No Ifs about Nicole’s Butts

Nicole Kidman refuses to give up smoking, because she feels, “…you have to enjoy life a little.” Right said Nicole, in a world where every celebrity seems addicted to political correctness; we have here someone who dares to stub the idea out.

The smoking hot star of Moulin Rouge, in an interview with the British magazine, Closer, accepted that she is an occasional smoker. Nicole, who turned 40 last week, says she has no reason to worry about her looks, and that’s what the secret of her enduring beauty is since she was 15. Fad diets for her? Naah! Fads are for the worrisome fading stars. She just believes in eating healthy – that includes pies and chocolate.

Better Ex-Butt-ers

The entertainment world is rife with exes – not one hour relationships here, but those who kicked the butt, and lived to tell about it. Our ex-smokers include model Christy Turlington endorsing a campaign against smoking, actress Mischa Barton, and Courtney Love who is still engaged in the battle of the butt. A number of stars have been imploring people to give up on the cigarette in high profile ad campaigns, and other media. Vivek Oberoi slammed Salman once, then slammed the butt, and disappeared in oblivion. Gone up in smoke? Who knows, one only saw him hip-hopping recently while avoiding gun shots at Lokhandwala, AND smoking.

Where does all this lead Nicole Kidman’s stand against giving up smoking? While she means to tell people it is not a good idea to smoke, she hints that her refusal to kick the habit is a personal choice. Though she believes it is an addiction, Nicole Kidman has one word advice to those thinking of picking up the habit - don’t. No rabid anti-smoking posters, no horrid imagery of how it wrinkles your skin or putrefies your lungs, or giving your manhood the permanent downer.

Dies Irae for Smokers

Those opposed to the idea of smoking have lately started assuming a fanatic disposition. With Britain’s impending ban on smoking at pubs and night clubs, one wondered if a smoker would be the modern day pariah, looked down upon by the chaste ones. Relegated to a quarantined smoke chamber somewhere outside the city limits – a victim of the Blair Smoking Witch Project – dogged by something akin to a KKK Against Smokers. And just when you thought Cherie was the Messiah, Tony steps down to make way for Brown.

In India, tobacco companies will soon have to print the skull and cross bones on cigarette packs. Will the next devolutionary step be to brand smokers with the same sign, so the non-smokers keep away lest they contract the dreadful ‘passive’ syndrome? And will the smokers one day unite, marching in protest, singing ditties and the Sutta anthems, claiming their right to the same privileges as the non-smokers get? Will there be a radical to declaim from a pulpit, “Butt, I have a dream…”? Will Shah Rukh’s defiantly smoking Don be the enduring image of remonstration, the smokers’ very own Che?

Thank You for Not Smoking

What’s a smoker to do? Responsible smoking. Recently, while on a trip to saddi dilli, I had the fortune of traveling in a jalopy-like mode of public transport between Gurgaon and Dhaula Kuan. Two East Delhi dames, with their children in tow, protested loudly to a Haryanvi bumpkin puffing away the beedi. The man had to cooperate, judging it would not be in his favour to rile the rather healthy minders. A mild protest is all it requires for responsible smokers to not do it in company of those who mind.

Smoking comes with its own code of etiquette. We don’t need no thumpers, the holier-than-thou nose crinklers at the very first hint of nicotine fumes. Just a mild excuse me, but will you mind… does it. To those who refuse to listen, well, they might as well prepare to face the wrath.

Thank You for Smoking

Smokers of the world stand up and applaud our lady of personal choices! Thank you Nicole Kidman, for telling the world to mind its business, and letting smoking be a choice that comes with responsibility. Just like safe sex.

 

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