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| • | "With a strong coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other", Daily Telegraph (UK), Jul. 25, '98
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| • | "My nerves are a bit jangly. Do you mind if I have a fag?", People Magazine, Jul. 12, '99
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| • | "Remember that gritty working-class, on-the-dole, rock-and-roll movie 'The Commitments'? In her high-heel boots and low-neck sweater, J.K. Rowling sounds and smokes and laughs and looks for all the world like one of the bluesy backup singers.", "she picked at a couple of blackberries, drank a little orange juice, smoked a few Marlboro Lights and talked about the astonishing ways in which her life has changed.", "She squinted her blue eyes, waved smoke away from her blondish hair, adjusted a silver loop earring and apologized for depending on cigarettes. 'I'm a flawed role model,' she said. On the other hand, she is a staunch believer in doing what you want to do.", Washington Post, Oct. 20, '99, p. C1
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| • | "a place where she could sit and smoke, sip her strong Portuguese coffee and dream of wizards ... she has never weaned herself off the student diet of cigarettes and caffeine ... she had discovered someone who could match her cigarette for cigarette and the pair puffed away happily for an hour over their cappuccinos ... she pointed out her room at Church Cottage and remembered dropping her cigarette butts out of the window", "J.K. Rowling: A Biography", by Sean Smith, '99, pgs. 105, 138, 156, 219 |
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| • | quit - "I gave up May 10, 2000... Now I'm addicted to Nicorets, but at least I haven't smoked... I'd given up before, I'd given it up for two years once before, and actually, Chamber of Secrets I wrote as a non-smoker. But then I started smoking again for Prisoner of Azkaban. Then Goblet of Fire I smoked through and now book five (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- not out until 2002, most likely) is going to be another non-smoker book. I can't go further than that. It's a day-to-day battle for me because I do love smoking", Ottowa Citizen, Oct. 24, '00
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| • | "She talks so fast that it is just possible she has found a way to avoid breathing altogether. The only time I see her inhale is around a Marlboro Light. She claims this was to be a non-smoking day. I'm not sure how this squares with five cigarettes in two hours...She laughs, puffing away", The Times (UK), Jun. 30, '00
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| • | "She is sitting there ablaze - all strawberry-blonde hair, red velvet jacket and cigarette smoke.", The Guardian, Jul. 8, '00
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| • | "she was head girl of her comprehensive school in Chepstow - but she was the sort, she says, who got 'caught smoking at bus stops with boys inleather jackets'", The Guardian (UK), Apr. 18, '01
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| • | "As everyone now knows, she'd write her opus in a café, over espresso (for two hours minimum) and countless Marlboro Lights, as her baby slept in her pushchair.", Manila Inquirer (Philippines), Dec. 6, '01
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| • | J.K. Rowling talks of smoking in bedroom as teen, "Biography" (1987), Nov. '02 |
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| • | quit - "My ideal writing place is a large cafe with a small corner table near a window - to gaze out of in search of inspiration. It would serve very strong coffee and be non-smoking, as I've given up for nearly two years and don't want to be tempted", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 7, '03 |
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| • | quit - "I've now given up for two years", The Scotsman (UK), Feb. '03
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| • | quit - "in May 2000, we met in an Edinburgh hotel room. She had just finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and was quick and funny and nervous, smoking five Marlboro Lights in two hours and talking like a machine-gun at full rattle ... She gave up smoking three years ago and, as she is breastfeeding, has even had to forego the Nicorette", The Times (UK), Jun. 20, '03
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| • | "smoking five Marlboro Lights in two hours", The Times (UK), Jun. 20, '03
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| • | "Other smokers or former smokers of the brand [Marlboro Lights] include...J. K. Rowling", The Observer (UK), Aug. 24, '03
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| • | quit - "Rowling, 38, Why she quit smoking: The Harry Potter author stopped to boost her health. How she did it: She swapped fags for nicotine chewing gum, saying: 'I gave up in 2000. I'm addicted to Nicorette, but at least I haven't smoked any more'", The People (UK), Mar. 7, '04 |
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| • | quit - "she became addicted to chewing gum and playing computer games when she gave up smoking. The Edinburgh author said she now plays the popular Minesweeper game, which is installed on most personal computers, to take a break from writing since she gave up smoking four years ago. Before discovering the joys of the game Ms Rowling would often light up when she wanted to give her brain a rest...On her personal website Ms Rowling, who is currently hard at work writing the sixth Harry Potter novel, says she no longer reaches for the fag packet.She said: 'In the bad old days when I wanted a few minutes break from writing I used to light up a cigarette. I gave up smoking in the year 2000 and now chew a lot of gum instead'", The Scotsman (UK), Jun. 23, '04
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| • | quit - "revealed that she stopped smoking by chewing gum and playing a computer game instead. She quit cigarettes four years ago and has now become so good at the Minesweeper game that she is close to being one of the worlds top 100 players on the internet", The Scotsman (UK), Jun. 24, '04
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| • | quit - "has beaten her record at Minesweeper - the computer game she took up to calm her nerves after stopping smoking", Sunday Mail (UK), Oct. 17, '04
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| • | "the scale of the Harry Potter cult has, at times, driven its chain-smoking creator to the edge of despair", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 16, '05 |
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| • | "a look at the real Jo Rowling (rhymes with bowling, by the way, not howling) at work five years ago on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 'Goblet--oh, my God. That was the period where I was chewing Nicorette. And then I started smoking again, but I didn't stop the Nicorette'", Time, Jul. 17, '05
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| • | "has confessed she was so stressed writing the fourth 'Harry Potter' book she suffered palpitations from overdosing on nicotine. The author says she made herself ill penning 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' by taking up smoking again - and using nicotine gum at the same time. JK, real name Joanne Kathleen, also admitted she had to drink herself into a stupor to make her sleep because she was so worried about the book. She revealed: ''Goblet of Fire' - oh my God That was the period where I was chewing nicotine gum. And then I started smoking again, but I didn't stop the gum'", Female First (UK), Jul. 26, '05
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| • | "That was the period where I was chewing Nicorette. And then I started smoking again, but I didn't stop the Nicorette.", Time Magazine, Jul. '05
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| • | quit - "gave up smoking five years ago", Daily Telegraph (UK), Jan. 10, '06
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| • | quit - "Gone is the home-dyed, slightly carroty, thick mop of hair with its unflattering heavy fringe, the lumpy old shapeless cardigans and the fag hanging from her mouth", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 11, '08
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| • | "she used to hang out of her bedroom window at night smoking", Mugglenet.com, when?
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| • | quit - "Marlboro Lights. Brand of cigarette JKR smoked. She apologizes for the habit and admits to being 'a flawed role model' ('Charmed, I'm Sure,' Linton Weeks, Washington Post Wednesday, 20 October 1999). According to her website, Jo quit smoking several years ago and now chews a lot of gum", Muggle Encyclopaedia, when?
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| • | quit - "In the bad old days, when I wanted a few minutes' break while writing, I used to light up a cigarette. I gave up smoking in the year 2000 and now chew a lot of gum instead (hence the state of my desk). However, chewing a bit of gum does not give you an excuse for a nice little brain-resting break, so instead I like to escape the complexities of the latest plot by playing a quick game of Minesweeper. Since giving up smoking I must boastfully inform you that I have become rather good", J. K. Rowling official site, when?
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