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There is no logic behind censoring pictures of famous people smoking, writes Mark Lawson.
Jump to full article: The Age (au), 2009-09-19
Author: Mark Lawson
Intro: A QUIZ question: what is the link between former French president Jacques Chirac, the composer Rachmaninov and the British journalist Lynn Barber? The answer is that attempts have been made to ban photographs of them on the grounds that they were shown smoking.
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Most deaths from illness result from a combination of lifestyle, genes and luck, and celebrity role models seem unlikely to play much of a part. Repeated listening to Hough's cigarette-illustrated Rachmaninov CD has not made me a smoker, and readers of Chirac's reminiscences are as likely to become president as a result of the experience as to head to a tabac to match his habit. What, you sometimes wonder, are these people on?
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