Actor’s Smoking-Arrest Woes Inspire Headline Writers

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Actor’s Smoking-Arrest Woes Inspire Headline Writers

Posted Mar 19, 2008, 08:31 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

A court has issued a $1,000 bench warrant for the arrest of actor Shia LaBeouf, the star of Transformers and an upcoming Indiana Jones movie, after he failed to show up in court yesterday on a charge of unlawful smoking.

Neither LaBeouf nor his lawyer appeared in court Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. The wire service’s headline on the story reads, “Court Calls LeBeouf’s Puff Bluff.” The New York Daily News begins its story on the development this way: “What a drag!”

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Posted by MSG - 6 months, 4 weeks, 1 minute ago

Since when is smoking a legal product unlawful. Now I understand that there are local smoking bans in certain public places but this has gone too far. The punishment for smoking in a banned public place ought to be to have your lighter and cigarettes seized and be removed from the premises - that’s it! This is a legal product from which the gov’t makes a ton of money! The anti-smoking nazi’s have gone way to far on this one! If you do not want to be around a smoker then remove yourself from the smoker. In my experience, most smokers go out of their way to be polite and courteous around nonsmokers (and notice to those who don’t - wise up!). This is a slipperly slope - those of you who do not think this applies to you, you are wrong. They have already gone after beef eaters and transfats. Watch out - fatty fish is next like salmon or blue fish! And those of you toking a little weed in the privacy of your home - you are definately next!

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