Veteran actor Michael Douglas has blamed years of drinking and smoking for causing his throat cancer. “I smoked cigarettes and I drank alcohol a lot and this particular type of cancer is caused by alcohol…but it’s been a long year and I do think this is stress related,” contactmusic.com quoted him as saying.

Michael got to know about his throat cancer last month and is currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.

Douglas admitted his lifestyle choices played a part in his illness. The 65-year-old also believes the personal crises he endured over the last few months may have been a contributing factor.

Douglas’ son Cameron was jailed earlier this year on drugs charges.

Bono has admitted that while out of action thanks to a bad back, he turned to an old friend for comfort – the cigarette. The U2 frontman, who has smoked on and off over the years, underwent emergency surgery for a back injury in May, and was forced to put his feet up for two months.

The band had to cancel US gigs and an appearance at Glastonbury because of his injury and Bono – real name Paul Hewson – whiled the hours away with a spot of songwriting and smoking.
“One of the things you can do when you’re lying down like that is to write, so I wrote,” the 50-year-old told the News of the World.
“Lying motionless I also had time to think about the future, because I never think about the past.
‘The other thing I did was to eat ice cream and I also started smoking again.’

Daniel Radcliffe’s got a new girl, and Ginny Weasley she ain’t!
The 21-year-old Harry Potter superstar is reportedly dating the step-daughter of one of the film’s producers. And according to ‘pals’ she’s a bit of a wildchild! 19-year-old Olive Uniacke has been snapped out and about with Dan in the last few days and she recently accompanied him on his birthday trip to St Petersburg where he celebrated his 21st in true Russian style getting sloshed on a truckload of vodka.

But the party lifestyle is nothing new to ‘wildchild’ Olive, whose step-father is a multi-millionaire thanks to the Harry Potter franchise.

“Olive is renowned for holding some of the best house parties, really great bashes,” a friend tells The Daily Mail. “She can be quite wild. She loves to drink champagne, particularly Moet, and she chain-smokes Camel cigarettes. She also loves to go nightclubbing.”

She doesn’t sound much wilder than the average 19-year-old to us, but even if she does corrupt our DanRad, at least she won’t try to steal his cash…

“Olive has money in her own right so is certainly not a gold-digger,” says the friend.

“But Dan’s not traditionally her type. She has usually gone for bad boys and Dan is quite preppy.”

Apparently Dan and Olive have known each other for years and they already had a fling that fizzled out when they were younger. They remained friends though, and now things are hotting up again now they’re all grown up.

From celebrities.ninemsn.com.au.

There’s always a good Justin Bieber rumor to keep everyone on their toes. Tonight’s big rumor is that Justin Bieber has been smoking weed. The rumor has circulated through the Internet and comes close to topping the number one Justin Bieber rumor, ‘Is Justin Bieber dead?” Justin Bieber has made headlines recently for several things. He is starring in the season premier of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in September and he has been targeted by the anti-gay pseudo church Westboro Baptist.

Justin Bieber has not been caught smoking weed, photographed with weed or arrested for smoking weed. It is possible that this rumor extends from Justin’s acting debut on CSI and the fact that he posted a photo of himself wearing an orange jumpsuit on his Twitter and referred to himself as a bad man. For those who were unaware that Justin is acting in the hit show, it is understandable that confusion may have set in.
Rest assured, Justin Bieber is still holding fast to his image and hasn’t done anything to rock the boat. Apparently, the most scandalous thing Justin has really done is flirt with Tina Fey during an SNL skit and skipped through the waters of the Caribbean while holding Kim Kardashian’s hand.

material from health-beauty-2468.blogspot.com.

“Twilight” star Robert Pattinson’s unhealthy habits are dwindling but until he stops smoking, even eating better isn’t going to do much to improve his health. Since he rocketed to stardom in the Twilight series, Pattinson at times appears to be almost a chain smoker. While reports that he is eating healthier, cigarettes will ultimately doom him.

Rob acknowledged in a new interview that he is eating much better, even though he still can’t cook. Instead, he’s using a service that
delivers daily meals to his Los Angeles home.

“I started using a delivery service which only delivers fresh and healthy food, Pattinson, 24, tells German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung.
“Even in the morning I have a bag with healthy food delivered to me. I’ve never in my life lived as healthy as I do now,” he said.

“Of course I miss homemade food, but I’m on my own or on the go most of the time,” Rob says. “I only just manage to make some toast. I don’t seem to have the genetic endowments for it.”

But if opposites attract, then he has found a perfect mate in Kristen Stewart.

She is a great cook whose hobby is baking pies and watching the “Food Network.”

But Kristen also smokes, so they reinforce each other’s habit.

Part of Rob’s problem is the fact that he is constantly on the road. That often includes periods of downtime when he smokes to pass the time.

“My home consists of three suitcases which I live out of,” he says. “Everything is in there.”

Unlike fitness fanatic Taylor Lautner, who works out nonstop and eats every two hours to stay buff, Pattinson is less concerned about weight and more about convenience.

Pattinson and crew have been on the road again this summer promoting “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.”

And, his schedule continues to be hectic. He’s also been filming the drama “Water for Elephants” (co-starring Reese Witherspoon) and Breaking Dawn, the fourth installment in the Twilight saga starts filming later this year.

“Breaking Dawn’ will be shot in two parts, with the first due out in November 2011.

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Russell Crowe may tweet about quitting smoking, new films and his beloved Rabbitohs, but the actor is still not convinced there is any point to the social networking site. “(I’m) not sure if it serves any real purpose,” the Oscar-winning actor said. Crowe said he’d been on Twitter about 11 or 12 weeks and had “56,000 followers or something.” The Twitter world has been monitoring Crowe’s recent battle to give up smoking and some have found it inspirational.

“My mom called my sister that you encouraged her to quit smoking!” one follower tweeted recently.

He replied: “Tell your mum I’d be inspired if she gave up.”

Crowe makes no secret of how hard it is to overcome the addiction.

“It’s not an easy thing to do mate, it really isn’t and I tap my hat to everybody who’s done it in the past,” Crowe told reporters, adding that the reality break for him was when his eldest son saw him smoking for the first time.

Crowe said he was in his office having a cigarette when six-year-old Charlie sneaked up on him.

“So that was it.”

Crowe said he also realised he was smoking up to 40 cigarettes on “a good day”.

“I’d been smoking for 36 years (and) …. it just got to the point where my body was telling me that I had to stop.”

The actor also has used the social networking site to help choose his next role as the narrator of Ben Hur – The Stadium Spectacular, which plays in Sydney in October.

He had tweeted to see what people thought of the overseas production before deciding to sign on.

“Anyone see Ben Hur live in Paris a couple of years ago? Thoughts?” he tweeted.

The feedback was positive, he said.

“That was one particular instance where I wanted some feedback immediately on something and I got it straight away.”

As for the future, Crowe says he will continue tweeting and see where it takes him.

From news.smh.com.au.

Paris Hilton appeared in a South Africa courtroom today for allegedly smoking marijuana at the World Cup. Hilton was briefly detained outside the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium, where she had been watching the World Cup quarterfinal match between Brazil and the Netherlands.

AP reports that a police officer said she was in possession of some “dagga,” the local name for marijuana.

But a rep for Hilton tells People.com she’s been cleared of any wrongdoing and that “it was actually another person in the group who did it.”

The rep also says, “The case has been dropped against Paris and no charges will be made. The authorities have apologized for wrongfully accusing her since she had nothing to do with the incident.”

Friends are advising Lindsay Lohan to get rid of her tobacco habit before going to jail, as smoking is banned in the prison where she’ll serve her sentence, according to reports. The troubled actress is to surrender to authorities on July 20 to start her 90-day sentence at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California.
The all-female prison, where Paris hilton was confined back in 2007, has a zero tolerance no-smoking policy.
“(Lohan is) a serious chain-smoker. The first thing she does when she wakes up is light a cigarette,” an unnamed friend of Lohan told TMZ.com.

“I’m honestly scared for (Lohan)… I don’t think she’s gone a day without smoking in years. This isn’t something she can stop overnight. It’s a serious condition.”

Lohan was sentenced to spend 90 days in prison for violating the terms of her probation on a 2007 DUI arrest.

From au.ibtimes.com, July 12, 2010

In the most bizarre celebrity news story we’ve heard in months, former Party of Five star Jeremy London was kidnapped and held hostage for five hours last Thursday, reports Radar Online. On June 10, the 37-year-old actor was changing a flat tire on his car in Palm Springs when two men stopped, ostensibly to help him. But once the task was finished, the two men forced London back into his car and drove him around for several hours, holding him at gunpoint.

“He told officers that he was forced to smoke dope (i.e. crack cocaine or amphetamines) and then purchase booze and hand it out in a gang area of Palm Springs,” said Sgt. Douglas of the Palm Springs Police Department.

(Does Palm Springs have a “gang area?” We thought it was all old people and spa resorts.)

Luckily for London, he managed to escape his captors around 3 a.m. the following morning.

“Jeremy said it was a terrorizing experience,” a source close to London said. “He spent hours thinking he was going to die and he did what he had to do not to end up shot or dead.”

The worst part of this? A police officer actually witnessed the two men with London while he was changing his tire and he didn’t realize anything bad was going down.

“By chance, an officer saw the man and two subjects and thought, ‘That’s nice of them, to stop and help someone change their tire,’” said Sgt. Douglas. “That helped one of our officers to be able to identify the suspects later on.”

We think London might have appreciated it more if the police officer had, you know, detected the crime to begin with, but maybe that’s just us.

Even without this kidnapping incident, poor London has been going through a bit of a rough patch. In September 2009, the 7th Heaven star went to rehab to battle an addiction to prescription pills (which makes his forced drug intake during the kidnapping all the more disturbing), and he’s currently going through a divorce from actress Melissa Cunningham, whom he married in 2006.

On the bright side, two men have already been charged after London’s car was found outside the home of one of the alleged kidnappers.

It is widely known that Paris Hilton can’t find common language with the law. This time she has allegedly violated the law one more time, luckily, not in the USA, but in South Africa. The 29-year-old reality star was interrogated by the police on Friday whether she was smoking banned marijuana at the World Cup championship or not. Paris Hilton was reportedly taken into custody for a short time during the quarterfinal match between the Netherlands and Brazil. At that time the scandalous star was watching the game outside the stadium Nelson Mandela Bay.

The rep of Paris clarified the situation to the press and announced that a complete misunderstanding occurred then, because someone else in the group was smoking marijuana, not Paris Hilton. Despite the fact that the case was dropped against Hilton, no further charges will be made against her. Even the authorities offered their apology to the star for mistakingly accusing her as she was not involved in that case.

Hilton’s rep adds that the star is planning to have a safari this week and that despite the unpleasant incident, she have spent really wonderful time at The World Cup.

From freshnews.in.

Russell Crowe has confessed that he has had a hiccup with his recent smoking cessation attempt after he decided to have a cigar as a celebration for the birth of a baby to a good friend of his. The good news is however that he said that he’s still on track, and that it did not in “any way weaken” his resolve to quit smoking and be completely smoke free in the future. When you are trying to quit smoking there is always a bit of a dilemma when it comes to having the odd cigar or just a puff of a cigarette. Obviously our advice is to stay completely away from any form a smoking however at the same time we have seen how some individuals have managed to quit smoking by for example setting themselves a reward of one cigar at the end of the week if they don’t smoke anything else. The danger is however that the reward ends up becoming a habit.

Russell Crowe, who recently starred in the new Robin Hood film, is 46 years old now and his smoking cessation is well overdue. It is a good thing that he is not falling into the “the damage is already done” attitude that many older smokers have and that he is aware of the huge health benefits that he will reap almost immediately on quitting for good.

One thing is for sure and that is that he will notice significantly improved erectile function, mobility, taste, smell and general well being. He’ll also notice that he doesn’t have to pay so much for health insurance and that he won’t have to stand outside restaurants every time he goes for a meal.

Even though Russell Crowe said he’s struggling with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms possibly the biggest challenge to him will be the psychological and emotional aspects of quitting smoking. As a hardened and long term smoker you tend to build your whole identity around smoking and it is important that new nonsmokers dive head first into their new healthy lifestyles.

At Ukmedix News we wish Russell Crowe the luck, determination and resilience which he so aptly portrayed in the film Gladiator.

From ukmedix.com, June 30, 2010

She vowed to quit smoking after she was shown what damage her 40-a-day habit was doing to her looks.
Coleen Nolan also promised and made a pact with her young daughter Ciara last year that she would kick the habit. But more than 12 months on and the TV presenter was snapped puffing away on a cigarette as she waited for her car. Coleen, 45, looked tired and stressed as she hung around for her ride to take her to the Loose Women studios in London. And she appeared to take long, hard drags on her ciggie as she played with her iPhone as she waited. But she’ll have some explaining to do to her eight-year-old daughter who she made a promise to that she would quit.

Taking part in an ITV documentary called The Truth About… Eternal Youth, last year, Coleen made the promise after she was given a glimpse into her future and what her face would look like in 20 years time if she continues to smoke heavily.
Using a special computer programme, skin experts from London’s Harley Street showed her how her face would age over the next 10 and 20 years.
The wrinkles around her eyes were increased and her skin tone was made more grey to show the effects smoking has on the skin.
Horrified, Coleen said: ”Ok, I get the point, stop smoking.’
After the consultation, she made the pact with Ciara and told the Daily Mirror: ‘It was quite shocking. I know that smoking is one of the worst things that you can do for your skin. I am hoping to give up very soon.
‘That is my plan and I am going out to buy nicotine patches because it is a promise I made to my daughter.’

From dailymail.co.uk, By GEORGINA LITTLEJOHN, June 30, 2010