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| • | "She has dropped weight and begun chain-smoking", People Magazine, Dec. 6, '93
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| • | "She smokes", News-Times, Aug. 29, '96
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| • | "a three-pack-a-day smoker", Herald (Arkansas State University), Sep. 5, '97
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| • | "The Scottish Herald sniffed, 'She smokes, she jokes, and is capable of dressing for dinner after a day in the saddle without pausing to have a bath.'", "Diana, Princess of Wales said, 'What is it about Charles, who professes to hate smoking, and women who're addicted to cigarettes?' she asked, alluding to Camilla Parker Bowles, also", "The Royals" by Kitty Kelley, '97, pgs. 408, 468 |
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| • | "staff catch sight of her sneaking behind the garden topiary for a hasty puff", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 21, '98 |
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| • | "the 51-year-old Marlboro smoker", Stern magazine (Germany), Nov. 5, '98 |
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| • | "Breathing in a lungful of crisp winter morning air - as opposed to the cigarette smoke she has been seen inhaling during hunts in the past", Daily Mail, Nov. 17, '98 |
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| • | "is a regular smoker of Silk Cut, made by Gallaher, and Marlboro. She has been pictured out hunting with a cigarette in her hand", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 8, '99
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| • | "is a frequent smoker" w/picture, dragging, Sunday Express (UK), Apr. 25, '99 |
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| • | "Camilla Parker Bowles announced she was giving up smoking to mark [Prince Charles] 50th birthday last summer", The Sunday Times (UK), Jul. 2, '99
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| • | "Camilla's 20-a-day habit has left her with more lines round her mouth than the London Underground", columnist, Sunday Mirror (UK), Sep. 19, '99 |
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| • | "this 52-year-old chain-smoking divorcee", Daily Mail (UK), Sep. 23, '99 |
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| • | "pulled out a cigarette and took a long, deep lungful. Obviously, she had been dying for a puff for hours", "coping with the country's stern disapproval of smokers proved a far stiffer test than proving to New York that she is a worthy successor to Diana, Princess of Wales", Telegraph (UK), Sep. 24, '99
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| • | "she came up against the city's draconian anti-smoking rules. Prince Charles' paramour nearly had a nicotine fit during the end of the swanky dinner party thrown in her honor by Brooke Astor. 'The first thing she did when she got out was take a long drag on her cigarette,' a spy tells msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls. Camilla was also a guest of investor Scott Bessent, who forbids smoking in his swellegant East Hampton home, so she kept running out to the porch for a fix", New York Post, Sep. 28, '99
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| • | "'all the papers had a field day about what an Ab Fab time we [Joanna Lumley and Camilla Parker-Bowles] had smoking together'. Did she and Camilla have to nip out between courses for a quick fag by the pool? 'No, thank God we didn't have to. Smoking wasn't discouraged at all there, we could smoke wherever we liked.' ", Sunday Times (UK), Oct. 3, '99
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| • | "even Camilla is expected to step onto the flagstone terrace [at Prince Charles's Highgrove residence] when her need for a cigarette gets the better of her", Daily Mail (UK) (supplement), Nov. 27, '99 |
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| • | "chain-smoking Camilla...was a big social success (despite stinking up some drawing-room drapes by puffing on her cigarettes)", New York Post, Dec. 15, '99
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| • | "is a smoker", Brighton Evening Argus (UK), Apr. 5, '00
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| • | "chainsmoker renowned for her dirty jokes", Schweriner Volkszeitung (Germany), Jun. 5, '00
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| • | "She smokes and drinks less", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 11, '00 |
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| • | "Camilla's still smoking ... Prince Charles...is increasingly exasperated at his paramour's inability to kick her addiction to nicotine...At last week's PCC party she was behind the Somerset House equivalent of the bicycle shed sharing an illicit gasper with her sister", Daily Express (UK), Feb. 16, '01 |
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| • | "a hardened smoker", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 2, '01 |
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| • | "She even smokes there [at St James's Palace], although less often in the Prince's presence these days. 'He thinks she has given up,' says a friend. 'For her part, Camilla no longer buys cigarettes, and relies on her friends to provide them'", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 17, '01 |
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| • | "a heavy smoker who is trying to quit, is rarely seen with a cigarette", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 21, '01
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| • | "The passionately anti-smoking Prince [Charles] even let her light up in the drawing rooms", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 11, '01 |
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| • | quit - "has finally given up smoking. Prince Charles's companion, who previously puffed away at 10 a day, put away cigarettes for good two or three months ago. 'It wasn't so much me giving up smoking, rather smoking giving up on me,' she told one friend", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 10, '01 |
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| • | quit - "joined one of [her homeopath's] spiritual pilgrimages to India to 're-energise' and stop smoking", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Jul. 21, '01 |
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| • | quit - "reportedly renounced the dreaded weed earlier this month", Daily Express (UK), Jul. 24, '01 |
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| • | quit - "gave up on her ten-a-day habit recently after suffering a persistent cough and hay fever", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 25, '01 |
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| • | quit - "just kicked her own habit", Akron Beacon Journal, Aug. 2, '01
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| • | "I asked [Prince Charles] what she was like to kiss. He said that she smoked too much. Well, I smoke too and he didn't mention that", "Kanga: Conversations With A Royal Mistress" by Chris Hutchins, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Parker-Bowles has finally packed in smoking - and no one is more pleased than Prince Charles. In fact, the health-conscious Prince of Wales - who loathes cigarette smoke - has gone on record to praise her determination. 'He is very proud of her giving up', said a spokeswoman for Charles, who confirmed that Mrs Parker-Bowles had quit for 'months now'. Camilla, 54, is known to have smoked since she was a 15-year-old pupil at Queens Gate School in Knightsbridge, West London. She developed a 40-a-day habit with occasional unsuccessful attempts to stop. But her latest effort, which began as a New Year's Resolution, seems to have worked - with the help of nicotine patches. Camilla's habit was so bad that when she was out fox hunting she would pull out a packet of Marlboro Lights and smoke during rests. And as hostess at Charles's dinner parties at Highgrove, she would go into the garden for 'a drag'. 'She always had a fag in her mouth and Charles loathed it', said one insider.", Sunday Mirror (UK), Mar. 10, '02 |
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| • | quit - "last weekend Camilla Parker Bowles revealed she has given up her 40-a-day, 39 year habit with the help of Prince Charles", The Express (UK), Mar. 12, '02 |
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| • | quit - "What else besides her husband has Camilla Parker Bowles given up for Prince Charles? Her 'filthy habit,' that's what. And yes, we do mean smoking. Camilla has tried over the years to stop puffing, for general health and under pressure from her royal lover. But what actually put an end to inhalation were her sinuses. 'She really had to stop,' a friend says. Unfortunately, Camilla's resistance has been sorely put to the test by the young princes, William and Harry. Despite the displeasure of their daddy, the boys take the odd smoke now and again. Recently, at a party at Highgrove, the princes and their teenage pals waited until after dinner to slip away and smoke, the better not to tempt poor Camilla", Newsday, Jul. 11, '02 |
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| • | quit - "It is still hard to reoncile the formerly heavy-smoking carelessly dressed countrywoman with unkempt hair with the new stylish figure who is rarely seen in anything but a new outfit", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 13, '02 |
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| • | quit - "has finally quit smoking amid concern over her health", Sunday Express (UK), May 4, '03 |
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| • | quit - "once smoked 40 a day but gave up two years ago", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 17, '03 |
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| • | quit - "finally quit after more than 30 years of puffing following pressure from Prince Charles and her doctor", Glasgow Evening Times (UK), Jul. 10, '03
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| • | "had bad teeth from smoking", Daily Express (UK), Mar. 6, '04 |
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| • | "a longtime smoker...is said to have started smoking when she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl. She is now reported to have given up the habit, following sinus trouble and pressure from Prince Charles", The Times (UK), Apr. 30, '04
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| • | quit - "gave up her 30-year smoking habit last May...was reported to have quit smoking after pressure from Prince Charles and doctors' warnings about aggravating a sinus problem", Daily Mirror (UK), May 1, '04
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| • | quit - "quit cigarettes a year ago", The Sun (UK), May 1, '04
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| • | quit - "Ex-smoker Camilla...is understood to have started smoking when she was only 15, but she managed to finally give up last year...originally promised to give up as a 50th birthday present for Charles and even tried nicotine chewing gum before succumbing to cigarettes again", Daily Mail (UK), May 1, '04 |
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| • | "a long-time smoker", Daily Express (UK), May 1, '04 |
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| • | quit - "packed in her 30-a-day habit last year", Scottish Daily Record, May 1, '04
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| • | quit - "is thought to have smoked since she was aged 15, is understood to have given up the habit, owing to sinus trouble and pressure from Prince Charles", The Scotsman (UK), May 1, '04
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| • | "Is Camilla's dream up in smoke? Disillusioned by what she sees as the constant stream of negative briefing against her, Camilla Parker-Bowles has fallen back into a bad habit and taken up smoking again...gave up her 30-a-day habit last year, is now 'reaching for the cigarettes again', according to friends...another souce confirms that Camilla has been 'having a few puffs of late' ", w/pic "Puffer: Camilla is back on the ciggies", Daily Express (UK), May 12, '04 |
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| • | "A middle-aged mother of two who smokes and loves her food and wine", Mail On Sunday (UK), May 16, '04 |
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| • | "A heavy smoker since childhood, she has intermittently given up the habit under pressure from Charles but is apt to lapse when under stress", Daily Express (UK), Sep. 4, '04 |
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| • | "Charles has put a tongue-in-cheek 'no smoking' sticker on a window although partner Camilla is known to enjoy a cigarette", Scottish Daily Record, Oct. 28, '04
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| • | "Camilla's gasping...and Charles isn't happy. As the partner of an avid anti-smoker, Camilla Parker Bowles has probably not made the most diplomatic decision to succumb to her old addiction. News reaches me that Prince Charles's long-term mistress, who kicked her ten-a-day habit two years ago after suffering from a permanent cough and hay fever, has taken it up again...Camilla, who has smoked since she was 15, was last year forced to deny rumours that she was suffering from lung cancer", Mail on Sunday (UK), Jan. 30, '05 |
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| • | "When Charles toured India in October 2002, one local newspaper savagely described her as 'divorced, chain-smoking, horsey and leathery-complexioned Camilla'", The Scotsman (UK) online, Feb. 10, '05
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| • | "She smokes", Scottish Evening Times (UK), Feb. 10, '05
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| • | "smokes too much", Times of India, Feb. 10, '05
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| • | "has only recently given up nipping outside for a quick cigarette while staying at Sandringham", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 11, '05
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| • | "first met the heir to the throne at a polo match in 1970. Notwithstanding a 17-month age gap and her disapproved-of smoking habit, the couple discovered they had much in common", The Times (UK), Feb. 11, '05
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| • | "Displaying an impressive array of diamonds and clutching a cigarette - a habit she never kicked", w/pic holding in '65 at age 18, Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 11, '05 |
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| • | quit - "At Charles's insistence, she has given up her 20-a-day smoking habit, though she still relies on friends to provide her with the odd cigarette", Daily Express (UK), Feb. 11, '05 |
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| • | "loves...40 cigarettes a day", Bild-Zeitung (Germany), Feb. 11, '05
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| • | "by the time she entered her 20s, no society ball was complete without a cluster of admiring young men swarming in a corner with gales of laughter, and in the middle of the throng Camilla, cigarette in hand, entertaining them with risque stories", The Advertiser (Australia), Feb. 12, '05
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| • | "a raspy, cigaretty voice similar to Camilla's own... Camilla's peers at Queens Gate school in South Kensington, where she is remembered for climbing on to the roof for cigarettes say that she wasn't particularly pretty or fashionable", The Times (UK), Feb. 12, '05
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| • | "renowned for her enthusiasm for hunting, swearing and smoking", The Age (Australia), Feb. 13, '05
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| • | "attended Dumbrells school, Sussex, and Queen's Gate in South Kensington, where she is remembered for climbing on to the roof for cigarettes", The Observer (UK), Feb. 13, '05
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| • | "The Prince...has persuaded Camilla to try [Reiki therapy] in her battle to quit smoking", Sunday Express (UK), Feb. 20, '05 |
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| • | "likes a fag", The Times (UK), Feb. 23, '05
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| • | "tried to quit smoking.", Toronto Globe & Mail (Canada), Mar. 5, '05
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| • | "No more the pictures of a slightly dishevelled Camilla, in waxed jacket and gum boots, dragging on a cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Mar. 31, '05
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| • | "was never happier than with a drink and a cigarette after a hard day's trudge over the moors", Sunday Times (UK), Apr. 10, '05
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| • | "a game old thing from Gloucestershire who likes a cigarette", Mail on Sunday (UK), Apr. 10, '05
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| • | quit - "is no longer a drag queen...Camilla swears she has broken the habit of a lifetime - she has finally given up smoking. It has been presumed that Camilla has been a smoke-free zone since vowing to give up, yet again, as her New Year's resolution. But the stress of the Windsor wedding - when any number of things seemed to be going wrong - led to the poor woman once again reaching for her favourite Marlboro Lights...her 30-a-day habit...despite the good doctor's best efforts, Camilla was soon back making sure a comforting pack of ciggies was always in her handbag. Even though it meant having to nip outside in all weathers, when she wanted to light up at Highgrove or Birkhall, where Prince Charles has banned smoking indoors. 'Camilla did indeed have a few lapses before the wedding, but frankly who can blame her?' says a royal aide. 'The difference is that Her Royal Highness has given up for good. She absolutely swears. And she's feeling a lot healthier because of it'...the rasping cough that would often intrude upon the finer moments of one of Charles's speeches", Sunday Express (UK), May 15, '05 |
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| • | quit - "has kicked her lifelong 40-a-day habit", Sunday People (UK), Jun. 26, '05
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| • | quit - "kicked her lifelong 40-a-day addiction, aided by nicotine patches and yoga sessions", Mail on Sunday (UK), Jun. 26, '05
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| • | "Milla was also regularly climbing on to the school roof for 'an illicit lunchtime fag'", Mail on Sunday (UK), Sep. 25, '05 |
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| • | "It would be understandable if, as I write, the former Mrs Parker Bowles were feeling compelled to reach for the cigarettes she's fought a lifelong battle against whilst pouring herself a stiff gin and tonic, for the coming week promises", The Royalist website, Sep. 30, '05
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| • | quit - "Dr. Ali... managed to wean her from her 30-year smoking habit", Sunday Express (UK), Oct. 23, '05 |
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| • | "Friends [at her Swiss finishing school] remember Camilla because she smoked", Mail on Sunday (UK), Nov. 6, '05 |
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| • | "During her time at Swiss finishing school 'Mon Fertile', the drinking, smoking teenage Camilla, it seems, enjoyed leading her friends in singing", The Royalist website, Nov. 6, '05
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| • | quit - "has managed to break her 30-year smoking habit (helped by Prince Charles loudly hurrumphing every time she sneaked out for a gasper)", Sunday Express (UK), Mar. 5, '06 |
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| • | "At school, Camilla used to climb on the roof to smoke cigarettes", Sunday Express (UK), Apr. 9, '06 |
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| • | "Fanatical anti-smoker Prince Charles is fuming - because Camilla is back on the ciggies. Charles thought the Duchess, 59, had finally kicked her 30-a-day habit six months ago after he told her she was risking her health. But now she has started smoking again on visits without him to her Wiltshire home, Raymill House. A source said: 'Her willpower cracked and she lit up again a few weeks ago. Charles is very disappointed and has told her in no uncertain terms that he fears she is shortening her life - particularly as she has been puffing away for so many years. But he knows what a strong-headed woman she is and that there is little more he can do. At least this time it appears to be an occasional habit - she is nowhere near back to the 30-a-day chainsmoking of old. But he knows how easy it is for that to escalate. Camilla, for her part, knows never to light up in front of Charles. There is nothing more guaranteed to send him into a rant.", Sunday People (UK), Aug. 6, '06
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| • | quit - "used to smoke heavily but gave up several years ago", Daily Telegraph (UK), Feb. 13, '07
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| • | "It's a shame because I remember fun lunches when she used to tuck into a steak pie and was as thin as a rake. But she smoked then and it does make a difference", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 17, '07
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| • | "There was always a touch of the rebel about her; her devil-may-care habit of climbing onto her school roof in Kensington to have a sneaky cigarette had been much admired by the other girls", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 2, '07
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| • | "'she smoked like a chimney then.' She has given up smoking for Charles", Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 7, '07
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| • | quit - "gave up smoking after substituting yoga for her 20-a-day habit", Sunday Express (UK), Jul. 8, '07 |
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| • | quit -"[Prince Charles] even turfing his wife out on to the verandah in all weathers when she wished to indulge in a postprandial cigarette. Let us hope it doesn't take [Prince] Harry as long as his stepmother to ditch the tabs: after 30 years - and a few false starts when she was forced to steal way from Highgove to Ray Mill House for the odd ciggie - Camilla finally gave up what her husband referred to as 'that filthy habit' last year", Sunday Express (UK), Sep. 16, '07 |
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| • | "She had a free life before, having fags, drinking, going on riding holidays and she can't do any of those anymore", Mail on Sunday (UK), Apr. 6, '08
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| • | quit - "Since marrying Charles she has tried to live a healthier lifestyle, changing her diet and giving up cigarettes", Daily Mirror (UK), Apr. 9, '10
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| • | "is said to have taken up yoga to help her with back pain and to stop smoking", Fashion Planet, when?
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| • | "Recently she agreed to give up her own smoking habit", Royal Report website, when?
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| • | "According to news reports, [Prince Charles] recently persuaded his longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, to quit. Bowles is reportedly a regular smoker of Silk Cut, made by Gallaher, and Marlboro", TobaccoAsia website
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| • | "the woman who truly stole the future king's heart is a chain smoker", website, when? |
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| • | "her lean figure and husky smoker's voice", People news, when?
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| • | quit - "a queen with a fag in her mouth wouldn't be acceptable to the British people either. 'The Prince of Wales hates smoking and has always hated smoking, and it's one of the bizarre elements of their attraction to one another that he could even love her, albeit that she was a 20-a-day Marlboro Light woman. She used to have to go outside the main door at Highgrove [Prince Charles's residence] and have a few puffs. And she's famous for never buying her own packet of cigarettes'. And she won't be smoking in their new London home, Clarence House, where she'll have her own suite of rooms - she's officially quit the habit", Camilla - The Uncrowned Queen (Five television) (UK), Jun. 17, '03 |
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| • | "Camilla Parker Bowles has fallen back into a bad habit and taken up smoking again. The Prince of Wales's long-term companion, who gave up her 30-a-day habit last year, is now 'reaching for the cigarettes again', according to friends ... a Clarence House spokeswoman says: 'Smoking is very much a private matter.' Meanwhile, another source confirms that Camilla has been 'having a few puffs of late'", The Express (UK), May 12, '04 |
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| • | quit - "Camilla Parker Bowles' son, Tom, was in a tizz over reports in the U.S. that she had cancer and returned to her 30-cigarette-a-day habit...'it's nonsense - she's fine. She actually hasn't touched a cigarette in two years' ", Daily Mail (UK), May 13, '04 |
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| • | "Camilla, 56, a chain smoker has been suffering from increasing weakness and shortness of breath in recent months, and doctors have now diagnosed her with cancer, say insiders.", "'Charles has been desperately trying for years to make her quit smoking,' says one source close to the couple, 'But Camilla has been hooked on cigarettes since she was a youngster and just cannot kick the habit.'", "At one point, she was smoking 40 a day. Now she has been told she must never smoke again, and her family is praying that doctors will be able to cure the deadly disease.", "Camilla, a longtime smoker, appears to be battling lung cancer.", "Camilla is a strong woman, but she has always been a persistent smoker.", Globe (US), May 17, '04, p. 16-17 |
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| • | "loves a drink and a smoke...smoking, apparently, is a bit of a problem for Prince Charles who once described it as 'that filthy habit' and apparently prevailed upon his lover to drop her 40-a-day addiction... Camilla's love of the fags", The Age (Australia), Jun. 28, '04
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| • | "a buxom, toothy, hard-smoking, hard-drinking, horseback-riding, now-divorced aristocrat", CBS News, Dec. 1, '04
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| • | "lights a cigarette every quarter of an hour", Le Monde (France), Feb. 12, '05
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| • | "In her old life...trailing cigarette smoke...No nonsense, no silly fuss. Camilla would stop only to pick up the evening clutch bag (contents: cigarettes, lighter, labrador's arthritis pills) on the way out of the door", Daily Telegraph (UK), Apr. 7, '05 |
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| • | "enjoys the odd fag and a glass or two of Gordons", Cyprus Mail, '05
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| • | "it is believed that the Duchess of Cornwall has kicked a habit which she first reportedly began at the young age of just 15", The Royalist website, Feb. 5, '06
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| • | "Silver hair can be fabulous with pale older skin - just look at the Queen and Helen Mirren - but it's terribly ageing when matched with a weatherbeaten complexion like Camilla's, kippered by 40 years of smoking", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 17, '07
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