SMOKING BABY

Aside from some great performances by Aaron Eckhart, Mario Bello and Robert Duvall, I wasn't all that jazzed by Thank You For Smoking, a satire that pulls its punches and ends up tasting more like an ultralight cigarette than an unfiltered one. But I am nuts about the promotional toy I got at a screening about a month ago. It's a little plastic baby doll that comes with tiny cigarettes. Stick 'em in the baby's mouth, light 'em and voila - you've given underage smoking a whole new meaning. Insensitive? Yes. Stupid? Of course. An invaluable tchotchke? For sure.