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Smoking Kidman Sparks Controversy
Sydney Morning Herald ^

Posted on 05/21/2003 7:59:02 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe

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.

Footage was beamed around the world yesterday of Kidman lighting up at the annual event while promoting her new movie, Dogville.

The Oscar-winning actress was immediately admonished by the film's Danish director Lars Von Trier, but Kidman shrugged her shoulders and kept smoking.

It appears Kidman has smoked for years, with newspaper reports dating back to 1994 saying she had been spotted smoking.

Anti-smoking groups today said the image of Kidman smoking was a free advertisement for the tobacco industry and glamorised the habit.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) chief executive Anne Jones said Kidman was perpetuating the image that smoking was associated with glamour, independence and success.

"It's worth millions to the tobacco industry to have celebrities smoking," she told AAP.

"It's unfortunate that she smoked at a media conference that potentially went to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Ms Jones said she would write to Kidman's Australian publicist highlighting the actress's responsibilities as a role model to millions of young women.

"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," she said.

"I will leave it to her to decide how she wants to use that information.

"I think given her role model status it would be really greatly appreciated by health groups and maybe parents in general if she didn't smoke in such a way."

Six thousand Australian women die each year from smoking-related illnesses, and 21 per cent of all Australian women over the age of 18 smoke.

Australian Democrats Senator Lyn Allison said tobacco use cost $21 billion a year in Australia and Kidman should use her position to discourage smoking.

"Many of Nicole Kidman's fans are young women and they have particularly alarming rates of addiction to tobacco," she said.

Senator Allison called on the federal government to fulfill its promise to introduce legislation requiring all films depicting smoking to carry a warning.

AAP


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: nicolekidman; pufflist
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To: Welsh Rabbit
Just like someone drinking Budweiser on film...yeah, I want some of that clydesdale urine.
41 posted on 05/21/2003 8:25:11 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Go Fast, Turn Left!)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
I can't stop laughing about this. Sheesh, she should put out the butt and blast George Bush if she wants to gain acceptance from the wacky PC left.
42 posted on 05/21/2003 8:26:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (The Dems are self-destructing before our eyes, How Great is That !)
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To: Nexus

43 posted on 05/21/2003 8:27:45 AM PDT by ewing
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To: Gamecock
Oh gawd. Did you have to do that?
44 posted on 05/21/2003 8:28:33 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: ewing
I don't normally do dishes but in that scene I could make an exception.
45 posted on 05/21/2003 8:29:52 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: ewing
Is that 'Eyes Wide Shut' or 'To Die For?'

Not sure. The source doesn't say.

BTW, your post #43 is unbelievable!

46 posted on 05/21/2003 8:30:32 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: Lunatic Fringe

47 posted on 05/21/2003 8:33:14 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: Nexus
It may have been stage play 'Blue Room' in London which a critic called the barely clad Kidman 'theatrical Viagra!'
48 posted on 05/21/2003 8:33:54 AM PDT by ewing
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To: HEY4QDEMS

49 posted on 05/21/2003 8:35:24 AM PDT by ewing
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To: Lunatic Fringe

50 posted on 05/21/2003 8:35:29 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: Lunatic Fringe
INTER WACKY PC GROUP MEMO

FM: Nicole Kidman

TO: Anti-Smoking Nazis and other PC twits

RE: Objections to my smoking in public

DT: 5/21/03

I smoke because I like it. So blow it out your collective @sses!

51 posted on 05/21/2003 8:36:17 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Alright, last one...


52 posted on 05/21/2003 8:36:45 AM PDT by Nexus
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To: Nexus
Really?
53 posted on 05/21/2003 8:36:56 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it!)
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To: Liberal Classic
F*CK (ASH)
54 posted on 05/21/2003 8:37:06 AM PDT by LandofLincoln
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To: Lunatic Fringe
I wonder if she had whipped out a joint instead of a cigarette if they would have minded? I'm not a smoker, but if I was famous I'd sit up there and puff on a big cigar just to make them mad.
55 posted on 05/21/2003 8:37:45 AM PDT by Reagan is King
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To: Lunatic Fringe
String that jezebel up and have her flogged, burn an "S" for smoker on her forehead, and shun her for the rest of her life.
56 posted on 05/21/2003 8:39:01 AM PDT by beaversmom (Celebrating May 5th and all days with an American Flag)
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To: Colosis
Excuse me, I ordered a Zima not emphysema.
57 posted on 05/21/2003 8:49:38 AM PDT by Grando Calrissian
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To: Lunatic Fringe
I saw her lighting up on "Entertainment Tonight" and thought to myself, "Wow! You sure don't see that on TV very much anymore!"

Kidman has also been known to show up to do interviews with a few adult beverages under her belt (last time she was on Leno she was a bit tipsy and said as much).

MY GOD! SHE SMOKES! SHE DRINKS!

here's a woman after my own heart!

58 posted on 05/21/2003 9:05:32 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: freedomlover
I could do a lot more than the dishes!
59 posted on 05/21/2003 9:06:53 AM PDT by ewing (Time to saddle up and volunteer for RNC 2004!! http://www.georgewbush.com/)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
She's played a murderess in a movie - and a witch in one. Guess she glamourized all of that, too.... but is anyone upset?
60 posted on 05/21/2003 9:09:41 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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