She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview.
At his Friday press conference, Franklin Roosevelt did not chain-smoke, as usual; in fact, he did not smoke at all.
He is also proof that MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," like the one he was awarded this year, go to some shaggy characters, the kind who like low-rider cars and chain-smoke as .
Starving China’s Tobacco Monopoly Is Li’s Smoking Cure Watching Deng Xiaoping chain-smoke through a lunch of bear paw and Moutai liquor at the Great Hall of the People in 1982, Virginia Li saw what she was up against. Li was an anti-tobacco crusader with a PhD in public health and the crazy idea the Chinese could be persuaded to give up cigarettes. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Li returned to China almost every year after ...
April 21, 2014 - Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance
Ethan Hawke in Los Angeles Times (blog) I love the idea that these vampires faced with immortality are depressed,Hawke said. "It's almost too much to bare. They have to chain-smoke. They can't rest. Whereas, faced with a finite amount of time to live, all this hope comes into...