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My body and soul: Jasmine Guinness, model, 31  

Attitude to smoking and taking drugs?

I started smoking at 18. I love roll-ups. I smoke in the evenings when my kids are in bed. It's a wind-down thing. Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

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名模杨颖戒烟挽救形象 自称只是贪玩跟风(图) 

早前被拍到吸烟而有损形象的Angelababy(杨颖)，前天出席活动时声言会戒烟，她说：“自从报道出来到现在都没有抽烟！(用什么方法戒烟？)看到报道心情不好就没抽了！”她自称烟龄只有半年，因贪玩见朋友抽才跟风。

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Oddly Enough » Blog Archive » Is this a runway, or Tobacco Road? 

Haute couture is my life, but I must admit I’m baffled at times.

For instance, the photo caption calls this “a creation,” but to me, it just looks like some chick having a butt. Is smoking a cigarette with black gloves and red lipstick the creative part, or what?

Was this lady supposed to stop and light up on the runway, because I have to say that will make fashion shows pretty tedious. Perhaps the designer should have looked for a slightly less addicted model?

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The pants - wearing legacy of Yves Saint Laurent  

The first YSL tuxedo for women (also known as ''Le Smoking'') surfaced in 1966, paving the way for future stylish pantsuits

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Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71, longtime friend and associate says 

Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, empowered women by reinventing pants as a sleek, elegant staple of the female wardrobe.

Saint Laurent, 71, died Sunday night at his Paris home after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, said Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent's close friend and business partner for four decades. . . .

Saint Laurent's simple navy blue pea coat over white pants, which the designer first showed in 1962, was one of his hallmarks. His "smoking," or tuxedo jacket, of 1966 remade the tux as a high fashion statement for both sexes. It remained the designer's trademark item and was updated yearly until he retired.

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When Is a Fashion Ad Not a Fashion Ad?  

MAN IN THE SILVER SHORTS For this ad with Charlotte Rampling, Mr. Teller became both subject and photographer. . . .

to judge by Juergen Teller’s pictures of her for Marc Jacobs’s ads, she is a good sport. . . .

For the Rampling shoot, which was done in a Paris hotel suite, Mr. Teller thought it made sense for him to be in the ads, since he and the actress were friends and she didn’t want to endorse a product. . . .

I said, ‘I’m going to show you what I’m going to wear.’ So I went into the bedroom, and I came out in these silver underpants. And she said, ‘What the hell is that?’ ”

At this point, as Ms. Rampling howled, Mr. Teller said, he was having grave doubts about the rest of his plan. “I was smoking my cigarette, breaking out in a sweat. I said, ‘Well, I was just thinking I could kiss you and fondle your breasts.’

“She sat down and got herself a cigarillo. She didn’t say anything. The whole room was quiet for what seemed like months. I was, like, Oh my God, that is the most stupid thing I’ve ever said, how stupid was that? She just dragged on the cigarillo and crossed her legs, and she said: ‘O.K., let’s go. I’ll tell you when to stop.’ I thought, Oh my God, genius. I can’t believe I’m getting away with it.”

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Smoking = Not Sexy 

Soon-to-retire model Kate Moss is on the cover of the new issue of French Vogue, for the second time in a handful of months.

Smoking causes cancer. Why do people feel the need to glamorize it????

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LETTER: An ugly habit 

Tobacco companies are aggressively targeting women and girls, and your recent article played right into their marketing ("Smokin' style," March 3).

The illustrations promoted the idea that smoking is part of a fashionable image, which will inevitably recruit youthful new smokers.

Perpetuating the idea of smoking as a style accessory, especially for women, ignores the severity of tobacco addiction and its harmful health effects. . . .

The article may have been a satire, but there is nothing funny about tobacco-related diseases.

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LETTER: Puff piece 

In Monday's edition of the Daily News, first you come across a picture of Katherine Heigl having a fine time puffing on a cigarette. Then a feature on how to dress warmly and still be chic while standing outside smoking. The article has pictures of twentysomethings, all smiling and smoking. I don't think the cigarette companies need The News to shill to young people for them.

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• Smokin' style: Designs for puffin' and chillin' on New York sidewalks 

It's terrible for your health and makes people near you flee. But even frightful weather can't keep New Yorkers who crave a cigarette from hitting the streets, plastering themselves into corners and under overhangs or scouring the city for a spot the weather can't quite reach. Last week alone, smokers braved ice, wind and rain for a nip of nicotine. The result: some pretty crazy outfits. . . .

We commissioned three designers to create a happy medium. Chris Han used smoke as the inspiration for her charcoal-hued ensemble. Bling-friendly downtown team Phillipe and David Blond created a corseted climate-control body suit. Stylist Kendall Sparks sketched stiletto Wellington boots with built-in ashtrays.

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• Bohemian Hermes 

Gypsies and luxury don't seem like the likeliest of couples, but they teamed up brilliantly at the latest collection by Hermes, a tour de force by the label's designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Staged Saturday on a Slavonic carpet and with Romany music gurgling out of the soundtrack, the show featured a marriage of haute gamme hippie and the unique ability of the Hermes atelier to create products of exceptional quality. . . .

Gaultier's vision of Hermes is very much uptown, but not uptight - one model even walked down the catwalk clutching a lit cigarette, which is possibly illegal under new French anti-smoking laws, but looked just right.

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Is smoking on the runway a do or a don't? 

Jean Paul Gaultier must have wanted to go for the shock effect because he sent a model down the runway smoking a cigarette during Monday's Hermes show. I guess that's what happens if the clothes on their own are not interesting enough to get people talking.

Really, I do understand the look he was going for. The model was dressed in a mature, elegant coat and belt combo. Jean Paul probably thought that the cigarette would add sophistication.

But, c'mon! In this day and age we know better. I thought we had moved beyond the whole idea that smoking is glamorous

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Kate Moss is the fresh face of YSL advertising campaign 

So it's little wonder Stefano Pilati - creative director of Yves Saint Laurent - chose Kate Moss to appear in the fashion house's spring/summer advertising campaign. . . .

There is the added confusion created as Kate - seen without undergarments but wearing one of YSL's famously androgynous "le smoking" suits - appears to be holding an invisible cigarette. Is this a reference to the smoking ban?

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Radical, Chic 

For Etat Libre d’Orange, whose store is north of Hôtel de Ville in Paris, Antoine Maisondieu has performed a masterful trick. With Etat’s creative director, Etienne de Swardt, he has taken two radically dissimilar concepts and balanced them so that they are perfectly integrated and astonishingly distinct. The first is a fragile, delicate jasmine (stripped of the dirty indolic heaviness that the flower usually leaves behind). The second is a pitch-perfect cigarette. Not the stink of a filthy ashtray. (That, says Maisondieu, an ex-smoker, is "disgusting.”) This is the smell of an elegant Frenchwoman in a cafe whose grayish-white plume mixes with the chic jasmine fragrance she just sprayed on. His perfume is named Jasmin et Cigarette, and it is the quintessential French combination . . . .

"The cigarette was a bit more complicated.” He used to love unfiltered Chesterfields "in the soft box, which have a slight apricot.” So he used hay essence, tonka bean (a flavoring in tobacco), maté from South America, galbanum (a raw green) and sage. The result is a masterpiece

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• POPE: Hot, Maybe, but Not Smoking  

A few months ago, I wrote an article criticizing the reality series starring supermodel Tyra Banks because it often showed beautiful, skinny women puffing away on cigarettes.

The program is watched by high numbers of preteen and adolescent girls, including my daughter. Regular exposure to smoking on television and in movies increases a child's risk for trying cigarettes and becoming a smoker, studies show. . . .

Last night, thankfully, things did change: America's next top models became America’s next nonsmokers. . . .

“So many young girls are fans of America’s Next Top Model, and right now so many young girls are fans of you. If they see their idol puffing and smoking a cigarette, what does that make them think? Wow, she's smoking, that's cool. So that's why smoking will be banned. It's over.''

The lecture came after an odd segment in which the girls were photographed holding cigarettes in glamorous poses. But then some startling graphics reflected the damage of smoking. The girls were shown coughing up blood, with facial tumors or tracheotomy holes in their necks, bald from chemotherapy and wrinkled from premature aging.

It seemed over-the-top to me, but then my daughter asked, with a look of disgust, “Can all that really happen to you if you smoke? All these things?’’

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