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| • | cigar - "smoking a cigar", Crain's New York Business, Aug. 28, '95 |
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| • | "'I'll probably write something about the breakup,' Bushnell declares in a Manhattan hotel tearoom, getting down to business with a procession of Merit cigarettes", Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 23, '96 |
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| • | "the rail-thin, electric- eyed, blond-maned, Merit Ultra Light smoking, patent- leather- ankle-boot-with-a-heel-this-high wearing Bushnell", where?, '96
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| • | "She sidles up to Haden-Guest and lights a cigarette", The Guardian (UK), Feb. 1, '99 |
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| • | "she lights a cigarette and inhales deeply ... She takes a sip from her cosmopolitan and another drag on her cigarette", The Times (UK), Jul. 10, '99 |
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| • | "I was holding onto a lamppost while searching for a match with which to light my cigarette", Harpers Bazaar, Feb. 1, '00 |
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| • | "Sarah (Jessica Parker) got me right from the start. A friend who watched the pilot episode [of "Sex and the City" (1998)] called me and said, 'Oh my God, she's really got your mannerisms'. Apparently, the most obvious one is the way she smokes a cigarette in the series. I'm told it's just like the way I smoke. I'm sure it's true, but I had no idea I had any distinctive way of smoking", The Mirror (UK), Mar. 21, '00 |
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| • | "My biggest vice is smoking, about a pack or so a day. I started when I was 16. I have quit a couple of times - but both times I've come to Europe, and then forget it! Everybody's smoking. I once interviewed a DEA agent on a story and he said that people can naturally lose their addiction around the age of 40, for some strange reason. So one day soon I'll probably just wake up and think, 'Hey, I'm not a smoker.' I know I should worry, but I don't", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 9, '00 |
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| • | "Ms. Bushnell greeted the guests in a mohair micro-miniskirt with sequins, enthusiastically inhaling Marlboro Lights and shaking a professionally coiffed golden mane", New York Times, Sep. 7, '00 |
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| • | "She takes a drag of one of many Merits she will smoke during lunch (steak tartare, extra toast, a few lettuce leaves, lots of salt, and a pile of frites that she will mostly ignore)", Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep. 21, '00 |
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| • | "lighting her first Merit and calling for a Bloody Mary", Los Angeles Times, Sep. 27, '00 |
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| • | "Candace Bushnell is walking down Michigan Avenue smoking a Merit", Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 11, '00
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| • | "when I arrived she was seated at one of the best tables in the restaurant, drinking Cosmopolitans with her publicity director and puffing away on a cigarette", "Bushnell rasped, exhaling a plume of smoke", "Bushnell said, eyeing him from behind her cigarette smoke", "She lit another cigarette and exhaled a little scorn", "Candace Bushnell smokes like a steam train", Daily Telegraph (Telegraph Magazine supplement) (UK), Jan. 13, '01 |
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| • | "She stubs out her cigarette", Daily Express, Feb. 3, '01 |
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| • | "she was seated at one of the best tables, drinking Cosmopolitans with her publicity director and puffing away on a cigarette", The Age (Australia), Feb. 11, '01
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| • | "When whippet-thin Sex In The City author Candace Bushnell dined at Sassafraz in Yorkville on the weekend with Star writer Daphne Gordon, she - surprise, surprise - ordered a cheeseburger, which she proceeded to eat (sans an orange-tinged bun that made her 'uncomfortable') with a knife and fork. She even downed a few fries with a chaser of Coke (the real thing, not diet) and, naturally, a Merit or two", Toronto Star, Jun. 27, '01 |
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| • | "'I don't really have that many Blahniks because (the store) is nowhere near my house,' says Bushnell as she hauls on the slightly droopy Merit extra light cigarette she's just pulled from her purse ... 'You just gotta work really hard,' she says, taking a long, satisfied, post-burger drag on her cigarette", Toronto Star, Jun. 28, '01 |
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| • | "The author arrives at an afternoon interview at the Omni Chicago Hotel in a sleeveless, leopard-print Dolce & Gabbana top, a cream-colored leather suit and precariously high Christian Dior sandals. She looks a little like Heather Locklear and she begins the interviews by making earnest inquiries about whether she can smoke in the bar. Having ascertained the answer is yes, she settles in with a Bloody Mary and a pack of Merit Ultra Lights and talks about her most recent book, 'Four Blondes'", Chicago Tribune, Jul. 19, '01 |
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| • | "For Candace Bushnell, though, research often involves dressing in Prada and cozying up in a chic bar with a cosmopolitan and a pack of cigs", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Aug. 17, '01 |
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| • | "The woman seated next to her is flapping her hand in the air and scowling as Candace lights another Merit ... She lights another cigarette", New York Metro, Feb. '02
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| • | "'Can we smoke in here?'...She is laughing, with a cigarette in her hand and a lipstick kiss on her cheek. 'When I think of my flaws, my flaws are like, I smoke. I drink too much sometimes. I yell at men. You don't want to sit around dwelling on your flaws'", New York magazine, Feb. 11, '02
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| • | "A leggy, blue-eyed blonde, fond of holding court with a cigarette in one hand and a fizzy pink drink in the other", National Post (Canada), Jul. 19, '03 |
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| • | "Articulate and friendly with a husky cigarette voice, Bushnell sounded like just the kind of girlfriend you'd want to gab about shoes, news and sex with over cosmopolitans", Ft. Pierce (FL) Tribune, Jul. 24, '03 |
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| • | "And here, right on cue, slap, bang on time, just when we need her to inject a snort of levity into the situation, comes that golden age's siren voice, Candace Bushnell, stubbing out her trademark Merit Ultra Light cigarette", Glasgow Herald (UK), Jul. 26, '03 |
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| • | "'Thank God, I disqualified for having the wrong kind of underpants', she said, lighting up another Merit Ultra Light", Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Jul. 26, '03 |
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| • | "And then you mention how much she smokes and the slightly edgy quality that the smoking adds to her usually girly, high-WASP voice...lit her first cigarette before she even sat down at our table on the patio...lighting another cigarette", Chicago Sun-Times, Jul. 27, '03
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| • | "lighting another cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Aug. 26, '03
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| • | "the petite 44-year-old springs on to an armchair, lights a cigarette, kicks one Prada-heeled leg over the other and curls up like a coy cat", Evening News (UK), Aug. 26, '03 |
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| • | "reaching for another cigarette", The Times (UK), Aug. 29, '03 |
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| • | "What's your worst habit? 'Smoking'. You're still smoking? 'Don't tell my mother'. Have you got plans to quit? 'Uh ... well, I definitely should. I've quit a couple of times and then something happens and you say, OK, I'm just going to smoke one cigarette and smoke a pack. It would be good to quit. I probably will, I'm sure'", The Independent (UK), Aug. 31, '03
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| • | "she screams New York glamour, smoking theatrically and tipping the ash into a giant bowl-like ashtray", Irish Times, Sep. 6, '03 |
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| • | "Watts was one of about 10 guests at a private birthday dinner for Jack Nicholson, who celebrated his 67th birthday at New York restaurant Da Silvano. Watts and Catherine Keener sat down just in time for a giant cake and a birthday serenade, according to the New York Post. After smoking outside with Candace Bushnell, the group moved to the Mercer Hotel", New York Post, Page Six gossip column, Apr. 23, '04 |
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| • | "In the middle of the series I moved to New York City and was given the assignment of interviewing Bushnell ... Our evening began with cocktails, vast quantities of them; continued through dinner at the downtown hot spot Da Silvano's, Bushnell puffing on cigarettes", Telegraph (UK), May 17, '08
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| • | "[her] friends want her to quit smoking", NY Post, Jul. 2, '08
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| • | quit - "These days, she still likes a cocktail, but she has stopped smoking", Times (UK), Apr. 18, '10
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| • | "she chain-smokes, an unusual sight in smoke-phobic Toronto, even on an outdoor patio ... 'My next book is going to feature a woman who has a much younger man and decides to follow it through to marriage', she says between puffs on her already-second cigarette", Toronto Sun, when?
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