[Drew68]

This story is breaking big all over the entertainment world. There is another one on FR as it is: Smoking Kidman Sparks Controversy

I posted this one because the vitriol was incredible:

But the world glimpsed uglier images of Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday when she smoked her way through an international press conference

You'd have thought she stuck a needle in her arm and shot up!

Anyhow, I was floored when I saw the footage on Entertainment Tonight of her lighting up two nights ago because candid images of stars smoking aren't normally aired (and ET made no mention of it).

I've scoured the net for images from the Cannes press conference of her smoking but to no avail. All the photos I can find of Kidman either show her smoking in movie roles or *not* smoking in public.

Anyhow, give those niconazinannies hell Nicole!

[Drew68]

ping to the Puff List for smoking related articles.

[anniegetyourgun]

OMG....fate worse than death. She may never land another script....

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Black listed and black lung at the same time.

[Hildy]

Senator Allison added that tobacco use cost the nation $21 billion every year.

How much does AIDS cost the nation? Should we ban Gays from giving press conferences???Hmm?

[Blood of Tyrants]

She can smoke if she wants, but her stock just took a nose dive in the BoT beauty index.

[xrp]

Maybe Nicole should be like Charles Barkley and inform people that she isn't a role model simply because she's pretty and in movies.

She can do whatever she wants to do.

[Paul Atreides]

However, if she got up and blabbed about having an abortion, she would be called a role model.

[armed_in_sydney]

the Australian Democrats,even less relevant than the American ones.

[roadcat]

"Nicole Kidman might feel she's been unfairly targeted, but with fame and status does come responsibility,"

I'd rather they smoke than talk.

[OpusatFR]

"You'd have thought she stuck a needle in her arm and shot up!"

That would have been more acceptable.

And these single neuron primitives wonder why we disdain the whole Hollyweird culture.

[Blue Screen of Death]

It is a badge among the Hollywood types to have a diploma from the Betty Ford clinic. They live together for years without getting married. They have children out of wedlock. They "discover" their latent homosexuality, then undiscover it... and they get upset over smoking???

[A. Pole]

Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival

But aren't Cannes in France, beyong prohibitonist jurisdiction?

[Caipirabob]

Nicolle Kidman can do whatever she wants with a cigarette or cigar. Still, I'm going to insist on photos later.

[sticker]

It would have been alright for her to have stuck a needle in her arm. To these clowns(I know I am insulting clowns) drug use is alright but smoking is on the same level as we common folk have guns, it just shouldn't be. Unless you are smoking a real Cuba cigar, it which case you are only doing it to support their comrade fidel

[clintonh8r]

Smoking? In public? Good GOD!

[gramho12]

Clinton and Gore can sell this country down the river, some director can shoot this girlfriend, you got oodles of celebrities on drugs, and what do people get upset about? An actress who smokes.

Is this world upside down or what?

[Gritty]

Can you just imagine the furor if she had waved an empty muzzleloader over her head!

[cksharks]

Damn I thought she might have been kissing janet reno or something. Now that would have been ugly.

[bedolido]

What's that old joke about "smoking after sex"?

"I don't know... I never checked"

She can smoke whatever, whenever and however... she's just beautiful.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

What if smoking is a cure for SARS? - has anyone done a survey? - I'll ask Philip Morris.