| • | "What do you most regret doing in the past 24 hours? 'Even though I don't call myself a smoker, smoking cigarettes last night. When I drink I just find myself smoking'", Sunday Express (Sunday Express Magazine supplement) (UK), Jan. 28, '01 | |
| • | "I've smoked since I was 12. I'm now only a social smoker but once I've had a couple of glasses of wine it gets harder to limit it to a few. When the children were younger, I let myself off the hook a little and smoked out of the window to relieve the stress and utter exhaustion of it all. But I shouldn't smoke at all because two years ago I swam the Channel as part of a team, soon after I started to get these horrible chest infections and was diagnosed with TB", Daily Express (UK), Jan. 14, '02 | |
| • | "She discovered she could avoid being bullied by making people laugh. And smoking. 'Being in Scotland when you're an English girl, learning about humour up there was very formative for me. You're aged 11 and terrified of the school: 1,000 kids and you're the only one with an English accent. The first few months were quite miserable, sitting on a bus by myself and nobody talking to me. Finally one of the main ring leaders got on and offered me a cigarette - thus beginning my life of smoking. I had my stigmata,' she adds, demonstrating how she would cup her cigarette into her hand to conceal it. 'We were proud to show off our nicotine stains in the palms of our hands' ", Sunday Times (UK), Nov. 16, '03 |