| Is it true that celebrities really desist from endorsing | | | | pack of Camel Lights a day in her teens and twenties |
| cigarettes of all hues? Is it because they are conscious | | | | - has only very recently quit smoking. Perhaps she |
| of their social responsibilities? Pictures of celebrities | | | | started to wonder how her fine, fair skin and ethereal |
| smoking appear glamorous and civilized, regardless of | | | | beauty would cope with the collagen depletion in her |
| the context of the scene in a movie and thus it strikes | | | | fourties and fifties. |
| a cord with teens. They are shown at parties with a | | | | Some celebrities keep going with the smoking habit |
| cigarette which pushes young people to emulate them. | | | | whatever the consequences and even if it impacts on |
| The brands they smoke, Marlboro cigarettes, Camel, | | | | their relationships. It's well known that smoking was a |
| Winston, Virginia Slims, Salem etc, become a point of | | | | bone of contention between Brad Pitt and Jennifer |
| campus discussion. | | | | Anniston during their marriage. Brad Pitt is on record as |
| Could it be that the stars themselves have been | | | | saying how much he hated his ex-wife's chain |
| influenced by the glamour that was once associated | | | | smoking. His disapproval didn't cut much ice with |
| with cigarettes? Perhaps if you spend long enough in | | | | Jennifer though - as recent paparazzi photos show. |
| the fantasy world of film you start to believe in the | | | | You have to ask why one of the worlds most loved |
| celluloid image. Just like Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset | | | | and naturally attractive women would do this to |
| Boulevard' you lose touch with reality. | | | | themselves? |
| After all, it's not so long ago that everybody who was | | | | Similarly, iconic top model Kate Moss is regularly |
| somebody in Hollywood smoked and was proud of it. | | | | photographed with her cigarettes, a lighter and a |
| Cigarettes smoking was glamorous and sophisticated. | | | | mobile phone as her only fashion accessory. As a |
| Just think of the iconic image of Audrey Hepburn in | | | | supreme super model its probably not surprising that |
| 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' as Holly Golightly posing | | | | Moss still manages to appear effortlessly elegant and |
| elegantly with her long cigarette holder, upswept | | | | beautiful however she's photographed - at least for |
| chignon and little black dress. | | | | now. She certainly shows no signs of wanting to quit |
| What's not so elegant of course is the way Audrey | | | | smoking any time soon. Perhaps like so many in her |
| Hepburn succumbed to the smoking habit herself. | | | | world - she associates smoking with thinness. Or |
| Ignoring her mother's 'beauty tip' to: "keep to six | | | | perhaps, for her, it's the least troubling of her addictions. |
| cigarettes a day only", Hepburn managed two or | | | | When celebrities do chose to quit its fascinating that |
| three packs at her worst times - even smoking in her | | | | the reasons given are so often not about looks. |
| nun's habit on the set of 'The Nun's Story' and chain | | | | Catherine Zeta-Jones for instance, quit smoking - so |
| smoking her way through 'My Fair Lady'. Unsurprisingly, | | | | she said - because she didn't want her children to start |
| she suffered from asthma for most of her life and | | | | asking questions. Not as you might have thought - |
| died of cancer at only 63 - looking frail and old for her | | | | because beauty is her personal trademark and |
| years. Not the kind of ending we like to imagine for the | | | | smoking would kick-start skin aging and undermine her |
| sublime Holly Golightly. | | | | potential to earn huge sums of money. |
| There's no doubt that the very nature of the movie | | | | Whatever the reasons celebrities have for smoking or |
| business has caused many a celebrity to start treading | | | | for deciding to quit - the truth about skin damage and |
| the nicotine path. Smoking is as common in movies | | | | smoking very rarely features as a major factor in the |
| today as it was back in the 1950's although overall | | | | debate. Well - we think it should. So our advice to all |
| smoking in the population at large has reduced. Could it | | | | you celebrity smokers out there - carry on smoking if |
| be that a cigarette has become the film prop of choice | | | | you want but don't expect your fickle public not to |
| for actors looking for an easy way to inhabit another | | | | notice the effect on your looks. And when you hit a |
| skin? | | | | deluded middle age you may still be able to say, like |
| For some celebrities - tired of the constant criticism | | | | Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard': "I'm ready |
| and the ciggy shots splashed across the tabloids - a | | | | for my close-up now Mr de Mille" - but only if it's |
| kind of smoking defiance has crept in. As Gwyneth | | | | filmed in heavy soft-focus, expertly back-lit and then |
| Paltrow once said, "I smoke and I'm not going to | | | | extensively re-touched afterwards. |
| stop!" Paltrow - famous for getting through a | | | | |