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| • | Daily Mirror (UK), Jan. 13, '97 |
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| • | "she says, jabbing a lit Silk Cut at a catalogue picture of herself", The Express on Sunday (UK) (Boulevard supplement), May 18, '97 |
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| • | "she says, chain-smoking menthol cigarettes", Sky, Nov. '97 |
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| • | "she admits, lighting up a menthol cigarette", Sky, Jul. '98 |
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| • | "She likes smoking (although it must be said that her current brand of choice is Consulate)", Esquire (UK), Sep. '98 |
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| • | "Q. Do you have any vices? A. I smoke. I'm quite a nervous person and before I go on camera I have to go off and have a quiet fag somewhere. I get through about 30 a day", Daily Mirror (UK), Oct. '98 |
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| • | "Melanie seems almost perfect but she smokes like a chimney, almost 30 cigarettes a day", website, Oct. 15, '98
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| • | "She...lights up another Consulate and shrugs", "She drinks, smokes, swears and eats meat", GQ, Feb. '99 |
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| • | quit - "I had made up my mind that when I hit 30 I would give up smoking and drinking. Smoking makes you feel like death in the morning. I've got so much more out of not smoking than smoking. I stopped by myself and haven't touched them since", Daily Express (UK), Oct. 29, '01 |
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| • | quit - "When she turned 30...she decided to change her lifestyle. A heavy smoker and drinker at the time, she quit both overnight. 'I'd always said I would like to give up smoking at 30 and the only successful way was to give up drinking as well. I haven't had a drink or a cigarette for two-and-a-half years and I feel brilliant. I don't have a smoker's cough and I know my body is clean - it's a fantastic feeling. I'm not holier than thou about it though. I'm still very sociable but I've never given in to peer pressure to start smoking and drinking again'", Sunday Express (S magazine) (UK), Jan. 26, '03 |
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| • | quit - "A drinking, smoking fun girl, she was identified with late-Nineties lads' mag culture...Today, Sykes doesn't smoke. She gave up, overnight, on her 30th birthday - 'and I was a pack-and-a-half girl'", Mail on Sunday (Night & Day magazine) (UK), Mar. 23, '03 |
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| • | quit - "she's married with a baby, hosts an award-winning programme with Des O'Connor, has even given up booze and cigarettes", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 19, '03
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| • | quit - "I used to smoke in the days when I modelled but promised I'd quit when I hit 30. So when the time came, I just stopped. I think it's mind over matter. It was hard - there were times when I'd see people light up after dinner and get a real craving. Then I'd smell it and think: 'Yuk, you can keep it'", Daily Express (UK), Feb. 10, '04 |
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| • | quit - "I used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day, which is not very healthy. I quit when I was 30 just through sheer willpower.", The Times (UK), Mar. 4, '06
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| • | quit - "[her husband is] the reason she quit smoking, because she didn't want him thinking she stank of cigarettes", Sunday Express (S magazine) (UK), Mar. 19, '06 |
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| • | quit - "She's given up now she's pregnant, but Mel used to smoke to calm her down. 'I'm quite a nervous person and before I went on camera, I had to go off and have a quiet fag somewhere,' she said", icircle website, when?
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