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| • | "What objects do you always carry with you? 'Pens. Cigarettes. Extra shoes", The Guardian (UK), Dec. 8, '90 |
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| • | was critticized for saying smoking is glamorous: "'I love smoking', she announces suddenly and to no-one in particular. She examines the Rothman's cigarette between her dainty fingers and takes a drag. 'I think it looks elegant and nice'. When a friend remarks that he has never even attempted to give up, she takes another celebratory little puff. 'Good for you'! she cheers", Daily Express, Feb. 25, '93 |
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| • | "Playing with fire: stars like Joanna Lumley...still give smoking a sexy image...In an interview last week, Joanna Lumley slipped a Rothman's between her fingers and announced: 'I love smoking. I think it looks elegant and nice' ", Daily Express (UK), Mar. 9, '93 |
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| • | "drawing heavily on the cigarettes she has always refused to give up", Sunday Times (UK), Nov. 28, '93 |
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| • | "The truth is that I rarely smoke, at most six cigarettes a day", Daily Record (UK), Jan. 27, '94 |
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| • | "she cheated a bit, by getting little treats such as cigarettes and some food from the crew", Daily Record (UK), Nov. 26, '94 |
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| • | "they broke the rules by slipping her the odd cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 28, '94 |
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| • | "lights another cigarette", The New Zealand Listener, Jul. 29, '95
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| • | "I am having a liquid and cigarette lunch with Joanna Lumley (one cup of coffee each) off a Formica table on a kind of empty landing at the Lyric Theatre", The Guardian (UK), Sep. 1, '95 |
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| • | "When Joanna Lumley roughed it on the small desert island of Tsarabajina for Girl Friday, she took along an SAS survival kit, a knife as big as her arm. four matches and a few sneaked cigarettes", The New Zealand Listener, Feb. 10, '96
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| • | no - "I've never had any qualms about anything Patsy does at all. In fact, I don't smoke or drink, as you know [edging the open cigarette package in front of her off the table].", The Advocate, Apr. 16, '96
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| • | "a vegetarian and light smoker", Daily Record (UK), May 27, '96 |
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| • | "I do smoke, though. People keep telling me off for it but I only usually have about five a day", Sun TV Super Guide, Nov. 2, '96 |
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| • | smokes, "though not as much as Patsy", Mrs. Merton Shown (UK), Apr. 4, '97 |
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| • | "Over port she divulged a few trade secrets. 'The role of Patsy (in Absolutely Fabulous) is enough to put anyone off smoking for life,' she said. In one scene she recalled having to hold four cigarettes clamped between the fingers of one hand and smoking them all at once. 'By the time I had done three retakes I felt pretty ill'", Sunday Times (UK), Apr. 27, '97 |
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| • | Describing the kira (Himalayan tribal robe) she has taken to wearing: "It has a special pouch to keep your purse in. But it's perfect for my cigarettes.", The Express (UK), Nov. 5, '97 |
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| • | "She smokes", Observer (UK), Nov. 11, '97 |
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| • | "My only other luxuries are cigarettes and seven pairs of socks", The Mirror (UK), Nov. 15, '97 |
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| • | admitted she has "long since fallen for the lures of lipstick, cocktails and cigarettes", The Express on Sunday (magazine supplement), Nov. 16, '97 |
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| • | "She did well at school, but had her prefect's badge taken away after she was caught smoking", Mail on Sunday (UK), Nov. 23, '97 |
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| • | "she waves her half-smoked cigarette around and adds, 'a nice little cigarette and a talk to the Press, darling - that'll drop the weight off you'", website, Nov. 26, '98
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| • | "I never do anything special to prepare for a love scene. I don't work out. I just have a cigarette", The Express (UK), Nov. 30, '98 |
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| • | "lighting a cigarette ... A bright but occasionally naughty girl -- her prefect's badge was confiscated for smoking at boarding school in Hastings", The Mirror, Dec. 12, '98 |
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| • | "I don't work out, I smoke, and talk to the press occasionally. That drops the weight off you", Daily Record (UK), Dec. 26, '98 |
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| • | "She went to the terrace with some champagne to have a cigarette", Edinburgh Evening News (UK), Jan. 6, '99 |
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| • | "if a waiter asked Patsy of Absolutely Fabulous to put out her cigarette, she would probably throw a glass of Bolly in his face. But when restaurant staff approached the actress who plays her with the same request she was happy to comply. Joanna Lumley simply stood up, lifted her glass of champagne and, throwing her coat over her shoulders, walked out on to the terrace to enjoy a quick smoke. The star of the BBC TV comedy series was in the Tower Restaurant on top of the new National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh when she was caught out by the smoking ban. ... When Miss Lumley tried to light up afterwards staff immediately went over to her table to point out the rules. She was escorted to a rooftop terrace through the restaurant's sliding doors where, with the long wool coat over her shoulders, she braved the cold for five minutes while finishing her cigarette . One waitress said: 'There was a hush as a waiter asked her not to smoke'. People almost expected a Patsy-like explosion but she was absolutely charming. She apologised immediately and, taking her glass of champagne in one hand and her cigarette in the other, stepped outside'", w/pic, Daily Mail, Jan. 7, '99 |
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| • | "when Joanna Lumley dined at the Tower Restaurant at the top of the new Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, she was happy to observe its strict no -smoking rule. The 52-year-old wrapped up and stepped on to the freezing, wind-swept balcony for a cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Jan. 7, '99 |
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| • | "she waves her half-smoked cigarette", Western Daily Press (UK), Jan. 19, '99 |
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| • | "Her voice is said to be rough with cigarettes...she looks younger than her photographs. All that smoking is good for the skin", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 18, '99
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| • | "At 53 Joanna Lumley could still look fantastic in a bin bag, despite the fact that she drinks, smokes and eats what she likes", Sunday Mirror (UK), Mar. 21, '99 |
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| • | "I was having a cigarette during a meal in a restaurant called The Tower, in Edinburgh", Daily Record, Apr. 3, '99 |
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| • | "She fires up her Rothmans, a brand by which cigarette archaeologists can date her smoking heyday to the mid-1970s. She doesn't take more than four drags, but it does create a handy smoke-screen between her and the rest of us", WM (online), Spring '99
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| • | smoked several cigarettes during UK chat show "Ruby", Sep. 20, '99 |
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| • | Chain-smoked Rothmans during an interview in a restaurant, next to a "No smoking" sign, The Sunday Times (UK), Oct. 3, '99 |
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| • | "Staring straight at the prominent 'no smoking' sign, Lumley... darts into the marble bathroom to pinch a soap dish - 'Such a good ash tray, darling' - lighting the first of an endless series of Rothmans as soon as she emerges... 'It's a nightmare there [in New York], you can't smoke anywhere; it seems the stupidest vice to pick on. I mean, I know lots of people must die of smoking-related diseases, but then lots die of alcohol-related diseases and nobody stops you drinking. We smokers are just a whipping boy.'", Sunday Times (UK), Oct. 3, '99
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| • | "glowing with health, despite the chain-smoking. This habit is probably all the immaculate, beautifully-mannered, very properly brought-up Miss Lumley has ever shared with her outrageous, Absolutely Fabulous alter ego", Saturday magazine, The Express (UK), Dec. 4, '99 |
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| • | "I actually smoke about five a day", "she even cadged some life-saving cigarettes [when spending time alone as a castaway on a desert island for a BBC documentary series: "Girl Friday" (1994)", "Joanna Lumley - The Biography", '99 |
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| • | "tapping her cigarette ash into a saucer... the occasional sneaky Silk Cut... stubs her cigarette out guiltily", The Express (UK), Apr. 6, '00
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| • | "I like smoking...anything between none and twenty [a day]", jokingly adding that she sees it as an extension of her vegetarianism, "This Morning", Granada Television (UK), Apr. 11, '00 |
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| • | "drawing calmly on a cigarette", Financial Times, May 6, '00 |
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| • | smoked at the BAFTA Television Awards, BBC TV, May 14, '00 |
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| • | "Joanna Lumley [public face of a natural health company] in the background, cigarette poised [at BAFTA awards, 2000]. I don't know, you spend a fortune on launching a new healthy/natural website and get your prime publicity person shown on TV smoking a fag!", Chinwag website, May 19, '00
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| • | "As we talk, it's clear that Joanna's one similarity to Patsy is her smoking habit, though on lighting up she's quick to point out that it's 3pm and this is only her second cigarette of the day. She readily admits that she and cigarettes go back a long way. 'At boarding-school my prefect's badge was confiscated after I was caught smoking,' she says, stifling a chuckle. 'How shameful!'", Woman's Weekly, Aug. 1, '00 |
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| • | "Lumley and an old school chum spent an entire morning scampering round the place, remembering their schooldays. They were, apparently, extremely naughty, keeping white mice in their pockets and being demoted from prefects for smoking - the headmistress whispered 'Judas' as she removed the badge", Sunday Times (UK), Mar. 4, '01
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| • | "I must admit I also enjoy a sneaky cigarette every now and then", Daily Express (UK), May 15, '01 |
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| • | "she is a committed vegetarian, with a weakness for cigarettes and fine wine", Sunday Telegraph (Review supplement) (UK), Jun. 10, '01 |
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| • | "she is a committed vegetarian, with a weakness for cigarettes and fine wine", Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Jun. 23, '01
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| • | "Joanna Lumley lowers her shoulders a notch, takes a thoughtful drag on her Rothmans", "'Are you sure you don't mind me smoking? I don't smoke very many.' She strikes a match. 'This is only my second today'", "But if her 15-year-old self heard her now would she think her voice was affected? 'I'm sure it must have been higher. Because the 15-year-old didn't smoke. Smoking fattened my voice. A lot of voice actors smoke and very few sopranos do.' Does that apply to musicians too? What about her husband? 'Yes, he smokes, huh huh. We live in a nice yellowing house.'", The Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph Magazine supplement) (UK), Feb. 17, '02 |
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| • | "Do you mind if I have a cigarette? It keeps me concentrated", Radio Times, Mar. 2, '02 |
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| • | "At a recent showbiz bash, a source tells us Joanna Lumley was so desperate for a cigarette she blew out various industry big-wigs and bolted outside. 'She just had to have a fag,', says our mole. 'It was a non-smoking venue, so she stood in the street with a cigarette in one hand and glass of champers in the other'", Sunday Star (UK), Sep. 22, '02 |
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| • | "No [I don't still smoke], but I LIKE smoking, I just haven't smoked for a long time now' because of a bad cold.", Jonathan Ross Show (BBC1), Dec. 20, '02 |
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| • | "dragging on a cigarette", French website, Sep. 23, '03
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| • | "When I am on my own I might smoke four or five cigarettes a day, which doesn't seem a lot....I gave up once and felt shocking. I could hardly walk, I felt so tired. Cigarettes and coffee keep your energy levels up. If they are poisons, I think they are rather excellent", The Times (UK), Jun. 5, '04
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| • | "After last night's performance of Le Nozze di Figaro at Holland Park Opera, Joanna Lumley sat chatting outside to a male companion ... she made only one concession to her rather different image as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous...she was smoking enthusiastically", The Times (UK), Aug. 4, '04 |
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| • | "The actress Joanna Lumley gave her support last night tothose opposed to Scottish proposals to ban smoking in public places.Lumley urged the Scottish Executive to 'lighten up'. In an interviewbroadcast on Scotland Today, she said she would build a huge bonfireat her cottage, light a massive cigarette and grab a bottle of whiskyin protest if a ban was passed. Lumley also declared her intention tocontinue lighting up if the ban went ahead", The Times (UK), Oct. 6, '04
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| • | "In an exclusive interview broadcast on Tuesday evenings edition of Scotland Today Joanna Lumley threw her weight behind the growing list of celebrities opposed to any ban on smoking in public places. The actress has declared her intention to light up even if the Scottish Executive decide to go ahead with the ban. Chatting to Scottish TV presenter Sarah Heaney, Joanna announced that on her return home to Scotland she'd build a huge bonfire, light a massive cigarette, grab a bottle of whiskey and ask the Scottish Executive to lighten up ", Scotland Today website, Oct. 6, '04
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| • | "She drinks very little, but she does smoke, occasionally. 'I like to keep up the image of smoking, only because its getting such a bad press!'", Saga Magazine (UK), Nov. '04
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| • | "At one point she filched a cigarette from a cameraman", Mail on Sunday (UK), Dec. 12, '04 |
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| • | "I have turned into a school prefect now...I sometimes think I'd like to skip classes and smoke in the duck-house again", "Q: But you smoke! A: In moderation", "Travelling on aeroplanes was lovely when you were allowed to smoke. There was a feeling of the cocktail hour, time for chit-chat and courtesies and compliments. The air-conditioning had to work full blast to dispel the smoke and in consequence all the cold and flu germs were blown out into the ether at the same time...In the olden days there were non-smoking sections and you really weren't troubled by clouds of tobacco smoke as it was siphoned out of the fuselage as soon as it was exhaled", "No Room for Secrets" by Joanna Lumley, '04 |
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| • | "I had my prefect's badge taken away from me for smoking. I was stupid because I hardly smoked back then. Here I am, smoking like a chimney now", Sunday Express (UK), Mar. 6, '05 |
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| • | "the actress has vowed to fight the Scottish executives smoking ban from her country retreat. She plans, she says, to build a big bonfire on the day the ban comes into force and then smoke 'comedy size' cigarettes with her guests. 'I will just say - lighten up guys,' she says for emphasis, as if anyone in these parts could lighten up any further", Sunday Times (UK), May 8, '05
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| • | "puffing on a cigarette", Scotland on Sunday (UK), Jun. 26, '05
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| • | "Pro-smoking campaigner Joanna Lumley has confessed to fire-raising - in a New York bar. The actress, who has said she will defy the smoking ban in public places when it is introduced in Scotland, admits she played a mischievous part when the bar caught fire", Sunday Mail (UK), Jul. 24, '05
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| • | "has found a foolproof alibi for smoking in public...'In the acting world, which used to be blue with smoke, most people have given up the weed. Only villains or 'characters' like Patsy in AbFab are allowed to smoke on film; actors often try to work it into their character's make-up, just to get a daily fix of nicotine. In real life, I smoke, but not very often. In coffee breaks on film sets, particularly with American actors present, I get out my packet of cigarettes with a guilty rush, saying, 'Oh Lord, I'm behind: my doctor said I have to smoke every two hours at least to get over this abdominal complication - what a bore'. Then I light up and puff away with a lugubrious expression. There is a clamour to find out my benevolent doctor's name, which of course I don't give because he doesn't exist'", The Guardian (UK), Aug. 24, '05
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| • | "Do you mind terribly if I have a cigarette? They say don't smoke, but it's funded the NHS for 60 years. You'll get fat if you stop. That's a more cheerful message", Radio Times (UK), Nov. 5-11, '05 |
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| • | "Things are breathily divulged in a Dietrich-esque purr that has been sexily lowered from years of smoking. Which is what she is very dismayed to find out she can't do during our interview. 'What? You mean it's banned everywhere?,' she whispers, as though learning for the first time of some primitive tribal custom. 'Even on this leather couch where I would look good with a cigarette? How perfectly annoying. I'm not a big smoker... But I must say I don't like the attitude of being bullied into it", Irish Independent, Nov. 20, '05
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| • | "the warm, plummy liquescence of her voice undiluted by time or cigarettes", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 7, '07
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| • | "'Shall we have a ciggie? See, we smoke and we're not dead, are we?'... Now we are a couple of cigarettes in, and it is dark outside", Sunday Independent (UK), Mar. 11, '07
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| • | "It seems the cigarette-loving Joanna Lumley may be about to embark on a life of petty crime. Holding court amid a cloud of tobacco smoke outside Hatchards Bookshop on Piccadilly, she tells me about the 'outrageous infringement' of her liberties caused by the imminent public smoking ban. The Absolutely Fabulous star had been forced to light up on the pavement after learning that the bookshop, where she was celebrating the publication of fellow actress Nichola McAuliffe's trickily titled novel, A Fanny Full Of Soap, did not allow smoking. 'You can't even stub a ciggy out on the pavement now because you'll be fined 80 quid a fag end,' she moans", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 7, '07
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| • | acknowledged that she is a smoker, Graham Norton Show, BBC2 (UK), Jun. 14, '07 |
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| • | "the high living Absolutely Fabulous star also revealed that she is planning ahead for the smoking ban on July 1. 'I can't think what's going to happen, it's mad. I'm inventing bike sheds to attach to buildings so it's somewhere people can go to smoke ... a sofa, a visit from Paris Hilton, it'll be such fun!' ", The Sun (UK), Jun. 14, '07
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| • | "And people also say 'surely you smoke? I do, but nothing like [her on-screen persona] Patsy. Nobody alive could cope with what she does, lighting up four at a time. But I think sometimes people do half-hope you'll be a bit like that", BBC online website, when? |
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| • | "Lumley was, at the time [c. 1980], a voracious smoker", SFX magazine, when?
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