Paris Hilton Seen Smoking In Club Despite Ban

Los Angeles, – Paris Hilton has been spotted smoking indoors of a Los Angeles club despite California’s ban on smoking. However, it Paris Hilton smokeseems that the hotel heiress has an excuse. The stick she was holding was actually exempted from the ban.

According to reports, the 29-year-old socialite was puffing a SmokeStik. After her father Richard Hilton allegedly said he was unhappy with his daughter’s casual smoking, she thought she needed to switch to an Camel cigarettes to satisfy her nicotine cravings without upsetting her father.

She joins other smoking celebrities who have been spotted with the e-cig, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Britney Spears, and Simon Cowell.

Meanwhile, Hilton, who had launched an album in 2006, is said to be re-launching her pop career. Speculations arose when she said last week that she visited songwriter and music producer Linda Perry.

She wrote: “Went and visited Linda Perry at her studio. She is so cool and her studio is incredible! I respect her so much as a producer, what a talent!”

Outdoor Smoking Ban in Some Rural Parks in New Year

Should smoking be banned in public spaces like parks? The possibility of introducing bylaws to restrict outdoor smoking in some rural areas of the Comox Valley will be considered in the New Year.

The idea is being pressed by the B.C. Heart and Stroke Foundation, and had already won some support from municipalities elsewhere in the province.

But regional district chair and rural Area C director Edwin Grieve said while the issue should be discussed, directors needed to be cautious about how far they took the idea.

While a lot of initiatives were well meaning, some also had ramifications – and subsequent bylaws were not easy to enforce.

Tobacco companies to battle on New Zealand ground

The biggest tobacco supplier in New Zealand is vowing to fight the Government if they introduce controversial plain cigarette packages.

Dull-green cigarette packaging
3 News has obtained documents revealing the dull-green packs may be introduced here next year, and already the battle lines are being drawn.

The Australian government has this week become the first country in the world to pass a law introducing the dull-green packs but they are being sued.

And New Zealand’s biggest supplier says it will take every action necessary to stop the move here.

Tobacco companies are funding these television campaigns in Australia, furious the government there is introducing these plain cigarette packs.