One of the perks of being a celebrity is that everyone wants them to use their products. Celebrities are constantly bombarded with offers for free tennis shoes, free clothes, free sunglasses, and just about anything else you can imagine. Each year, movie and TV stars are offered elaborate gowns to wear at the various awards shows, free of charge. At the annual Academy Awards presentation, product marketeers fight for the chance to include one of their flagship products in the elaborate gift baskets that Oscar nominees receive. With all this attention, it doesn't take a Mensa candidate to figure out why, either. Even some of the dim-witted high school dropouts that live in Hollywood can figure out just why they are being lavished with such attention. It has just a little something to do with selling merchandise.

As the AP notes however, when it comes to handing out free cigarettes, the pleasure police call it "immoral" and "deceptive". Gwendolyn Young, a board member of the American Lung Association of California apparently thinks celebrities are too damned stupid to realize they are being tricked. Young claims, "What it really shows is the tobacco industry is continuing to use these deceptive strategies to lure people of all ages into a deadly addiction."

Isn't it ironic, that celebrities who are widely known for binge drinking, and gorging themselves on narcotics and illegal prescription painkillers, are some how being put in grave danger because of free cigarettes.