The likes of Hourglass and Christian Louboutin Beauty are well known for lipsticks so spiky that they could double-up as a ...

Smoking culture has been making a comeback. Was it inevitable?

Back in the early 1970s, one of the teenage anthems was “Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room,” a song about rebellion that reflected the times. And if you weren’t one of those doing it, it’s a good bet you ...

Protesters in Germany against the Iranian regime light cigarettes using photos of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Associated Press) Trump will order TV networks to 'protect' Army-Navy football game Dozens of ...

Republican lawmakers are jumping on a social media trend to show their support for the anti-regime protesters in Iran. Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., and Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., posted photos of ...

A single flame. A single photograph. And a message that is now circling the world.Iranian women are lighting cigarettes by burning the image of their Supreme Leader — and it is becoming one of the ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Across Europe, thousands of exiled Iranians are ...

In November 2025, Omid Sarlak, a young man living in western Iran, posted a video on social media showing himself setting fire to a photograph of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Just hours after the ...

A viral video showing an Iranian refugee lighting a cigarette using a burning image of Iran’s supreme leader has become a global flashpoint as protests rock the Islamic Republic and President Donald ...

LONDON (AP) — With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral ...