It's hard to imagine many famous French faces without a haze of cigarette smoke - (unintelligible) Belmondo, Bardot, Sartre and Jeanne Moreau, holding their cigarette - French word by the way - aloft and pursed in your lips to make the tip of the cigarette smolder.

NPR: A Tradition Ends in French Cafes

In Saddam's most recent television appearance, some members of the throng that surrounded him held rifles aloft as the Iraqi president worked his way through the crowd, smiling broadly.

CNN: Tape shows Saddam working a crowd