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| • | "her attempts to give up her pack-a-day smoking habit, in keeping with the royal aversion to cigarettes", People Magazine, Aug. 4, '86
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| • | quit - "Sarah, 27, has become more stylish and has even lost 21 pounds. She has also quit smoking and taken up flying, endeavors that have brought cheers from the royal clan", People Magazine , Dec. 22, '86 |
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| • | quit - "She has quit smoking. Sarah admits she found it 'hellish' to kick her pack-a-day habit. And she has cut down on her drinking. She now indulges in only an occasional glass of wine. Throughout, she was never pressured by Andrew, who neither drinks nor smokes", Toronto Star, Feb. 22, '87 |
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| • | Famously once had to borrow 20 pounds from a royal aide when she didn't have enough cash to buy 200 Marlboro from a duty free shop, where?, c. early 90's |
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| • | "Why Fergie won't stop smoking...while beginning to verge on the fanatical in her ceaseless fitness regimes, maintains a rather less healthy addiction to nicotine. She initially gave up smoking after her engagement, but earlier this week she was seen smoking her way through three cigarettes during an evening in a Klosters restaurant. The sad fact is that even though she spends hours working out, Fergie's current obsession with being slim obviously extends to believing that smoking is a sure way of achieving and maintaining weight loss", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 10, '92 |
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| • | "Puffing Fergie - having a party. Health pledge by dancing Duchess goes up in smoke. The Duchess of York last night enjoyed an apres-ski evening of drinking, dancing - and smoking...smoked three cigarettes - the first time she has been seen smoking in public. The Duchess pledged to give up smoking when she married Prince Andrew, but is said to have had a 'hellish' time trying to kick the habit, often having a secret smoke when he was not in the room, or when she was out with friends. Last night, she took only a few puffs from the first two cigarettes but smoked the last to the end", where?, Jan. '92 |
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| • | Dallas Morning News, Dec. 27, '92, p. E4 |
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| • | Was reported to be smoking cigarettes in public, something she was not allowed to do prior to her divorce, The Express (UK), Dec. '94 |
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| • | "Hector and I spent hours on his terrace. We'd share some wine and his cigarettes. (I started smoking in Argentina). ... I tried, as before, to lose myself in excess: buying, eating, even smoking. (I hadn't touched a cigarette since my courtship - Andrew hated the smell of smoke - but I was touching them now)", "My Story " by Sarah Ferguson, '97, pgs. 48, 214 |
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| • | "She swore easily, smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, and swapped dirty jokes with the boys.", "'She could always ski well,' he said, 'although she stopped every twenty minutes for a cigarette.'", "Wyatt [her lover] despised cigarettes, so Sarah tried not to smoke in front of him." "[Sarah and Bryan, her lover] shared a cigarette.", "The Royals " by Kitty Kelley, '97, pgs. 323, 372, 379, 391 |
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| • | "The Duchess of York is the only one of the younger royals to have been a regular smoker. Fergie provoked outrage when she was spotted lighting up in a Swiss alpine resturant", Sunday Express, Apr. 25, '99 |
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| • | "The Duchess of York was the only member of the younger generation to smoke regularly", The Sunday Times (UK), Jul. 2, '99
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| • | "When in the darkest moments when you're on your own is when you really -- you don't feel happy. In my case, I never even felt the feelings of not feeling happy. I just ate and put on weight. So I used food as a substitute for my feelings. And so that's why I can talk about it so openly now. I've gained a lot of weight. And a lot of people turn to drugs or smoking or drink or shopping or overspending. I did all of them", CNN, Larry King Live, Jan. 8, '02 |
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| • | "Highlight of my evening: catching Sarah Ferguson puffing on a crafty cigarette in the Portaloo", The Independent (UK), Jun. 22, '02 |
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| • | "She really looks much older than 43 and without makeup you can see the results of sun damage and smoking", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 13, '03 |
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| • | "smoked for many years in the belief it helped her to keep her weight down", The Royalist website, Feb. 5, '06
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| • | was asked what would be found in her handbag and she replied "occasionally a packet of cigarettes", Hello Magazine, when? |