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UK: acting normal without smoking

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The issue of actors being made to smoke on stage or screen is not a new one, but compared to the "Sex and the City" story above, British actor Paul Eddington had more luck 30 years ago. Although he was best known worldwide for his role as Jim Hacker, the hapless minister, later prime minister in the 1980s British television comedy series "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister", Eddington first rose to fame a decade earlier in a British sitcom called "The Good Life". This featured two couples, neighbours, one relatively successful and wealthy, the other doing less well in life. Eddington played the husband of the successful couple, and his screen character was a smoker. But being an intelligent, thoughtful man with a strong social conscience, and realising how inappropriate it was to portray smoking as part of the good life, he asked the writer whether a scene or . . . [Full text of this article]