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| • | "By 1950... she was getting through two bottles of Old Grandad each day and 100 cigarettes. When her doctors warned her that she was slowly killing herself, she added ginger ale to the bourbon and substituted her usual brand of cigarettes for 150 cork-tipped ones", "Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life" by David Brett, '96 |
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| • | Towards the end of her life she "did most of her socialising in her hotel suite with a cigarette in one hand and an oxygen mask in the other", "Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life" by David Brett, '96 |
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| • | "She drank two bottles of Old Granddad bourbon a day, smoked 100 cigarettes...Diagnosed with emphysema, she tried a novel cure - smoking was increased to 150 cigarettes a day and she would carry around a bottle of oxygen, taking deep breaths in between puffs", Sunday Times (South Africa), Apr. 18, '99 |
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| • | "her habit of smoking 150 cigarettes everyday", Movie Magazine International tribute, Feb. 7, '01
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| • | "Drinking and chain-smoking eventually wore her down", Time magazine, May 17, '01
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| • | "a chain smoker, (her brand of cigarettes, Craven A's)... a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other", website, Aug. 18, '03
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| • | "smoked more than 100 cigarettes a day", New York Newsday, Sep. 20, '03
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| • | "used to transport Deloras, her maltese poodle, in a crocodile-skin shoulder-bag (she also set fire to the unfortunate creature by absent-mindedly flicking cigarette ash on her)", New Zealand Herald, Dec. 16, '05
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| • | "still smoked 100 of her favourite Craven A cigarettes each day... her addiction to drink, drugs and cigarettes... was diagnosed with emphysema, undoubtedly caused by her 100-a-day habit. The doctor advised her to quit smoking, which she tried to do but she had been addicted to nicotine for thirty years. Back on the cigarettes, she carried on her career as best she could", Fyne Times (UK), '06
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| • | "But what about the Bankhead vices? 'Oh, no, I don't smoke, I don't drink,' says [Valerie] Harper", WWD, Mar. 15, '10
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| • | "smoked over one hundred cigarettes per day", website
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| • | "once fell asleep with a lit cigarette and set her pet poodle Millicent on fire", website
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| • | "That raspy voice was a product of an overindulgent lifestyle - and smoking up to 150 Craven A cigarettes a day", TV Party website, when?
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