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From the Too Much Time On Their Hands Dept.

From the Too Much Time On Their Hands Dept.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman has raised the ire of anti-smoking groups by lighting up a cigarette during her press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. [...] Anti-smoking groups today said the image of Kidman smoking was a free advertisement for the tobacco industry and glamorised the habit. [...] ‘She does have a right to smoke, but what I’m just saying is that smoking in front of millions of people contains this unfortunate association between smoking and glamour and success,’ [Ms Jones] said. ‘I will leave it to her to decide how she wants to use that information.’”

My, how generous.

 

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