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The curse of tobacco has followed Sean Penn to the Cannes Film Festival.

In a light-hearted moment yesterday in an otherwise serious press conference, Penn snuck a few puffs and groused about the problem.

"I've been discouraged from smoking," Penn said in complaining about the down side of being jury president. . . .

"For some medical reason, we need to smoke," filmmaker Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) said with a mischievous grin . . .

"Would it bother you?"

A few journalists applauded. She then lit up with a flourish, as did Penn and French actress Jeanne Balibar.

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