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Melanie Griffith smokes it up with daughter Dakota

By Stone Martindale Aug 4, 2006, 23:14 GMT

Melanie Griffith and daughter Dakota Johnson    EPA/B Long/ HFPA

Melanie Griffith and daughter Dakota Johnson EPA/B Long/ HFPA

In health crazy California, some stars buck the conventional wisdom and smoke anyway, despite the small matters of cancer, bad breath and that crazy accordion lip wrinkle thing.

Recently actress Melanie Griffith has caused a kerfluffle after being photographed actually lighting her 17-year-old daughter Dakota's cigarette in Los Angeles, where the legal age for smoking is 18.  The best age to start smoking is never.

Spotted outside the Beverly Hills boutique Maxfield on Wednesday, mère et fille taking a fag break, puffing away.

Griffith was seen with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth, and was using a lighter to help her daughter light up.



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PixieAug 7th, 2006 - 23:54:52

So What?
If you don't want to smell or breath it , walk around.
You should be ok.

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uh duhAug 8th, 2006 - 00:09:15

her daughter is 17

that is the point-it is a proven leading cause of death

way to go Mel

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NicoleAug 8th, 2006 - 16:24:39

Its deplorable that a parent wouldn't have the common sense to prevent their children from smoking. I'm not one of those people who wants smoking banned everywhere or anything, but when a child, and 17 is a child, is smoking illegally with the help of their parent that is just wrong. She's done a lot of stupid things in the past, but this one takes the cake. Shame on Mel.

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Nico_TinaAug 8th, 2006 - 16:29:50

It's not illegal to smoke...just to buy them

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missing the pointAug 8th, 2006 - 17:04:35

it is a health issue more than moral one

would you give your kid something YOU KNEW was lethal to their health?
how about fix the 17 year old a scotch on the rocks too-

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Come onAug 8th, 2006 - 18:13:46

'would you give your kid something YOU KNEW was lethal to their health?'

Actually only 30% of people who smoke actually die from smoking related illnesses. It's not 100% like people make it out to be. Still, it is a risk. However, statistics show that in the next few years, obesity (and the problems it brings) *will overtake* smoking as the number one cause of preventable deaths. So moms and dads, think of that the next time you give your kid that artery hardening cheeseburger and fries, or that fat-forming jelly donut. That's just as lethal.

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'come on' -you are highAug 8th, 2006 - 18:23:11

please
a cheeseburger as lethal as a cigarette?

You dont eat cheeseburges every 15 minutes-do you? The aroma of a cheeseburge does not kill innicent bystanders now does it?

Once in a while, a burger - in the scheme of things- is anywhere near the lethality of cigarette smoke-second hand or inhaling.

You must work for a cigarette manufacturer

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Listen!!!Aug 8th, 2006 - 19:44:28

I'm not going to give advice or anything, but Smoking is bad for you no matter what!! That means NOBODY should be smoking a cigarette!!!! Not even Melanie! Does she like want to get lung cancer or something because, heck, even I know Smoking can kill and I'm only 12!!!!!!!!! So get a life Melanie Griffith and don't take you're daughter's life while you're at it!!!!!!!!

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Wake up PeopleAug 9th, 2006 - 01:35:49

What surprises you people? Hollywood is full of misfit losers that get paid way to much for doing nothing more than reading someone else’s very talented writing. (and no I am not a writer.) Hollywood people are soooo disconnected from mainstream society and a clear vision of right vs. wrong. What Mel did does not surprise me at all. Goes right along with the rest of that screwed up town and the idiots living there!

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LYNNAug 9th, 2006 - 20:50:03

So what! At least she is with her daughter and not on the arm of someone other than her 'main squeeze'. If there is love in their hearts, so what if they smoke! Like that is the worse thing in the world you can do!!!!!!! Honestly, get a life and let them live their's the way they want, just like the rest of us want to live ours! They don't need to explain to anyone. Are we paying their bills? Everyone has the right to live the way they feel works for them. If it isn't hurting anyone else, so what!

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Diane CAug 15th, 2006 - 21:10:25

It's not surprising that Melanie, who is known for a sewer mouth, would have a cig hanging out of her filthy mouth. It appears that it's more important to her to have the public view her as a 'modern mom' who lets her kids do what they want than to be a strict mom who raises her kids to be healthy as well as smart. It appears that Dakota must take after her tramp mom, too bad. Another Hollywood kid down the drain, tsk.

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