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| • | "Melanie Griffith was ordering some tuna sushi, mee krob and sake when she saw her luncheon companion reach for a glass of iced tap water. 'You're not going to drink that, are you?' she said incredulously. 'You know what's in that?' After obtaining some bottled water, the young actress lit up a cigarette. 'I know, I know, this is just as bad,' she said sheepishly", Los Angeles Times, Nov. 10, '86 |
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| • | "Embarrassed by her reaction, she fetches a tissue, dabs at her smudged eye makeup and shakily lights a cigarette ... for 'Working Girl', Melanie sat with my girls and just got to understand their mind set -- what they talked about during the day, their wardrobe, their makeup, everything. She'd have a cigarette with them, go to the ladies room with them", Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17, '88 |
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| • | "taking a puff on a Benson & Hedges menthol cigarette", Chicago Tribune, Dec. 18, '88 |
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| • | "Sitting over iced tea, salad and cigarettes in a Village restaurant ... lighting another cigarette", Washington Post, Dec. 29, '88 |
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| • | "Fresh-faced and sleek as a colt in black leather pants, turtleneck and ankle-high boots, Griffith was sitting in a New York hotel suite, chain-smoking ... She stubbed out a cigarette", Newsweek, Jan. 2, '89 |
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| • | "She lit a cigarette and the sun caught the rock on her left hand", Vanity Fair, Jul. '89 |
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| • | "Not long ago Don Johnson made a big deal about eschewing cigarettes and reportedly got wife Melanie Griffith to quit by giving her a diamond for every month she stayed tobacco-free. Alas, they're back on the cancer sticks. A spokesman said that the star duo is 'in fact wrestling with cigarettes.' He also said the diamonds-for-tobacco story never 'had any basis in fact'", Orlando Sentinel, Aug. 27, '90 |
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| • | quit - "Melanie Griffith, pushing aside a coffee cup in favor of a bottle of mineral water, says: 'I stopped sugar two weeks ago, and stopped caffeine and cigarettes last Sunday'", Financial Post (Canada), Jan. 27, '92 |
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| • | quit - "Not only has she given up all alcohol, she has quit smoking", Toronto Star, Jan. 29, '92 |
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| • | quit - "The excesses of the '80s, meanwhile, have given way to the austerities of the '90s. 'We started this whole new healthy thing where we're not having any caffeine or any sugar or any yeast in our family,' she says. No red meat and, as of three weeks ago, no more cigarettes for Griffith", Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31, '92 |
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| • | quit - "As she walks into the room, she greets reporters she knows and tells the crowd that she has just stopped eating caffeine and sugar and smoking and is going through withdrawal", Daily Oklahoman, Jan. 31, '92 |
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| • | quit - "her eyes light up when she talks about her family's quiet life on their Aspen, Colo., ranch. 'We've all been getting healthy', she says. 'We've been fasting. We quit smoking, we quit coffee and we quit sugar. Our family is off dairy products, everything. And the kids are like, 'Oh God, please give us a Coke.'", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 31, '92 |
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| • | "Biting her nails, the 34-year-old actress explains it's hard to focus because she and husband Don Johnson are trying to give up smoking. Again. This time, they're also nixing sugar and caffeine", USA Today, Feb. 3, '92 |
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| • | "She pauses, shaking her head mournfully and pulling out yet another of the cigarettes that she has tried to give up a zillion times without success", Toronto Star, Aug. 9, '92 |
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| • | "she's still smoking (she swears she'll quit on her 37th birthday Tuesday)", USA Today, Aug. 8, '94 |
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| • | "It turns out Griffith has a few addictions left: cigarettes, Johnson and Twizzlers -- those floppy red licorice candies ... 'All I've ever wanted to be was an actress', she says, settling into a Navajo-print chair, a pack of cigarettes and a coffee cup in front of her", Calgary Herald, Aug. 14, '94 |
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| • | "'I smoke, which is not so great these days,' says Griffith, puffing on the first of a chain of menthol Benson & Hedges ... How about those cigarettes, which she vowed to stop smoking on her lastbirthday? 'It's so hard to quit. It's my last vice'", USA Today, Jan. 25, '95 |
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| • | "Paul Newman, known for his on-set mischief, gave Melanie more than advice. 'Because I smoke, he gave me this beautiful ashtray. Very art deco. A statue of a naked lady', she said", USA Today, Jan. 25, '95 |
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| • | "The pregnant Ms. Griffith is holding a cigarette in her hand", Seattle Times, Feb. 2, '96 |
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| • | "Those outraged by Miami photos of a pregnant Griffith smoking a cigarette will be relieved that she doesn't 'feel any desire to drink or do coke. Especially coke'", USA Today, Feb. 20, '96 |
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| • | "The book most frequently consulted on Melanie Griffith's coffee table these days is a collection of literary love letters. 'My very dreams are yours,' she reads breathily, quoting Elizabeth Barrett Browning. And on a side table, there's a photo of Banderas exhaling cigarette smoke and Griffith sucking it in; on the back he's written, 'Like the smoke in the picture, I would like to give you my soul'", InStyle Magazine, Mar. '96 |
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| • | "she can't quit cigarettes... the actress even smoked while carrying Banderas' baby, although she cut down toward the end of the pregnancy because tobacco made her feel sick", National Enquirer, Oct. 29, '96 |
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| • | "Antonio Banderas has kicked his wife Melanie Griffiths out of their bed - but things are not quite as bad as they seem. The Latin heart throb may be an occasional smoker himself but he never smokes in the bedroom and can't stand waking up to the smell of stale tobacco smoke. The problem is that Melanie can't kick her chain smoking and lights up when she gets up for the baby at night and first thing in the morning. Melanie has pleaded for a return to the marital bed, claiming she has tried everything including gum, the patch and good old-fashioned cold turkey to no avail", Sunday Telegraph (Australia), Jan. 19, '97 |
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| • | "Grinding her cigarette into an ashtray", "through a haze of cigarette smoke", The Mirror (UK) (supplement), May 8, '98 |
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| • | "WAITING TO INHALE: Melanie Griffith is another addicted celebrity who may be encouraging teenage girls to light up low-tar cigarettes" w/pic, Sunday Times (South Africa), Dec. 6, '98
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| • | "If I could just stop smoking Benson & Hedges 100's everything would be perfect", Good Housekeeping, Aug? '98 |
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| • | "'Yes, I do smoke!' she announces loudly to the tape recorder, for all to hear. 'And I like it! Hell yes! And I go into the bathroom on airplanes and I smoke there!'", W Magazine, Jan. '99, p. 102 |
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| • | "That's OK, Griffith insists between drags on a cigarette -- one habit she hasn't been able to kick", San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 17, '99 |
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| • | "Lounging in the lobby of a midtown hotel and pulling on an extra- long cigarette", New York Daily News, Jan. 25, '99 |
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| • | "The rest of her free time is spent on body beautiful, catalog shopping and smoking. As for cigarettes, 'I'd love to quit, but I love to smoke'", Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 31, '99 |
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| • | "smoked despite her pregnancy", Berliner Kurier (Germany), Mar. 3, '99
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| • | "She curls up on the couch like a luxuriating cat, lights a cigarette with a vengeance", New York Times, Mar. 30, '99 |
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| • | "first lights a cigarette. 'Yes, I smoke...So what? To hell with it. I even smoke in the toilet on the plane'", Der Spiegel (Germany), Apr. 1, '99
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| • | "Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith are apparently not averse to lighting up in front of daughter Stella. Both dig out the smokes as they leave The Regency on Park Avenue", New York Post, Oct. 4, '99 |
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| • | "Melanie Griffith: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Miller: 'Go right ahead. Is that a habit you'd like to break?' Melanie: 'Smoking? I like smoking!' Melanie does her trademark giggle. 'I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?'", Star Interviews, Oct. 11, '99 |
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| • | "Melanie and husband Antonio Banderas both smoke cigarettes", USA Today, Oct. 18, '99 |
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| • | cigar - "Tracy Griffith can be seen in the upcoming TriStar feature, 'Crazy in Alabama', directed by her cigar-smoking brother-in-law Antonio Banderas and starring her sometimes cigar smoking sister Melanie Griffith", Jonathan Scott's Cigar Smoker Magazine, Fall '99, p. 80 |
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| • | "Griffith walks in, a Benson & Hedges Light in her hand", InStyle Magazine, Nov. 1, '99 |
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| • | "She drags on a long, thin menthol ... Griffith's eyes flash as she takes her cigarette from her mouth dramatically", Baltimore Sun, Nov. 22, '99 |
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| • | "Melanie Griffith smoked", USA Today, Jan. 25, '00 |
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| • | "She doesn't eat a lot of red meat and 'buys foods with the least amount of chemicals in them,' she says, smoking a cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Aug. 2, '00 |
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| • | "drawing on her cigarette", Mail on Sunday (UK), Aug. 6, '00 |
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| • | "Griffith then unleashes her own inner goddess, pulling out a port-able fan and lighting a cigarette, which seems more than a little politically incorrect (not to mention illegal) under the circumstances. 'I guess it's a bit of a contradiction,' she says and giggles", Los Angeles Times, Aug. 6, '00 |
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| • | "she runs downstairs to ask her publicist to track down a copy, then comes back, smoke still billowing through her movie star nose", Paper Magazine, Sep. '00
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| • | "On the set of her most recent film, [Crazy in Alabama (1999)] film producer Debra Hill urged star Melanie Griffith, a smoker in real life, that her character didn't need to use cigarettes. 'I think you can make a sexy character in other ways,' Hill said. 'Once I got Melanie to see her character doesn't smoke, she found other things to do.'", UCLA Daily Bruin, Oct. 19, '00
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| • | "Troubled star Melanie Griffith may have won her prescription drugs battle but she can't beat her nicotine cravings. Fresh out of rehab the actress - married to screen hunk Antonio Banderas - was caught lighting up", The Mirror (UK), Dec. 8, '00 |
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| • | "She attributes those healthy bones to a doctor who urged her to increase her daily calcium intake and to her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, who, as a little girl, persuaded her mother to stop smoking. 'That little postage-stamp face was so darling,' Hedren recalls. 'She said, 'I'll help you quit, Mommy.' There was no way I could look at that face and say, 'I want to smoke, never mind.' So I quit, cold turkey.' Now, though, it's Hedren who's trying to get her daughter to kick the habit. 'Of course, we all try,' Hedren says with a sigh. 'Her kids try. She stops every now and then. I wish she would'", Birmingham (AL) News, Apr. 29, '01 |
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| • | "I have seen your [Tippi Hedren's] daughter smoking when she was filming a movie here", bankrate.com, May 11, '01
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| • | "Griffith is determined to quit smoking - because she's watching her father die of the smoking-related disease emphysema. She admitted that she considers her addiction to tobacco to be even harder to kick than her addiction to Vicodin which she overcame thanks to a stint in rehab earlier this year. But seeing her father literally lose his life in front of her eyes has made her determined to do her absolute best to stop smoking. Melanie admits stopping smoking is going to be a real challenge. She admits, 'I think it's probably the hardest. But I think after go in and see my father, I am going to quit'", World Entertainment News Network, May 14, '01 |
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| • | "Griffith, whose father is dying of lung disease, has vowed to quit smoking. In an online interview yesterday the 43-year-old actress said: 'My father is dying. He has emphysema. So I am going to quit smoking'", Mirror (UK), May 16, '01 |
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| • | "Lipton began asking her questions about her recent stay in Hazeldon for drug abuse. She got nervous and asked him if she could smoke. He said okay and she pulled out an all-white 100 of some kind and lit up on stage. Exhaled once, and held for a minute, then put it down either in ashtray or put it out, couldn't see it again", Inside the Actor's Studio, Jul. 15, '01 |
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| • | "We are going to quit smoking this year.", Entertainment Tonight, Dec. 31, '01 |
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| • | "Melanie and Antonio, puffing American Spirit cigarettes and wearing his-and-hers 'Mami' and 'Papi' bead bracelets made by their six-year-old daughter, Stella, welcomed their guests", Daily Telegraph (UK), Jun. 6, '02 |
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| • | "these days, her only vice is cigarettes, and Griffith admits that sometimes it takes a few of those to get over the rough spots", Calgary Herald, Jul. 20, '02 |
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| • | "Griffith, who has been to several dry-out clinics in her life, is now clean and sober, sipping only coffee and smoking a plethora of (nicotine) cigarettes during the interview. 'I told my son I would smoke pot with him if he wants to'", New York Post, Sep. 20, '02 |
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| • | "puffing distractedly on a cigarette" w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Sep. 25, '02 |
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| • | "'I wanna go some place where I can smoke'. ... When it's her turn to order, she decides to have a cigarette and an iced coffee.", More Magazine, Oct. '02 |
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| • | "Griffith was spotted standing on a street in LA, cigarette in hand, screeching into her mobile phone because her husband was late for a meeting", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 14, '03 |
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| • | "Melanie Griffith looking sad and smoking outside the Trump Plaza in New York", The Mirror (3AM gossip column) (UK), Jul. 25, '03 |
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| • | "Griffith smoking cigarettes at the bar of the Time Hotel in New York", US Weekly, Jul. 28, '03 |
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| • | "After getting no satisfaction from backstage maintenance people who couldn't pry up the painted-shut windows, Griffith went to the top. She told the show's producers that she really needed 'fresh air,' the source claims. Anxious to please Griffith, a marquis name who's been drawing big crowds even after the movie has come and gone, the bosses dispatched a crew that got the star that 'fresh air' she craved. Which she promptly began to pollute. As soon as the windows were popped, Griffith sat on the sill and lit up a cigarette", New York Daily News, Aug. 3, '03
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| • | "Melanie Griffith smoking a cigarette outside the Trump Plaza hotel early in the morning looking far worse in the flesh than I ever imagined", Gawker.com, Aug. 6, '03
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| • | "is moaning that her dressing-room window won't open. The theatre management promptly arranges for a specialist to take care of the window and the oxygenation of the diva...But what does the long-term companion of Antonio Banderas do when her window is finally open? It isn't air she is gasping for, but for a cigarette and she leans back in her armchair, smoking with relish", Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), Aug. 7, '03
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| • | "'It's tough, it's tough' says Griffith, sipping a frothy coffee drink and inhaling deeply on a cigarette", Associated Press, Sep. 10, '03 |
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| • | "Ms. G. was tailing the ass--she was thisfriggin'close--of some equally zippy, pretentious foreign job. She did it while smoking a cig, applying lip gloss and gunning the gas all at once, too.", Ted Casablanca's The Awful Truth gossip column (E! Online), Feb. 5, '04
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| • | "'Every five minutes, Melanie would yank another cigarette from her purse, smoke a few drags and then stare out at the horizon,' says a source. 'She finally put out her last cigarette and sped off...'", Globe, Jul. 12, '04 |
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| • | "Sucking on cigarettes has clearly helped cause the lines around her mouth, and even face-freezing Botox and lip-plumping collagen injections cannot completely hide them", Sunday Mirror (UK), Aug. 1, '04 |
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| • | "Sounds like a bit of a smokin' sitch, really, as I must report Ms. G. was also rumored to be puffin' on a fag in the restroom. Cussin'? Smokin'?", E! Online (Ted Casablanca's The Awful Truth gossip column), Aug. 19, '04
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| • | "Robin Williams turned the smoking area outside the green room (at the Oscars) into a comedy club. He grabbed Melanie Griffith's cane (she has a broken foot) and proclaimed it a peace pipe", Associated Press, Feb. 28, '05 |
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| • | "the over-the-hill actress who plays an over-the-hill lingerie model on her new WB Network sitcom 'Twins' enraged staffers at a photo shoot to promote the show last week when she wouldn't stop smoking. When her wardrobe minions advised Griffith that her incessant puffing was ruining the pricey outfits she was posing in, the 'Working Girl' star snapped, 'I'm a [bleep]ing movie star, you're going to ruin my day over this!' 'Twins' producers quietly took her aside afterwards and asked her to stop smoking at work. She responded by saying that 'everyone knows I smoke,' and claimed she'd been assured she would be allowed to light up wherever and whenever she wanted when she signed on to do the show. 'You'd think she knows better by now,' a snitch told The Post's Don Kaplan. 'California is a no-smoking state' ", New York Post, Jul. 28, '05 |
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| • | "Melanie Griffith got in a huff on the set of her new WB sitcom 'Twins' after staffers scolding her for incessantly puffing cigarettes. The addled actress reportedly griped, 'Everyone knows I smoke ... I'm a [bleep]ing movie star, you're going to ruin my day over this!'", Salon.com (The Fix gossip column), Jul. 28, '05
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| • | "she took a break from being pampered and stepped out in the LA sunshine to take a call. ... Post-it note and fag in one hand, mobile in the other", Sunday Mirror (UK), Jul. 31, '05 |
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| • | "The big fuss is that Melanie cant seem to put out a cigarette long enough to get any real work done. The actress pissed off crewmembers and costumers at a recent photo shoot when she lit up while standing in a series of extremely expensive gowns. According to Page Six, when people started asking her to quit smoking, Griffith roared: 'Im a fucking movie star, youre going to ruin my day over this.' Supposedly, Griffith alleged that when she took the job on Twins, she was told by network execs she could smoke 'anytime, anywhere.' Now, apparently, crew members are reminding producers that California is a no smoking state and demanding something be done about Puff, the magic diva", Gmax (South Africa), Aug. 4, '05
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| • | "caused controversy when she was photographed lighting the cigarette for her 17-year-old daughter in Los Angeles even though the legal age for smoking is 18. According to contactmusic.com, the mother and daughter were spotted outside a boutique in Beverly Hills taking a smoking break. Griffith herself had a cigarette hanging out of her mouth and was using a lighter to help her daughter spark her own cigarette", Daily India, Aug. 4, '06
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| • | "has sparked outrage after being photographed lighting her 17-year-old daughter Dakota's cigarette in Los Angeles, as the legal age for smoking in the US is 18. The pair were spotted outside trendy Beverly Hills boutique Maxfield Wednesday (02Aug06) taking a smoke break. Griffith was seen with a lit cigarette hanging out of her mouth, and was using a lighter to help her daughter spark up her own cigarette", PR Inside (Austria), Aug. 4, '06
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| • | "has sparked outrage after being photographed lighting her 17-year-old daughter Dakota's cigarette in Los Angeles, as the legal age for smoking in the US is 18. The pair were spotted outside trendy Beverly Hills boutique Maxfield Wednesday (02Aug06) taking a smoke break. Griffith was seen with a lit cigarette hanging out of her mouth, and was using a lighter to help her daughter spark up her own cigarette", Contactmusic, Aug. 4, '06
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| • | "gives her daughter Dakota a light...'Mum, do you have a fag?' OK, so to be honest, the fact that mothers do almost everything for their children is well known. But the warmth of a family upbringing should really stop when it comes to sharing cigarettes, shouldn't it? We see Melanie Griffith (48) jointly nicotining herself with daughter Dakota (just 17!!!)", w/pics, Bild_Zeitung (Germany), Aug. 4, '06
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| • | "has caused a kerfluffle after being photographed actually lighting her 17-year-old daughter Dakota's cigarette in Los Angeles, where the legal age for smoking is 18... Spotted outside the Beverly Hills boutique Maxfield on Wednesday, mère et fille taking a fag break, puffing away. Griffith was seen with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth, and was using a lighter to help her daughter light up", Monsters and Critics (UK), Aug. 5, '06
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| • | "Melanie shows kid how cool smoking is... Mother of the Year Melanie Griffith fueled more than her 17-year-old daughter Dakota Johnson's nicotine addiction when the paparazzi photographed her lighting her child's cigarette while they were out shopping the other day", Boston Herald, Aug. 8, '06
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| • | "Melanie Griffith, whose burning concern was finding a place to have a cigarette, showed off her 'Antonio' arm tattoo in a sleeveless cream Versace concoction", Fashion Wire, Oct. 26, '08
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| • | "went shopping in Beverly Hills the other day, and she stepped out of her Bentley with a lit ciggie in her mouth. So classy!", w/multiple pics and link to gallery, X17 online, Feb. 14, '09
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| • | "Pellegrino and cigarettes is what was on the menu for taut-faced, blond vixens Sharon Stone and Melanie Griffith over lunch at Joan's on Third", Celebuzz, Feb. 26, '09
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| • | "Melanie Griffith finishes her cigarette", Zimbio, Mar. 14, '09
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| • | "We snapped Melanie Griffith and her 12-year-old daughter Stella at the airport (first at LAX and then at Charles de Gaulle in Paris) and the aging actress puffed on a cancer stick right in front of her little girl", X17online.com, Mar. 31, '09
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| • | "Stacked SALMA HAYEK blew her stack when dinner companion MELANIE GRIFFITH fired up a cigarette on the patio of trendy West Hollywood eatery Cecconi's and puffed in the presence of Salma's 18-month-old baby girl. Instantly, Salma insisted that she smoke outside or douse her coffin nail pronto! Melanie snapped that Salma needed to lighten up her parenting technique, and insisted the fumes wouldn't waft anywhere near her tyke's tiny nose", National Enquirer, Apr. 9, '09
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| • | "Melanie Griffith sucks on a cigarette during a day out with her daughter Stella in Los Angeles. The actress has been trying and failing to quit smoking for more than two decades", World Entertainment News Network, Jun. 10, '09
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| • | "On the set of her most recent film, 'Crazy in Alabama,' [Debra] Hill urged star Melanie Griffith, a smoker in real life, that her character didn't need to use cigarettes.", UCLA Daily Bruin, when?
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