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| • | "As she pulls out a cigaret and begins to smoke, she says: 'I'm trying to quit. I'm reading the American Cancer Society's book on smoking. It's more addictive than anything else. There are no purposes, no benefits [to smoking]. It's the worst addiction because it's hard to break. I'm not ashamed, but I am trying to quit. Plus, my mother hates smoking.'", Ebony, Dec. '93
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| • | "I also like to bring weird stuff like Spanish and algebra books, just to brush up, and motivational, self-improvement books. I have a couple on quitting smoking. I'm trying to make that happen", InStyle Magazine, Feb. '03 |
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| • | "cigarette in mouth", Gala (Germany), Jul. '03 |
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| • | "While looking for them (Olsen twins), I run right into Queen Latifah, who's smoking a cigarette in a dark corner and contemplating the true meaning of hip-hop with a friend.", City Link Magazine, Aug. 28, '04
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| • | quit - "was so moved playing a terminally ill woman in her upcoming movie LAST HOLIDAY, she decided to give up smoking.", Contactmusic, Feb. 18, '05
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| • | quit - "Queen Latifah has attributed an episode of Oprah Winfrey's talk show with helping her to finally quit smoking.", website, Sep. 6, '06
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| • | quit - "has publicly thanked Oprah Winfrey for helping her to quit smoking. The Chicago star, a self-confessed 'avid watcher' of Winfrey's daily talk show, was so distressed when guest Dr Mehmet Oz showed the damage caused to smokers' organs at the beginning of 2004, she promised herself she'd get serious about quitting....'He brought all these organs and I was struggling to quit smoking around this time, really mentally struggling with it, physically struggling with it. 'I was up to, like, a pack-and-a-half a day, sometimes two packs a day... I hope to never smoke again. I like myself as a non-smoker. That episode of Oprah may have, quite possibly, saved my life.' The rapper/movie star checked into anti-smoking hiking bootcamp facility, called The Ashram, and spent three weeks fighting her habit with healthy country walks", Contactmusic (UK), Sep. 6, '06
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| • | quit - "has credited Oz and Oprah for inspiring her to quit smoking", North Jersey Record, Oct. 28, '07
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| • | quit - "I had just quit smoking", San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 10, '08
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| • | quit - "'I quit smoking when I did this movie 'The Last Holiday' (released in 2006). We shot it in New Orleans pre-Katrina, you dig? I quit smoking like a month before I went down there and started working out. I stopped drinking to help with not smoking,' she said. 'I don't know who else was in New Orleans not drinking and smoking other than me. I was like, 'If I don't quit now I'm going to hurt myself in this town, and I like to hurt myself in New Orleans.'", wesite, Oct. 16, '08
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