Parker's Son Is A 'Budding' Smoker

21 June 2008 7:45 AM, PDT

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker fear their young son will become a smoker like his parents, according to his dad.

James Wilkie, five, notices his mum and dad lighting up and constantly questions his parents about what they are doing.

Broderick says, "I used to smoke cigarettes, and I still do, lately. I gave that up a long time ago, but every now and then I will fall off for a week.

"(Sarah Jessica) is worse than me on that. James Wilkie is already curious.

"He'll see a cigarette butt and say, 'What is that? Why do people smoke?' I can just see the little budding gene of a smoker in there."

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posted August 19, 2008 09:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for indiedan   Click Here to Email indiedan     Edit/Delete Message
Swayze Still Smoking

19 August 2008 12:09 AM, PDT

Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze has defied critics by smoking while battling pancreatic cancer.

Swayze, 55, was diagnosed with the condition in April, prompting claims he had just months to live.

But the star responded well to treatment at California's Stanford University Medical Center, and has since returned to work.

However, new photographs of Swayze filming new TV series The Beast show him smoking cigarettes in between breaks.

Health organisations advise cancer sufferers to give up smoking.

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posted September 25, 2008 08:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for indiedan   Click Here to Email indiedan     Edit/Delete Message
Hollywood Stars 'Paid To Smoke'

25 September 2008 5:04 AM, PDT

Acting veterans Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and John Wayne were paid to promote smoking during Hollywood's "Golden Age", it has emerged.

The stars received huge cash sums from their film studios to advertise tobacco, according to researchers at the University of California at San Francisco.

One of the key documents uncovered by the researchers was a list of payments for a single year in the late 1930s detailing how much stars were paid by American Tobacco, the makers of Lucky Strike.

Actresses Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck and Myrna Loy were handed $10,000 (GBP5,500) - equal to around $150,000 (GBP83,300) in modern money - to endorse the brand.

American Tobacco also sponsored The Jack Benny Show from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s.

The authors of the study conclude the deals led to a rise in the number of young people who took up smoking in that era.

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posted October 17, 2008 08:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for indiedan   Click Here to Email indiedan     Edit/Delete Message
Craig: 'Bond Should Give Up Cigarettes'

Bond star Daniel Craig wants the superspy to quit smoking for the sake of his health - but is happy for 007 to carry on drinking.

Craig caused a sensation in his first Bond movie Casino Royale when he showed off his toned body as he emerged from the sea.

And he insists the cigarette-puffing hero created by author Ian Fleming is unrealistic - because tobacco would hamper the action hero's fitness.

He says, "I don't wish for him (Bond) to smoke. Fleming wrote a Bond that smoked 60 cigarettes a day. I can't do that and then run two-and-a-half miles down a road, it just doesn't tie in."

But Craig is still willing for 007 to sip his famous cocktails - adding: "But the drinking's there, the Dutch courage. In one of the books, Moonraker, Bond is about to play cards at a club with the bad guy, and he orders Benzedrine from M16, which is speed, which he mixes in with the Dom Perignon, and that's how he starts the evening..."

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posted November 02, 2008 09:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for indiedan   Click Here to Email indiedan     Edit/Delete Message
Butler Turned To God To Kick Nicotine Habit

Movie star Gerard Butler had an epiphany at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, Israel - but it wasn't enough to stop him smoking.

The 300 star turned to prayer after hypnotism and patches failed to work, and for a moment, he thought a higher power had helped end his nicotine addiction.

Butler says, "I'm thinking, 'If this guy (Jesus) can die for mankind, the least I can do is quit smoking.

"I really felt an epiphany was happening. I even thought I saw a light around me. Four hours later, I bought a packet of Marlboro Reds. Who am I kidding? I need a cigarette."

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posted February 03, 2009 09:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for indiedan   Click Here to Email indiedan     Edit/Delete Message
Paltrow Dreams Of Smoking Again

3 February 2009 8:10 AM, PST

Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has always regretted her decision to give up smoking - and is determined to start again once she hits 70. The Iron Man star gave up the habit when she fell pregnant with daughter, Apple, by husband Chris Martin, in 2003.

And Paltrow is adamant that although she hates the health effects of cigarettes, she would happily go back to the habit if she could.

She tells British Elle magazine, "I miss it. The last cigarette I smoked was the day I found out I was pregnant with Apple. I had to sit down and smoke one final cigarette. It's such a beautiful thing. I'm so p**sed off it gives you cancer. Cigarettes were my upper, they were my downer. I would think with them, write with them. I just love them so much.

"But then, once you have children, if you've witnessed a death like I did with my father, you just can't.

"But I've decided that when I'm about 70 I'm going to start smoking again. Why not? I can't wait!'"

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Winston Man, Dying Of Cancer, Sues R.J. Reynolds

17 February 2009 1:38 AM, PST

Former Winston cigarette model Alan Landers has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Co., claiming his former employers' product destroyed his health. In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Landers, who appeared in hundreds of ads for Winston cigarettes in the 1960s and '70s and who is now battling late-stage throat and lung cancer, said, "They created the illusion that smoking was cool but they knew when I was doing the campaign that it caused lung cancer and that it was the most addictive drug the world has ever known. ... They should be held accountable for killing people."

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AMA Just Not That Into Onscreen Smokes

26 February 2009 1:37 AM, PST

The American Medical Association Alliance, a unit of the AMA, has told the New York Times that it plans to dispatch a complaint to Warner Brothers and corporate parent Time Warner, over the display of cigarette packages showing specific brand names in the movie He's Just Not That Into You, the New York Times reported today (Thursday). "There is absolutely zero artistic justification for this," Melissa Walters, head of the AMAA's effort to reduce teenage smoking, told the newspaper. The Times article pointed out, however, that the movie itself does not show anyone smoking and that one of the characters leaves her husband because he lied about smoking. And although one of the products shown is Natural American Spirit Lights, the brand's producer, Santa Fe Tobacco, insisted that it did not pay to have it featured in several scenes of the movie. A spokesman told the Times: "We have to agree that our cigarettes should not be shown in films," said Mark Smith, a spokesman for Santa Fe Tobacco. "It is something we absolutely do not condone. ... We were never contacted about using our brand in this film, and we sent no product."

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Spears Storms Off Stage In Smoking Row

9 April 2009 5:15 AM, PDT

Britney Spears dramatically stormed off stage for an hour on Wednesday after complaining the air in the venue had become too smoky.

Fans were stunned when the star halted her show in Vancouver, Canada after just three songs, leaving the audience waiting for more than 20 minutes for an explanation.

An announcement was then made, reportedly ordering the audience to stop smoking marijuana and cigarettes in the arena as it was "unsafe" for Spears to perform.

After a further 40 minutes, the Toxic hitmaker finally re-emerged - but a concertgoer tells blogger Perez Hilton the star looked upset by the interruption, adding: "She did not look into it at all!"

When the show ended, Spears took a moment to warn against smoking, telling the crowd: "Thanks Vancouver. You were wonderful. Drive safe. Don't smoke weed!"

A representative for the star has since explained that the glitch was caused by poor air circulation.

And concert organisers at Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment denied marijuana smoke was to blame, insisting audience members were puffing cigarettes.

A statement from Spears' camp reads: "We want to apologise to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney's set. Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue."

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Applegate Devastated By Smoking Slip Up

29 April 2009 12:10 PM, PDT

Christina Applegate was devastated when photographers caught her smoking just months after she won her battle with cancer, because it was a "rare slip up".

Applegate quit the habit after she was diagnosed with the disease last year. She underwent a double mastectomy and was given the all-clear last August.

Fans were shocked to discover she was smoking again, after she was snapped enjoying a sneaky cigarette earlier this month.

But the actress insists it was a minor setback in her battle to quit her nicotine habit after a traumatic past year, during which her ex-boyfriend Lee Grivas died of a drug overdose.

She tells People magazine, "It's been very painful because I feel it was discounting all the work that I've done. The day I found out I had cancer I quit everything that was bad for me that I was putting in my body.

"Over the last year, with everything that's happened, there have been a couple of times that I've slipped up. That was one of those rare occasions - and of course they got the picture."

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