Why does it seem most actors/actresses have to have the need to smoke?
I don't understand it. I know it is addicting and everything but there are so many young actors & actresses out there that are smoking. With all the reports of how unhealthy cigarette smoking is what would make this population want to start it up. Someone like Jack Nickolson I can sort of understand smoking because when he probably started there weren't as many warning, but now these young actors are doing it. It just don't make any sense to me.
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Re: Why does it seem most actors/actresses have to have the need to smoke?
It's like Penn & Teller say, "Remember, kids, don't ever smoke...unless you want to look really cool."
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Yeah, I started smoking when I was 15 because everyone thought it was cool. Six years later, girls find it a huge turn-off but I can't stop...I'll quit tomorrow.
Anyway, often actors need to smoke for a role they're playing in a movie, so they pick up the habit to appear more natural on screen, and they stick with it. I think that's how Kristen Stewart started. She had to smoke for that Joan Jett movie The Runaways. |
Originally Posted by Juno MacGuff (Post 635678)
I don't understand it. I know it is addicting and everything but there are so many young actors & actresses out there that are smoking. With all the reports of how unhealthy cigarette smoking is what would make this population want to start it up. Someone like Jack Nickolson I can sort of understand smoking because when he probably started there weren't as many warning, but now these young actors are doing it. It just don't make any sense to me.
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Re: Why does it seem most actors/actresses have to have the need to smoke?
I think they do it as it helps keep appetite down :yup: Metabolic rate up = thin at any cost :eek:
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Originally Posted by Juno MacGuff (Post 635678)
I don't understand it. I know it is addicting and everything but there are so many young actors & actresses out there that are smoking. With all the reports of how unhealthy cigarette smoking is what would make this population want to start it up. Someone like Jack Nickolson I can sort of understand smoking because when he probably started there weren't as many warning, but now these young actors are doing it. It just don't make any sense to me.
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They should do more sport, so they would be attractive instead of just thin. Hate what happened to Kate "Clearly" Bosworth. I wouldn`t care, if Paris Hilton or another model would die, but this is just not okay.
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I do local modeling and may one day attempt to go national with it. I'd rather stay skinny by exercising and eating right than smoking and risk the dying from it.
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Originally Posted by Juno MacGuff (Post 635796)
I do local modeling and may one day attempt to go national with it. I'd rather stay skinny by exercising and eating right than smoking and risk the dying from it.
The problem lies with the fashion designers, who believe this heroin sheak looks different so therefore it must be fashionable. If they started to design clothes and employ models with healthy body types. Young girls wouldn't feel the need to starve themselves. It's sad really! And if you look at the designers, they're not what I would call healthy, but overweight...in the most part. It's quite the opposite from centuries ago where people who were larger, were thought to have "money". It was a status symbol to have a bit a meat on your bones. Why you may ask? Mainly because the rest of the population were starving. |
Re: Why does it seem most actors/actresses have to have the need to smoke?
Because President Obama does :p
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Originally Posted by Michael_10 (Post 635808)
The problem lies with the fashion designers, who believe this heroin sheak looks different so therefore it must be fashionable. If they started to design clothes and employ models with healthy body types. Young girls wouldn't feel the need to starve themselves. It's sad really! And if you look at the designers, they're not what I would call healthy, but overweight...in the most part. It's quite the opposite from centuries ago where people who were larger, were thought of have "money" it was a status symbol to have a bit a meat on your bones. Why you may ask? Mainly because the rest of the population were starving.
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Originally Posted by Juno MacGuff (Post 635817)
You are absolutely correct. A lot of these models I look up to myself and I see the pressure they all must be under to meet the need to stay thing. This is their work and the way they make a living. They also say actors/actresses have a lot of stress involved with their jobs feeling the need to smoke.
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There's also huge kickbacks involved with on screen smoking and product placement. Check out the cool half million Sly got for a few puffs from the cancer sticks.
http://tobaccodocuments.org/youth/AmBWC19830614.Lt.html |
Originally Posted by nebbit (Post 635709)
I think they do it as it helps keep appetite down :yup: Metabolic rate up = thin at any cost :eek:
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One of the few guys who could really pull it off...
http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/a...rt-lorre12.jpg |
Re: Why does it seem most actors/actresses have to have the need to smoke?
If you want to see cool movie that has actors smoking in it check out Message From Sector Six. It all takes place in a space station.
The scene that pops out in my mind is Brad Pitt & Catherine Zeta-Jones. They've just finished ravishing each other's bodies for the first time. They lie naked, suspended in air underneath the heavens. Pitt lights up. He starts blowing smoke rings all around Catherine's naked, flawless body, as the galaxies go whizzing by over the glass-domed ceiling. Now, tell me that doesn't work for you. |
Originally Posted by TheUsualSuspect (Post 635922)
If you want to see cool movie that has actors smoking in it check out Message From Sector Six. It all takes place in a space station.
The scene that pops out in my mind is Brad Pitt & Catherine Zeta-Jones. They've just finished ravishing each other's bodies for the first time. They lie naked, suspended in air underneath the heavens. Pitt lights up. He starts blowing smoke rings all around Catherine's naked, flawless body, as the galaxies go whizzing by over the glass-domed ceiling. Now, tell me that doesn't work for you. |
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NICK NAYLOR If I may. In 1910, the U.S. was producing ten billion cigarettes a year. By 1930, we were up to one hundred and twenty-three billion. What happened in between? Three things. A world war, dieting... and movies. B.R. Movies? NICK NAYLOR 1927: talking pictures are born. Suddenly, directors need to give their actors something to do while they're talking. Cary Grant, Carole Lombard are lighting up. Bette Davis; a chimney. And Bogart! Remember the first picture with him and Lauren Bacall? B.R. Well, yeah... not specifically. NICK NAYLOR Oh, she sort of shimmies in through the doorway, nineteen years old. Pure sex. She says, "Anyone got a match?" And Bogie throws the matches at her... and she catches them. Greatest romance of the century. How'd it start? Lighting a cigarette. These days when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psycho- path or a European. The message Hollywood needs to send out is smoking is cool. We need the cast of "Will & Grace" smoking in their living room. Forrest Gump puffing away between his box of chocolates. Hugh Grant earning back the love of Julia Roberts by buying her favorite brand, her Virginia Slims. Most of the actors smoke already. If they start doing it on-screen, we can put the sex back into cigarettes. NICK NAYLOR Now, what we need is a smoking role model, a real winner. JEFF MEGALL Indiana Jones meets Jerry Maguire. NICK NAYLOR Right, on two packs a day. JEFF MEGALL Only he can't live in contemporary society. NICK NAYLOR Why not? JEFF MEGALL The health issue's way too prevalent. People would constantly be asking the character why he's smoking, and that should go unsaid. How do you feel about the future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT7F0eKfctg |
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