Saturday, August 11, 2012

Why Celebrities Smoke Or The 'sunset Boulevard' Syndrome


We're all affected by pictures of Hollywood stars, models and celebrities smoking - off-duty or otherwise. Whether that signifies that individual celebrities have a moral responsibility to us all to shun smoking in their doing work and private lives is one more matter.

What is arguably additional interesting than any of that may be why on earth celebrities decide to smoke in any way?

Hollywood stardom and celebrity standing is a superficial world practically totally depending on appears and picture. As such, it is really astounding to determine a lot of celebrities smoking.

Surely many of us know by now just how fantastic an impact cigarette smoke has on our skin. Even when, by some unusual twist of fate, celebrities themselves handle to continue to be ignorant of the way smoking results skin aging, don't they've got armies of advisors and picture consultants to help keep them on course?

Certainly a person from the internal circle tells them in regards to the outcomes of current analysis - how smoking dehydrates the skin, destroys vitamin C, damages collagen, accelerates wrinkling and generates the traditional 'smoker's face'?.

It really is unattainable to think that very paid, news-savvy and reasonably intelligent persons can continue to be ignorant of those essential details. They should realize that smoking will injury their seems and prematurely age them and so they decide to carry on - all of the when paying little fortunes on personalized trainers, nutritionists, cosmetic surgeons and anti-aging lotions and lotions.

Could it be the stars themselves are influenced through the glamour that was once linked with cigarettes? Possibly should you commit prolonged ample inside the fantasy globe of film you start to feel while in the celluloid picture. Similar to Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard' they've lost touch with reality.

Just after all, it is not so prolonged ago that everybody who was a somebody in Hollywood smoked and was proud of it. Cigarette smoking was glamorous and sophisticated. Just think about the iconic picture of Audrey Hepburn in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' as Holly Golightly - posing elegantly with her extended cigarette holder, upswept chignon and small black dress.

What's not so stylish needless to say could be the way Audrey Hepburn succumbed to the smoking habit herself. Ignoring her mother's 'beauty tip' to: "keep to 6 cigarettes daily only", Hepburn managed two or 3 packs at her worst instances - even smoking in her nun's habit to the set of 'The Nun's Story' and chain smoking her way by means of 'My Fair Lady'.

Unsurprisingly, she suffered from asthma for most of her lifestyle and died of cancer at only 63,seeking frail and old for her years. Not the sort of ending we prefer to envision for that sublime Holly Golightly.

There's no doubt the pretty nature in the movie organization has triggered a lot of a celebrity to start out treading the nicotine path. Smoking is as widespread in films today because it was back within the 1950's though general smoking in the population at huge (the Western half anyway) has reduced. Could it be that a cigarette has become the film prop of selection for actors seeking for an easy technique to inhabit yet another skin?

For some celebrities - tired of the consistent criticism plus the ciggy shots splashed across the tabloids - a type of smoking defiance has crept in. As Gwyneth Paltrow after said, "I smoke and I am not going to quit!". Paltrow - renowned for obtaining through a pack of Camel Lights a day in her teens and twenties - has only incredibly lately quit smoking. Maybe she started to wonder how her fine, fair skin and ethereal beauty would cope using the collagen depletion in her forties and fifties.

Some celebrities continue to keep going together with the smoking habit no matter what the consequences - even if it impacts on their closest relationships. It is well-known that smoking was a bone of contention between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston all through their marriage. Brad Pitt is on record as saying how much he hated his ex-wife's chain smoking. His disapproval did not reduce much ice with Jennifer though - as current paparazzi photographs present. You may have to ask why on the list of world's most loved and normally appealing girls would do that to themselves?

Similarly, iconic top model Kate Moss is consistently photographed with her cigarette, a lighter as well as a mobile phone as her only style accessory. As a supreme super model its probably not surprising that Moss still manages to appear effortlessly elegant and stunning however she's photographed - no less than for now.

She surely shows no signs of wanting to quit smoking any time quickly. Possibly like so many in her globe - she associates smoking with thinness. Or probably, for her, it's the least troubling of her addictions.

When celebrities do chose to quit its fascinating that the good reasons offered are so generally not about appears or even well being. Catherine Zeta-Jones for instance, quit smoking - so she explained - due to the fact she didn't want her little ones to start asking concerns. Not while you could possibly have believed - for the reason that elegance is her private trademark and smoking would kick-start skin aging and undermine her probable to earn huge sums of cash.

What ever the factors celebrities have for smoking or for deciding to quit - the truth about skin harm and smoking really hardly ever functions like a significant component from the debate. Effectively possibly it truly is about time it did.

So, some tips to all you celebrity smokers out there - carry on smoking when you want - but don't expect your fickle public to not notice the result on your seems.

And any time you hit a deluded (or regretful) middle age it's possible you'll nonetheless be able to say, like Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard': "I'm prepared for my close-up now Mr de Mille" - but only if it's filmed in heavy soft-focus, expertly back-lit and then extensively re-touched afterwards.

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