Actress Natalie Portman’s newest movie, the ‘stoner comedy’ Your Highness, hits theaters this week. On that note, it was inevitable that someone would ask Portman whether she’s actually smoked marijuana. The answer is “yes,” but not in a long time – and certainly not now. In an interview a few months back, Portman was pretty honest about her past partying ways, which she said did include occasionally smoking pot. The current “it” girl in Hollywood has apparently grown up, however, and moved on.

Natalie Portman tells Entertainment Weekly, “I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven’t smoked in years.” She says she feels “too old” to do that stuff now. Keep in mind, Portman made these statements to EW in December of 2010 – before news broke about her pregnancy – so no mention of the dangers of smoking pot while pregnant. No doubt if she gave the interview now, she’d mention that issue.

She vowed to give up smoking four years ago, but Salma Hayek still hasn’t quit her bad habit.
The actress was spotted lighting up a cigarette while on the set of her new film, Here Comes The Boom.
Hayek is in Boston filming the movie and while walking around the location yesterday could not resist a nicotine fix.

Bundled up against the cold Massachusetts weather, the mother to three-year-old Valentina wore jeans, grey boots and a blue puffy jacket.
She also had a knitted hat on with a red trim to keep her head warm.
Salma, 44, has previously admitted that she took up smoking while filming Frida – a biopic of artist Frida Kahlo – in 2002.
Then in 2007 – the same year she gave birth – she told Marie Claire magazine: ‘It’s the s***iest vice you could possibly pick. I’ve tried to quit before. But this time I’m done with it. I’ve changed.’
But she clearly had trouble keeping her resolve.
Salma co-stars in her latest movie with King of Queens actor Kevin James, who has been working out several times a day and has lost a large amount of weight.
The production team have even brought in a trailer full of workout gear which is on set to help him keep off the pounds.
He was seen walking around the set looking leaner than he has in years.
The movie is about a high school teacher who becomes an amateur mixed martial arts fighter and also stars Henry Winkler.
Salma was later seen carrying a saucepan with healthy home cooked food, maybe shying away from the calorific craft services on offer on movie sets.
The Mexican star has just finished filming the dramatic foreign film The Spark of Life in Spain so it will be of light relief for her to be doing a comedy next.
For a while it seemed Salma had put her acting career on hold after she married French millionaire Francois-Henri Pinault. But now she is back in full work mode.
She currently has four movies in production, including The Driver, a thriller which she will be shooting later this year in India.
The Oscar-nominated actress will co-star with Bollywood star Bulshan Grover.
The former Ugly Betty actress and producer married Pinault in a Valentine’s Day ceremony in Paris in 2009 and they had a second, even lavish wedding ceremony two months later in Venice.
It followed a roller coaster romance, which saw the pair break off their engagement in July 2008 – 10 months after Salma gave birth to Valentina in Los Angeles.
Salma is also set to launch a new venture away from the cameras – she is planning to release a new beauty line inspired by her grandmother.

Prince Harry has once again fallen off the wagon in his bid to stop smoking, it has emerged.
He has been photographed puffing away on a cigarette, despite several attempts to quit.
It appears he just can’t kick the habit as he enjoys a drag on some Marlboro Golds ahead of his his Walking with the Wounded challenge in the North Pole.

He is even believed to have taken cigarettes with him to the Arctic.
The third in line to the throne reportedly started smoking when he was at 14 while he was at Eton.
In 2003, when he left school, he was seen smoking contentedly in public for the first time while at a polo match at Cirencester.
His habit has been met with disapproval and last year while on holiday with his on/off girlfriend Chelsy Davy and her parents Charles and Beverley, they were both ticked off for their bad habit. Charles Davy apparently calls them ‘cancer sticks’.
In January 2007 he vowed to quit ahead of a sweeping army ban, but then in 2008 when he got back from Afghanistan he claimed to have quit, but he was seen smoking outside an airport terminal.
A source told the Sun newspaper: ‘Harry doesn’t seem able to give up once and for all. One reason he smokes is boredom.
‘He’s been learning to fly helicopters – which is great when you’re flying but there’s a lot of sitting around.’
In 2005 he wore patches to try and give up while going through tough officer training at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.
If Harry is committed to one day quitting the habit, he could look to his stepmother Camilla Parker Bowles, who kicked her 40-a-day habit 10 years ago.

Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and singer Alicia Keys will contribute their directing efforts to Lifetime’s “Project Five,” a five-part anthology series, which will chronicle the impact of cancer on people’s lives. While Aniston and Moore’s contributions to the breast cancer awareness project are admirable, critics point out that smoking is a risk factor for many cancers, and both Jennifer and Demi are longtime smokers.

Of the more than 215,000 cases of lung cancer diagnosed in the U.S. each year, more than 100,300 (47%) involve women.

More than 71,000 women die from lung cancer each year, exceeding the number who die from breast, ovarian and uterine cancers combined, according to the American Cancer Society.
Jersey Shore star Jenni JWoww Farley came under a similar attack when she recently spoke out on breast cancer awareness.

“It’s insulting to me to hear that because I smoke or I had a breast augmentation that I shouldn’t be here,” JWoww said.

Smoking is so prevalent among actresses and fashion models for its reported effectiveness as an appetite suppressant that Ginnifer Goodwin refers to it as the “Cocaine and Cigarettes Diet.”

Chain-smoking notwithstanding, Aniston and Moore both are fitness fanatics who follow healthy diets and work out religiously.

“Our hope with Project Five is to entertain, inform and inspire dialogue, research and prevention,” Aniston, 42, said in a statement.

Lifetime says Project Five will “use humor and drama to focus on the effect that breast cancer and its diagnosis have on relationships and the way women perceive themselves, while searching for strength, comfort, medical breakthroughs and, ultimately, a cure.”

Patty Jenkins, who directed the award-winning drama “Monster,” for which Charlize Theron won an Oscar, will also direct one short story.

Lindsay has reportedly dropped another of her vices – smoking! According to TMZ, the actress quit her smoking habit cold turkey about a week ago and is now working out with a trainer daily. In more LiLo news, on Sunday, the actress flew to New York City and received a wake up call from eager photographers. “I love ny – but the paparazzi @ jfk just gave me an anxiety attack….. i was half asleep! they’re such animals well- @ least im with my family in the end…. xo,” the actress Tweeted on Sunday night.

A Drive-Thru Reconciliation?: Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz might have filed for divorce last month, but they’re still on the same page when it comes to their love of fast food. The former couple was spotted at In-N-Out getting burgers and fries on Saturday and then they hit up a Taco Bell on Sunday. No word if the rocker and the actress are making up or if the former couple was just feeling famished. Check out the couple’s drive-thru action, HERE!

Miley’s Late Night: Miley Cyrus – who is only 18 – was spotted at Los Angeles celebrity hotspot Chateau Marmont late Saturday night looking…tired? Check out the teen star’s late night adventure, HERE!

Reality Bikini Roundup!: The weather is warming up and reality stars are taking it off and hitting the water! “Jersey Shore’s” Snooki was spotted in Vegas letting it all hang out! “The Real Housewives of New York City’s” Kelly Bensimon hit the beaches of Miami! And, former “The Hills” beauty and upcoming “Audrina” star Audrina Patridge was spotted in Orange County, Calif. shooting scantily clad scenes for her new VH1 series!

X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has admitted that she has one very dirty habit. The Girls Aloud star smokes at least five cigarettes a day and has confessed that despite all the health risks, she just can’t give them up. In an interview with Metro, Cole honestly explained:
‘I miss smoking when I stop.’
‘It’s not cool to say so but I do.’

Cheryl – who has been tipped to join the new American X Factor judging panel later this year – recently talked about her vice with Piers Morgan on his ‘Life Stories’ series.

‘I probably smoke about 5 a day, not many – but probably 20 today,’ she said.

Of course, she’s not the only star who craves a fag, her boss and mentor Simon Cowell is a well known lover of menthol cigarettes and the pair are often spotted enjoying smoke breaks together when filming their ITV show.

Just as Snoop Dogg is one of Hip Hop’s biggest spokesmen for marijuana, Willie Nelson has been similarly affiliated with the ganja. The two artists have even recorded a song together titled “My Medicine,” a dedication to their favorite plant on Snoop’s 2008 release Ego Trippin’.

It’s not surprise then, that the California Rapper was very vocal when Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession recently. “They better leave Willie the fuck alone!” said Snoop to TMZ. “Willie Nelson is a legend, man. Really, sometimes you gotta back off certain people and have a certain amount of respect for your elders. Willie Nelson is our elder. He’s somebody who lived through many decades of music and hard times and whatnot and living good and going up and down. So give him that respect.”

Snoop, who has a license for medical marijuana, continued. “Who’s the motherfucker that arrested him? I want to know who’s the police officer that said ‘You’re under arrest. You’ve got a right to remain silent.’ You dumb motherfucker, you. You stupid motherfucker you. What you think you going to gain by arresting Willie Nelson? He got out and he back smoking right now!”

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who will be seen lighting up in her forthcoming release Guzaarish, has set the anti-tobacco lobby aflame with anger. “The display of the posters showing Aishwarya smoking raises worries in our mind that they could be trand-setters,” said a tement released Tuesday by Dr. Shekhar Salkar, general secretary of the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE).

He said the group has written to the actress as well, and asked her to withdraw posters of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest film Guzarish, showing the Bachchan bahu smoking a cigarette.

Salkar said many film stars, who confess about their aversion to smoking in private, routinely smoke on screen, taking refuge in phrases like ‘freedom of expression’.
“There are innumerable posters of Guzaarish all over Mumbai. There would be many other scenes which could convey the storyline of the film, yet the producer has chosen this particular one, quite oblivious to its after-effects,” Salkar said.

NOTE has in the past dragged Bollywood superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan to court over promoting tobacco.

The group had also complained against Ajay Devgn, who was photographed smoking while shooting in Goa for Golmaal 3. The star was fined Rs.100 for his indiscretion.

Actor Russell Crowe is a tough guy. He fights, he drinks — and he smokes cigarettes. And his smoking habit is pretty hardcore. On ‘Late Show’ (weeknights, 11:35PM ET on CBS), Crowe said that he started smoking at age ten. Whoa. The 46-year-old estimates he’s smoked 18,000 cigarettes a year ever since then. 18,000 times 36 years is — well … we won’t do the math for you, but it’s a lot.

Now, Russell is trying to qiuit. He told David Letterman he had kicked the habit; Crowe promised to do this five months ago, for the sake of his son. Dave was intrigued. “How did you stop?” he said, as the audience began to applaud. The actor held up his finger in warning. “You’ve clapped way too early,” he told the crowd. Uh-oh.

It turns out he had sort of quit. Sadly, Russell got tipsy the night before Dave’s show — soon he had cigarettes “coming out of his ears,” so to speak. That’s unfortunate — but maybe we shouldn’t be too hard on the dude. He’s trying to quit, after all. And Crowe’s cigarette addiction practically dates back to the stone age.

Russell began smoking as a schoolboy, before “portable lighters” existed. He had to smuggle matches and a “flint” into school, hiding them in his pants. A “flint”? That’s how human beings started fires in prehistoric times. How very old-school.

Naturally, this plan went badly. As Crowe told Letterman, he quickly set his pants on fire, scorching away his newly-arrived pubic hair. See, kids? Smoking isn’t just bad for your health — it’s bad for your pubes.