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| • | "chain-smoking", National Ledger, Oct. 26, '08
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| • | "Star Magazine - Who could say no to this blonde moppet? Not her bodyguard who is often tasked with providing her with her favorite brand of cigarettes, American Spirit. So what's the problem ? This smokin little girl is only 15!", website, Dec. 2, '08
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| • | "Taylor Momsen was seen on set in a black mini dress, smoking a cigarette in between scenes", Teendaily.net, Jan. 27, '10
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| • | "is not old enough to drink alcohol, drive a car or buy cigarettes (even if she does smoke them)", News of the World (UK), Mar. 7, '10
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| • | "I smoke, so what? Why do people give a s**t what a 16-year-old girl who they've never met does? It's not like I'm sitting there going, 'Kids, you should go buy a pack of cigarettes.' When I walk outside with a cigarette and someone takes a picture of it and puts it on the Internet, its not my problem. I'm just living my life and I'm not gonna live my life for other people", Showbiz Spy, Mar. 9, '10
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| • | "Taylor Momsen doesn't want kids looking up to her. 'I didn't get into this to be a role model for 7-year-olds,' says the 'Gossip Girl' star, 16. 'If parents don't like some of the stuff I do, then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.' Little J knows she's not always on her best behavior: 'I smoke, so what? It's not like I'm sitting there going, 'Kids, you should go buy a pack of cigarettes.'", New York Daily News, Mar. 10, '10 |
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| • | "smokes illegally on stage. From her stripper heels, complete with dollar notes inside, to her lack of clothing, heavy make-up and illicit cigarette, Taylor Momsen seems intent on shocking... At one point Taylor smoked a cigarette onstage, despite being two years beneath the legal age for both smoking and buying cigarettes in California", w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 29, '10
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| • | "She smokes and curses", Village Voice, Jul. 23, '10
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| • | "We caught the 17-year-old smoking a cigarette", INF Daily, Aug. 18, '10
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| • | "The young star even lit a cigarette on stage", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 18, '10
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| • | "breaks the law by lighting up in New York... was spotted puffing away as she strolled with two male friends in the Big Apple", w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 19, '10
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| • | "Under-age Taylor Momsen lights up on the Gossip Girl set... she's been spotted between takes on the set of Gossip Girl in Manhattan flaunting her smoking addiction. But it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to buy cigarettes in America. The 17-year-old didn't even attempt to hide her nicotine habit as she smoked a cigarette with one hand and displayed a packet of Malboro Lights with the other", w/pics, Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 19, '10
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| • | "has also received criticism over her under-age smoking habit", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 25, '10
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| • | "Interviewer: In the beginning of album opener 'My Medicine,' there's the sound of you exhaling a cigarette before you kick into the song. It sounds like you're going for a tough girl vibe right out of the gate. Taylor Momsen: It wasn't done intentionally. I was smoking a cigarette in the booth and it got recorded, and we thought it sounded cool so we kept it. I smoke when I sing. I smoke a lot.", Revolver Magazine, Nov./Dec. '10 |
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| • | "sneaking a cigarette out the one window in her hotel suite that she and fellow enthusiastic smoker Ben Phillips, her guitarist, have managed to pry open during a visit to Toronto this week", Toronto Star (Canada), Mar. 5, '11
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| • | "Before the show, I actually was standing near Momsen, who was smoking cigarettes--maybe not the best idea if you're losing your voice. If she's going to last in this business, she needs to stay focused on writing great music and taking care of her health -- not partying or smoking, which seemed a little hypocritical since there is no way smoking could have benefited her", blog, Feb. 15, '11
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