After adjusting for the other variables in the model, smokers of packs of 25 and 40 cigarettes were more likely than smokers of packs containing 20 cigarettes to not nominate a price point.
The strongest single predictor of an individual not nominating a price point was their future intention to quit.
Competing with him are Jack Nicholson, who would set a record of four Oscars if he won for his portrayal of a retired widower in About Schmidt; Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays a ferocious, knife-wielding butcher in Gangs of New York; Nicolas Cage in Adaptation; and Adrien Brody, of The Pianist, the only one of the five not nominated previously.
In a letter to the Times in which he says he is "ecstatic about the lack of a winner," a writer named Doug Magee, author of a book not nominated, objects to the idea that a book chosen for an award is automatically deemed "the best of the year".
41.3% of those who smoked 40 packs and 26.0% of smokers of 25 packs, did not nominate a price point compared to 14.2% of adults who regularly smoked cigarettes from the smallest packs.
Because Princess of Sylmar was not nominated to the Breeders' Cup, Stanco consistently said his modest group would not pay $100,000 to supplement her.
There was one glaring female omission, however, as Susan Boyle, who recorded the biggest-selling British album of last year, was not nominated.
Mr. Mark and Mr. Condon lost a ratings draw when Bruce Springsteen, an Oscar winner for "Streets of Philadelphia," was not nominated for his theme song for "The Wrestler".
It's fascinating that when "On the Waterfront" was a contender for the Oscar for Best Picture in 1954, two of the movies not nominated that year were among the best inside-Hollywood movies ever — George Cukor's remake of "A Star Is Born" (starring Judy Garland and James Mason) and Joseph Mankiewicz's "The Barefoot Contessa" (starring Humphrey Bogart as a director).
