Thursday, August 10th, 2006

SJP Has Blood On Her Hands

“Sex and the City” glamorizes cigarette smoking, a Health Department study shows:

Virtually every teen girl interviewed as part of a new Health Department report on smoking said the show influenced their deadly habit.

“Whenever I think of how to smoke, it’s the way Sarah Jessica Parker exhales, and I’m like obsessed,” one 10th-grader said. “I love her, and the way she exhales is very memorable. She kind of … elongates her neck and exhales into the air.”

About 11% of teenagers smoke, according to the Health Department. The highest rates, about 35%, are among white girls.

Researchers ventured into a private high school and asked more than 30 middle and high school girls between the ages of 13 and 18 about smoking.