E Cigarettes Change The Tobacco Game

There is a different way to get that hit of nicotine without hurting those around you.

Fans of electronic, or E-Cigarettes, claim they smoke cigarettes less and can smoke cigarettes in public or confined places without emitting second hand smoke. Health officials, on the other hand, say these battery-powered smokes are still as hazardous as the traditional lighted counterparts.

E-Cigarettes employ a cartridge pre-loaded with tobacco, flavoring and other chemicals. Smokers place the device into the mouth like a traditional cigarette, but instead of smoke, vapor is inhaled and exhaled.

"It's easier to inhale and your breath, car and clothes don't smell like smoke," said Judy Wyatt of North East.

Wyatt said she tried the device a couple months ago "out of curiosity." She only smokes under stress, she said, adding she typically goes through a traditional pack of 20 cigarettes in a week. The E-Cigarette is less obvious and less annoying.

"I keep it in my pocket. There's no ashtray, no mess, no throwing your cigarette butts out the window," she said.

However, like traditional cigarettes, E-Cigarettes still pose a health risk, according to a doctor with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

"It delivers the same amount of nicotine and some are designed to deliver more nicotine than a regular cigarette," said Dr. Donald Shell, director of the Center for Health Promotion.

Shell said federal officials have been unsuccessful in getting these cheap cigarettes under the same regulatory umbrella as other buy cigarettes products.

"It is not regulated as a medical device," Shell said. "It's regulated under food, drugs and cosmetics.

"The Food and Drug Administration can't say if they are safe or how much nicotine is being inhaled," he said. Shell said a 2009 act signed by the president ties the FDA's hands.

"The act President Obama signed ... forbids the FDA from dealing with cigarettes online as a drug. They can't evaluate it on its potential harm," he said. "It's still a smoke cigarettes risk, still all the toxins associated with cancer. It's still all there."

He added because of the designation E-Cigarettes are not required to carry the same warning labels as those posted on packages of cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco.

Shell said the state is taking its own action regardless.

"Here at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene we continue to educate that all cheap cigarette online products are hazardous," he said. "Kids with asthma, cancer, maternal health. It's a huge problem."

Worse yet, Shell said because of the lack of regulation tobacco companies are developing products that appear to target young people.

"Kids are using more of the small cigars and cigarillos," he said. These can be purchased one at a time for less than a dollar, compared to almost $7 for a pack of cigarettes. "They are now coming out in flavors with colored foil wrappers."

Wyatt, who works at a store where E-cigarettes are sold, says one E-cigarette pack costs $9.99 but is equal to two packs of cigarettes.

Kuldip Singh at Cigars Etc. in Rising Sun agreed the E-cigarettes might be more convenient.

"But they don't sell well," he said. Only one kind is sold at the East Main Street store. The $9.95 pack is equivalent to 30 cigarettes.

"Our least expensive pack of regular buy cigarette online is $4.71," he said. After a couple of months on the shelves, Singh said only a handful have left the store.

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Knoxville Roll-your-own-cigarette Shop Gaining Popularity

It's a concept that's caught on around the country, and now it's in Knoxville. They are stores with machines that will let you roll your own cigarettes.

Nationally, there has been some controversy over the roll-your-own-smokes machines because customers don't have to pay a cigarette tax.

However, the state of Tennessee does not appear to be kicking up a fuss over it.

Smokes 4 Less on Western Avenue advertises up to 50% off a carton of cigarettes.

Customer Erica Smith was making a carton Thursday, and says she's never going back to traditional cigarettes. "Because they burn longer, slower and they are cheaper."

Essentially a customer is buying the loose cheap cigarettes and the empty cigarette tubes. Then they pay to use the machine that puts the two together.

You can pick the cheap cigarette online and the tube that matches the style of your cigarette brand. Store owner Mark Griffey isn't a smoker himself, but heard about how well the do-it-yourself concept was working for businesses nationwide.

"We started checking some out in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. These stores are going up all over the place," Griffey explained.

Buying cigarettes this way saves customers from paying cigarette taxes because they purchase the product in pieces. In fact, New York City has sued one of these shops over taxes.

We checked with the Tennessee Department of Revenue, and the way things stand now, officials don't have a problem with the idea.

"From all our research and everyone we talked to, they are very friendly on this," Griffey said.

So clients like Smith plan to keep on rolling. She left the store with 200 smokes for a little more than $22. "For a regular carton of cigarettes, I would have paid $55," she said.

With a slow economy, businesses like these believe they're onto something.

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Tobacco Shops Offering Customers Automated Cigarette-Making Machines

At least four roll-your-own discount cigarette online shops that offer premium cigarettes store at half the price of a carton of brand-name cheap cigarettes have opened around the state in the past year. Customers save money by rolling their own online cigarettes on an automatic cigarette-rolling machine that produces 200 cigarettes in about eight minutes.

Typically, customers pay about $40 for 8 ounces of loose tobacco, 200 hollow cigarette tubes and the use of the machine. Employees tell customers how to operate the computerized rolling machines.

"We just talk the customers through the process," said Michael Horak, general manager of the Tobacco Place in Wethersfield, which has two of the machines. Tobacco Place opened two weeks ago.

The machine, which costs about $40,000, automatically fills each tube with cigarettes online and then ejects the finished cigarette into a collection bin, an eight-minute process that produces the equivalent of a carton of buy cigarettes —10 packs of 20.

But state officials say operating the machines without a cigarette manufacturer's license is illegal.

In August, Attorney General George Jepsen, on behalf of Kevin B. Sullivan, state commissioner of revenue services, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Hartford against Tracey's Smoke Shop and Tobacco LLC for illegally manufacturing cheap cigarette online at its two stores in Norwalk and Orange.

Tracey Scalzi, the stores' owner, said she owns four of the machines at the two stores, which opened about a year ago.

The Department of Revenue Services claims the machines are commercial cigarette-making machines and retailers who operate them must obtain a cigarette-manufacturing license and pay the associated fees and tariffs, including Connecticut's cigarette tax, which adds $3.40 to a pack of cigarettes.

"We don't see ourselves as manufacturers; the customers make them themselves," Horak said.

The attorney general's office would not comment on the lawsuit because the matter is pending, awaiting the court's decision.

If the court finds in the agency's favor, those who continue to operate the machines could face potential arrest, hefty fines and loss of their existing cigarettes sales licenses, DRS spokeswoman Sarah Kaufman said.

Despite the pending lawsuit, two tobacco shops that offer customers the use of the machines have opened in Bristol and Wethersfield.

Store owners say the machines are roll-your-own devices that only produce enough cigarettes for personal use.

"You can go next door to the gas station and buy tobacco. You can buy the [cigarette] tubes, and you can buy the roll-your-own machines — I sell a couple models here, a $49 machine and an $8 machine. The only difference is my machine is bigger," said Michael Hatzisavvas, who opened Big Cat's Smoke Shop in Bristol seven weeks ago.

"We don't do the manufacturing. I don't touch the machine," Hatzisavvas said. Like the other stores, Big Cat's four employees tell customers how to operate the machines.

Hatzisavvas, a former restaurant owner, said he's aware of the lawsuit, but decided to open a store anyway.

"I am worried. It crosses my mind that they'll shut me down. But how can they do this? I thought this was a state that liked small business," Hatzisavvas said. "Why would they want to shut a business that's providing work for local people?"

The machines, made by RYO Machine LLC, a Cincinnati company, began appearing making a few years ago. Bryan Haynes, an attorney representing the company, which was founded in 2008, said RYO's machines are not in the same league as commercial cigarette-making equipment.

"The advanced machines used by companies like Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds will produce 20,000 cigarettes in a minute," said Haynes, a partner at Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders LLP.

"We're talking about horses and buggies vs. fighter jets."

Wisconsin and Michigan have filed lawsuits similar to Connecticut's, claiming that the product is a commercial cigarette-making machine and its use requires a cigarette-manufacturing license.

New Hampshire's Supreme Court and the Alaska's Superior Court have found that using the machine constitutes cigarette manufacturing, "regardless of … who loads the machine and presses the 'start' button," according to court documents cited by Connecticut officials.

A federal appeal filed by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is under consideration in a U.S. District Court in Ohio to decide whether RYO's equipment should be classified as a commercial cigarette-making machines. A spokesman for the agency would not comment on the matter because "it is in court right now."

"There are now 1,700 of our RYO Filling Stations in 40 states," said Phil Accordino, the company's chief executive.

"We are providing a more convenient service to our customers that have either been rolling their own cigarettes at home for years or have found us to be a less expensive alternative to other larger brands," Accordino said.

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Famous Actress Part VI

Celebrity Actress Smoking Part VI

Here we have the sixth part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actress smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.


1. Anna Torv Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Torv Smoking George Karelia and Sons Superior Cigarette

About Anna Torv : Anna Torv (born 15 June 1978) is an Australian actress known for her role as FBI agent Olivia Dunham on the Fox television series Fringe. Anna Torv was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Susan and Hans Torv and grew up on the Hinterlands of the Gold Coast, Queensland. Anna's father Hans Torv is of Estonian descent, but was born in Stirling, Scotland.

She has been estranged from her father since the age of 8. She has one sibling, a younger brother, Dylan. Her paternal aunt is writer Anna Maria Torv Murdoch Mann, who was married for 31 years to billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.


2. Annabella Sciorra Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Annabella Sciorra Smoking Golden Gate Blue Cigarette

About Annabella Sciorra : Annabella Sciorra (born March 29, 1960) is an American film, television, and stage actress. Sciorra received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead for the 1989 film True Love, and came to widespread attention in her co-lead role in Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever. She starred in the 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and received critical acclaim for her work in Cop Land. She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Gloria Trillo in the HBO series The Sopranos.

Sciorra was born in Brooklyn, New York to a fashion stylist mother and a veterinarian father. Her parents are Italian American. She studied dance as a child and began taking drama lessons as she grew older at Hagen-Berghoff Studio and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, both in New York City. On November 5, 1981, she founded the Brass Ring Theater Company at the age of 21. She was married to actor Joe Petruzzi from December 31, 1989 until 1993 and was romantically linked with actor Bobby Cannavale from 2004 to 2007.


3. Anne Archer Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anne Archer Smoking Golden Gate Red Cigarette

About Anne Archer : Anne Archer (born August 25, 1947) is an American actress who has performed in feature films, television, and stage and was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971. Among her best known roles is that of Beth Gallagher in the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction, for which she received a nomination for an Academy Award. Archer's first TV appearance was in 1970 on the series Men at Law. Her first feature film was The Honkers (1972). Archer was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role as Beth Gallagher in Adrian Lyne's 1987 blockbuster Fatal Attraction.

She played a deceived, then violently protective mother of a six-year old daughter, and wife of stalked philanderer Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), whose weekend tryst with mentally unstable book editor Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) results in more than he bargained for. Her other prominent movie roles include Patriot Games (1993) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). In 2001 Archer portrayed 'Mrs. Robinson' at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End production of The Graduate. She has made several appearances on television, including Hawaii Five-0, Beautiful Screamer, Little House on the Prairie, Falcon Crest, Boston Public, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Privileged and Ghost Whisperer playing Melinda's mother.


4. Anne Bancroft Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anne Bancroft Smoking Kent Convertibles Cigarette

About Anne Bancroft : Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress associated with the method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was often acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television, and throughout her career was awarded an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards and two Emmy Awards, among several other awards and nominations. She made her film debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and, following a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s, won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Miracle Worker (1962), receiving subsequent nominations for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985).

Bancroft's other acclaimed movies as a lead actress include Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987). Later in her career, she made the transition back to supporting roles in theatrical films such as Point of No Return (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), Great Expectations (1998), Antz (1998),Keeping the Faith (2000), and Heartbreakers (2001). She also starred in seven television films, the last of which was The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003) for which she received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Bancroft died of uterine cancer, age 73, in 2005. Among her survivors was her husband of 40 years, Mel Brooks, and their son Max Brooks.


5. Anne Francis Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anne Francis Smoking Kent HD Futura Cigarette

About Anne Francis : Anne Lloyd Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress, best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956), and as the female private detective in the television series Honey West (1965–1966). She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Honey West.

Francis holds the distinction of starring in the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title.


6. Anne Hathaway Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anne Hathaway Smoking Kent HD Infina Cigarette

About Anne Hathaway : Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (2001). Over the next three years, Hathaway reprised that role for The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, and starred in family films, appearing as the title character in Ella Enchanted, both in 2004. Hathaway is also an Emmy winning actress for her voice-over performance in The Simpsons. Hathaway had dramatic roles in Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, both in 2005. She starred in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and in Becoming Jane (2007) as Jane Austen.

In 2008, she was acclaimed for her lead role in Rachel Getting Married, for which she won awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she starred in the box office hits Valentine's Day and Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, as well as Love and Other Drugs. In 2011, she had a voice role in the animated film Rio and starred in Lone Scherfig's adaptation of One Day. She is scheduled to play Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and Fantine in Tom Hooper's Les Miserables. People magazine named her one of its breakthrough stars of 2001, and she first appeared on its list of the world's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006.


7. Anne Heche Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anne Heche Smoking Kent HD Neo Cigarette

About Anne Heche : Anne Celeste Heche (born May 25, 1969) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She started her career on the daytime soap opera Another World, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991. Heche gradually landed supporting roles in feature films, and in 1997 appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wag the Dog, Donnie Brasco and Volcano. Her first leading role in a major Hollywood film was Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)—which has remained her highest-profile film role to date. Following a supporting role in the film John Q. (2002), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the TV movie Gracie's Choice (2004), and starred in the 2006–2008 TV series Men in Trees.

Her most recent film roles include Spread (2009), The Other Guys (2010), and Cedar Rapids (2011); she currently appears in the HBO cable TV series Hung. Heche was beginning to establish herself in films during the late 1990s, and had a relationship with Ellen Degeneres for three years. In 2001, a year after her break-up with DeGeneres, Heche married cameraman Coleman Laffoon, with whom she had a son. Since their separation in 2007 (they divorced in 2009), she has lived with actor James Tupper, with whom she also has a son.


8. Anne Marie Duff Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anne Marie Duff Smoking Kent Nanotek Infina Cigarette

About Anne Marie Duff : Anne-Marie Duff (born 8 October 1970) is an English actress best known for playing Fiona Gallagher in Shameless, and Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen. Duff was born on 8 October 1970, the younger of two children of Irish immigrants – her father was a painter and decorator and her mother worked in a shoe shop. The family lived in Southall, Middlesex, and Anne-Marie went to a comprehensive school. At an early age, Anne-Marie attended a local youth theatre in order to battle her shy nature and soon became hooked on the stage. In her mid-teens, involved in an amateur theatre company, she began to think seriously about applying to drama schools.

Her first application was rejected. “At the time, I was desperately unhappy about it, but I just wasn’t polished. I got too nervous in the audition. It wasn’t a world I was familiar with…” So she went away and did some more A levels and studied Film and Theatre Studies. At the age of 19 she ended up alongside John Simm, Anastasia Hille and her good friend, Paul Bettany at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Drama Centre, London.


9. Annette Bening Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Annette Bening Smoking Kent Nanotek Neo Cigarette

About Annette Bening : Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. Bening is a four-time Oscar nominee for her roles in The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right, winning Golden Globe Awards for the latter two films. Bening is married to actor Warren Beatty, with whom she has four children. Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her mother, Shirley (nee Ashley), was a church singer and soloist, and her father, Arnett Grant Bening, was a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative Republicans. Her sister and two brothers are Jane, Bradley and Byron. The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her early childhood.

In 1965, her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She graduated in 1975, from Patrick Henry High School where she studied drama. She then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation. She attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed an academic degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Bening joined the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. During this time she established herself as a formidable acting talent in roles like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.

Bening moved to New York City, where she debuted off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre (McGinn-Cazale Theatre) in the role of 'Holly Dancer' in Tina Howe's widely acclaimed Coastal Disturbances (1986) opposite Tim Daly, and for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. However, despite the praise and recognition, it took some time for that success to translate to her film career.


10. Annie Potts Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Annie Potts Smoking Kent Nanotek Futura Cigarette

About Annie Potts : Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the 1980s popular films such as Ghostbusters (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) and Ghostbusters II (1989). Potts is also known as a voice-actress. She played Bo Peep in Toy Story and Toy Story 2.

She is also known for her roles as Mary Jo Jackson Shively on CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993), as Dana Palladino on Love & War (1993-1995), for which she was nominated for Emmy Award, and as Mary Elizabeth Sims in the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now (1998–2002), for which she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.


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Famous Actress Part V

Celebrity Actress Smoking Part V

Here we have the fifth part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actress smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.


1. Angie Ruiz Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Angie Ruiz Smoking Davidoff Silver Super Slims Cigarette

About Angie Ruiz : Hailed “Cara Nueva” (New Face) of 2006 by People Magazine (En Espanol), Angie Ruiz has become one of Hollywood’s busiest new talents having shown her versatility and adeptness at both dramatic and comedic roles.

She was featured at the 2006 ALMA Awards hosted by Eva Longoria and was a presenter at the 20th Annual Imagen Awards, hosted by George Lopez. Angie has starred in films for Lions Gate, Maverick Entertainment, FoxSearchlight, and Miramax including SURF SCHOOL, IN YOUR EYES, BEE SEASON, and 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS. She has worked with award- winning and acclaimed directors in film, television, and theatre, earning a reputation for her intelligence, professionalism and commitment to her work. SURF SCHOOL director Joel Silverman recently commented, “Angie is one of those rare, young actresses who can dazzle you with her looks, then crack you up with her comic flare”.

In May 2007, Angie will be seen around the world in an international campaign for NxTV. She recently shot several hip and edgy vignettes directed by Emmy Award Winner, Bruce Logan (Batman Forever, Star Wars) that will play exclusively in luxury hotels worldwide including The Four Seasons, St. Regis, The Peninsula and Morgan’s Group Hotels in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Tokyo, Hong Kong and more. The role previously belonged to model/actress, Rachel Hunter.


2. Anjelica Huston Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anjelica Huston Smoking Davidoff One Cigarette

About Anjelica Huston : Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in Enemies, a Love Story and The Grifters respectively.

Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), receiving Golden Globe nominations for both. Huston also played the Grand High Witch in the children's classic Witches, TheThe Witches in 1990 and also more recently, known for her frequent collaborations with director Wes Anderson. Anjelica Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, and is the daughter of director and actor John Huston and Italian–American prima ballerina Enrica 'Ricki' (nee Soma), from New York. Huston spent most of her childhood in Ireland and England.

She grew up in Saint Clerns House near Craughwell, County Galway. In 1969, she began taking a few small roles in her father's movies. In that same year, her mother, who was 39 years old, died in a car accident, and Huston relocated to the US, where she modeled for several years. While she modeled, she worked with photographers such as Richard Avedon and Bob Richardson.

On the photoshoots with Avedon, her hair was often done by Ara Gallant. Huston has an older brother, Tony, a younger maternal half-sister named Allegra, whom she called "Legs", and a younger paternal half-brother, actor Danny Huston. She is the aunt of "Boardwalk Empire" actor Jack Huston.


3. Ann Dexter-Jones Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Ann Dexter-Jones Smoking Marlboro Red Cigarette

About Ann Dexter-Jones : British socialite Ann Dexter-Jones is many things: a New York icon, a rock star wife (to the legendary Foreigner guitar man Mick Jones), a Reiki master and mum to her five children, a brilliant brood of talented DJs, designers and musicians—not to mention a club-hopper in her own right.

A tireless philanthropist who supports youth rehabilitation charities, Dexter-Jones is also a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times and Town & Country, and she is currently penning her first novel. "Writing on an eclectic range of subjects is my very great pleasure," says Dexter-Jones.


4. Ann Miller Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Ann Miller Smoking Davidoff B&W Black Cigarette

About Ann Miller : Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller (April 12, 1923– January 22, 2004) was an American singer, dancer and actress. Miller was born in Chireno, Texas to Clara Emma (nee Birdwell) and John Alfred Collier, a criminal lawyer who represented the Barrow Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson, among others. Miller's maternal grandmother was Cherokee.

Miller's father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie. She took up dancing to exercise her legs to help her rickets. She was considered a child dance prodigy. In an interview featured in a "behind the scenes" documentary on the making of the compilation film That's Entertainment III, she said that Eleanor Powell was an early inspiration.


5. Anna Falchi Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Falchi Smoking Davidoff B&W White Cigarette

About Anna Falchi : Anna Falchi (born Anna Kristiina Palomaki on 22 April 1972 in Tampere, Finland) is an Italian-Finnish model and film actress. Anna Falchi was born Anna Kristiina Palomaki in Tampere, Finland, the daughter of an Italian father and Finnish mother. In 1978, at the age of six, she moved to Italy with her family. She started her career as a model. She first appeared on television in a commercial for an Italian bank in 1992.

The ad starred Paolo Villaggio, and was directed by the celebrated Federico Fellini. This helped her launch a film career, starting with Nel continente nero (On the Dark Continent) in 1993. She appeared in many films since, including the 1994 fantasy movie Desideria e l'Anello del Drago, the 1997 film La principessa e il povero and the 2005 comedy Nessun messaggio in segreteria. She has also been a popular television personality, hosting various specials on Italian television. She is less known in the English speaking world. Some know her as the lead female in a film called Dellamorte Dellamore, which was released in the U.S. as Cemetery Man.


6. Anna Faris Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Faris Smoking Dunhill Fine Cut Black Cigarette

About Anna Faris : Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976) is an American actress, singer and comedienne. She is known for her starring role in the Scary Movie film series, as well as roles in The Hot Chick (2002), Lost in Translation (2003), Just Friends (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Smiley Face (2007), and The House Bunny (2008). She provided voice acting in the animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009).

Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her mother, Karen (nee Bathurst), is a former special education instructor, and her father, Jack Faris, is a sociologist who worked at the University of Washington and headed the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association. She has a brother, Robert, who is also a sociologist and teaches at the University of California, Davis. Faris grew up in Edmonds, Washington. Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young, and she gave her first professional acting performance at age nine, at the Seattle Repertory Theater.


7. Anna Friel Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Friel Smoking Dunhill Fine Cut Blue Cigarette

About Anna Friel : Anna Louise Friel (born 12 July 1976) is an English actress. She rose to fame in the UK as Beth Jordache on the Channel 4 soap Brookside. Friel was born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the daughter of Julie, a special needs teacher, and Des Friel, a former teacher of French and owner of a web design company. Friel's Irish Catholic father, a former folk guitarist, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Donegal, Ireland.

Her brother Michael starred in Hovis television adverts. She attended Crompton House Church of England High School, in High Crompton, Shaw and Crompton. She then attended Holy Cross College in Bury.


8. Anna Kendrick Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Kendrick Smoking Dunhill Fine Cut Dark Blue Cigarette

About Anna Kendrick : Anna Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American film and stage actress best known for the role of Natalie Keener in the 2009 film Up in the Air. Her other work includes the films Camp (2003), Rocket Science (2007), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), 50/50 (2011), and the Broadway musical High Society (1998). She also plays the role of Jessica Stanley in The Twilight Saga. Kendrick gained fame for her role in the Twilight series. She received several nominations for her role in Up In The Air, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Janice, an accountant, and William Kendrick, a history teacher. Kendrick and her older brother, actor Michael Cooke Kendrick, who appeared in the 2000 film Looking for an Echo, both attended Longfellow Elementary School, Lincoln Middle School and Deering High School in Portland. She lists Parker Posey, Molly Shannon and Amy Poehler as her inspirations. As of 2010, she is in a relationship with director Edgar Wright, whom she met during the production of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.


9. Anna Mouglalis Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Mouglalis Smoking Dunhill Fine Cut White Cigarette

About Anna Mouglalis : Anna Mouglalis (born April 26, 1978) is a French actress. Anna Mouglalis was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, to her Greek father and French mother. She spent her youth in the Var departement, before moving back to Nantes with her family. Her father is a doctor and her mother is a masseuse. Until 2001 she studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris (CNSAD) under the direction of Daniel Mesguich. In addition to her native French, she speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish, and understands Greek to a limited extent. In 1997, she had begun an acting career in La Nuit du Titanic, played in Paris.

In the same year she was chosen by Francis Girod for the film Terminal. In 2000 she co-starred with Isabelle Huppert in Claude Chabrol's Merci pour le chocolat. After appearing in Novo (2002) by Jean Pierre Limosin, she was called up by Roberto Ando for the thriller Sotto falso nome. In 2003, she played in La Maladie de la mort which previewed at the Venice Film Festival, a film in black and white by first-time director Asa Mader. In this very same year, she also co-starred at a Greek film, called "Real Life "("Alithini Zoi"), directed by Panos Koutras. In 2005 she took part in two Italian movies: Romanzo criminale, directed by Michele Placido, and Mare buio, where she featured alongside Luigi Lo Cascio.

And she made a huge public and critical triumph with her co-star Lorant Deutsch completely embodying the characters of the existentialists Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the point that some critics said that they thought something mystical was happening before their eyes, in a TV movie called Les Amants du Flore showing their romance and the birth of their careers directed by Ilan Duran Cohen. Along with her career as an actress, Mouglalis then began a successful modelling career.

In 2002 she was chosen by Karl Lagerfeld for the advertisement campaign for the Amateur Allure de Chanel perfume and she is now one of his "muses" still promoting Chanel bags, fine jewelleries and watches today. Mouglalis was cast as Coco Chanel in the 2009 film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, directed by Jan Kounen. The film was chosen to close the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. She became a mother on March 7, 2007, giving birth to a little girl named Saul whose father is the French director Samuel Benchetrit.


10. Anna Nicole Smith Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Anna Nicole Smith Smoking George Karelia and Sons Smoother Cigarette

About Anna Nicole Smith : Anna Nicole Smith (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, actress and television personality. Smith first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans and Lane Bryant. Smith dropped out of high school and was married in 1985. Her highly publicized second marriage to oil business mogul J. Howard Marshall, 62 years her senior, resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian for his money, which she denied.

Following Marshall's death, Smith began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate; her case, Marshall v. Marshall, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction. She died on February 8, 2007 in a Hollywood, Florida hotel room as a result of an overdose of prescription drugs. Within the final six months of her life, Smith was the focus of renewed press coverage surrounding the death of her son, Daniel and the paternity and custody battle over her biological daughter Dannielynn.


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Officials Wary Of Electronic Cigarettes

Smoking for the modern age never looked so easy. It just requires a push of a button, vaporized mist and optional flavors of chocolate, coffee or peppermint.

This isn't a futuristic prop from the set of "The Jetsons." It's an electronic cigarette and it's been on the market for several years. But the e-smokes are just now catching the eyes of community and health leaders. Across the country, health warnings and bans are being raised regarding the devices, even though little is known about how often they're used or who is using them.

"It's a buy cigarette online product but it's being marketed like a candy cigarette," said Rene LeBlanc, director for the South Central Public Health District. "It's mimicking the same smoking cigarettes behavior but you're being told it's not the same."

E-cigarettes look like a normal cigarette, cigar or pipe. However, the product is divided into three sections. A cartridge contains a liquid nicotine solution and acts as the mouthpiece for inhaling. An atomizer attaches to the cartridge and creates vapor. The rest of the product is the slim tubular piece containing the battery and LED light that comes on during inhalation.

Instead of smoke cigarettes from burning tobacco, e-cigarette users breathe in water vapor imbued with nicotine, which enters their blood stream through the lungs.

The cost varies depending on the brand of e-cigarettes. Start-up packs that contain the device and a few cartridges can range from $30 to $120. Cartridge replacements can be purchased online or at stores and usually last up to 100-150 puffs.

Idaho lawmakers and health officials are currently looking to ban minors from being able to purchase e-cigarettes, and a proposal could be introduced in the coming state legislative session. Unlike cigarettes products, individuals under 18 years old can legally purchase e-cigarettes in all but six states across the nation.

Coeur d'Alene is pushing for its own municipal ban on the devices for minors and e-cigarette use in public spaces within its boundaries.

Current lax regulation has raised concern that the devices will attract younger people to smoke. The electronic devices only face two federal restrictions. In September, the Department of Transportation announced it was no longer allowing passengers to use them on airplanes. Last summer, the Air Force prohibited the use of e-cigarettes in its workplaces and non-smoking cigarettes public spaces.

The American Lung Association reports that close to 14.5 percent of Idaho high school students smoke cigarettes some form of tobacco, slightly below the national average. While the ALA has had a heavy hand pushing for a ban in north Idaho, they have not tracked how many minors are using the e-cigarettes in any state or in the nation, said Carrie Nyssen, spokeswoman for the health advocacy group.

However, the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association estimates that there are close 1.5 million Americans using e-cigarettes, said Tom Kiklas, co-founder of the advocacy group.

While Kiklas says e-smoke cigarettes users are rising, the amount is still much lower than the total of those who smoke cigarettes traditional cigarettes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are 46 million Americans who smoke cigarettes cigarettes.

According to school administrators and store owners, the focus on banning minors' use of the devices may be misplaced.

School districts across the Magic Valley haven't seen any reports of students smoking cigarettes e-cigarettes on their campuses, nor have local schools updated their discipline manuals to include banning e-cigarettes. At this point, e-cigarettes are treated the same as any other type of cheap cigarettes product, said Scott Rogers, superintendent for the Minidoka County School District.

While schools are hardly the only place minors go to smoke, the SCPHD youth smoking cigarettes cessation program hasn't seen that many participants dabble in electronic smoking cigarettes.

"In my classes, I've heard some of my kids talk about using them before," said Elvia Caldera, health education specialist for the SCPHD. "But none of them talked about liking it. Real cigarettes online are still cool to kids and so they just go for those."

In many convenience stores in southern Idaho, e-cigarettes are sold behind the counter with the rest of the tobacco products and require ID for purchase.

Twin Falls resident Terry West picked up e-cigarettes four months ago. He and his wife, Natalie, were looking for a cheaper alternative to normal cigarettes.

"I did and didn't like e-cigarettes," West said. "I liked that they were cleaner; no ash and smoke. I liked that I could smoke cigarettes anywhere, even at work."

But he missed the feel of real smoke cigarettes and the "throat hit" of the first drag of a real cigarette. He eventually went back to real buy cigarettes because he was tired of ordering cartridges online. He says if his brand of e-cigarettes becomes more available in this area, he might go back.

Allen Nagel, e-cigarette user and owner of the Smoke-N-Head smoke cigarettes shop in Twin Falls, also sells his products to an older crowd.

"They don't work for everybody but they will work for a lot of people looking for a healthier option," he said.

Nagel argues that e-cigarettes are healthier than the traditional alternative. He's been using them to wean himself off smoking cigarettes because he's concerned about his health. E-cigarettes don't contain tar, tobacco or other poisons that regular discount cigarettes do, he said.

However, a Food and Drug Administration report analyzing e-cigarettes detected traces of the same chemical found in anti-freeze. The report also showed that the devices emit varying amounts of nicotine in each puff, sometimes double the amount of a traditional cigarette.

Nicotine, the addictive substance in tobacco products, is the most common cause of chemical dependency in the U.S., according to the CDC.

For now, health officials are gathering support for a statewide ban on e-cigarettes for minors. A resolution is being sponsored by legislators from north Idaho. State Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley — a retired physician and member of the House Health and Welfare Committee — hadn't heard about the resolution when contacted by the Times-News but said he would look forward to reading it over. Republicans from Coeur d'Alene, Rep. Bob Nonini and Sen. James Hammond, have both signed on to sponsor the resolution.

"Idaho wants to follow in the footsteps of other states that are stepping up to regulate these products," LeBlanc said. "An all-out ban is a whole other mess, but we can get people on board to stop minors from purchasing these things."

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Cigarette Warnings

This week, a U.S. District Court blocked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from requiring cigarettes for sale companies to include graphic warning labels on all cigarette packages and advertisements beginning next September. These requirements were to be the first change to U.S. cigarette warning labels in 25 years, following the 2009 decision by Congress to make the FDA responsible for regulating cheap cigarettes products. Although cigarette packs already carry text warnings from the U.S. Surgeon General, the new warnings would have been larger and contained color graphics depicting the health consequences of smoking cigarettes, including diseased lungs, dead bodies and rotting teeth.

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) believes this ruling is a threat to the health of Illinois residents and will impair efforts to reduce youth smoking cigarettes. A comprehensive evaluation by the FDA has shown that the pictorial depiction of the dangers of smoking cigarettes is more effective than printed warning labels. The World Health Organization has repeatedly recommended that health warnings on cigarettes packages increase smokers' awareness of their risk and serve as an effective deterrent to youth tobacco use.

According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, 10 percent of Illinois youths aged 12?17 are cigarette smokers, and 21 percent of the adult population 18 and over -- more than 2 million residents -- are smokers. An estimated 16,000 people die of smoking cigarettes-related diseases annually in Illinois, and cigarette smoking cigarettes costs Illinois approximately $3.2 billion in direct medical expenditures each year.

The federal District Court based its decision on the First Amendment rights of tobacco companies. However, the courts have long recognized the right and responsibility of government to require accurate warning labels on dangerous products, and it is irrefutable that buy cigarette online are dangerous products, causing disease and death.

IDPH strongly recommends that the Justice Department immediately appeal the court's decision in order to protect the health of all Americans by ensuring the FDA has the authority to regulate tobacco products, as required in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009.

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N.H. Cigarette Tax Cut Failing To Boost Sales

New Hampshire's reduced cigarette tax, implemented in June, has failed to boost revenue through increased sales during the first four months of the fiscal year, according to a Nashua Telegraph report.

During this time period, the state collected $77.5 million, which is $3.5 million or 4.3 percent less than legislative budget writers had predicted. Last fiscal year, New Hampshire collected $84 million during the first four months.

The New Hampshire Legislature cut the state's cigarette tax by 10 cents down to $1.58 per pack in June, following years of the New Hampshire Grocers Association's claims that a cut would boost sales. Economists hired by the grocers predicted an increase of $13 million in revenue, while economists working for anti-tobacco groups predicted a decline of $9 million, according to the report.

Last month, the state saw an especially deep plunge as it collected only $16.4 million in cigarette taxes, down 14 percent from the monthly pace.

When the tax cut first took effect, it was difficult to determine whether it had a negative effect on revenue, or if retailers were simply buying bonds for wholesale cheap cigarettes instead of paying in cash. But now the conclusion is clear, according to Administrative Services Commissioner Linda Hodgdon. "There's no arguing with the numbers, and they are pretty firm right now," she said.

From June through October, the state issued 55.7 million tax stamps for cigarette packs, compared to 57 million tax stamps during the same time period last year. Tobacco sales in New Hampshire have gone down steadily as more people quit smoking cigarettes; five years ago, 71.5 million tax stamps were issued during the June-October window.

Rep. Susan Almy (D-Lebanon) criticized the tax cut, saying the state should assist people in quitting smoking cigarettes, not encourage them to purchase more. "Back in June when the state budget passed, Democrats warned cutting the cigarette tax by 10 cents a pack would have a negative effect on state revenue. The reduction was just a political ploy by the Republicans," said Almy in a statement. "I think if you asked citizens around the state, they would agree that it wasn't a good idea to make college more expensive and online cigarettes cheaper."

Overall, New Hampshire has taken in $10.9 million in revenue over projections, according to the report.

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Federal Appeals Court Says Tribe Must Pay State Cigarette Tax

A federal appeals panel has upheld the state in its long-running battle to force Yakama tribal smoke cigarettes shops to collect the $3.03 state cigarette tax from non-Indian buyers.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld U.S. District Judge Robert H. Whaley, who ruled last year that tribal smoke cigarettes shops on the 1.2 million-acre Yakama reservation must collect the tax.

The ruling not only levels the playing field between tribal and non-tribal retailers, but clears up decades of dispute, said state Department of Revenue spokesman Mike Gowrylow.

"We're pleased that the appeals court reaffirmed the district court's decision that the state has the right to expect the tribe to assess the state tax to non-Indians on the reservation," he said. "This is all about the state saying if you're going to sell discount cigarette online in this state to the general public, then you need to collect the state cigarette tax."

But the ruling doesn't affect King Mountain cigarette sales on the reservation, he said. Both tribal members and nonmembers alike can still purchase that brand on the reservation free of state taxes because its buy cigarettes are manufactured on tribal land by a tribal member, Delbert Wheeler.

Yakama Tribal Council Chairman Harry Smiskin, who spearheaded the lawsuit, didn't return phone calls Tuesday seeking comment on whether the tribe would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yakama tribal leaders argued in their U.S. District Court case that the state tax unfairly burdens tribal smoke cigarettes shop owners.

But the three-judge appeals panel didn't see it that way, saying that the tax burden ultimately falls on the buyer.

"The precollection obligation is a minimal burden on the tribes and their retailers and does not change the legal incidence calculation," the judges wrote.

Non-Indian retailers complained that the tax exemption gave tribal smoke cigarettes shops an unfair price advantage, and Department of Revenue officials said the loophole has cost the state millions annually in lost tax revenue.

Disputes often led to state and federal confiscation of untaxed smokes headed for the reservation and raids of tribal smoke cigarettes shops.

Over the past decade, the state has been reached cigarette tax agreements with many other tribes in the state.

In 2004, the Yakamas and the state agreed on a tax compact that had tribal smoke cigarettes shop owners ramp up a tax over a few years. The tribe was allowed to keep the revenue.

But a few years later, tribal smoke cigarettes shops said the tax was causing them to lose business because it was driving prices too high. The state, in turn, said smoke cigarettes shop owners failed to submit required audits of cigarette sales and the tax agreement subsequently unraveled.

It's not clear if the recent ruling would send the tribe and state back to the table to possibly work up a new tax agreement, Gowrylow said.

"We haven't had any indication from the tribe that they are interested in another compact," he said.

The state isn't sure yet how it's going to enforce the tax requirement on non-Indians.

"At this point, it's too soon to speculate on what the next step is going to be," Gowrylow said. "But certainly what this does is remove a legal threat that challenges whether the state can expect tribal smoke cigarettes shops to assess the state's cigarette tax on (non-Indians)."

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Famous Actors Part VIII

Celebrity Actors Smoking Part VIII

Here we have the eighth part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actors smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.


1. Kiefer Sutherland Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Kiefer Sutherland Smoking L&M Mixx Slims Cigarette

About Kiefer Sutherland : Kiefer Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is an English-born Canadian actor, producer and director, best known for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox thriller drama series 24 for which he has won an Emmy Award (receiving 5 other nominations), a Golden Globe award (receiving 4 other nominations), two Screen Actors Guild Awards (receiving 3 other nominations) and two Satellite Awards. He is the son of Canadian actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas.

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland was born in London, England, the son of Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both of whom are successful Canadian actors. He has Scottish ancestry from both parents, and is the grandson of Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, widely credited for bringing universal health care to Canada. Sutherland and his twin sister, Rachel, were born in London (in Saint Mary's Hospital) while his parents were working there.

He received his first given name from Warren Kiefer, the Italian director who gave his father his first movie role.

His family moved to Corona, California and in 1972, his parents divorced. In 1975, Sutherland moved with his mother to Toronto. He attended elementary school at Crescent Town Elementary School, St. Clair Junior High East York, and John G. Althouse Middle School in Toronto. He attended five different high schools including St. Andrew's College, Martingrove Collegiate Institute, Harbord Collegiate Institute, Silverthorn Collegiate Institute, Malvern Collegiate Institute and Annex Village Campus. He also spent a semester at Regina Mundi Catholic College in London (Ontario) and attended weekend acting lessons at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School.

Sutherland reported on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2009) that he and Robert Downey, Jr. were room-mates for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting.


2. Leonardo DiCaprio Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio Smoking L&M Vibe Slims Cigarette

About Leonardo DiCaprio : Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004), and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s. He made his film debut in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 (1991) and received first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life (1993). DiCaprio obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Marvin's Room (1996), as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries (1995) and Romeo + Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame in James Cameron's Titanic (1997).

Since the 2000s, DiCaprio has been nominated for awards for his work in such films as Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006), and Revolutionary Road (2008). His latest films Shutter Island (2010) and Inception (2010) rank among the biggest commercial successes of his career. DiCaprio owns a production company named Appian Way Productions, whose productions include the films Gardener of Eden (2007) and Orphan (2009).

A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism.


3. Lawrence Olivier Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Lawrence Olivier Smoking Lucky Strike Red Cigarette

About Lawrence Olivier : Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright.

Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.

Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from the title role in Shakespeare's Othello and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night to the sadistic Nazi dentist Christian Szell in Marathon Man and the kindly but determined Nazi-hunter in The Boys from Brazil. A High church clergyman's son who found fame on the West End stage, Olivier became determined early on to master Shakespeare, and eventually came to be regarded as one of the foremost Shakespeare interpreters of the 20th century. He continued to act until the year before his death in 1989. Olivier played more than 120 stage roles: Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo, Hamlet, Othello, Uncle Vanya, and Archie Rice in The Entertainer. He appeared in nearly sixty films, including William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War, and A Bridge Too Far, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth, John Schlesinger's Marathon Man, Daniel Petrie's The Betsy, Desmond Davis' Clash of the Titans, and his own Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III. He also preserved his Othello on film, with its stage cast virtually intact. For television, he starred in The Moon and Sixpence, John Gabriel Borkman, Long Day's Journey into Night, Brideshead Revisited, The Merchant of Venice, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and King Lear, among others.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Olivier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, at number 14 on the list.

He was portrayed by Kenneth Branagh in the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn.


4. Matt Damon Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Matt Damon Smoking Lucky Strike Silver Cigarette

About Matt Damon : Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for their work and Damon garnered multiple Best Actor nominations, including the Academy Award, for his lead performance in the film.

Damon has since starred in commercially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Ocean's trilogy, and the Bourne series, while also gaining critical acclaim for his performances in dramas such as Syriana (2005), The Good Shepherd (2006), and The Departed (2006). He garnered a Golden Globe nomination for portraying the title character in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and was nominated for an Academy Award as a supporting actor in Invictus (2009). He is one of the top forty highest grossing actors of all time. In 2007, Damon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.

Damon has been actively involved in charitable work, including the ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, and Water.org.


5. Martin Sheen Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Martin Sheen Smoking Pall Mall Blue Cigarette

About Martin Sheen : Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979), and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.

He is considered one of the best actors to never be nominated for an Academy Award despite his acclaimed performances. In film he has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. His portrayal of Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Sheen has worked with a wide variety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone. He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In television he has won both a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of President Bartlet in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown.

Born and raised in the United States from immigrant parents, a Galician father, Francisco Estévez from Salceda de Caselas in Galicia (Spain) and a first-generation Irish mother, Mary-Anne Phelan from Borrisokane in County Tipperary. He adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts. He is the father of actors Emilio Estevez, Ramón Estevez, Carlos Irwin Estevez (Charlie Sheen), and Renée Estevez. His younger brother Joe Estevez is also an actor.

Although known as an actor, he has also directed one film, Cadence (1990), appearing alongside sons Charlie and Ramon. He has also narrated, produced and directed in documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s. In addition to film and television, Sheen has also become notable for his activism in liberal politics. He declined to run for President of Ireland in 2011, a role he qualified for by virtue of his Irish mother.


6. Mark Wahlberg Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Mark Wahlberg Smoking Pall Mall Nanokings Amber Cigarette

About Mark Wahlberg : Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No.1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's. He is well known for his roles in films such as Boogie Nights (1997), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Italian Job (2003), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Four Brothers (2005), The Departed (2006), Invincible (2006), Shooter (2007), and The Fighter (2010). He has also served as the executive producer of the TV series Entourage, Boardwalk Empire and How to Make It in America.

7. Michael Douglas Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Michael Douglas Smoking Pall Mall Nanokings Blue Cigarette

About Michael Douglas : Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009. He is the eldest of actor Kirk Douglas's four sons.

Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill. His paternal grandparents, Harry Demsky (born Herschel Danielovitch) and Bryna Demsky (née Sanglel), were Jewish immigrants from Gomel in Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). His mother and maternal grandparents, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill and Ruth Rapalje Neilson, were natives of Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. Thomas Dill served as Attorney General of Bermuda and was commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas (born 1947), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas (born 1955) and Eric Douglas (1958–2004).


8. Marlon Brando Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Marlon Brando Smoking Pall Mall Superslims Blue Cigarette

About Marlon Brando : Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Brando was the only professional actor, aside from Charlie Chaplin, named by Time magazine as one of their 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.

Brando had a significant impact on film acting, and was the foremost example of the "method" acting style. While he became notorious for his "mumbling" diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century. Director Martin Scorsese said of him, "He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'." Actor Jack Nicholson once said, "When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one." He was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars.

An enduring cultural icon, Brando became a box office star during the 1950s, during which time he racked up five Oscar nominations as Best Actor, along with three consecutive wins of the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run, and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One (1953), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture. Brando was also nominated for the Oscar for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952), Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel. He made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

Brando directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks that was released in 1961, after which he delivered a series of box office failures beginning with the non-success of the 1962 film adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty. The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade from Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), a role critics consider among his greatest. The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released, along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris (1972), another smash hit, revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

Brando failed to capitalize on the momentum of his revitalized career, taking a long hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks (1976), a box office bomb. Afterwards, he was content to be a highly-paid character actor in parts that were glorified cameos in Superman (1978) and The Formula (1980) before taking a nine-year break from motion pictures. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($13,409,697 in today's funds) plus 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days work playing Jor-El in Superman, further adding to his mystique. He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his highly-controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now (1979), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

Brando was also an activist, supporting many issues, notably the African-American Civil Rights Movement and various American Indian Movements.


9. Mel Gibson Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Mel Gibson Smoking Parliament Aqua Blue Cigarette

About Mel Gibson : Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born 3 January 1956) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.

After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial, yet successful, film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus. In recent years, remarks by Gibson have generated accusations of homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and misogyny; he has apologised repeatedly for the statements and denied that they represent his real opinions.


10. Michael Caine Smoking Cigarette

Celebrity Michael Caine Smoking Parliament Night Blue Cigarette

About Michael Caine : Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor. He won Academy Awards for best supporting actor in both Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and The Cider House Rules (1999).

Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Jack Nicholson). In 2000, Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema.

Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe, Southwark in South East London, the son of Ellen Frances Marie (née Burchell), a cook and charlady, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish market porter. His father was of part Irish and Irish Traveller ancestry and a Catholic, though Caine was brought up in his Protestant mother's religion.

Caine grew up in Camberwell, South London, and during the Second World War he was evacuated to North Runcton in Norfolk. After the war, when his father was demobilised, the family was rehoused by the council in Marshall Gardens at the Elephant and Castle in a pre-fabricated house made in Canada - much of London's housing stock had been damaged during The Blitz in 1940-41.

The prefabs, as they were known, were intended to be temporary homes while London was rebuilt, but we ended up living there for eighteen years and for us, after a cramped flat with an outside toilet, it was luxury.

In 1944 he passed his eleven plus exam, winning a scholarship to Hackney Downs Grocers School. After a year there he moved to Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell (now Wilson's School in Wallington, South London), which he left at sixteen after gaining a School Certificate in six subjects. He then worked briefly as a filing clerk and messenger for a film company in Victoria Street and the film producer Jay Lewis in Wardour Street. From 1952, when he was called up to do his National Service, until 1954, he served in the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the BAOR HQ in Iserlohn, Germany and then on active service during the Korean War. Caine has said he would like to see the return of National Service to help combat youth violence, stating: "I'm just saying, put them in the Army for six months. You're there to learn how to defend your country. You belong to the country. Then when you come out, you have a sense of belonging rather than a sense of violence."

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