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Chain smoking is the practice of lighting a new cigarette for personal consumption immediately after one that is finished, sometimes using the finished cigarette to light the next one. The term is most often used more loosely to describe people who smoke relatively constantly, though not actually "chaining". Chain smoking is a term primarily applied to cigarette smoking, although it can be extended to cover cigar and pipe smoking as well.
Famous chain smokers include Shahrukh Khan, Rajat Tokas, Mao Zedong, Walt Disney, Helmut Schmidt, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante (has since stopped smoking altogether), Kate Moss, Drew Barrymore, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Lucille Ball, James Dean, Nat King Cole, Bill Hicks, Denis Leary, Humphrey Bogart, George Formby (who smoked 40 Woodbines a day) John Lennon, Al Pacino, Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Herb Kelleher, Yul Brynner and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who all smoked five packs of cigarettes a day. Ashton Kutcher chain smoked since the age of 16, until he quit in 2005 to prepare for his role in The Guardian. Another notable chain smoker was the eminent paleontologist R. H. Flower, who is known for smoking in the shower.[1] HM the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, is also a notable chain smoker.
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