Herman Cain does not endorse smoking, despite his campaign’s decision to prominently feature an aide smoking a cigarette in a recent Web video , the businessman and GOP presidential candidate said Sunday. During an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” host Bob Schieffer — who survived a bout with bladder cancer that he attributes to smoking — said the ad “sends a signal that it’s cool to smoke,” a charge Cain denied. Read full article > >

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Herman Cain explains viral campaign video

Say what you will about it — and people are saying plenty — it’s a dead certainty you’ve never seen a campaign video quite like this one. Here’s a gray-haired gentleman, his bespectacled eyes a pair of dark raccoon circles, extolling Republican Herman Cain in rather a conventional way (“We’ve run a campaign like nobody has ever seen,” he says). And then the guy, Cain’s chief of staff, Mark Block, does something unexpected and kind of shocking: He stares into the camera and draws a cigarette to his lips, blowing a bit of smoke at the viewer. Read full article > >

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Herman Cain’s smoking video: What was the message?

Shows chief of staff smoking a cigarette.

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Cain Unveils Bizarre Campaign Ad

Shows chief of staff smoking a cigarette.

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Cain Unveils Bizarre Campaign Ad

Sony is to offer free safety checks on several of its TVs after a number of them started smoking.

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Sony offers ‘smoking’ TV checks

Teenagers who watch films showing actors smoking are more likely to take up smoking themselves, new UK research suggests.

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Film smoking ‘encourages teens’

Teenagers who watch films showing actors smoking are more likely to take up smoking themselves, new UK research suggests.

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Film smoking ‘encourages teens’

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Prosecutors analyzed a vast network of telephone records to link four Hezbollah members to the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but there is no clear smoking gun in the case, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday. The special court investigating Hariri’s murder unsealed the 47-page indictment against four members of the Iranian-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah for alleged involvement in the deadly truck bombing that killed Hariri. Read full article > >

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Tribunal publishes indictment against Hezbollah members accused of Hariri assassination

Women who start smoking are more likely to develop coronary heart disease than men who take up the habit, say researchers.

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Smoking worsens female heart risk

A Labour MP urges a ban on adults smoking in cars where children are present, saying it would bring “tremendous” health benefits.

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A Labour MP urges a ban on adults smoking in cars where children are present, saying it would bring “tremendous” health benefits.

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“ The Hangover Part II ” may have been characterized by most critics as a swap-Tyson’s-tiger-for-a-smoking-monkey rehash. But that didn’t stop summer moviegoers from buying tickets. The sequel to 2009’s “The Hangover” earned $105.8 million over the long Memorial Day weekend, making it the No. 1 movie in the country. With its lucrative Thursday screenings, its total gross now stands at an estimated $137.3 million. Read full article > >

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‘Hangover Part II’ wins weekend box office, reaffirms America’s love of a rehash

Smoking has been banned in many outdoor public areas in New York, including beaches, municipal parks and even Times Square.

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Could smoking outdoors soon be banned as well?

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Ultimate ban

For reasons that defy logic, economics and social fashion, the little red brick house and its denizens endure here, on one of Washington’s least lovely downtown office blocks, like a bloom in a crack of the concrete canyon where I Street merges with Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The green wood door is topped with an antique fan of leaded glass and adorned with a brass knocker worn smooth from use. Knock, and be admitted. A throng of maybe 100 is sipping wine and nibbling chicken liver pate and skewered sea scallops. Most are dressed in black tie or evening gowns. Some of the dinner jackets are adorned with medals, indicating that the wearer is a military man. Many are spiced with colorful vests or adventurous cummerbunds, suggesting a free spirit. One of the freest spirits is art professor Edward “Eddie” Purcell III, who has cast aside all thought of a tux in favor of a full-length red silk 1950s vintage Chinese smoking robe. Read full article > >

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Arts Club of Washington’s quirky downtown haven of clubby culture survives the ages