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And the (stop smoking) winner is...  

the California department of health's anti-smoking TV ad competition. Jeff Rubin of Los Angeles, who gave up smoking four years ago, won first place with an entry called "Other Ways to Use a Cigarette" that "highlights the toxic chemicals found in cigarettes," according to the California department of health. Rubin's other uses include paving roads (with tar) . . .

Rubin's ad will debut during this Tuesday's "Idol" show in L.A. and Sacramento. You can view it, and other finalists, here. I took a look: Rubin's ad was snappy and smart. The funniest of the top five (it came in fourth) was "Lonely Cowboy," in which a cowboy out in the fields stubs out a cigarette, informs you that men who smoke are 60% more likely to experience erectile dysfunction, and asks, "Why do you think I spend so much time out here alone?"

The people's choice -- and I found this one the most powerful, too -- was "Left Behind,"

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Smoker Falls Four Stories, Lives to Destroy Lungs Another Day  

Here's an anti-smoking PSA for you. A woman smoking a cigarette out of a window in midtown at 4 a.m. on Saturday lost her balance and fell four stories. But here's the thing: She survived! The 34-year-old woman is listed in stable condition at St. Vincent's Hospital. The New York Daily News reports:

FDNY officials said the woman fell into a narrow alleyway between two buildings and was conscious when emergency medical technicians arrived. . . .

No worries, lady! You may now return to your regularly scheduled cigarette break (but, no, you can't bum one). Of course not everyone is so lucky. Now we pause to remember one window smoker who didn't make it. Lexi Featherstone from the Sex and the City episode "Splat!," who fell out a window after Candice Bergen refused to let her light up in her apartment. "When did everybody stop smoking?" Lexi demanded. . . .

18 percent of New Yorkers are still lighting up. Our lucky Lady of the Tar is like a living metaphor for the city's smoking rates. She's down, but she's not out.

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'Medium' 2-parter blends cases, dreams and reality 

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: "Frontline: Bush's War," 9-11:30 p.m., WTVS-TV, Channel 56, PBS.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, this documentary says, opposite styles fought for President Bush's attention.

There was the quiet approach of Dick Cheney or Colin Powell. There was the commotion of Donald Rumsfeld or Gen. Tommy Franks. "He drinks maybe 15 cups of coffee a day, smokes two packs of cigarettes ... he's running on adrenalin and caffeine and nicotine," Gen. Michael DeLong says of Franks.

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Anna Friel has a smokin' time as she lunches with family in the Californian sun 

She's embraced most aspects of her new Hollywood life - including the personal fitness trainer, large entourage and sunday lunch al fresco.

However when it comes to being 100 per cent health-obsessed like her showbiz counterparts, Anna Friel seems unable to kick her smoking habit.

The British-born actress enjoyed a leisurely cigarette while lunching yesterday with long-term boyfriend David Thewlis and their two-year-old daughter Gracie in Los Angeles.

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Health issues take new twist in "Unnatural Causes" 

"Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" airing on four consecutive Thursdays beginning this week, explores the idea that work, race, economic status and neighborhood conditions might affect a person's health as much or more than habits or genetics. . . .

Among the intriguing questions "Unnatural Causes" probes: Why do poor Mexican immigrants see their health erode the longer they stay in America? Why do poor smokers develop lung cancer more often than rich smokers?

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Founding fathers film drove Giamatti back to cigarettes  

Paul Giamatti became so stressed on the set of new TV movie John Adams, he took up smoking again - eight years after he quit.

The actor, who plays United States founding father Adams in the two part historical epic, blames co-star Tom Wilkinson for tempting him to pick up cigarettes again in between takes.

He says, "I'd had enough. It was a tough job. John Hancock was on the phone to his agent... and Ben Franklin (Wilkinson) was having a Marlboro Light.

"So I said, `Give a founding father a cigarette. This revolution is killing me.'

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Ajay quits smoking...!? 

The Jain Family from Delhi managed to do something that even Kajol has not been able to do!! Rohit and Tanvi Jain, who are from Ghaziabad and are participating in the family dance competition Rock N Roll Family on Zee TV decided to perform on an innovative theme - Smoking being injurious to health. Their performance influenced Ajay to such an extent that he actually decided not to smoke for an entire day, in respect of the performance. Both Kajol and Tanuja were pleasantly surprised by this gesture.

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严限影视作品“吸烟镜头” 

目前，我国的影视作品中大多有吸烟镜头。特别是警匪片中的公安局长、刑侦队长常常指夹香烟“亮相”。出于对英雄人物的崇拜，青少年观众可能模仿，大量的“吸烟镜头”明显有负面影响。

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Look into my eyes: Pregnant Kerry Katona undergoes hypnotism to give up smoking  

Kerry Katona has been hypnotised in a desperate bid to quit smoking - even though she didn't want to give up her beloved cigarettes.

The reality television star has been shamed into giving up her beloved cigarettes after the bad press that has dogged her about smoking while pregnant, forcing the ex-Atomic Kitten singer to visit a hypnotist to beat her addiction. . . .

In scenes from her fly-on-the-wall MTV reality show Kerry Katona: Crazy in Love, Kerry, 27, is seen having one last cigarette before her session with top hypnotist Marisa Peer, and was struggling to accept the need to give up.

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Search results for smoking / Results from BBC Audio & Video 

Cinema censoring cigarettes

An anti-smoking group is calling for all movies with smoking scenes to be given an 18 certificate.

16/03/2008

Public's view on film smoking

People on the street give their reaction to a proposal to give films with smoking an 18 certificate.

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Crossing Over Once Again With 'Bridge' 

You might know Delaney Williams as Sgt. Jay Landsman on HBO's "The Wire," but he grew up in Takoma Park as Bill Delaney. He's a local guy who, as an actor, calls himself "a character guy." . . .

Other secrets: Be prepared to repeat single scenes dozens of times. Hazards on "The Wire" included getting stuck eating a cheesesteak in take after take, and smoking in one scene until the retakes made him sick. (The cigarettes were his idea, and lesson learned.) Not that he misses the old bank job.

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代表委员提出：营造良好的无烟环境 

中国承诺的无烟奥运即将来临。来自北京的全国人大代表闫傲霜９日建议，“所有政府机关的室内公共场所、工作场所，都应率先成为无烟环境。”

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Heat Some Tea. Look at the Ceiling. Now, That's Acting. 

COMEDY is hard, and quitting cigarettes makes it harder. Hamish Linklater, who plays Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s brother, Matthew, on the CBS show “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” learned this last year.

He gave up smoking when his wife, Jessica Goldberg, a playwright and screenwriter, became pregnant. Good news for his baby, Lucinda Rose, who was born in April, but bad news for his career: it improved his voice.

“I now have a more plaintive, sensitive, vulnerable register, which is apparently very annoying,” Mr. Linklater, 31, said. “I lack mystery now. I’m so available now. I have to find more restraints for Matthew.”

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政协“明星委员”，提案“心怀天下” 

濮存昕的政协提案主要放在环保上。

　　提案一：关于戒烟、禁烟

　　我国是全球烟草控制框架协议的缔约国之一，但是在社会发展、文明水平等方面做得还不够。我建议我应该由烟草专卖局出资、广电总局策划，邀请演艺明星出演禁烟公益广告，在电影、电视中播放。

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全国政协委员濮存昕：烟草专卖局应出钱拍禁烟广告 

5日下午，全国政协委员濮存昕在接受本网记者专访时向烟草专卖局提出了一个听上去非常“不合理”的建议——烟草专卖局应该出资拍摄戒烟、禁烟的广告。

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