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| • | quit - "her character Barbara is an avid smoker, but Johnston gave up years ago - having a cigarette in her fingers, she says, is like torture. `It's like being a reformed alcoholic - you never know when you're going to have a relapse. We tried those herbal things, but they smelled totally revolting, so now I 'smoke' the mildest of mild Silk Cuts, and I delay touching the things until the very last minute. Then someone lights one up for me, puts it in my fingers, and I get on with it. Only another reformed smoker will know what I'm on about.' But, Johnston is quick to point out that none of the cast is allowed to smoke anywhere near the newest additions to the family - the little lads who play Baby David. `They are never on the set when the smoking goes on, I promise you'", The Stage (UK), Dec. 21, '00 |
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| • | quit - "As TV's Barbara Royle [from "Royle Family, The" (1998)], Sue Johnston spends most of her time shrouded in a haze of smoke with a cigarette hanging from her lips. Barbara looks as if she was born with a B&H in her mouth, yet in real life, Sue is fervently anti-smoking. 'My father died of lung cancer caused by smoking,' she says solemnly. 'Nobody wants to die like that - it's terrible and as I'm a great believer in genetics, it would be really stupid of me to smoke.' She tried smoking herbal cigarettes for the show but her co-stars complained of the smell and, worse still, they made Sue feel sick. 'I swapped to those very low-tar cigarettes which is dangerous because I started to enjoy the odd puff. I have to be careful because I did smoke years ago. I gave up when I had my son Joel at 35 but I'm aware of the saying 'Once a smoker, always a smoker.''", Woman (UK), Apr. 23, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Pet [TV persona] hate: having to smoke - she gave up years ago", Best magazine (UK), Jul. 3, '01 |
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| • | quit - "I used to smoke, but I gave up when I had Joel. I succumbed again ten years ago when I lost my friend and her son in very tragic circumstances. I reached for the cigarettes because otherwise I might have reached for the bottle and I didn't want that. It didn't last long. I couldn't smoke after seeing what happened to dad. On ["Royle Family, The" (1998)], I smoke herbal cigarettes because if I used real ones I might start to enjoy the odd puff. Herbal fags are awful, they stink and sometimes I can't even bring myself to light them", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 16, '01
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| • | quit - "In her role as the harassed wife of grubby Jim Royle, the actress endlessly smokes cigarettes - making sure the family ashtray is always full to the brim. But Johnston herself is a reformed smoker who gave up when she was in her 30s", Scottish Daily Record, Jan. 15, '05
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