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Below are several quotes from actors regarding their thoughts on the use of tobacco products.
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Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Aaliyah
People
Sept. 2001
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Saddest Song
Comment:
She didn't cuss, she didn't drink, she didn't smoke


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Adams, Ryan
Rolling Stone
Nov. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Ryan Adams
Comment:
The moment he enters he lights a cigarette…


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Adams, Ryan
US Weekly
Sept. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
51
Comment:
On why Adams is hot: "His bad-boy ways…known to chain smoke..Adams was born to be the center of attention."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Affleck, Ben
US Weekly
Aug. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Too Much Too Soon
Comment:
..at parties.. Affleck is seldom seen without a drink-or cigarette in hand (he says he has a severe addiction to tobacco


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Affleck, Ben
US Weekly
Aug. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Too Much Too Soon
Comment:
.. Reputation as a hard partying bachelor.. Appetite for vodka, gambling and cigarettes


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Affleck, Ben
Entertainment Weekly
Nov. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Rubber the Right Way
Comment:
Affleck says between drags on one of many Camel lights


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Affleck, Ben
US Weekly
Aug. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
36
Comment:
Describing Affleck: "Dressed in khakis.. The six-foot-two star- who had emerged just once during the night for a smoke."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Affleck, Ben
The Mirror
Apr. 2003
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
The singer and actress (J. Lopez) said she despised her actor fiance's 20-a-day habit and forbids him to smoke anywhere near her.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Allen, India
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I love them for the same reason I love being an Episcopalian: the tradition and the ritual.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Allen, India
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
One person I used to mooch stogies off a lot at dinner parties was Jack Nicholson


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Aniston, Jennifer
People
Aug. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Isn’t' It Romantic
Comment:
She's trying to get him (Pitt) not to smoke, but she smokes. "He (Pitt) says don't smoke and she (Aniston) says well, you quit first.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Aniston, Jennifer
US Weekly
Nov. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Friends & Lovers
Comment:
She smokes Merit cigarettes, and loves eating..


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Entertainment Weekly
Fall 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Friends Episode Guide
Comment:
Rachel takes up smoking to feel more in the loop with her boss


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Aniston, Jennifer
The Mirror
Aug. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Not to have to be the good girl" - it's been a real battle to get there," says Jennifer, lighting a cigarette as if to prove the points as she sits in the living room of the couple's Los Angeles villa."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Aniston, Jennifer
US Weekly
Sept. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Jennifer Aniston smoking a cigarette outside..café in Hollywood, before going back to eating with Melissa Ethridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Aniston, Jennifer
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Aniston lights a Merit


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Archer, Anne
Archer, Anne
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
For Archer and Jastrow, cigars are often an important part of a night out in Los Angeles. They like to go to George Hamilton's wine and smoke shop.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Archer, Anne
Archer, Anne
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
At one point, Jastrow was the producer for Howard Cosell's sports magazine show, "Sports Beat," on ABC, and Cosell introduced him to the joys of smoking fine cigars. Archer quickly took to sharing a cigar with Jastrow


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Archer, Anne
Archer, Anne
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Cigarettes bother me," she says. "But cigars are different


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Argento, Asia
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
42
Comment:
Describing Argento during interview: "She was sitting at a table, drawing the life out of a Camel Light..."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Argento, Asia
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
42
Comment:
Then, exhaling a cloud of smoke, she (Argento) turned…


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Argento, Asia
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
42
Comment:
After describing a sexual dream Argento: "..pondered this briefly, took a drag on her Camel Light and went on to inform us that the last time she'd made love to anybody was yesterday..pondered this for a good..she stubbed out her cigarette"


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Arnold, Tom
US Weekly
Sept. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
30
Comment:
After describing a sexual dream Argento: "..pondered this briefly, took a drag on her Camel Light and went on to inform us that the last time she'd made love to anybody was yesterday..pondered this for a good..she stubbed out her cigarette"


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Baldwin, Steven
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Mel Gibson is giving me a Cohiba Robusto on the night that he won two Oscars!


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Baldwin, Steven
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I have a note in there saying that on the night I win my Oscar, I will go to the Grand Havana in Beverly Hills and I am going to smoke that fucking cigar


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Baldwin, Steven
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I've been enjoying cigars pretty solidly for the last three years--I even had a humidor on the set of the movie--but I really don't smoke all that often, "I'm just as interested in collecting them as smoking them. I give a lot of cigars away


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Baldwin, Steven
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Boxes marked with the logos for Partagas, Cohiba and Montecristo compete for space in the small humidified locker that he keeps at the Grand Havana Room's New York City outpost


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Barrymore, Drew
People Magazine
Jan. 1989
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I started smoking cigarettes when I was 9 1/2.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Barrymore, Drew
GQ Magazine
Apr. 1995
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I get through anywhere from two to three packs a day, she declares, with undeniable relish. "It's disgusting. It's awful. But I love it! Ooh I love it. If there could be an alcoholic word for smoking then that would be me. I'm a smokaholic. Definitely Marlboros. That's my brand. It's such a great consistent taste. I love everything about smoking. I love that it cures my oral fixations. I love that it's something to do; it's something in my hand. I like the smell of it, the taste of it, I love smoking! I love the first one in the morning, I love the last one before I go to bed and every one in between. If I could, I would smoke and eat at the same time. Whether it's obsessions or fixations, this is definitely one of mine. But if it's a fault, then it's one I take pride in."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Barrymore, Drew
San Francisco Chronicle
Feb. 1998
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I don't like partying, Barrymore says, self-consciously playing with the elastic on her scoop-neck peasant blouse. "I like a healthy, clean life. Sure, I smoke a cigarette every once in a while. I think you should not be completely uptight."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Barrymore, Drew
Rolling Stone
Nov. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Naughty Adventures of Miss Drew Barrymore
Comment:
You know me, I'm half Corona Marlboro s--t toilet mouthed girl…


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Barrymore, Drew
Rolling Stone
Nov. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Naughty Adventures of Miss Drew Barrymore
Comment:
Drew asks a French girl if she can have a cigarette. Bring your own packet," she says. Drew goes off and buys her own and offers the girl one..."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Barrymore, Drew
World Entertainment News Network
5/1/2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Drew Barrymore has given up cigarettes - with the help of habit-breaker Yefim Shubentsov … Shubentsov has no formal medical training, but employs 'bio-energetics' which involves waving hands over a client while exhaling loudly.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Beckinsale, Kate
US Weekly
Oct. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Kiss Me Kate
Comment:
..his sons taught her to smoke cigarettes and swear like a sailor


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Beckinsale, Kate
Entertainment Weekly
1-Jun
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The War Machine
Comment:
She also makes to beat the band..


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Beckinsale, Kate
People
1-Jun
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Insider- We Hear that Peral Harbor…
Comment:
..lit up in the ships restricted non-smoking areas, ignoring instructions not to until she was duly reprimanded


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Belucci, Monica
Premiere
Oct. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Getting Lit
Comment:
describing photo of Belucci "She's Smoking': Monica prepares for ignition in Malena


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Belushi, Jim
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I think it's very male, and women should stay away from it. It's none of their business


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Belushi, Jim
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
That's what I like about cigars and cigar smokers," Belushi says, finishing the story. "It's a bonding, a wonderful bonding among gentlemen


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Belushi, Jim
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
www.chichagocigar.com/scrapbook/article-belushi.html
Comment:
But I really started smoking about eighty-eight. Right when I started working with Arnold in Red Heat". We shot "Red Heat" in Chicago, Arnold Schwarzenegger and I. And he was smoking all of the time, so it's like, you know, either choke from the smoke or join him."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Belushi, Jim
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Not too long ago, Jim Belushi found himself at a celebrity roast for Billy Crystal, seated between Harvey Keitel and Roger Ebert and thrilled to discover that, for every guest, a Davidoff had been placed on the table


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Berle, Milton
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I'm a proselytizer when it comes to weaning people off cigarettes and touting them onto cigars, which don't hurt you, unless you inhale them


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Berle, Milton
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Today, embargo or no, Berle is still smoking very expensive Cuban cigars


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Berle, Milton
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Ruth died of cancer in 1989, and although it wasn't lung cancer, Berle blames her death on her addiction to cigarettes. She smoked three to four packs a day throughout their marriage. Berle tried to wean her off cigarettes but failed


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Berle, Milton
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Besides enjoying the taste, Berle wanted to be like the important comedians he'd seen on the stage in vaudeville. Groucho Marx. Ken Murray. Ted Healey. George Jessel. Lou Holtz. They all worked with cigars onstage


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Berle, Milton
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I was a kid actor of 13 when I tasted my first Havana cigar


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bettany, Paul
Premiere
Jul. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
30
Comment:
Describing Bettany: "The wry 31 year old Brit, relaxed into his lunch of Marlboro Lights."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bogart, Humphrey
Entertainment Weekly
Nov. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
72
Comment:
Lauren Bacall seducing Bogart in movie: …first-rate seduction…she has a light ready for Bogie before his cigarette's reached his mouth…puts her hip into lifting the match and puts her lips together and blows."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bourdains, Anthony
People
Aug. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Reality Bites
Comment:
Says Bourdain, who fuels himself with cigarettes and booze…


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bowie, David
Rolling Stone
Aug. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
30
Comment:
Q: "Hey, you're not smoking! Are you no longer smoking? A: No, I'm not. But do you want to smoke?"


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bowie, David
Rolling Stone
Aug. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
30
Comment:
Q: No, but I'm stunned that you quit. A: It is major..And is that the result of having a daughter? I think so. Is it the result of having to spend most of the winter out on the balcony? Even more so."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyer, Charles
Movieline
Oct. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Bedroom Eyes
Comment:
Boyer.. The… seducer, typically wreathed in a haze of cigarette smoke..


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyle, Lara Flynn
Maxim Magazine
Dec. 1999
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Q: Have you ever tried to sneak a smoke on an airplane? A: Oh, yeah -- you can get one good puff. Then you have to exhale into the toilet and flush the butt all at the same time.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyle, Lara Flynn
Vanity Fair
Feb. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
She removes a pearled cigarette box from her purse and takes out the first of many Marlboros she will have during our interview. Boyle lights another cigarette and lets it linger in her mouth. "Started smoking these," she says, waving a Marlboro at me, "when I was 13."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyle, Lara Flynn
New York Post
Mar. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
At Morton's in Hollywood gorgeous Lara Flynn Boyle to Bo Derek: "I admire you. You are sooo-o beautiful." Lara then hit the can with, "Anyone here asthmatic?" We said no, so into the stall she went for a cigarette.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyle, Lara Flynn
Entertainment Weekly
Oct. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
60
Comment:
For photo session.."Boyle willingly vamped it up-provided her cigarettes were on hand."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyle, Lara Flynn
Entertainment Weekly
Oct. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
60
Comment:
She smokes a lot, (admits the photographer) Her publicist wasn't crazy about it but she kept lighting up so I kept shooting


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Boyle, Lara Flynn
Entertainment Weekly
2-Jun
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
37
Comment:
I drove to get cigarettes, and didn't realize there was a car stalled in front of me


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Branagh, Kenneth
Entertainment Weekly
Nov. 2002
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
26
Comment:
During interview: "..says (Branagh) casting a glance at the ABSOLUTELY NO SMOKING ON SET sign…'do you mind if I scandalously have a cigarette?' He peers around the set 'Hold on, lets make sure there are no children around."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Buerge, Aaron
US Weekly
Nov. 2002
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
43
Comment:
When asked about guilty pleasures Buerge replies: "chocolate…every now and then I'll smoke a cigar or cigarette."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bundchen, Gisele
Rolling Stone
Oct. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Letters to the Editor
Comment:
Am I correct to assume then… (she’s) a chain smoking gold digger


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bundchen, Gisele
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Hot List-Gisele
Comment:
… holding her fingers up to scissor in on a pre-lit Marlboro. …she'd rather smoke a Parliament but that brand is hard to find in her country.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bundchen, Gisele
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Hot List-Gisele
Comment:
…Giselle proffering a fresh and evidently quite rare pack of Parliaments.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bundchen, Gisele
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Hot List-Gisele
Comment:
..in the no-smoking dressing room, Gisele enters the bathroom, clambers up on the toilet seat and lights a Parliament. Smoke is sucked up the vent."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bundchen, Gisele
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Hot List-Gisele
Comment:
..she never thought of smoking a cigarette. In fact it's a secret that she smokes …"but I can't stop smoking now."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Burns, George
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
You see, for me, Hillcrest passed a special bylaw: anyone over 95 is allowed to smoke a cigar in the card room."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Burns, George
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
I don't know how much they cost today. I get them for nothing from the Tobacco Institute [in Washington, D.C.] , replies Burns


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bush, George W.
US Weekly
Aug. 2000
Smokeless
Article/Page Number or Website:
Girl Talk: Laura Bush
Comment:
He started puttin' on deodorant, combing his hair… chewing less tobacco.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Bush, Laura
US Weekly
Aug. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Girl Talk: Laura Bush
Comment:
As teens, they would take turns driving, so they could crouch down and sneak Winstons.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Campbell, Naomi
Night & Day Magazine
Sept. 1999
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Although I smoke I wouldn't do a cigarette advert, simply because I don't want a picture of me showing kids across the world that I do.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Campbell, Naomi
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Oct. 1999
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
It's gently brought up that she has vowed in past interviews to, ahem, quit smoking. "I'm gonna!" she cries. "I'm gonna! I don't know when, but I’m gonna. I just don't think this is the best time to do it. But I'm trying."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Campbell, Naomi
World Entertainment News Network
Mar. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
Campbell has lost her three month battle to abstain from smoking after undergoing acupuncture for her 'least favorite habit.' The catwalk queen spent four weeks in the clinic last year to quit smoking and drinking. But after promising she had kicked the habit earlier this month in Paris, Naomi was caught sneaking in a cigarette outside a Los Angeles restaurant yesterday.


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Cancer Man character
EW
Sept. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Apocalypse How?
Comment:
Describing character, "He was reduced to puffing out a blow hole in his neck."


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Carter, Helena Bonham
Premiere
Oct. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
10-01 Going Postal Letters to the Editor
Comment:
The picture of Helena.. smoking a cigarette in partial ape make up is... frame-worthy, and it eerily proves Mark Wahlberg's sentiment that in some cases apes can be sexy


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Casiraghi, Andrea
US Weekly
Jul. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Lives in the Fast Lane
Comment:
Despite his smoking habit, Andrea is a long-distance runner and soccer player


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Casiraghi, Andrea
US Weekly
Jul. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Lives in the Fast Lane
Comment:
..has developed the undesirable Grimaldi habit of chain smoking


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Casiragni, Charlotte
US Weekly
Jul. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
Lives in the Fast Lane
Comment:
She's an ordinary 14 year old who likes clothes.. And probably secretly smokes cigarettes


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Cedric the Entertainer
EW
Aug. 2000
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
The Laugh Track
Comment:
“…looking like the missing court jester…mimes the way that a neighbor player turns the simple act of smoking into a performance piece of cool…”


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Chabon, Michael
Rolling Stone
Sept. 2001
Cigarette
Article/Page Number or Website:
A Conversation with Michael Chabon
Comment:
When I got to college I started smoking, drinking, smoking pot… but then I wasn’t really rebelling because I wasn't at home


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Chicklis, Michael
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
After Wired, everyone was afraid to touch me for fear of reprisal,


Celebrity: Source: Issue: Tobacco Type:
Chicklis, Michael
Cigar Aficionado
Cigar
Article/Page Number or Website:
Comment:
After a day like today, where I just spent eight hours doing the narrative of a movie, the idea of sitting and having a nice dinner and a cigar is one of the peaceful pleasures in life