Movie Stars Smoking Habit

Celebrities influence our decision to start smoking. We see them in different scenes puffing and it doesn’t matter what is the subject they are still smoking. Pictures of movie stars smoking appear civilized and glamorous. They are shown with a cigarette when they are at a party or going to by something from the store. The brands they usually smoke are: Camel, Winston , Marlboro brand, Virginia Slims , Salem etc, and these become a point of campus discussion later.

There is a possibility that the stars were influenced by the glamour of smoking when in the past glamour was associated with cigarettes. Maybe if someone spends too much time in a fantasy world or in a movie then that someone starts to believe in celluloid image. For example Gloria Swanson in ‘Sunset Boulevard’ lost touch with the reality.

Not long times ago at Hollywood many actors were smoking and were so proud of it. Cigarette smoking was sophisticated and glamorous. The iconic image of Audrey Hepburn in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ is posting so elegantly with her long cigarette holder upswept chignon and little black dress.

She was of course elegant, until she started to smoke very much during her scenes. Her mother said that that she should keep to six cigarettes a day only. When Hepburn had hard times she smoked two or three packs a day. For most of her life she suffered from asthma and died of cancer at 63.

Smoking in movies is very common nowadays like it was in 1950’s. There was a little decreasing of smoking in the population. Maybe the actors with the help of cigarettes tried to go into another skin.

Many celebrities have decided to quit smoking because they realize the harm they do to their health, but many of them continue to smoke even more.