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| • | "was smoking steadily to calm her nerves", New York Times, Jun. 13, '82
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| • | "her smoky voice (which she lubricated with some cognac and a cigarette)", Berliner Kurier (Germany), Dec. 3, '95 |
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| • | "the show might have been 10 minutes shorter if she hadn't kept stopping to light up.", Daily Mail or Express (UK), where?, '96 |
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| • | "clutching a pack of Marlboro Lights...lighting a cigarette", The News-Times, Jan. 29, '97
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| • | "her cigarette-stained voice", Calgary Sun (Canada), Apr. 6, '97 |
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| • | smoked, Ruby (UK) (talk show), May 14, '97 |
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| • | at her low point she had a "cigarette clutched permanently between her fingers", but now she's "wheezing from too many cigarettes, her voice debauched to an octave lower than her former soprano", Radio Times (UK), Dec. 6-12, '97 |
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| • | smoked duirng interview, "Brit Girls: Marianne", Channel Four (UK), Dec. 6, '97 |
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| • | "sleep... has a dual purpose for the singer - it prevents her from smoking too much. 'If I didn't smoke, I could probably go out more,' she reveals huskily. 'One of the reasons why I have to have a lot of sleep is that when I'm asleep, I'm not smoking'", The Express (UK), Jun. 22, '99 |
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| • | "Marianne Faithfull and young model Kate Moss... often share a drink and a cigarette", The Express (UK), Aug. 26, '99 |
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| • | smoked five cigarettes during UK chat show "Ruby", Sep. 28, '99 |
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| • | smoked throughout interview, also smoking footage from earlier times, "Close up: Marianne Faithfull" (BBC2), Oct. 7, '99 |
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| • | "She came with burning cigarette in her hand and put it out only in the middle of the song. And she did it in the most simple way, one can think about - just throw the cigarette on the flow (sic) and trampled it down with her foot in the expensive concert shoe...this time she smoked only 3 or 4 cigarettes during entire concert", website, Oct. 21, '99
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| • | "between the Marlboros... a flotsam of contradictions floats to the surface", You magazine, Mail on Sunday (UK), Nov. 14, '99 |
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| • | "Once pure and perfect as a prism, her voice was now hoarse, a full octave deeper, ravaged by cocaine and cigarettes", St Louis Riverfront Times, Jul. 12, '00
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| • | "she went for the ciggies earlier last nite even tho her voice was supposedly shot, she should do ads for a cigarette company (just a joke)...she teased us that she was now going to be mean to us on saturday because she lit up a cigarette which of course she smokes during the song, and no one else in the building is allowed to smoke", website concert review, Sep. 12, '00
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| • | "She radiates glamour as she waves her cigarette holder", Guardian (UK), Mar. 12, '02
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| • | "draws desperately on her cigarette", The Independent (UK), Mar. 13, '02 |
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| • | "Between cigarette drags, Faithfull sings", website, Apr. 17, '02
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| • | "her voice bearing the nuances of mild flu and decades of heroic smoking", Eye Weekly (Canada), May 12, '02 |
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| • | "In short, Marianne Faithfull has been re-born. She is less freakish, is dressed in black (red scarf), puts on glasses to consult the list of the songs, lights a cigarette, re-applies her lipstick, because she is coquettish, feminine, slimmer, made up to perfection", Le Monde (France), Jul. 13, '02 |
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| • | "Brandishing a cigarette...she flatly informed her publicist that all interviews would be conducted outside so she could chain-smoke her pack of Marlboro Lights ('When you have to talk about yourself, cigarettes cut out your emotions.')", San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 26, '02 |
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| • | "chain-smoking cigarettes at a picnic table on the L.A. Virgin lot...crumpling up her now-empty cigarette pack and throwing it away", Pulse magazine, Aug. '02 |
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| • | "occasionally puffed a cigarette in between songs at the Park West", concertlivewire website, Sep. 13, '02
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| • | "an easy, cigarette-husky laugh...lighting a cigarette - the first of many...tapped her cigarette against the rim of an ashtray", New Yorker, Sep. 23, '02
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| • | "She lit only one smoke as a prop, during Song For Nico, took a drag or two, then held it and sang while it burned down. Then, she just put it out. Yes, it's hardly a Faithfull show without her picking up a smoke, but newly fit and trim from regular swimming, it hardly seemed like she had her heart into it", Buzzmix.com, Sep. '02
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| • | "cigarette-burnt voice", Interview magazine, Sep. '02
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| • | "In mid-concert she takes out a cigarette holder which she calls an 'accessory' in French in the text and turns to her musicians seeking a lighter", where?, Oct. 15, '02
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| • | "and is even - gasp - planning to quit smoking", London Evening Standard (UK), Nov. 21, '02
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| • | "the crackled cigarette voice of a woman who has seen it all", Portland Mercury, Dec. 5, '02
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| • | "One concert-goer handed her a rose while others cheered whenever she showed off delicate yet deliberate dance moves or simply lit up a cigarette and smiled", Toronto Sun (Canada), Dec. 10, '02 |
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| • | "she tuned the vocal chords with only one on-stage cigarette", ABC (Australia), Feb. '03
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| • | "beamed and issued a luscious sigh of cigarette smoke", Nashville Scene, Oct. 2-8, '03
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| • | "cigarette-fuelled singer", London Evening Standard (UK), Feb. 18, '04
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| • | "Anita Pallenberg...shared cigarettes in the front row with her old friend Marianne Faithfull", Reuters, Mar. 8, '04
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| • | " 'D'you mind if I smoke?' she asks, reaching for her cigarette packet... the air is sour with smoke... gathers up her cigarettes", The Scotsman (UK), Apr. 9, '04
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| • | "if, 30 years ago, someone had asked Marianne Faithfull whether or not she would front a campaign to make people smoke more, she would have said 'But darling, of course'", New Statesman (UK), Apr. 19, '04
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| • | " 'One day I'm going to have to stop, I know,' she laments in her harsh voice, while lighting another cigarette", Coopération (Switzerland), Sep. 29, '04
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| • | "makes quite wonderful songs her very own with her voice ennobled by very many cigarettes", Krefelder Stadtmagazin (Germany), Oct. 27, '04
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| • | "The gestures with cigarette, rose and reading glasses follow an exact choreography", Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), Nov. 6, '04
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| • | "a smoked voice and a bad cough not helped by too many cigarettes", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 15, '04 |
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| • | "After three decades singing in her trademark husky voice - a by-product of cigarette smoking - the wild child who spent the Swinging Sixties on the arm of Mick Jagger has rediscovered the piping voice of early hits like As Time Goes By", Daily Express (UK), Nov. 16, '04 |
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| • | "Already after the third song Marianne Faithfull appreciatively lights the first cigarette. And casually shrouds her degenerate pop songs in clouds of smoke which she blows out like the fatal fog of the past", Die Welt (Germany), Nov. 23, '04
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| • | "The raw scratch in her voice made every refrain into an experience; the fact that she lit half-a-dozen cigarettes in the course of the 100 minutes only emphasized it even more", Bonner General-Anzeiger (Germany), Nov. 24, '04 |
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| • | "probably the only singer in the world who gets tumultuous applause just for lighting a cigarette", Berliner Zeitung (Germany), Nov. 24, '04 |
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| • | "She stood...on the stage...often with a cigarette in her hand", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Nov. 25, '04
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| • | "She stands on the stage, wholly in black, occasionally dragging on a cigarette and blowing out clouds of smoke...A serious alcohol, cigarettes and drugs diet is supposed to played its part in the development of the famous Faithfull tubes...After almost exactly an hour-and-a-half the concert is over including the encore. Marianne Faithfull picks up her cigarettes and goes", Leipziger Volkszeitung (Germany), Nov. 26, '04 |
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| • | "Pushed by drugs, booze and cigarettes, her voice broke on her 1979 album 'Broken English,' leaving her with a raspy croak that has attracted new generations of fans.", Globe, Dec. 6, '04 |
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| • | "lets out a million cigarettes-deep chuckle", Metro Times, '04
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| • | "was talking to me in bed, drinking lapsang souchong and complaining in the gentlest way about her recent flu, her fear of pneumonia, and the need to put up with the most appalling privations to avoid it. Such as not smoking. 'I'm wearing a patch,' she said, her languid rusted-out voice transmitting a frisson of disgust down the phone line from Paris flat to Toronto office. 'It's horrible, like bad amphetamines. But the thought of a cigarette -- ugh!'", Toronto Globe & Mail (Canada), Mar. 14, '05 |
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| • | quit - "TERRY GROSS: Before the interview started, you mentioned to me that you stopped smoking about three weeks ago. Ms. FAITHFULL: Three weeks now, yeah. GROSS: And why did you decide to stop after all these years? Ms. FAITHFULL: Well, I'd been wanting to stop for about a year because I've got the beginning of emphysema. And my mother died of emphysema and alcoholism. So I kind of didn't really want history to repeat itself. So I did everything I could. I went to a hypnotist. I read Allen Carr. I did all these things. Nothing worked. And just before I came to America, I got really bad bronchitis, really bad, and I could not even think of smoking. So I didn't; I stopped. And I'm using a patch, of course. I'm beginning to not need the patch now. It's sort of getting easier. I've done this whole interview without a patch. They make me sick. They actually are rather like bad speed. GROSS: Oh. Ms. FAITHFULL: But, you know, time went by. The bronchitis got better. I've had some terrible moments where--of craving. But my doctor in Paris said--it's very like giving up drugs, you know. They don't last long, the cravings. They last about five minutes. So you just find something else to do. You talk to somebody; you put your makeup on; you do anything. You wash your knickers, anything you can think of, and the craving will pass, and then it's gone. GROSS: What is the action that you typically take that seems most incomplete without a cigarette? Ms. FAITHFULL: Well, the one I'm really worried about is face-to-face promo, because in that, I wasn't using nicotine just as a drug; I was using it as a prop and as a smoke screen. GROSS: Oh. Ms. FAITHFULL: That's going to be pretty scary. I've got to think of something else to do with my hands, and I've got to give myself a smoke screen. Joss sticks? I don't know. A candle? I can't think--I've got to think of something", Fresh Air radio program, Mar. 28, '05 |
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| • | "Since she stopped taking drugs 20 years ago her only vice, she said, has been smoking", Daily Telegraph (UK), Apr. 25, '05
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| • | quit - "The health scare has finally prompted Faithfull to stop smoking her trademark cigarettes", Contactmusic, Jul. 11, '05
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| • | quit - "recently quit smoking", Female First (UK), Jul. 11, '05
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| • | quit - "recently gave up smoking", The Observer (UK), Jul. 24, '05
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| • | "Rumours that she has given up smoking are clearly false: a combination of burning fag and actressy gesticulation during the closing Broken English means she nearly vanishes in a cloud of smoke and ash", The Guardian (UK), Sep. 30, '05
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| • | "The once-waifish singer has really let herself go in recent decades, combining cigarettes and drugs to produce a face that looks like the 'before' ad for a skin-care trauma clinic", Toronto Star (Canada), Jun. 17, '06
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| • | "For the amount that singer Marianne Faithfull smokes, news that she's been diagnosed with lung cancer wouldn't be too surprising. But the raspy-voiced, 59-year-old former girlfriend of Mick Jagger has instead been stricken with breast cancer", Chart Attack (Canada), Sep. 14, '06
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| • | "has been a lifelong smoker", The Independent (UK), Sep. 15, '06
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| • | "a smoker for many years", Irish Independent, Sep. 15, '06 |
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| • | "Years of drinks, drugs and smoking had left her with a deep husky voice", Daily Express (UK), Sep. 15, '06
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| • | "dressed in her ubiquitous black velvet, with glittering blonde hair and smoky voice... her throaty, cigarette-riddled voice", Daily Express (UK), Sep. 16, '06 |
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| • | "for years I [Ben Walters] was perstering (sic) her about being a chain smoker of cigarettes. And I said, 'You'll pay for this.' And, of course, she said - this is a quote - 'It improves my voice. I want to sound like Lotte Lenya.' She got a more and more raspy voice, which is what the poisonous smoke mixture does to your throat ", Time Out (UK), Oct. 23, '06
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| • | quit - "a former smoker", ITV (UK), Nov. 6, '06 |
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| • | quit - "a former heroin addict and heavy smoker", The Independent (UK), Nov. 7, '06
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| • | quit - "ex-drug addict and smoker", Daily Mirror (UK), Nov. 7, '06
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| • | quit - "a former smoker,", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 7, '06
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| • | "Marianne lights up lunchtimes. It's only a few weeks since she was given the all-clear after beating breast cancer. But that doesn't stop Marianne Faithfull lighting up a post-lunch cigarette. In a lifetime battling addiction to drugs and alcohol, she has never succeeded in kicking the smoking habit for good... The Sixties pop siren was pictured enjoying a sandwich and a smoke outside a cafe in Marylebone High Street, central London... Of course, puffing away outside a London cafe is a pleasure Marianne won't be able to enjoy much longer - the ban on smoking in public comes into force in July 2007", w/pic, Daily Express (UK), Dec. 27, '06 |
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| • | "this last year changed me, because I had this terrible cancer scare, and that frightened me - not enough to stop smoking", International Herald Tribune, Feb. 12, '07
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| • | "Her voice is deep and husky with beautifully modulated middle-class vowels and a raucous throaty laugh - a legacy of a 40-year cigarette habit she has been unable to kick, despite her cancer diagnosis... Pausing to light yet another Marlboro from a battered pack on the table in front of her, she inhales deeply and begins to ponder the sheer self-destructive folly of a cancer survivor continuing to smoke. 'I know we all die sometime, but I would like not to be stupid about it,' says Marianne. 'I hardly drink and don't do drugs but I do smoke. I've tried everything to give up - hypnotism, acupuncture, patches - and I've read Allen Carr's book on how to stop smoking. But I've been smoking since I was 19, and so far nothing has worked. But I'm determined to kick it. I'm going to take a new pill when I get back to Paris to get off cigarettes. I've just turned 60, I am a singer and I am still smoking. How stupid is that?'", Mail on Sunday (UK), Mar. 4, '07
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| • | "desperate to give up her lifelong smoking habit... worried that continuing to smoke cigarettes could jeopardise her new-found health", Contactmusic (UK), Mar. 4, '07
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| • | "she would settle for conquering her one remaining addiction. 'I'm still a smoker,' she confesses, 'but I'm trying very hard to stop.' Smoking, she says, is in itself an exercise in self-destruction. 'But,' she says drily, 'that's the thing, isn't it? As you get older you don't need to be self-destructive any more - it's coming anyway'", Saga magazine (UK), Apr. 27, '07 |
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| • | "tears the nicotine patch from her shoulder and lights a cigarette", Le Figaro (France), May 5, '07
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| • | "'I've tried [to quit],' she says, pausing for a haul. 'I quit for six weeks. I didn't like it at all. I'm using patches. And I've cut down a lot, which is the best I can do at the moment'", Globe and Mail (Canada), May 29, '07 |
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| • | "her husky, cigarette alto... smokes a lot... inhaling deeply on yet another cigarette", Vancouver Province (Canada), May 29, '07
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| • | "smokes too much", Long Island Press, May 31, '07
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| • | "For singer Marianne Faithfull quitting smoking is harder than heroin withdrawal", Der Kurier (Austria), Jun. 4, '07 |
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| • | "now leads a clean life, with the exception of smoking cigarettes, which she is trying to quit. 'I'm on the patch,' she announces proudly", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Sep. 7, '07
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| • | "has re-established a career as a singer and actress, making the most of a croaky voice heavily affected by years of cigarette, alcohol and drug abuse", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Sep. 20, '07
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| • | quit - "ex-smoker", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 12, '07
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| • | "Her songbird's trill coarsened by chain smoking and hard living", Los Angeles Times, Mar. 30, '08
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| • | "years of smoking and drinking have given [her voice] a quality some critics describe as 'whisky soaked', making it more suited to jazz, soul and blues", Birmingham Post (UK), Jul. 4, '08
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| • | "Of her former vices, only smoking remains, probably because it is connected to her vanity. 'I shouldn't be smoking, but I am,' she says. 'I've lost weight recently, and I'm really pleased about it, and I don't want to put it back on, and I'm afraid that if I stop smoking, I will'", The Age (Australia), Feb. 14, '09
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| • | "In the anteroom of a West London studio all that now stands between Faithfull and a life of joyless abstinence is the cigarette wedged between her lips. After a few seconds searching her handbag for a lighter, she glances up and directs a precisely worded question at me: 'Am I going to kill you with this cigarette?' ", The Times (UK), Mar. 6, '09
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| • | "holding a lit cigarette... laughs a raucous laugh which develops into a rasping, smoker's cough. 'The fly in that ointment is the cigarettes,' she admits. 'I have to stop smoking but I'm afraid I'll get fat' ", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 14, '09
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| • | "is now a husky-voiced, straight-talking middle-aged woman with a cigarette habit", BBC News, Mar. 18, '09
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| • | "Faithfull's signature nicotine-scorched vocal chords", website, when?
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| • | "Her voice is huskier than it once was, thanks to a lifetime of cigarettes", website
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