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| • | "She pauses and lights a cigarette ... 'I believe in the music and I think it will be heard,' she says, lighting another in a parade of cigarettes ... She pauses to light another cigarette", Los Angeles Times, Apr. 10, '94 |
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| • | "Courtney Love almost set herself on fire the other day by nodding out - errrr, nodding off - with a cigarette. This was in L.A., where she was taping a new video", Montreal Gazette, Sep. 3, '94 |
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| • | "Courtney Love came on stage at the Trocadero Monday night in a thin whitedress, with a cigarette between her bright red lips", Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep. 28, '94 |
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| • | "A cigarette dangled from her lips for much of the evening", Buffalo News, Oct. 12, '94 |
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| • | "Courtney Love and friend Amanda de Cadanet, each wearing slinky white satin dresses, were heel-squatting, peasant-style, as they smoked cigarettes", Los Angeles Times, Mar. 29, '95 |
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| • | "Squatting on the posh West Hollywood restaurant's terracotta floor and chain-smoking cigarettes", People Magazine, Apr. 24, '95 |
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| • | "Bad-girl rocker Courtney Love couldn't have been louder -- or badder -- at RFK Stadium Saturday for the HFS-tival. She fell out of the van (while simultaneously trying to bum a cigarette)", Washington Post, Jun. 6, '95 |
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| • | "Holding a stuffed Barney dinosaur in one hand and a Dunhill cigarette in the other... putting out her cigarette... lights another Camel... smoke devishly lurking about her face", Vanity Fair, Jun. '95
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| • | "She lights a second cigarette before the first is even out, spills ash all over the bedding and herself, and only stops smokingonce to eat a banana sideways ... she lies back on her pillow, closes her eyes, takes a drag on her cigarette and talks quietly ... She gets back in to bed, lights another cigarette, swigs some mineral water and looks deadly serious", Seattle Times, Jul. 15, '95 |
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| • | "a conspicuous smoker of cigarettes while pregnant", Evening Standard (UK), Aug. 10, '95 |
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| • | "'Anyone seen the ashtray?' Love asks, lighting another in her endless chain of American Spirit cigarettes", Los Angeles Times, Aug. 13, '95 |
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| • | "she chain-smokes throughout, even during the photo session ... (pictures of her pregnant and naked with a lit cigarette in her mouth are eventually airbrushed out of the finished article by nervous editors)", Raw, Aug. 15, '95
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| • | smoked during a Hole performance, MTV Unplugged, '95 |
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| • | "Chainsmoking, punctuating points with a wave of her cigarette, she put on a bravura performance that was bewitching and outrageous.", Playboy, Feb. '96 |
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| • | "Full of apologies when she arrives 40 minutes late for her interview, she launches into a three-hour monologue, stopping only long enough to light fresh Marlboro Lite 100s, dropping the old butts to the ground and grinding them into ash with her shiny Dolce & Gabbanas", Los Angeles Times, Dec. 15, '96 |
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| • | "'I want everybody to yell, 'Fuck you!'' she demanded , her knobby fingers wrapped around a cigarette ... Courtney stood backstage smoking and laughing ... Courtney whined, between cigarettes, about not wanting to play this year's tour ... she stood in the wings smoking and munching corn chips and candy ... Courtney glared for a second and then reportedly flicked a cigarette at Kathleen and followed it with her fist ... She was livid after the show, pacing the halls, carrying Frances and chain-smoking ... She was too young to get inside the first year it was open, so she waited on the sidewalk smoking cigarettes until the sweaty masses flooded out during breaks ... His potential didn't go unnoticed by Courtney, who'd watched it from the DJ stand at the front, cross-armed and smoking ... Back at the hotel, Courtney sat on the peach couch, chain-smoking, perching her lit cigarettes on the cushions; like a servant, I relocated them to ashtrays ... Courtney pranced around in various states of undress, burning holes in the carpet as she tossed lit cigarettes on it ... Ms. Love sprawled out on the terra-cotta floor, chain-smoking... she chatted away on the floor, pulling broken cigarette after broken cigarette out of her rhinestone clutch and tossing them around her in the search for an untorn smoke ... she extinguished her cigarette in the bathwater", "Courtney Love: The Queen of Noise" by Melissa Rossi, '96 |
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| • | "proceeds to launch into a three-hour monologue, stopping only long enough to light fresh Marlboro Light 100s, dropping the old butts on the ground and grinding them into ash with her shiny Dolce & Gabbanas...waves her cigarette in the air", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 1, '97
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| • | "Love arrived before Norton and, though she was supposed to sit at his table, jumped to Oliver Stone's, then ended up spending much of the night chain-smoking outside with actress Lili Taylor", New York Daily News, Feb. 26, '97 |
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| • | "'Are you going to die if I smoke?' she asks, a bit shakily", "She lights a Marlboro", Sky, Mar. '97 |
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| • | smokes throughout interview, 20/20 Barbara Walters Special, Mar. 24, '97 |
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| • | "'This is my first fashion show', she said, puffing on a cigarette", Palm Beach (FL) Post, Apr. 9, '97 |
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| • | "taking a drag on a cigarette", Harper's Bazaar, Sep. '97
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| • | "Courtney started chain-smoking, a habit that remains with her today.", "Courtney Love: The Real Story" by Poppy Z Brite, '97, p. 15 |
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| • | "she wears a black vintage dress and chain-smokes, but refuses our joint ('I can't smoke pot', she says)", "Courtney Love: The Real Story" by Poppy Z. Brite, '97, p. 15 |
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| • | "I went across the road for cigarettes and had all this blood and fluid running down my legs", "Courtney Love: The Real Story" by Poppy Z. Brite, '97, p. 56 |
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| • | "the infamous Vanity Fair photograph showed Courtney heavily pregnant, the first two fingers of her left hand half-curled in a characteristic smoker's gesture. She had, in fact, been smoking a cigarette during the photo shoot", "Courtney Love: The Real Story" by Poppy Z. Brite, '97, p. 139 |
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| • | "smokes in real life", Bizarre, Mar./Apr. '98 |
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| • | "Johnny Depp, Courtney Love, Sean Penn, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, David Lynch, Robin Wright and Liv Tyler have all been spotted with the distinctive sky-blue packet of Natural American Spirit Cigarettes", The Independent (UK), Mar. 22, '98 |
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| • | "Puffing away on a cigarette on the East Village set of 200 Cigarettes", Premiere Magazine, Aug. '98 |
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| • | "Love lights another cigarette, then curls up on the sofa. Despite the fag, I'm struck by the healthiness she exudes", The Observer (UK), Nov. 15, '98 |
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| • | "Looking like a Rockette reject with rocks in her head, Love came out for the three-song encore wearing a sequin leotard. Smoking a cigarette, Love herself even joked that she looked like Madonna", Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette, Dec. 9, '98 |
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| • | "puffing away on a cigarette and wearing a velvet halter", People Magazine, Dec. 21, '98 |
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| • | "Within moments of her arrival she has someone fetching an ashtray while someone else finds her a Diet Coke...settles into a chair, positions herself cross-legged on it as she lights a Dunhill cigarette", where?, '98
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| • | "Love has got to give up the demon weed under the terms of a contract with her daughter Frances Bean, aged six. 'My daughter has just finished Green Eggs and Ham, which is the time I have to quit,' says the actress whose new film is, ironically, called 200 Cigarettes. Love agreed that when Frances Bean could read the Dr Seuss book for herself, she would kick the habit. 'I've got to give up now or she's going to be, like, Grown-ups suck and they all lie'", The Express (UK), Feb. 15, '99 |
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| • | was smoking Merit Ultra Light 100's at a music event, netizen sighting, Feb. '99 |
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| • | "a tired, and smoking Courtney Love stepped into a room...Even though she probably smoked 200 cigarettes throughout the interview, Love expressed her distaste and views on cigarettes. 'I said I'd quit when my daughter learned to read 'Green Eggs and Ham'. She did last week,' Love said, taking another nicotine hit. 'It's an incredibly addictive substance and if they get you before you are 18, you're doomed' ", Daily Trojan, Mar. 3, '99
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| • | "No more cancer sticks for Courtney Love, thanks to her wise 6-year-old daughter. 'I've got to stop.'", Spokesman Review, Mar. 8, '99 |
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| • | "inhaling lustily on a cigarette", website, May '99
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| • | "You have a responsibility with fans looking up to you, so I've given up swearing and smoking.", TV Quick, Jun. 26-Jul. 2, '99 |
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| • | "Love requested that 18 ashtrays be scattered throughout the room", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jul. 1, '99 |
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| • | "lighting the first of 6000 ciggies.", Select, Sep. '99 |
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| • | smoked during Interview, Arte (German TV), Oct. 8, '99 |
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| • | "Do you actually do anything to keep fit? Yoga and smoking (she laughs and drags on her cigarette)", Focus magazine (Germany), Nov. '99
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| • | "inhaling deeply on a cigarette", E! (Online), Jan. '00
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| • | "She was the only one that smoked in the main room [at the Golden Globes]", Bunte Magazine (Germany), Feb. '00 |
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| • | "Poor Courtney Love had a hard time of it at her party across town, ... she saved her best act of screwiness till last, offering pregnant Annette Bening a stiff drink and a cigarette", New Weekly, Feb. '00
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| • | showed her smoking several times, inhaled and exhaled very nicely, Howard Stern TV Show, Jun. 3, '00 |
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| • | "she lights up a cigarette in a strictly smoke-free Los Angeles hotel, ignoring a few polite suggestions that perhaps she should not", New Weekly, '00
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| • | "Love took a drag on her cigarette, blew smoke the way of the guy who asked, then turned on her heel", New York Daily News, Jan. 28, '01
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| • | "Love wanted an electric juicer, fresh fennel bulbs, dandelion greens and Chinese herb teas. But lest you think Love made a complete break from her old ways, she also asked for cigarettes", Baltimore Sun, Jun. 6, '01 |
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| • | "Jim Carrey once accepted his gold popcorn statuette wearing shoulder-length hair, a shaggy beard and granny glasses, a heavy-metal disguise so well fabricated that Courtney Love had no idea who he was when Carrey bummed a cigarette from her backstage", Los Angeles Times, Jun. 7, '01 |
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| • | "except for the fact that she lit up a cigarette, she was a positive role model", Ventura County (Calif.) Star, Oct. 30, '01 |
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| • | "Among the fans of Natural American Spirit cigarettes are actors Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Michelle Phillips, Liv Tyler and Courtney Love", Albuquerque Journal, Dec. 10, '01 |
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| • | "Love, erm, loves her cigarettes: 'when she isn't talking, she's busy smoking like a forest fire' ", The Olympian, Dec. 14, '01
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| • | "replete with cigarette in hand in the non-smoking building", website, Mar. 19, '02
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| • | "Armed with a pack of cigarettes, a soda and a notebook full of facts and figures", Houston Chronicle, Mar. 19, '02 |
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| • | "Her hair is short and tufty and sticking out in all directions. It's a disaster. Love smiles a sad, self-conscious smile and covers up again. Lighting a cigarette, she asks, 'Why are we doing this story?' ... with a cigarette in one hand, a glass of white wine in the other. ... More than once, she sneaks behind the theater's heavy velvet drapes for a nicotine fix, watching the Cameron Crowe film through a crack in the curtain, sending plumes of smoke over the audience. (She smokes a lot, sometimes using the end of one cigarette to light another.) 'I only smoke in here and in my bedroom, so that's kind of good'. ... Love takes a drag off her cigarette and exhales wearily. ... Love taps on the limousine's glass divider, which is marked with a big 'no smoking' sticker, and asks the driver for a match. The limo is strewn with a duffel bag, books, a carton of cigarettes, and her guitar. ... She smiles back at the stares, lights a cigarette", Entertainment Weekly, Mar. 29, '02 |
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| • | "Love smokes a lot, sometimes using the end of one cigarette to light another. During last evening's premiere of Vanilla Sky she would slip behind the theater's heavy velvet drapes for a nicotine fix, watching the film through a crack in the curtain, sending plumes of smoke over the audience.", The Face, Apr. '02
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| • | "Courtney Love spontaneously called Atlanta rock radio station 99X on Friday morning, asking to come by and gab about an erroneous report the station had mentioned a week ago about her former band, Hole. then, on her way over, Love wanted to work on a song she started a week ago. So she recorded for several hours in a 99X production studio, sucking on cigarettes, ignoring the no-smoking policy. (The station bent the rules for the flaky rocker)", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jun. 8, '02 |
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| • | "That's when Courtney walked in. She was pissed that the film festival organizers wouldn't let her smoke a cigarette in the lobby, so she came into the bathroom to smoke", Film Threat, Jun. 17, '02
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| • | "ranted and smoked", Popmatters.com, Sep. 20, '02
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| • | "Love chain-smoked throughout her '24 Hours of Love' special on MTV2 this year", US Weekly, Dec. 23, '02 |
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| • | smoked during interview, Conversations From the Edge With Carrie Fisher (Oxygen Network), '02 |
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| • | "I gave her a massage in a hotel room in Maui. During the massage she smoked at least 5 unfiltered Gitanes", netizen, Jan. '03 |
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| • | "Love - whose hits include Doll Parts and Celebrity Skin - wore a transparent black jewelled dress as she prowled the stage in her usual style, smoking and kicking off her ballet pumps", Press Association (UK), Feb. 5, '03 |
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| • | "Love is due to perform at a fund-raiser that Elton John is putting on for the Old Vic Theater. 'I'm singing 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me,'' Love told us before getting on the plane. 'I have to be a total grown-up girl. John Galliano made me a dress. I have to be composed - no smoking, drinking or cussing'", New York Daily News, Feb. 5, '03 |
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| • | "prowled the stage in her usual style, smoking and kicking off her ballet pumps", Ananova, Feb. 5, '03 |
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| • | "Clutching a cigarette between her lips, the 38-year-old American rock star stumbled around the Old Vic stage discarding her clothes while singing a duet with Sir Elton John", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 6, '03 |
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| • | "She then ignored the smoking ban in the building by lighting up on stage and then stubbing it out on the floorboards", The Sun (UK), Feb. 6, '03 |
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| • | "Courtney Love performed an impromptu striptease in front of Prince Andrew and a stunned theatre audience at a formal fundraiser last night. Clutching a cigarette between her lips, the 38-year-old American rock star stumbled around the Old Vic stage discarding her clothes", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 6, '03 |
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| • | "ignored the buildings no smoking rule as she lit a cigarette", Kerrang.com, Feb. 6, '03
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| • | "Continuing her lack of respect while visiting London, Courtney Love stunned the audience at the historic (and non-smoking) Old Vic Theatre by lighting up on stage - and then proceeded to stub out the cigarette on the treasured floorboards", MX, Feb. 7, '03 |
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| • | "she actually stumbled and fell into my cash register ... she also asked for four or five different brands of cigarettes ... she was chain-smoking the whole time.", National Enquirer, Feb. 18, '03
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| • | "A greasy-looking Courtney Love swoops in for a canape or four from a petrified waitress. Some hors d'oeuvres with your cigarette, Ms. Love", Sunday Mirror (UK), Feb. 23, '03 |
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| • | "FITNESS: Moved from cardio and weights to yoga; DIET: Was on the Zone and macrobiotic diets; avoids cheese; VICES: Chain-smokes and has been known to party", InStyle Magazine, Jun. '03 |
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| • | smoked, appeared to be Marlboro Lights, a few drags, no visible exhales, mostly held, Howard Stern Radio Show (E!), Aug. 3, '03 |
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| • | holding, briefly, while getting into car, long white, E! Celebrities Uncensored 7, Aug. '03 |
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| • | several clips of her smoking, True Hollywood Story (E!), Oct. 5, '03 |
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| • | "Love adores her daughter. While nannies attend to most of Frances's daily activities, Love and her daughter share a bed most nights. 'That can be a pain in the ass because I have to go outside to smoke', Love says", People Magazine, Nov. 3, '03 |
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| • | "sometimes sitting in a bath for up to six hours a day chain-smoking", Sunday Mirror (UK), Dec. 28, '03
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| • | "Carrie Fisher grabbed Love, who was standing outside the green room. 'C'mon,' Fisher said. 'We gotta go'. New comrades-in-arms, the two women spent the next twenty minutes outside the Shrine, smoking cigarettes and chatting animatedly - Fisher and Love continued to smoke, chat and ignore the event", "The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards" by Steve Pond, '03, p. 156-157 |
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| • | smoked during interview, David Letterman Show, Mar. 17, '04 |
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| • | "lit up a cigarette - defying New York City's strict anti-smoking laws - and asked Letterman, 'Are you going to cut this because I'm smoking?'", Press Association, Mar. 18, '04
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| • | "Courtney Love was showing the strain yesterday after being arrested for allegedly injuring a fan - she appeared with a cigarette dangling from her mouth and a big bruise on her neck.", Daily Star (UK), Mar. 24, '04 |
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| • | smoked during commercial break and put out cigarette when they came back from break, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Apr. 15, '04 |
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| • | "Love jokingly told Jay Leno her daughter is a 'fascist.' Around the house, Frances Bean makes her clean up her language, use ashtrays when she smokes and she covers sexy art with pictures of cakes", Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator, Apr. 17, '04 |
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| • | "she says as she drops a cigarette butt into a bottle of Stewart's root beer", "Love stomps across the loft with a cigarette dangling from her mouth", Rolling Stone, Apr. 21, '04
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| • | "Interview: I know you're still close, but I thought you and Edward Norton were perfect for each other. Courtney: If I had quit smoking. [laughs] We won't discuss that'", Interview, Apr. '04 |
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| • | "Only two days after pleading not guilty to possessing illegal substances at a Beverly Hills court, with fag in mouth Love pulled down her skimpy black top to expose her breasts at the 2004 Music Midtown festival in Atlanta", Daily Star (UK), May 4, '04 |
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| • | "The singer arrived an hour and a half late for the proceedings, during which she chain-smoked", MTV news, May 10, '04
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| • | "Courtney Love did her best to turn a lower Manhattan courthouse into her own personal mosh pit. The breast-baring raunch rocker spawned a roiling crowd of reporters, bummed a half-smoked cigarette from a passerby and chastised a sketch artist for an unflattering portrait ... Before hopping in a limo for the ride back to her apartment a few blocks away, she talked a passerby into handing her the remains of a cigarette. 'If I'm addicted to anything, it's nicotine,' Love said", New York Daily News, May 14, '04
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| • | "I need a cigarette or I'll die!", New York Post, May 14, '04
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| • | "'This is worse than Kurt's death', she says, grinding out a cigarette and stepping out of the limousine. ... 'we were smoking, we were having coffee' ... stubbing out the last of her cigarette", Blender, May '04 |
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| • | "Flaunting a rose-colored shift dress--as conservative as Ms. Love gets--and her infamously smeared red lips, Court-babe gripped her Marlboros and stomped out to the patio for a smoke", Ted Casablanca's The Awful Truth (E! Online), Jun. 24, '04
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| • | "At the bottom of the stairs, Love stopped to bum a cigarette and a light from a hot dog vendor. 'She came up and was singing to me, one of her songs, I think,' said John Tsoukalos, the vendor who coolly lit Love's smoke without a hint of nervousness. As the lit Marlboro slipped from Love's jittery hands, she turned back and asked, 'Dude, can I have another one?'", Court TV, Jun. 28, '04
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| • | "In a Manhattan courtroom, Ms. Love appeared impatient throughout the proceedings. At one point, she took a pack of Marlboro cigarettes from her purse.A bailiff informed a disappointed Ms. Love that smoking was not allowed in the courtroom", New York Sun, Jun. 29, '04 |
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| • | "While her lawyers spoke to the judge, Love, outfitted in a revealing pink dress and stilettos, retrieved a cigarette from her purse and asked a court officer if she could smoke inside", United Press International, Jun. 29, '04 |
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| • | "Taking a box of cigarettes from her purse", Reuters (UK), Jun. 29, '04
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| • | "bummed a match for her Marlboro from a sidewalk hot-dog vendor", New York Post, Jun. 29, '04
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| • | "her request to smoke was promptly denied", Boston Herald, Jun. 30, '04
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| • | "A dazed-looking Love muttered an apology to the judge. Her lawyer later told reporters Love wasn't initially aware she had to appear in court. While not scoring any points for punctuality, Love proved quite sociable before the hearing when she offered cigarettes to two other defendants. They declined", Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Jun. 30, '04 |
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| • | "Teetering on pink stilettos, chain smoking and wearing a revealing pink dress, Courtney Love said she was pregnant yesterday - and then quickly denied it. Courtney, 39, made her mum-to-be claim outside a New York court where she was nearly arrested for arriving more than five hours late for a hearing.", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 30, '04 |
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| • | "Judge Melissa Jackson scolded Love for her carefree time-keeping and said a warrant for her arrest was minutes away from being issued 'I want to make it clear to you that you are supposed to be in court at 9.30, not three o'clock'. Controversial Love apologized to the judge while playing with a packet of cigarettes", Internet Movie Database, Jun. 30, '04 |
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| • | "Love was fighting with medical attendants as they brought her out on the stretcher, witnesses said. But Greg Benjamin, a friend who went to buy Love cigarettes and juice Friday afternoon, said he did not notice anything out of the ordinary", New York Times, Jul. 10, '04 |
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| • | "On the street outside Manhattan Criminal Court after she showed up five hours late on misdemeanor-assault charges, Love blurted out to the columnist, 'I'm pregnant.' Then she pointed to a lit cigarette in her hand an' said, 'But not to the point where I have to quit smoking!' When Peyser pressed her on whether she was indeed having a baby, Courtney taunted, 'Pesky, pesky, pesky,' then added, 'Let me put it this way - I have to quit smoking'", New York Post, Jul. 10, '04 |
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| • | "Last month, she told a reporter following a court appearance said that she was pregnant and would have to give up smoking cigarettes", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Jul. 11, '04 |
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| • | "Courtney Love roamed the streets, bumming cigarettes off strangers and claiming she was being followed, before she was taken to New York's Bellevue Hospital in handcuffs on Friday, after calling an ambulance on her 40th birthday ... Neighbour Tony Nelucci, 81, who found her wandering the street looking into parked cars said: 'She was begging for smokes'", The Mirror (UK), Jul. 12, '04
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| • | "when Kurt Cobain's widow pulled up to the downtown facility selected for her (with bag prepacked--the babe never even got a chance to go back to her Manhattan loft), C.L. was told, quelle horreur, that she couldn't smoke! And do you know what? Faster than it takes Courtney to swing a microphone stand, that woman was on the phone to get herself to a fag-friendly (Marlboro Red, to be exact) establishment pronto. Which is why Love's now in Connecticut, puffing away.", Ted Casablanca's The Awful Truth (E! Online), Jul. 22, '04
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| • | "lighting up a cigarette", Long Beach Press-Telegram, Jul. 27, '04
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| • | "lighting a cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Jul. 28, '04
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| • | "'I have to stop drinking. That's funny,' Love said outside court while lighting up a cigarette. 'I think I can do it'", Contra Costa Times (Calif.), Jul. 28, '04 |
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| • | "At the after-show party in the Hard Rock Hotel, the chain-smoking Hole frontwoman giggled with Avril Lavigne", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 17, '04
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| • | "Avril Lavigne picked up best pop/rock artist and was seen smoking with troubled rocker Courtney Love", Daily Star (UK), Sep. 17, '04
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| • | "Anna Nicole Smith, Courtney Love, and Avril Lavigne...shared a smoke, a drink and a little shimmy.", Star, Oct. 4, '04 |
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| • | "Courtney Love, dressed all in black with a young man on her arm hanging onto her every word. Disappointingly, no tantrums or microphone incidents ensued. She was just drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and acting like a normal person", Defamer.com, Oct. 19, '04
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| • | "'The guy wants me to stand in line with everybody else', she said, smoking a cigarette and surrounded by a pack of reporters", New York Times, Oct. 21, '04
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| • | "stood smoking", New York Post, Oct. 21, '04
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| • | "lighting a cigarette...lights another cigarette", San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 25, '04
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| • | "Love refrained from playing guitar during her entire set, her hands instead taking turns holding a constant stream of cigarettes, which she joked about, in reference to her recent legal sentence which bars her from drugs and alcohol, saying 'I can't drink, but I can smoke. Does anyone have a light?' ", NME (UK), Oct. 25, '04
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| • | "smoked incessantly", website, Oct. 25, '04
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| • | "The post-rehab Love is fueled by Diet Coke and cigarettes...chain-smoked", San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 26, '04
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| • | "At the Fillmore on Tuesday, the bedraggled singer would spend half the time revealing her fleshy thighs, flicking lit cigarettes into the audience, and, if she got around to it, growling whatever lyrics she actually remembered", San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 28, '04 |
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| • | "A seemingly sober Love played the Fillmore in San Francisco on Tuesday night and managed not to take off her clothes, hit anyone over the head or cause a riot. In an hour's show she still cursed quite a bit, rambled to the crowd, tripped over a monitor, took off her shoes and socks, and threw water and cigarettes (lit and unlit) at the crowd ... Fueled by a constant stream of cigarettes, Love constantly jumped up on the front monitors", Contra Costa (Calif.) Times, Oct. 28, '04
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| • | "flubbed her lyrics at times, skipped lines in favor of lighting up cigarettes, tossed smokes into the crowd", Alameda Times-Star, Oct. 28, '04
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| • | Chateau Marmont Hotel (West Hollywood), netizen sighting, Feb. 25, '05 |
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| • | "It's not unusual for visitors entering corporate offices in Manhattan to sign logbooks. At the office of Music Choice, they're more apt to sign the walls. Since then, Courtney Love has adorned the wall with a few expletives and a taped cigarette butt", New York Times, Feb. 27, '05 |
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| • | "saw the chunky ex-queen of grunge at Cinespace last night (7/5) for the Annie show. The show sucked, but Courtney Love rocked. She was busting out of this blue shirt and too tight pants, smoking cigarettes (inside I might add) all night long", Defamer.com, Jul. 15, '05
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| • | "'Can I have a light?' asked Ms. Love, who was sprawled all over a couch. 'I like to smoke. I've been clean and sober for a year. And I want to smoke'", New York Times, Aug. 9, '05
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| • | "at Comedy Central's roast of Pamela Anderson on Sunday. ... Courtney Love lit up a cigarette before the show began and throughout the taping appeared increasingly toasted ... Love sat on stage, sprawled in a chair, chain-smoking, cursing and flipping the bird as she defended her pal Pam from hilarious insults ... A still-puffing Love took the podium. 'I'm a smoker,' she admitted. 'But I've been clean and sober for a ... year", Los Angeles Daily News, Aug. 12, '05
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| • | "She was chain-smoking", iVillage Daily Blabber, Aug. 15, '05 |
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| • | "In one of their rare cigarette breaks, Love is alleged to have said that Coogan wanted to bring in a prostitute, which Love rejected", Sunday Times (UK), Aug. 28, '05
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| • | "I'm an adamant nonsmoker. Our office was nonsmoking - I think the rule was that [employees] could smoke pot in their office, but not cigarettes. Courtney Love came in smoking a cigarette. The person behind the front desk said, 'Could you please put that cigarette out?' And she put it out on the carpet and rubbed it in with her shoe", Seattle Weekly, Oct. 5-11, '05
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| • | "a pack of Camel Lights in front of her... puffing at a cigarette... Paparazzi pictures of her on cigarette breaks outside substance abuse meetings didn't help", The Guardian (UK), Nov. 18, '05
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| • | "To be totally honest, I'm scared most of the time. Actually, I've got a funny story; a few years ago, I snuck backstage at Lollapalooza and I saw Courtney Love and she remembered me. I was so scared because it was such a weird scene. During the interview, she was smoking a cigerrette and she was holding it down by her thigh and I had my hand down by my thigh. Well, It turned out she was burning my hand for the whole interview and I didn t even notice. I was so transfixed by the fact that I was interviewing Courtney Love backstage at Lollapalooza that I didn t realize I was on fire", Dose (Canada), Mar. 9, '06
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| • | "A chain-smoking Love ... debuted two new songs, 'Sunset Marquis' and 'Pacific Coast Highway'", PlanetOut.com, May 4, '06
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| • | "Courtney was the most sober person there. She was sucking on a cigarette all night", Tele-Buddy's Tinseltown Tales gossip column, Sep. 23, '06
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| • | "a cigarette permanently lodged between what appeared to be collagen-enhanced lips", The Scotsman (UK), Sep. 28, '06
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| • | "Love started smoking at age nine", Malaysia Star, Sep. 28, '06 |
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| • | "[My new] record is lovely, but very real. We allowed some naturalflaws to remain. We use my voice, as it is, which is rich and deep and honed by a lot of smoking", Chart Attack, Sep. 28, '06
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| • | "rocks back and forth, lights a cigarette and sings", Reuters, Oct. 20, '06
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| • | "rocks back and forth, lights a cigarette and sings", The Scotsman (UK), Oct. 21, '06
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| • | "Between us is a full ashtray; she chain-smokes... draws sharply on her cigarette as if she's sucking it for lifeblood... Another cigarette", Sunday Times (magazine section), Oct. 22, '06
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| • | "rocks back and forth, lights a cigarette and sings", CNN, Oct. 30, '06
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| • | "Love explains, 'I'm a Buddhist now and I chant every day. I chant for a long time. Some people that chant ... they do half an hour a day. But Iwas doing four and five hours a day sometimes. With smoke breaks!'", PostChronicle, Nov. 1, '06
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| • | "Between us is a full ashtray; she chain-smokes ... She draws sharplyon her cigarette as if she's sucking it for lifeblood ... Hot, big tears rolldown her face. Another cigarette", The Australian, Nov. 4, '06
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| • | "I probably shouldn't be smoking', Courtney Love said, stubbing outher Camel Light in a small humidifier that the Barnes & Noble on Astor Place provided on Tuesday evening. But the thought died a quick death, and soon her assistant was lighting an unending succession of cigarettes for her", New York Times, Nov. 5, '06
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| • | "chain-smoking the Camel Lights her assistant kept lighting for her inside the store's small back office ... taking a last cigarette break before facing her public ... she stubbed out an unlit cigarette in the ashtray... exhaling a plume of smoke", San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 6, '06
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| • | "The air smells of equal parts cigarette smoke, cat urine and incense...The shrine is an ornate affair - slightly disrupted by a pack of Camels, a lighter and lipbalm... 'I chant for at least an hour a day here. I've done five hours before now - with breaks for cigarettes, of course'... fluttering a nugatory silk dressing gown and cigarette ash in her wake... striking a pose with her cigarette... winds down the window to smoke a cigarette... lighting a cigarette... Twenty minutes later, I hear the TV boom on to BBC America, smell cigarette smoke", The Times (UK), Nov. 9, '06
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| • | "We [says Love, about Drew Barrymore and her] met in a bathroom, smoking. I was 19 and she was, like, 8.", The Times (UK), Nov. 9, '06
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| • | "was dressed up as The Queen... smoking a fag" w/pics, The Sun (UK), Dec. 1, '06
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| • | "she lights a cigarette. Her voice is a threadbare drawl ... another cigarette, more tea", Guardian (UK), Dec. 11, '06
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| • | "'Kurt,' she repeats 10 times with weary exasperation as she lights a cigarette", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Dec. 18, '06
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| • | "Courtney Love has posted her New Year's resolutions online ... amongst the 53 rambling but noble resolutions, as well as the usual 'stop smoking/drinking'", Uncut.co.uk, Jan. 7, '07
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| • | "'I was 19 and she was, like, eight.' Rocker Courtney Love on how she met good friend Drew Barrymore and bonded with her while smoking in a bathroom", Contactmusic (UK), Jan. 12, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love was 'smoking and hanging out with girlfriends' on April 7 at West Hollywood's Chateau Marmont", New York Daily News, Apr. 15, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love Forced to Quit Smoking. After years of smoking, Courtney Love now has doctor's orders to quit, she writes on her Web site. Love, 42, says her doctor recently discovered pre-op nodules in her throat. 'He guessed exactly how much I smoke too and told me I'll have to get surgery,' she writes", People, Jun. 1, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love has vowed to quit smoking after nodules were discovered on her throat. The rock singer has been told by her doctor that she will have to undergo surgery if she does not give up cigarettes. Love has agreed to kick the habit but is concerned that she will now put on weight. 'He [the doctor] guessed exactly how much I smoke too and told me I'll have to get surgery,' Love wrote on her website. 'I need to stop unless ... I want surgery in a year, and two or three days off on tour is not economically feasible, so my thin phase is gonna go soon'", DigitalSpy, Jun. 2, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love 'Going Through Hell' to Quit Smoking. Following doctor's orders that she stop smoking, Courtney Love has already cut her nicotine consumption in half - to 20 cigarettes a day. 'I'm going thru hell trying to cut back on smoking,' Love writes on her Web site. 'I'm down to a pack a day from two, but it's a pain and each fight of the urge is a little mini war.' Love, 42, recently revealed on her blog that her doctor had discovered pre-op nodules in her throat. 'He guessed exactly how much I smoke too and told me I'll have to get surgery,' she wrote. Now, she says, '[I'm] trying to get to half a pack a day and then quit when I get to 10'", People Magazine, Jun. 15, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love is finding it difficult to kick the butt. The 42-year-old who recently decided to quit smoking after being warned by her doctor, revealed that she is going through 'hell' trying to kick her smoking habit. 'I'm going thru hell trying to cut back on smoking', People quoted Love, as saying. The rocker insisted that her attempt to break the habit was like fighting a 'mini war'. 'I'm down to a pack a day from two, but it's a pain and each fight of the urge is a little mini war', she said", Zee News, Jun. 16, '07
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| • | "The former Hole singer, who was advised to give up her 40-a-day habit after doctors found pre-op nodules on her throat, admits she is struggling to quit. Courtney, 42, wrote on moonwashedrose.com, 'I'm going thru (sic) hell trying to cut back on smoking. I'm down to a pack a day from two, but it's a pain and each fight of the urge is a little mini war. The doctor guessed exactly how much I smoke too and told me I'll have to get surgery. I'm trying to get to half a pack a day and then quit when I get to 10. I think of all I've been through and I can do this'", AZCentral.com, Jun. 18, '07
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| • | "attacked the recent smoking ban saying: 'the only place I can smoke in England is the Houses of Parliament! That's so retarded!'", London Metro (UK), Jul. 10, '07
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| • | "the new smoking ban didn't go down too well with keen puffer Courtney. She said: 'The only place I can smoke in England is the Houses of Parliament! That's so retarded!'", The Sun (UK), Jul. 10, '07
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| • | "The recently introduced smoking ban is not going down well with committed smoker Courtney Love. The rocker, who tried out some of her new material at a gig in west London for an audience of competition winners and close friends, ranted about the new measure on stage", Channel Four (UK), Jul. 10, '07
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| • | "The confirmed smoker then complain about England's recently-enforced smoking ban, moaning from the stage: 'The only place I can smoke in England is the Houses Of Parliament! That's so retarded!'", New Musical Express (UK), Jul. 10, '07
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| • | "Love celebrated her birthday last night (July 9) by playing a very intimate gig at London's Bush Hall ... remarked on the recent smoking ban that's hit the UK, complaining: 'The only place I can smoke in England is the House of Parliament. How retarded is that?'", MTV UK, Jul. 10, '07
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| • | "stubbed cigarettes out on the four-poster and tossed butts on the carpet... Our spy reveals: 'Staff said the room was left in a right state - like a wild animal had been let loose in there. She had used the place as an ashtray with butts strewn about and burn marks all over the bed, carpet and upholstery'", Daily Mirror (UK), Jul. 12, '07
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| • | "To celebrate her 43rd birthday on Monday, she trashed a hotel room - breaking tables and stubbing out cigarettes on the bed and on sofas", The Guardian (UK), Jul. 13, '07
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| • | "also said she's been trying to quit smoking, but she puffed on several cigarettes throughout her performance", People magazine, Jul. 13, '07
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| • | "said that she's been trying to quit smoking, but she chain-smoked throughout the concert", Daily India, Jul. 14, '07
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| • | "chain smoked throughout the performance", Gigwise (UK), Jul. 14, '07
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| • | "A super-skinny Courtney Love chain-smoked her way through a post-midnight show at New York's Hiro Ballroom in the early hours of Friday (13Jul07)", FemaleFirst (UK), Jul. 14, '07
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| • | "chain smoked throughout the entire gig", Entertainmentwise (UK), Jul. 16, '07
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| • | "smoking a cigarette as she rocked out", TMZ.com, Jul. 18, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love lit up a cigarette", New York Daily News, Sep. 11, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love was photographed smoking a cigarette in the front row while waiting for the show to start", Associated Press, Sep. 11, '07
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| • | "smoking cigarettes", OK! magazine (UK), Sep. 13, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love lit up a cigarette to pass the time", Womens Wear Daily, Oct. 8, '07
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| • | "Courtney Love's wild ways have seen her left out in the cold when it comes to getting a room at Claridges. After damaging a £1,630-per-night suite on her last visit, management of the five-star hotel in London's Mayfair seem to have decided she's not welcome back. The 43-year-old rocker started a fire in her luxury room after smoking a cigarette", Mirror (UK), Oct. 24, '07
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| • | "Love wants to book into Claridge's in Mayfair [London] for her next trip, but management has refused to have her back. Love started a fire in her $3,000-a-night suite after smoking a cigarette during her last stay, and the room had to be redecorated.", Hartford (CT) Courant, Oct. 25, '07 |
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| • | "She lights up a cigarette and holds it between two straight, long fingers with nails varnished vampy black... She looks in her packet for another cigarette. 'Shit. Do you smoke?' When I shake my head she picks up the phone. 'Could you get two packs of Marlboro Lights as fast as possible, please.'", Telegraph (UK), Dec. 7, '07
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| • | "lights up a cigarette and holds it between two straight, long fingers with nails varnished vampy black... lights another cigarette... The smoke alarm goes off. She crosses the room to open the window. 'It is going to do this for a moment then it will stop,' she says, shouting above the noise... looks in her packet for another cigarette. 'Shit. Do you smoke?' When I shake my head she picks up the phone. 'Could you get two packs of Marlboro Lights as fast as possible, please.' And so the encounter ends as chaotically as it began", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Dec. 9, '07
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| • | "She smoked a couple of cigarettes", London Metro (UK), Dec. 10, '07
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| • | "lights up a cigarette and holds it between two straight, long fingers with nails varnished vampy black... lights another cigarette... looks in her packet for another cigarette. 'Shit. Do you smoke?' When I shake my head, she picks up the phone. 'Could you get two packs of Marlboro Lights as fast as possible, please'", Irish Independent (Ireland), Jan. 14, '08
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| • | "despite her sore throat, she stopped to buy cigs", The Sun (UK), Apr. 3, '08
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| • | "despite her sore throat, she stopped to buy cigarettes", w/small pic holding while singing, NME (UK), Apr. 4, '08
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| • | "was refused entry to a Virgin Atlantic plane at Los Angeles International airport, after she was discovered smoking in Departures. 'I had a fag in the first class lounge, like two hits, and they wouldn't let me on the plane with my daughter'", The Independent (UK), Apr. 11, '08
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| • | "has revealed she was banned from boarding a Virgin Airways flight after she lit up in the airport. 'I had a fag in the first-class lounge...They wouldn't let me on the plane with my daughter", Now magazine (UK), Apr. 11, '08
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| • | "lighting up a cigarette", w/two pics, Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 30, '08
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| • | "Holding court with a mini photo-shoot after accepting her award she defiantly lit a cigarette next to a large 'No Smoking' sign. Security rushed to make her stub it out and within seconds she flounced off leaving aides in her wake", Metro (UK), Feb. 9, '09
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| • | "At the premiere for It Might Get Loud ... Love pulled us into the Sunshine Cinema ladies' room for a cigarette and confessed her cross-country moving plans. (We did, for the record, voice our objections to being taken into the wrong-gendered restroom, and also to her smoking indoors, but Love scoffed, 'Who's gonna stop me?' Certainly not us!) ... Hi, we're with New York Magazine. Hey, come to the bathroom for a cigarette. Okay, we're not sure we can come into the ladies' room. Why? Who's gonna stop me? There's no women even in the fucking audience, so there will be no women in here. There's only, like, Anna Sui. [Literally pulls us into the bathroom and lights a cigarette. There are, in fact, no other women in there.] ... [Puts the cigarette out in the sink.]", New York Magazine, Aug. 4, '09
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| • | "I wish I could quit because of the baby, but it's hard", website
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| • | "chain-smokes entire packs of cigarettes during a single concert performance", website
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| • | "With the assistance of a pack of smokes, Love took questions for more than an hour", Wigmag.com
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| • | "After the article, which had featured a heavily pregnant Courtney smoking a cigarette, Social Security started their own vendetta against the couple. 'Fuck you, everybody smokes during pregnancy', Courtney excused herself", Kurt and Courtney website, when?
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