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40 years ago, on 2 January 1971, cigarette advertising was banned on US TV and radio. We look at the depiction of smoking in the cinema.
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"Tell me about it, stud". Olivia Newton-John as 'bad'
Sandy in 1978's Grease
Paramount Pictures / Album

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Helena Bonham-Carter and Edward Norton amidst the cigarette smoke of Fight Club, 1999
20th Century Fox / Merrick Morton / Album
 
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Ben Affleck in the appropriately titled Smokin' Aces, 2007
Working Title Films / Relativity Media / Scion Films Limited / Album
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Johnny Depp in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Universal Pictures / Peter Mountain / Album
 
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Scarlett Johannson in The Black Dahlia, 2006
Universal Pictures / Rolf Konow / Album
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Bette Davis in Dark Victory, 1939
Warner Brothers / Album
 
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Monica Bellucci doesn't want for a light in Malena, 2000
Medusa Film / Miramax Films / Album
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Sean Young (and a lot of smoke) in Blade Runner, 2000
Ladd Company / Warner Bros / Album
 
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Analia Gade lights up in 1968's La Vil Seduccion
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Boris Karloff takes a fag break whilst filming Bride of Frankenstein in 1935
Universal Pictures / Album
 
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Ingrid Bergman is offered a light by Charles Boyer in 1948's Arch of Triumph
United Artists / Album
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Benicio Del Toro (with cigarillo) and Clive Owen in Sin City, 2005
Dimension Films / Album
 
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Billy Bob Thornton is one Bad Santa, 2003
Dimension Films / Album
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Gremlins gone bad, 1984
Warner Brothers / Album
 
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Julie Hagerty takes a break after inflating the autopilot, Airplane!, 1980
Paramount Pictures / Album
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Erich von Stroheim seduces with a cigarillo in 1922's Foolish Wives
Universal Pictures / Album
 
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Keira Knightley in 2007's Atonement
Working Title Films / Album
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Robert De Niro smokes in New York, New York, 1977
United Artists / Album
 
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Of course, it's Audrey Hepburn in 1961's Breakfast At Tiffany's
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Sammy Davis, Jr in 1959's Porgy and Bess
Columbia Pictures / Album
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