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Duffy
  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed
  • Quit = Probably has
  • Profession = singer
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Search for related items at: Amazon (UK, Canada, Germany)

  • Amount Smoked
              •  "40 cigarettes a day", fanlexicon website, Nov. 20, '08
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  quit - "Dylyth [Wyn] remembers that at the age of 20 Duffy quit smoking - she was on 20 a day - to protect her voice.", Mirror, Mar. 3, '08
              •  "wrote songs to cope with smoking ban. ... The Mercy singer wasn't allowed to smoke during her eight hour shifts at the garage - and so she put all her nervous energy into biting her nails and writing songs that would one day propel her to stardom. She says, 'As a teenager I had a tendency to light the occasional cigarette, but I couldn't when I worked in the gas station - in case I set it on fire'", Contactmusic (UK), Apr.19, '08
              •  "We go outside on to the patio so that Duffy can have a cigarette. Does she remember all this going on, even though she was only 11 when it started? She takes a drag on her cigarette, and exhales slowly", Guardian (UK), May 10, '08
              •  "'I... had a cigarette in the morning", The Observer (UK), May 18, '08
              •  "having a fag and a cuppa in Cardiff at the weekend", w/pic, The Sun (UK), May 28, '08
              •  "I was walking around Chelsea about two weeks ago, cigarette and coffee in hand", Rhyl Journal (UK), Jun. 11, '08
              •  "stopped to have a ciggie", Daily Star (UK), Jun. 19, '08
              •  "stole the show in the summer series of concerts at London's Somerset House and celebrated her success with a cigarette. The 24-year-old soul singer swiftly lit up as she left the performance wearing a mini dress. Perhaps smoking gives Duffy, who has been described by critics as the new Dusty Springfield, her prematurely rich and husky voice... leaves Somerset House, cigarette in hand", Mail Online (UK), Jul. 20, '08
              •  "dances, sways, smokes, smiles and talks all the way to a café", Sunday Telegraph, Aug. 17, '08
              •  "is back on the fags after quitting. The chart-topper gave up the habit after relocating from her native Wales to London, but started puffing away again as her career took off. She told me: 'Back home everybody smoked because there was nothing else to do. I started again because I just needed something to allow me to feel human again. It's a way of getting five minutes to yourself. Before I go on stage I have a glass of wine and a cigarette' ", The Sun (UK), Sep. 2, '08
              •  "Welsh singer, songwriter Duffy says that she has started smoking again because it makes her feel human. Duffy had given up the habit after she moved from her native Wales to London, but started smoking again after her career took off. Back home everybody smoked because there was nothing else to do, the Sun quoted a source as saying. I started again because I just needed something to allow me to feel human again. Its a way of getting five minutes to yourself. Before I go on stage I have a glass of wine and a cigarette, she added", The Sun (UK), Sep. 2, '08
              •  "Duffy says that she has started smoking again because it makes her feel human. Duffy had given up the habit after she moved from her native Wales to London, but started smoking again after her career took off. 'Back home everybody smoked because there was nothing else to do,' the Sun quoted a source as saying. 'I started again because I just needed something to allow me to feel human again. It's a way of getting five minutes to yourself. Before I go on stage I have a glass of wine and a cigarette'", Entertainmentandshowbiz.com, Sep. '08
              •  "I got to go out and have a cigarette.", BBC ONE Session, Oct. 12, '08
              •  "She and her mates smoked behind the bikesheds - 'and not just cigarettes', she giggles", Stuff (New Zealand), Nov. 17, '08
              •  "reckons cigarettes are key to the sound of her voice... reckons the key to her amazing sound is a diet of - ciggies. Asked how she gets her sultry voice the songstress says: 'Smoke 40 cigarettes a day and you get a rough idea'", Daily Mirror (UK), Nov. 19, '08
              •  "Aimée Ann Duffy is braving the glacial breeze coming off the Thames in order to smoke another cigarette. We are on location at a retro diner near East India Docks and her tiny hands shake as she lights her cigarette, while her little, size two-and-half feet stamp away the cold", London Evening Standard (ES magazine), Dec. 8, '08
              •  "Duffy was spotted smoking a fag outside Brixton Academy before her gig at the venue" NME, Dec. 11, '08
              •  "I'm sitting in the office of Universal [Music Group], with a cigarette, with a can of Diet Coke and eating some edamame", Hitfix, Feb. 5, '09
              •  "I smoked all my cigarettes", Sunday Times (UK), Feb. 8, '09
              •  "as long as each interview is bookended with a five-minute cigarette break, Duffy will be fine. She has smoked sporadically since she was 12 years. There was little else to do growing up in Nefyn (population 2000). She recalls spending time with her two best friends in her dad's shed, lighting up and telling 'spooky stories'. (She reluctantly admits it might partly explain the timbre of her remarkable voice)", The Age (Australia), Feb. 13, '09
              •  "Puts her sexy tones down to smoking cigarettes in old shed as a teenager while telling ghost stories with her mates.", Daily Star (UK), Feb. 20, '09
              •  "Today, as long as each interview is bookended with a five-minute cigarette break, Duffy will be fine", Tasmania Examiner (Australia), Mar. 13, '09
  • Collections of pictures of her smoking
              •  Celebs Smokers
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • holding, 104k
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  • holding, 89k
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  • dragging
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  • holding, 96k
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  • holding, 84k
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  • candid, holding, London, Jul. 20, '08, 99k
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  • holding, posed, Spin Magazine, Aug. '08, 222k


    • Karen Duffy
  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Search for related items at: Amazon (UK, Canada, Germany)
  • Karen Duffy at MrSkin.com

  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "She went to a smoking museum, and while interviewing the curator, she reached into her pocket and asked, 'Oh, we can smoke in here?' When he said yes, she said something like, 'Thank God.'", MTV?, c. '95
              •  bums cigarette off of interviewer, Bikini Magazine, Feb. '96
  • Collections of pictures of her smoking
              •  Cigar Glamour

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