"Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:EPFrd.296$Gn6.8736@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... : : : Nicole Kidman, who infuriated anti-smoking groups by lighting up at a press : conference last year, is facing renewed calls to quit - at least in public. : : The Hollywood star's nomination by NSW this week as Australian of the Year, : coupled with her public puffing, sends the message to young women that it's : OK to smoke, lobbyists warned today. : Already more than 6,000 Australian women die from smoking-related illness : each year. Over one-fifth of Australian women are smokers. : : "There's a great opportunity for Nicole to improve the health of Australian : women by actually not smoking in such a public way," Ms Jones said. If young females start smoking because Nicole Kidman smokes, I would say the problem relates to issues of personal self-esteem in the young females, not in Nicole's public puffing. I agree smoking is a very unhealthy habit, but celebrities are as entitled as anyone else to light up in public if they choose. I've never understood this mindset that celebs should somehow forfeit their rights to behave like ordinary people, even do dumb things like the rest of us, just because they're famous. -- ~ Carol ~ http://profiles.yahoo.com/pleiades_fire I said: "What a maroon you are, Trollzilla! If I stopped kicking your ass today, you'd say, "I made Carol go away." But if I don't go away and I continue kicking your silly, cowardly ass, you say, "I'm making Carol do that." Her response: "Red DOG... knowing that she's in a no win situation [fact] :)" "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." (~Voltaire)