| • | Merits, US Weekly, when? | |
| • | Merits, MS Magazine, when? |
| • | "Here's proof that no smoker is hopeless--if they learn how to stand up to this addiction.", website, when? |
| • | preparing story took "oceans of coffee and countless cigarettes", People Magazine, early 80's | |
| • | lit 27th cigarette of the night during the first commercial, People Magazine, Jul. '82 | |
| • | quit - "Q. Have you changed other daily habits? Are you healthier? A. Of course I quit smoking. What kind of fool would get cancer and not quit smoking? I started trying to take better care of the only body I'm ever going to have. (But) if they tell me I've got three months left, I'm out the door to buy a carton of Merits.", MAMM Magazine, Oct./Nov. '97 | |
| • | had a cigarette near her and smoke drifted around her as she read the news, "And So It Goes: Adventures in Television" by Linda Ellerbee |