Timothy Spall is no help as a creepy, hookah-smoking shrink with Dickensian verbal stylings, and Donald Sutherland requires so little effort for his role as a wily United States ambassador that it's a miracle that he doesn't nod off behind his desk.
Smoking shrinks your blood vessels, clogs up your lungs, and wears down your immune system.
But the evidence in support of the much ballyhooed initiatives to shrink our waistlines and stop us from smoking remains mixed at best.
Using data from the United States, Costa Rica and Taiwan, the researchers compared a broad set of predictors of death like age, smoking habits and mobility with the length of telomeres, DNA sequences that generally shrink with age.
My shrink told me that anger and resentment can kill you as much as cigarette smoking or high blood pressure.
But if you're looking for lady-friendly smoking accoutrements that feature products for women designed with more in mind than "pink it and shrink it," look no further than just-launched online store Sweetflag.
If the adoption of smoking among the younger segments of the population is thwarted by more effective regulations, it could mean the market size could shrink further.
His shrink was a small squat woman in her mid 70s who shuffled around a stone floor on slippers while smoking ultrathin menthol cigarettes.
It will shrink — and shrink a lot.
