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| • | cigar - "Down in Texas, Ashleigh Banfield gets up each morning at 3:30 to appear on KDFW's morning news in Dallas. Banfield is a little more aware then some of her fellow journalists of how her viewers might react to her newfound taste for cigars, but her concern is tempered by the fact that the cigar scene in Dallas is growing.", Cigar Aficionado, Dec. '96
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| • | "Banfield was quoted in Cigar Aficionado magazine as being an occasional stogie user", Calgary Herald, Apr. 8, '01 |
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| • | cigar - Dallas Morning News, Jul. 6, '01 |
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| • | cigar - "she hails from Winnipeg and smokes cigars", Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 21, '01 |
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| • | cigar - "When MSNBC scouted Ms. Banfield two years ago, she was an anchor for KDFW, the local Fox station in Dallas, where she was often portrayed in the local press as a woman about town who sang in a rock band, smoked cigars and was a part-owner of a chic pool hall", New York Times, Oct. 29, '01, Business section |
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| • | "Two years ago, Ashleigh Banfield was a local news anchor in Dallas with a reputation as a woman about town who sang in a rock band and smoked cigars", Guardian (UK), Oct. 31, '01 |
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| • | "the same woman whose love of cigars won her a mention in Cigar Aficionado magazine", Dallas Morning News, Nov. 27, '01
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| • | cigar - "a try-almost-anything hell-raiser who smoked cigars", " Anytime there were a group of men swilling hard liquor and smoking cigars, Ashleigh was usually right there with them and the center of attention", National Enquierer, Jan. 15, '02 |
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| • | "Outside the church, Ashleigh Banfield sits on a curb, beneath a brigade of television cameras. The MSNBC TV anchor takes a drag on a cigarette and blows the smoke skyward", Salt Lake Tribune, Jun. 30, '02
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| • | "The actual taping of the show seemed quite relaxed. Ever so often her assistant would count down and she would then start her intro or interview. There were no monitors to watch the live show, so the footage that had been previously taped would play, and we would just stand around while Ashleigh pleaded with the security guard at Sears Tower to smoke a cigarette", Lime Green Tangerine, Aug. 26, '02
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| • | "The trauma, the travel, the tragedy, they have all taken their toll. 'I'm certainly not going to do any self-diagnosis. I haven't had time yet to see anybody professionally, but I do intend to because it has been a difficult year,' Banfield says from a taxi on her way to 30 Rock. 'I'm fifteen pounds heavier than last year. I'm smoking a pack of cigarettes a week.'", tvspy.com, Oct. 4, '02 |
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| • | "I'm smoking a pack of cigarettes a week", National Post (Canada), Oct. 22, '02 |