http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/category/people.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/hrithik-espouses-smoke-free-bollywood_105530.htm http://tobacco.org/news/333614.html Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan has stopped blowing smoke rings around him, thanks to Alan Carr’s book ‘Easy Way To Stop Smoking’. Duggu’s last ciggi was three months back and the actor can’t stop raving about this book which helped him stop fagging. Zee News India Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.pardaphash.com/news/is-ranbir-kapoor-a-smoker/688186.html http://tobacco.org/news/333601.html Mumbai: Ranbir Kapoor may be the chocolate boy of Bollywood but perhaps he is fed up of that image and wants to show a different side to his persona. According to reports, he was spotted smoking near the airport. He had a cigarette pressed between his fingers when he was spotted. He was accompanied by his bodyguard. Ranbir was not spotted smoking but only holding the cigarette. Parda Phash India Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www2.desmogblog.com/node/2750 http://tobacco.org/news/333567.html Background Michael Fox was a retired nuclear scientist and university chemistry professor with experience in the field of energy. He passed away on November 4, 2011. [1], [2] Fox's bio at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii (GIH) states he "is a retired nuclear scientist and university chemistry professor. He is the science and energy writer/reporter for the HawaiiReport.com. A resident of Kaneohe, Hawaii, he has nearly 40 years experience in the energy field." More recently, Fox lived in Washington State. [3] . . . Affiliations * The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) -- Past "Key scientist and academician." [6] * Grassroot Institute of Hawaii (GIH) -- Past Senior fellow. [3] * The Heartland Institute -- Past "Expert." [3] DeSmogBlog.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://truthdive.com/2012/02/09/JFK-ordered-1-200-Cuban-cigars-hours-before-authorising-them-as-illegal.html http://tobacco.org/news/333560.html John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as possible just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo, which subsequently made them illegal, it has been revealed. The 34th President of the United States asked his head of press and fellow cigar smoker Pierre Salinger to obtain "1,000 Petit Upmanns" on February 6, 1962, so he could have them in his hands before they were deemed contraband. Merely seconds after he was told the next morning that 1,200 of Cuba's finest export had been bought for him, he signed the decree to ban all of the communist state's products from the U.S. The re-surfacing of the story, initially recounted by Salinger to Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1992, comes with the passing of the 50th anniversary of the embargo on Tuesday. According to him, JFK called him into his office and said he needed "some help" to find "a lot of cigars". He wanted "1,000 Petit Upmanns" and needed them by "tomorrow morning". ANI Cuba USA Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2098269/Lady-Gaga-revives-male-alter-ego-Jo-Calderone-latest-music-video.html http://tobacco.org/news/333497.html The 25-year-old singer has revived her male persona Jo Calderone for another video to accompany her single You and I. The simple black and white fashion film shows the odd character puffing on a cigarette and stripping down to his white underwear while swearing and groping himself. . . . Can't quit: Calderone smokes a cigarette throughout the black and white video . . . Stripping off: The alter ego begins taking off his clothes while chain smoking The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Om-Puri-served-notice-for-smoking-at-public-place/Article1-807475.aspx http://tobacco.org/news/333460.html After some newspapers published pictures of Om Puri smoking at a public place, health officials served notice on the actor through commissioner, Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC). The actor was caught in camera smoking on the campus of Sardar Patel College, where he had come to take part in the international film festival that concluded on Saturday. The notice was served on the actor through BMC commissioner after a special team of the health department, headed by district health officer (DHO), failed to confront Om Puri personally despite their best efforts. As per Patiala civil surgeon Varinder Singh Mohi, the special team reached Hotel Iqbal Inn on Rajpura Road, where the actor was staying. "But the actor had left the hotel before our team reached there," said Mohi. Hindustan Times ravinder.vasudeva@hindustantimes.com ( Ravinder Vasudeva, Hindustan Times) India Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2097199/Looking-smoking-like-idol-Troubled-actress-Lindsay-Lohan-clutches-cigarette-Marilyn-Monroe-inspired-shoot.html?ito=feeds-newsxml http://tobacco.org/news/333456.html It's not a good habit to have, but anything Lindsay Lohan can do to look like her idol, she'll do. The troubled actress can be seen clutching cigarettes in yet another Marilyn Monroe-inspired photoshoot. The 25-year-old looks smoking as she poses seductively on a bed for Love magazine. Her bad habits: Lindsay Lohan took inspiration from Marilyn Monroe in her latest photoshoot, for LOVE magazine She lays back on the white sheets, arms above her head with a smoke between her neatly manicured fingers. An ashtray can be seen next to her and her bare arms show off her array of tattoos. The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20120205/NEWS/120209902/1063/NEWS&ParentProfile=1055 http://tobacco.org/news/333370.html Bobbie DeRamus doesn't remember things as well as she did. She's been diagnosed as being in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder devastating to short-term memory. So she thinks about the distant past. One memory that keeps coming back is when she spoke up for a ban on indoor smoking. DeRamus, 86, of Roseburg suffered severely from the secondhand cigarette smoke she inhaled at work in the 1970s and '80s. She testified several times in front of a state Senate committee when legislators were considering what became the Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act. The ban on indoor smoking in public buildings except in designated areas went into effect in 1983, the same year DeRamus left her job as a bookkeeper for Children's Services Division in Roseburg due to the damage secondhand smoke had done to her body. The ban provoked strong feelings. In a Gallup poll in 1983, 55 percent of smokers agreed they should refrain from smoking around nonsmokers. But 39 percent disagreed, and about 30 percent did not believe that secondhand smoke was hazardous to nonsmokers. Roseburg News-Review ccegavske@nrtoday.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.boston.com/sports/golf/articles/2012/02/04/levin_63_puffs_his_way_to_top/ http://tobacco.org/news/333313.html Spencer Levin took one last drag on his cigarette, stamped it out in the rough and climbed into the bunker behind the 17th green. He set up quickly, took a quick glance at the hole and splashed out. The ball landed about 10 feet from the hole, bounced twice and rolled into the cup for an eagle-2 that pushed him to 14-under par yesterday in the second round of the Phoenix Open at Scottsdale, Ariz. A few minutes - and another cigarette - later, he parred the 18th for an 8-under 63 and a three-stroke lead. Associated Press Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.wmbfnews.com/category/195966/video-landing-page?clipId=6651050&autostart=true http://tobacco.org/news/333276.html WMBF News Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/31/david-hockney-stick-to-painting?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 http://tobacco.org/news/333250.html The 85% of Australian suburban non-smoking philistines whose taxes helped assist in the 1999 $4.9m purchase of his A Bigger Grand Canyon for the National Gallery in Canberra will be devastated to know that David Hockney thinks they don't cut the mustard as Bohemians (Letters, 27 January). Hockney's unctuous spray about efforts to reduce tobacco-caused disease was painfully deep in personal rationalisation. Like some Russian roulette survivor convinced the game is safe and that it makes him all interesting and insightful, he apparently cannot see past his own longevity as evidence that the case against smoking is exaggerated. Yes, we all die. But Richard Doll's 50-year British doctors cohort study showed half of long-term smokers die from a tobacco-caused disease, with those dying losing an average 12 years off normal life expectancy. Patrick Swayze (57), Nat King Cole (45), George Harrison (58), George VI (56), Betty Grable (56), Mary Wells (49), and Beach Boy Carl Wilson (51) were all lifetime smokers. Many who die from smoking, like those with emphysema, live wretched lives for years with their lungs shredded. The Guardian editor@societyguardian.co.uk (Professor Simon Chapman Sydney School of Public Health ) UK Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/nothings-more-alluring-than-katrina-lighting-your-beedi/20120201.htm http://tobacco.org/news/333241.html If you watch Katrina Kaif's [ Images ] item song Chikni Chameli [ Images ] in Agneepath, you will see a statutory warning scrolling at the bottom of the screen every time she sings, 'Beedi chillum jalaane ayee,' claiming cigarette smoking is injurious to health. But there is no reason for the film industry to go into panic mode. As Pankaja Thakur, CEO of the Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC), says it doesn't mean every sequence showing a character smoking would be required to run a warning scroll. "Not at all!" exclaims Thakur emphatically. "The intention of the scroll is being misinterepreted by a section of the film imdustry. An actor smoking on screen is a different matter from an actress saying, Beedi chillum jalaane aayee. We did ask for the scroll in Agneepath. As per the cinematograph act, glamorisation of smoking is not to be allowed on screen. We in the Censor Board thought nothing can make smoking more alluring than Katrina Kaif offering to light the crowd's beedis and chillums." Rediff on the Net moviesreview@rediff.co.in India Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-24033165-interview-lord-hansons-cigarette-king-is-still-smoking-out-the-takeovers.do http://tobacco.org/news/333214.html When the going gets tough, nip outside for a ciggie. It's the only way Gareth Davis knows to deal with the stresses and strains of corporate life. He might have retired from his day job two years ago, but now the former chief executive of Imperial Tobacco has three chairmanships on the go. How will he cope if they all hit a crisis at the same time? "I'll pull hard on a fag, I suppose," he says, after a moment's thought. "Have a couple of pints and reflect on it." It's a no-nonsense style that has endeared Davis to the City over a 40-year career. Even the trio of jobs - at a bookie, a builders' merchant and a cardboard-box maker - are suitably blokeish for someone who has just jetted back from an "all-inclusive piss-up in Morocco" for a pal's 60th birthday. This is London UK Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/02/frances-bean-cobain-courtney-love-is-an-anorexic-chain-smoking-p/ http://tobacco.org/news/333211.html Courtney Love is described as mentally unstable in newly released deposition papers filed by her daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who sought a restraining order in 2009. Frances Bean, now 19, says Love's behavior even caused her pets' death. . . . Among those Love was ordered to avoid contact with include Cobain, Uncle Fester, Cobains' grandmother and her aunt. The primary reason? Love's drug use. "(She) has taken drugs for as long as I can remember," Cobain said. "She basically exists now on ... Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes. She rarely eats ... She often falls asleep in bed while smoking." "I am constantly worried that she will start a fire (which she has done at least three times to date) that will threaten all of our lives." The Hollywood Gossip Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/showbiz-news/2012/02/03/viggo-i-had-to-chain-smoke-cigars/ http://tobacco.org/news/333183.html Viggo Mortensen has admitted he had to get used to chain-smoking cigars on the set of A Dangerous Method. The Lord Of The Rings star appears opposite Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley in David Cronenberg's new film about the friendship between Sigmund Freud and fellow psychologist Carl Jung, in which he plays cigar lover Freud. Viggo revealed: "I enjoyed it after a while. I had good memories from childhood of grandfather smoking a lot of cigars, so I didn't mind the way they smelled and everything. "But it took a while to get used to smoking that many a day. He smoked 20, 22 big cigars a day. In photographs of Freud, you almost never see him without a cigar, in hand, in his mouth, even when he's with kids, social situations and family situations. Certainly always when he was reading or writing or lecturing, so I had to do it. "It took a little getting used to, I was a little dizzy the first couple of days, but then it became fun." Shropshire Star Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT