Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, and Jennifer Aniston have attached their names to the televised Stand Up to Cancer fundraising drive, to be held on September 5. The telethon will raise money for cancer research and treatment.
Jen Aniston may not have been the wisest celebrity to represent a cancer charity, though. In additional to always having the perfect tan, she was one of the most notorious smokers in Hollywood before attempting to quit last year.
Unfortunately, the quitting effort hasn’t seemed to stick. People magazine reported in June:
Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer, looking “besotted with one another” while enjoying a late-night rendezvous with friends – including actor Billy Crudup – at the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood, a source tells us. Nestled at an outside courtyard table, the two sat close as Mayer talked feverishly with the group and Aniston indulged in one cigarette after another.
And of course there were those billion photos of her sunbathing in Miami this spring.
I suppose you can indulge in cancer-causing hobbies and still support cancer research (it just might benefit you some day), but maybe she should pick a cause she can actually adhere to.
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The donations that come in might be higher when endorsed by a celebrity. So maybe the Cancer Society should put that ‘extra’ cash aside to help fight Jennifer’s skin / lung cancer later (?)
Isn’t smoking in public restaurants illegal in California? Or am I just naive thinking such a law would apply to anyone besides the working class?
And I bet she uses a cellphone to talk to other people too.
It makes perfect sense. One day, if she gets melanoma or lung cancer, the cure will be right there waiting for her!
I don’t get it, I think this is totally appropriate. She isn’t rallying people against things that cause cancer, she’s rallying people to help cure cancer so we can do all the smoking and tanning that we want! Seriously, they should find every cancer-riddled or obviously-soon-to-be-cancer-riddled celebrity they can for this. It’d be sort of like those “Save the Children” commercials.
“For just pennies a day, you can help ensure that your favorite chain-smoking celebrity gets the cancer treatment they need…”
I chain smoke non-filter Camels, while lying in the most powerful tanning bed made, and I actually own parkas stuffed with asbestos. Keep fighting for me Jen! I’m gonna need it.
Her scrunched up face while puffing shows why smoking makes you look so much more glamorous!
Stand Up 2 Cancer will also be launching a mobile donation campaign during the telethon powered by mGive and The Mobile Giving Foundation.
Viewers will be urged to text ‘STAND’ to 40202 to donate $5. You can donate at any time before the telecast. All cell phone carrier fees have been written off.
Snoop DDD: Smoking isn’t allowed inside restaurants in California; however, a person can smoke outside the restauarant. Lots of restaurants actually have smoking patios.
She’s supporting the cancer drive because she desperate needs to counteract the publicity Brangelina have garnered by adding to our already population-stressed planet.
i don’t smoke or tan, which is good because shes looking beat! no wonder, i didn’t know she still smoked
If she didn’t smoke, she’d have to satisfy her oral fixation with food and she’d most likely weight about 40 lbs. more. This would remove any chance at her having that starring role in Friends, (thin, attractive, looks 20-something) and make her eligible for the quirky chubby girl parts, for which she doesn’t have the range.
Kind of like that anchorman, Peter Jennings, who must have realized early that the smoking helped to deepen his voice, give his face that hard-boiled look, and kept the weight down, otherwise he’d be the chubby jovial weatherman, odd-news guy.
Life’s full of trade-offs, isn’t it?
Jennifer Aniston has an oral fixation? And I thought she was hot before!
Dasch-Dude: As to Peter Jennings, he also would still be alive. He died August 8, 2005, of lung cancer.
You gotta die of something.
Well, I guess as Pastafarian says, ” you gotta die of something”, so might as well die, smelling like nicotine and arsenic, and taking hundreds of innocent people with you, that you blew your nasty smoke into their air space where they most of the time could not escape. She looks so classic and sexy walking with a stick on fire hanging out of her mouth. Its kind of ironic that she is working for something that is going to be helping her in just a few short years with lung cancer or melanoma.
Ah the stress of being a one-hit wonder.
Oh I planned on taking hundreds of innocent people with me anyway.
I worked at a cancer center one summer, manipulating databases and merging them into Word to beg the right people for cash.
Most of my co-workers smoked.
But at least they smoked outside, away from my asthmatic bronchi. The one who didn’t smoke, arrived one day saturated in perfume. I was out for a week and had to have prescription prednisone.
I’m not be certain, but doesn’t Scarlett Johansson smoke as well? I believe I’ve seen photos of her puff a few.
Not only is she at risk for melanoma, but her skin will be deeply wrinkled and blotched long before its time — that is if she makes it to even late middle age.
Her long-time heavy, heavy smoking will also catch up with her.
And this “romance” with John Mayer, it can be easily predicted, will blow up. He’s a serial celebrity womanizer. She’s wasting her time and time is running out.
She’s on a path to self-destruction.