Nicotine Nic (Kidman in trouble over public smoking)

Daily Telegraph (Australia) ^ | 05/22/03

[Just another Joe]

We, as a culture, would not allow, say, people to cook sauerkraut outside every door.

Why wouldn't we?

The smokers have been driven out of doors. Smoking tobacco is legal for adults in all 50 states.
What other legal activity is taxed as much, legislated as much, lied about as much as smoking.

There is no hard fast scientific proof that second hand smoke (ETS) is a health hazard to anyone that doesn't have a pre-existing health condition. So all it comes down to is smell.
Some people don't like it, some people do. The anti-smokers don't like it, lie about the health consequences of ETS, and get legislatures to ban smoking in private establishments all on the basis of lies, more lies, and damn lies.

[shempy]

You need to sharpen your poetry skills.

[Bonaparte]

Roman Polanski can drug and rape a little girl and he's a cinematic icon, showered with awards and honors.

Robert Blake can blow his wife's brains out and the left is deafeningly quiet.

Alex Baldwin can call for the assasination of a US Congressman and his family and the left stands on their chairs to applaud him.

But Nicole Kidman has a cigarette and everybody's ready to string her up.

[Drew68]

But Nicole Kidman has a cigarette and everybody's ready to string her up.

No kidding!

I was able to find variations of this story in no less than six (and certainly growing) on-line newspapers.

I love the outrage that the health nazis are putting themselves through over this. Their wailing and gnashing of teeth is music to my ears!

[NYCVirago]

What is this, Mike Bloomberg in haiku?

[fishbabe]

it makes me want to be famous just so i can have a thousand press conferences and smoke big od stogies at every one of them!!!!!

[Drew68]

it makes me want to be famous just so i can have a thousand press conferences and smoke big od stogies at every one of them!!!!!

Yep!

I'd be sitting in front of the cameras, chain-smoking Marlboros, drinking a beer and eating veal.

My fur coat (tacky, yes I know) would not conceal the "I'm the NRA" t-shirt under it. Finally, I'd leave in a SUV with an "Islam=Terrorism" bumpersticker on the back.

[clintonh8r]

If they were allowed to smoke indoors your problem would be solved. Seems like it's the law of unintended consequences...

[Great Dane]

It's no ones darned business, I never realized that we now have mandated role models.

[fishbabe]

loved your answer and will have to remember to do all those things when i get famous...when i'm asked what my motivation was i will say,i became famous so i could piss off the liberals by smoking,drinking beer,wearing fur and generally acting like a human being thats free to make up her own mind!!!!

[theFIRMbss]

> Seems like it's the law of unintended consequences...

Yes! Id say it's more
to do with people's basic
stupidity than

anything else. When
stupid people try to "fix"
things EVERYONE pays...

[Shooter 2.5]

Face it, you're just a Ted Nugent Wannabe. LOL.

[Drew68]

It's no ones darned business, I never realized that we now have mandated role models.

And the funny thing is that who is Nicole Kidman a role model for? The young girls might take up smoking in the future? These girls look at the nearly 36-year-old Kidman as "old."

C'mon, it isn't like it was Britney Spears or the Olsen Twins lighting up at a press conference.

Nicole's fanbase has been old enough to buy smokes for several years.

[grumple]

I wonder what the reaction would be had she lit up a joint and said..."Oh, it's ok...I don't inhale..."