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| • | "Asked if she's ever tried smoking, the poised 17-year-old shifted in her seat, fiddled with her ponytail and dropped her clear-eyed gaze. For a moment, she seemed awkward and speechless. In other words, for a moment she seemed like a normal teenaged girl. 'Should I say...?' she hesitated, but then caught herself. 'Well, yes, I have. But I think every teenager's going to try something sometime'", Toronto Globe and Mail, Jan. 30, '99 |
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| • | seen smoking and drinking in a bar, Nashville radio?, alt.showbiz.gossip, Sep. 28, '99 |
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| • | no - "The pop princess claims she doesn't drink or smoke", World Entertainment News Network, Jan. 9, '00 |
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| • | no - "It was horrible smoking a cigarette, but I didn't inhale", AOL chat, May 15, '00 |
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| • | no - "I don't believe in drugs or even smoking", Sunday Express Magazine (UK), Jul. 23, '00 |
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| • | no - "In a British interview, she told her critics: 'If I have on a short skirt, it doesn't mean that I have low morals. I have very high morals. I don't believe in sex before marriage. I don't believe in drugs or even smoking. I believe in God'", Knoxville News-Sentinel, Sep. 2, '00 |
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| • | no - "I don't believe in drugs or even smoking. I believe in God.", Knoxville News-Sentinel, Sep. 2, '00
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| • | "sharing a cigarette with boyfriend Justin Timerberlake while sitting on his lap at 'NSYNC's party at Twirl", NY Post, Sep. 12, '00, p. 6
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| • | "Sightings... Britney Spears smoking Marlboros before a concert in Charlotte, NC", NY Post, Oct. 5, '00, p. 10
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| • | "Pop princess Britney Spears may not be the goody-goody she claims. The self-professed virgin was spotted smoking Marlboros before a concert in Charlotte, North Carolina", World Entertainment News Network, Oct. 10, '00 |
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| • | "during an N Sync party in New York, Britney was caught sitting on Justin's knee and the pair was spotted sharing a cigarette", The Scotsman (UK), Oct. 28, '00 |
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| • | "she was photographed looking rough after a cocktail party in Leipzig, Germany. She and her entourage went to celebrate Halloween in the former East German city on a rest day during her German tour. At one point she even lit up a cigarette", World Entertainment News Network, Nov. 2, '00 |
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| • | "Even worse: Some say she smoked a cigarette at the Party [at Leipzig].", RTL (German TV), Nov. 2, '00 |
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| • | "During that the pop-princess even lit up a Marlboro", Bild Online (Germany), Nov. 2, '00
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| • | "The curvy star lived it up while on tour in Leipzig, Germany, where she was seen smoking cigarettes and drinking vodka", World Entertainment News Network, Nov. 3, '00 |
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| • | "Astonished staff watched how she puffed on cigarettes while knocking back vodka-laced White Russians", Sun (UK), Nov. 3, '00, p. 11 |
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| • | "At the Moritz-Bastei disco in Leipzig, Germany, Britney downed white Russian, pina colada and soul kiss cocktails. Britney was also seen puffing away on Marlboro cigarettes", Scottish Daily Record, Nov. 3, '00 |
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| • | "Barstaff at the Moritz-Bastei disco watched her knock back Pina Coladas, White Russians and Soul's Kisses, smoking all the while", Deutsche Press-Agentur, Nov. 3, '00 |
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| • | "Britney even lit up a cigarette", MTV Asia, Nov. 3, '00
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| • | "She downed cocktails and even smoked cigarettes", National Enquirer, Nov. 21, '00 |
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| • | was constantly asking for cigarettes before her concert in the Spektrum in Oslo, one person believed that she smoked a lot on a regular basis based on what he saw, Se og Hor (Norway), c. Dec. '00 |
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| • | "clubbing, swearing, smoking... where did it all go right?", Sky Magazine, Dec. '00 |
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| • | cigar - spotted taking a puff of a cigar coming out of a car, where?, Feb. '01 |
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| • | netizen, Feb. 21, '01 |
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| • | cigar - seen in Club New York smoking a cigar, National Enquirer, Mar. '01 |
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| • | "enjoying smoking", Heat (UK), Mar. '01 |
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| • | no - "Britney Spears doesn't smoke. She doesn't do drugs and she says she doesn't have sex", New York Daily News, May 25, '01 |
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| • | no - made a statement that sightings of her smoking are not true, US Weekly , Jun. 4, '01 |
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| • | no - "contrary to rumors of her smoking a Marlboro, she doesn't smoke", US Weekly, Jun. 4, '01, p. 34 |
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| • | no - "she draws the line at smoking - and finds smokers repulsive ... Spears is upset that a close friend of hers has chosen to pick up the nicotine-inhaling habit. She says, 'I don't agree with smoking at all. I have a friend who smokes and it's such a bad habit and I wish she wouldn't do that. I think cigarettes are gross. Girls will probably be like, 'Ew, she's a goody two shoes,' but my opinion is that it's like kind of, I dunno, kind of trashy'", World Entertainment News Network, Jun. 19, '01 |
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| • | "In 2001, Britney has reached the level of fame where everything that happens to her - from her alleged breast enlargement to her virginity, taking in her mother, Christianity, cohabiting but platonic boyfriend and sneaky fag-smoking - is rigorously scrutinized", The Times (UK), Nov. 30, '01 |
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| • | "Fans know her as a clean-living woman, however after some gigs the corks popped: Britney smoked, drank and behaved in a not at all ladylike manner. The image of permanently being the clean girlie is probably too tedious for the 19-year-old", Shopping in Lüneburg: Review of the Year (Germany), '01
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| • | "there's no mention elsewhere on the website about Britney's raunchy videos and photo-shoots, rumours of her boob job, nor her drinking and smoking exploits on tour. ... if you want to find out exactly what the pop superstar's mum thought about her drinking and smoking while on tour in Europe - things she wouldn't legally be allowed to do in her home state - you'll have to look elsewhere than her official Britney Spears website", Daily Record (UK), Mar. 7, '02 |
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| • | "Pals say she has become a heavy smoker and the pressures of fame seem to be getting to her", The Sun (UK), Mar. 14, '02
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| • | "the only thing we have noticed during the day is that Britney likes - despite her healthy image - smoking a cigarette", Veronica's magazine, Mar. 21, '02 |
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| • | "During the evening, while she smoked and drank white wine, Britney was treated to a live show by a trans-sexual woman", Daily Star (UK), Mar. 21, '02 |
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| • | "Enjoying the Bubbly and virtually chain-smoking in the In And Out Club's VIP room", Mirror (UK), Mar. 27, '02, p. 13
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| • | "Britney Spears granted Peterborough a brief but illuminating interview at the premiere of her debut film, Crossroads, on Monday. Peterborough: Did you know that Alastair Campbell is a big fan of yours (Peterborough, Nov 17, 2000)? He's even been to one of your concerts. Britney (cigarette in one hand, glass of champagne in the other): Alastair Campbell? I've never heard of him. Who's he? P: He's Tony Blair's official spokesman. B: Tony Blair? I've never heard of him either. P: Well, Mr Blair is our Prime Minister. B: (a second cigarette in her hand)", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 27, '02
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| • | "Mothers whose children waited hours to catch her arriving for the Leicester Square premiere were left furious when Britney rushed past them with barely a glance. Even at the post-screening party at London's In And Out club, Britney stayed huddled in the VIP room, chain-smoking and knocking back champagne, away from all those irritating ordinary people", The Mirror (UK), Mar. 28, '02 |
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| • | "Britney turned heads in Bellini, my local Italian trough in Kensington, West London, when she fetched up unexpectedly last Thursday for lunch. .. Britney, in sunglasses and smoking Marlboro Lights throughout her Spaghetti Napolitana, didn't leave a tip", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 3, '02 |
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| • | "Britney, Marlboro Girl? Was that Britney Spears or some impersonator smoking up a storm earlier this week? Sources report that someone looking a lot like the belly-baring singer was puffing away on Marlboro Lights at Joseph's, the hot Los Angeles restaurant where she was also spotted tearing up the dance floor. Spears' publicist didn't respond to requests for commentt in the past, the singer has spoken out against smoking. She has, however, also spoken out against drinking and premarital sex, and has been hounded by rumors that she doesn't abstain from those either.", MSNBC, Apr. 4, '02
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| • | "She's taken up puffing Marlboro Lights", NY Daily News, Apr. 19, '02
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| • | "Britney Spears, of whom you may have heard, is testing out a vice. Smoking Marlboros at Mercury Hotel's outdoor cafe in South Beach", website, Apr. 23, '02
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| • | "The New York Daily News says the popster has another attachment: She's taken up cigarette smoking", Green Bay Press-Gazette, Apr. 24, '02, p. D2 |
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| • | "She's taken up smoking Marlboro Lights.", Miami Herald, Apr. 24, '02
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| • | "By the time you read this, Britney Spears may already have a new boyfriend: British tabloids have linked her with a 24-year-old choreographer named Brian Friedman. And there's more bad news: The New York Daily News is reporting that the singer has taken up smoking", National Post (Canada), Apr. 25, '02 |
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| • | "My exclusive snap shows the singer holding a ciggie on the balcony of her Sydney hotel room. As soon as she spotted my snapper Britney made a mad dash inside.", The Sun, Apr. 30, '02
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| • | "[the picture] shows the blond pop tart with a cigarette in her hand as she relaxes on the balcony of her hotel room in Sydney, Australia.", NY Post, May 2, '02
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| • | "a photographer has caught pop star Britney Spears on film smoking a cigarette. ... the singer's spokeswoman issued a 'no response' when asked whether Britney's smoking might encourage her young followers to light up", Associated Press, May 2, '02 |
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| • | "She smokes, she drinks, uses foul language, has shacked up with her now-ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync. But the smoking seems of particular interest.... The Web site smokingsides.com lists dozens of media accounts of Spears' recent escapades", St. Petersburg Times, May 4, '02
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| • | "The New York Post ran a photo - taken in Sydney, Australia - of Britney Spears smoking a cigarette. She was standing on a hotel balcony and didn't see the photog until it was too late. So much for her anti-smoking rhetoric ('I don't believe in drugs or even smoking')", Montreal Gazette, May 6, '02 |
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| • | "Britney Spears has landed in the news for doing something decidedly unwholesome: smoking a cigarette! The New York Post ran the shot, depicting a somewhat scantily clad Spears standing on a hotel balcony in Sydney, Australia; a cigarette is visible in her right hand", National Post, May 6, '02 |
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| • | "The Health Education Board for Scotland admitted that glamorous smokers such as Kate Moss, Britney Spears and Naomi Campbell send out the wrong message about the habit's effect on looks", The Mirror (UK), May 8, '02 |
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| • | "And as for chain-smoking Britney, she drowned her sorrows at a Japanese lap-dancing club and ended up stripping down to her bra", The Mirror (UK), May 14, '02 |
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| • | "Britney Spears' local church in Louisiana has urged her to seek forgiveness for her sins. The singer's squeaky-clean image has been ruined by reports of her smoking, under-age drinking and having lost her virginity to Justin Timberlake", MX, May 15, '02 |
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| • | "Bothered Baptists at Britney Spears' local church in Louisiana are beggi the wayward good girl to come back to the fold. After hearing reports of her smoking, drinking and being deflowered by Justin Timberlake, a spokesman for the Southern Baptist convention told British tabs, 'I would have preferred it if she wore more clothes and if she had waited and had sex after marriage. But Jesus will forgive her'. A rep for Britney's hometown abstinence support group, True LovWaits, says, 'Britney will be welcomed back'.", New York Post (Page Six Column), May 15, '02 |
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| • | "The good news is that God has evidently forgiven Britney Spears for underage drinking, smoking and losing her virginity before getting wed. The bad news is that He still appears to hate the rest of us enough to let her carry on 'singing'.", Daily Star (UK), May 16, '02 |
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| • | "Britney Spears's pastor is not pleased. He heard reports that she's been smoking and drinking and may even have been overly affectionate with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. 'I would have preferred it if she wore more clothes and if she had waited and had sex after marriage', the Southern Baptist Convention's Bob Sheffield told the British magazine Heat", Memphis Commercial Appeal, May 17, '02 |
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| • | "If you believe the magazine fodder, Britney was dumped by her boyfriend, got caught smoking on a balcony in Australia and was turned away at a bar for being underage", Seattle Times, May 24, '02 |
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| • | "Spears, who has claimed to be anti-smoking, is caught puffing a coffin nail in Australia ... maybe her newfound smoking, drinking and onscreen romping will garner the 'Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman' singer the adult fan base she craves", Boston Herald, Jun. 29, '02 |
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| • | "The [record] figures add to what has been a bad year for Britney. She split from long term love Justin Timberlake in March, her parents have since separated, and she has had to face tabloid reports that she smokes and has put on weight because of depression.", IMDB, Jul. 26, '02
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| • | "Every time Britney Spears does something that contradicts her carefully maintained image, even ordinary behavior like smoking a cigarette or drinking Coke instead of Pepsi, she comes under fire", Contra Costa (CA) Times, Jul. 30, '02 |
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| • | "Romantic problems, falling album sales and tales of fluctuating weight, have all played a part in the Britney story in recent months. Being spotted smoking didn't help matters either", The Scotsman (UK), Jul. 31, '02 |
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| • | no - "She doesn't know it yet, but she has made the papers again today, caught smoking a cigarette on a balcony in Australia by a long-lens camera. She is so busted. 'I'm sad, I'm sad, man', Britney says when she's told, trying not to smile. 'Uh, I don't have a recollection of me ever doing that. I'll have to see the picture. ... The only thing I'm addicted to is taking baths at night'", InStyle Magazine , Jul. '02 |
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| • | "Britney, 20, has got a reputation for her wild partying ways after being caught smoking and making a rude gesture at paparazzi", The Mirror (UK), Aug. 5, '02 |
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| • | "The Christian cutie has been spotted smoking, drinking and even heading to wild clubs in the States and Europe", Daily Star (UK), Aug. 6, '02 |
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| • | "Do you know that huddled over in a corner [at the Playboy mansion] was the very pure Ms. Spears--puffing on a fag? Forget virginity--lighting up is in a different daring dimension altogether. Wearing pajama pants, requisite midriff-baring top and a beige floppy hat (for that perf show-biz touch), our gal Brit couldn't have appeared more womanly. A woman perhaps headed for precarious health, just like this fool, but very grown-up just the same.", The Awful Truth (E!), Aug. 8, '02
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| • | "Last year she was photographed smoking a cigarette on holiday in Australia. Anti-smoking groups complained she was setting a bad example to youngsters", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 8, '02
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| • | "clean pop princess Britney Spears has been spotted smoking a cigarette. She was seen lighting up at a recent pajama party at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles", The Mirror (UK), Aug. 10, '02 |
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| • | "was photographed smoking on holiday", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 11, '02
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| • | "for months, stories of Britney Spears' wild antics have been swirling. She's boozing it up in nightclubs. She's smoking. She's heartbroken over Justin. She's giving the middle finger to photographers", USA Today , Aug. 22, '02 |
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| • | "Spears also addresses the criticism she's received as she's gotten older and shed her good-girl image. 'Smoking, drinking, sex - why is it sucha big deal with me? As you get to 20, you grow up, you experiment', shesaid. 'You feel more comfortable in your skin'", Associated Press, Aug. 22, '02 |
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| • | "Britney Spears says she's shedding her good-girl image and no longer claiming she'll remain a virgin until marriage. 'Until about a year ago, I was trying to fit an image and trying to be someone I wasn't', shesaid. Earlier this summer, the blond hit maker shocked fans when she wascaught smoking a cigarette", New York Post, Aug. 22, '02 |
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| • | "A teen role model no more, and 'not yet a woman', pop princess Britney Spears now says she no longer finds drinking, smoking and sex to be 'such a big deal'", Reuters, Aug. 22, '02
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| • | "Britney Spears has revealed that, her millions apart, she is no different from most 20-year-olds. The singer admits she smokes, drinks and has sex. 'I never wanted to hide who I was,' Miss Spears told an American magazine. 'But until a year ago I was trying to fit an image and trying to be someone I wasn't. 'Who cares if I've had sex? It's nobody's business. When my tour ended I was so excited I was off that I partied every night. I drink. Everything in moderation. Smoking, drinking, sex. If I mess up, I'm human. If I have a drink or I'm with someone, I'm human. I'm no different from anyone else my age'", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 23, '02
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| • | "Troubled Britney was brokenhearted after the boyband singer Justin Timberlake dumped her. And she worried fans who constantly saw pictures of her out partying, drinking and smoking", The Mirror (UK), Aug. 23, '02 |
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| • | "Spears was also recently snapped by paparazzi while she was apparently smoking a cigarette on the balcony of a hotel suite during her world tour.", website, Aug. 23, '02
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| • | "A friend of Britney's mum told me last night, 'Britney's not been taking care of herself and has lost focus. The split with Justin hit her hard -and her sorrows weren't exactly drowned - more buried 3,000 leagues under the sea. She has put on weight and started smoking. Her mum has told her she needs to sort it out'", The Sun (UK), Aug. 24, '02 |
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| • | "Like many of her college-age peers, Britney Spears likes to have a good time. Since her split last March from Justin Timberlake ... she has been seen hitting clubs ... several times a week. But in New York on one Saturday night in May, the 20-year-old singer seemed to be more restless than usual. Smoking cigarettes between orders of Malibu-rum cocktails, the famously go-go performer led her entourage on a manic clubbing spree.", US Weekly, Sep. 2, '02, p. 30 |
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| • | no - "In the past few months she has been photographed with a cigarette ('This may sound really cheesy, but I was holding it for a girlfriend') ... Spears, who turns 21 on Dec. 2, acknowledges that when the tour ended, 'the first week, I was so excited I was off that I partied every night. I drink'. But, she adds, 'everything in moderation. Smoking, drinking, sex--why is it such a big deal with me? As you get to 20, you grow up, you experiment. You feel more comfortable in your skin'", People Magazine, Sep. 2, '02
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| • | "'Britney hit the club scene pretty hard this past year and acquired a taste for red wine, champagne and cigarettes', a friend of the pop princess revealed", National Enquirer, Sep. 3, '02, p. 54 |
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| • | "'At the start of my holiday I just partied', Spears told a German magazine. 'Smoking, drinking, why is it such a sensation with me? I'm 20, I experiment, and I have no problem with nudity or sex'", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 4, '02 |
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| • | "She admitted in an interview with a German magazine that the split from N'Sync singer Justin hit her hard, adding: 'It was awful, it really threw me off track. He was, after all, my first love'. She admitted her attitudes to sex, smoking and alcohol had changed - and made it clear she had no problem with indulging in all three", The Express (UK), Sep. 4, '02 |
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| • | "Tricia Romano of the Village Voice reports Britney Spears puked while partying hard at the Tribeca Grand Video Music Awards after-party. A source says Spears 'wasn't feeling well' and after purging, an assistant helped 'put her face back on' before returning to the party. Meanwhile, in addition to drinking too much, spies say Spears was 'chain-smoking' throughout the evening.", website, Sep. 13, '02
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| • | Britney Spears was caught by paparazzi with a Marlboro Light in her hand, Bergen County (N.J.) Record, Oct. 30, '02 |
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| • | "Britney, 20, has been a changed character since the break-up last year, turning to drink and cigarettes and alienating her fans", Daily Star (UK), Oct. 31, '02 |
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| • | "The superstar who once told the world she didn't agree with sex before marriage and prayed every night was pictured falling out of nightclubs, cigarette in hand and sticking two fingers up at her fans", The Mirror (UK), Nov. 7, '02
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| • | the staff at Hard Rock (Las Vegas) complained that she sent people out for cigarettes without tipping them, Access Denied: High Rollers (The Travel Channel special), Nov. '02 |
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| • | "When Britney Spears split up with Justin Timberlake earlier this year, she headed straight to another man - Hollywood's top alternative medic, Dr. Steven Small. 'I was the one who recommended she take off six months from work,' he reveals. 'Her body fat is right on target - she isn't overweight at all. She's in great shape. Of course she does rigorous workouts every day. We didn't focus on weight, it was more about dealing with the fatigue. She drinks coffee in the morning and I told her to make sure she keeps her caffeine to a minimum because it would make her more tired. I also recommended it would be better for her to discontinue smoking'", Sunday Mirror (UK), Dec. 8, '02 |
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| • | "Initially, Britney had planned to lay low in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, but she has been hitting night spots across the United States drinking and smoking in a bizarre attempt to dump her good-girl image", The Scotsman (UK), Dec. 11, '02 |
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| • | "She should not have gone near a Coca-Cola can and she has also been pictured smoking and drinking, which is not the image we want", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 19, '02 |
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| • | "Spears has suffered major public-relations setbacks with the flop of her first movie, Crossroads, and the disastrous reviews that followed theopening of her Manhattan restaurant Nyla. Worse, she's lost her good-girlimage. First, she was caught ordering a Coke, then she was spotted smoking a cig", Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 20, '02 |
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| • | "In truth, over the past year, a new Britney has emerged. She was photographed smoking on holiday", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 20, '02 |
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| • | "'I may not ever get over her. I really do still love that girl', a big groan for Justin Timberlake, ex-boyfriend of chain-smoking pop singer Britney Spears", Sydney Daily Telegraph (Australia), Jan. 2, '03 |
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| • | "'She's not interested in getting back together with Justin because she's moved on and she thinks Fred Durst is really cool. He is the exact opposite of Justin and Britney loves it. She doesn't want to be a good girl any more, she likes drinking, smoking and going to nightclubs', said a source close to the singer", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 15, '03
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| • | "Most of us are battling to keep New Year's resolutions of cutting down on the drink and fags - but Britney Spears doesn't appear to be on a health kick. Here she is in all her glory having a crafty fag as she cruised through Los Angeles in her pounds 90,000 Mercedes earlier this week. Britney, 21, has admitted in the past that drinking and biting her nails are her worst habits. But it looks like smoking is the one that's proving hardest to break...", The Mirror (UK), Jan. 18, '03 |
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| • | "she ditched her devout Baptist mother's values ... the new drinking, smoking, swearing Britney even said she regretted speaking proudly of her virginity", Sunday Mail (UK), Jan. 26, '03 |
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| • | "Can this really be Britney Spears sporting a vest bearing the logo, 'Fuck You'? Yes it can. The once virginal star was taking a cigarette break during a session at a Hollywood nail salon before the premiere of new boyfriend Colin Farrell's film, The Recruit", Evening Standard (UK), Jan. 29, '03 |
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| • | "Spears pounced on Colin Farrell at the Troubadour in L.A., where Irish folk singer Damien Rice performed. Spears was among Farrell's loud, hard-drinking, chain-smoking entourage in the club's VIP lounge, where our spies spotted them tongue-wrestling", New York Post, Jan. 29, '03 |
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| • | "the craftily snatched ciggie is the final demolition of Britney Spears's goody two shoes image", w/pic from behind, holding, Daily Express (UK), Jan. 30, '03 |
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| • | "she's found a very bad boy to go with her smoking, drinking and obscene t-shirt...she was seen smoking and wearing a top with '**** you' emblazoned on the back...spotted coming out of parties drunk and was seen with a cigarette in her hand", w/pic from behind, holding, Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 30, '03
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| • | "was seen with a cigarette in her hand", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 30, '03
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| • | "while having her nails done for the Recruit premiere she was seen smoking and wearing a vest bearing the logo F*** You", The Sun (UK), Jan. 30, '03
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| • | "Irish stud Colin Farrell appears to have recruited Britney Spears to his hard-drinking, chain-smoking entourage. The pair were entwined at yesterday's Hollywood premiere of The Recruit, days after being spied smoking and smooching at a Los Angeles club", MX, Jan. 30, '03 |
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| • | "Just hours before hooking up with Colin Farrell, the 21-year-old was spotted smoking and wearing a tatty white vest with the words 'Fuck You' emblazoned across the shoulders. Britney, looking casual in tight jeans, stood outside a shop in Beverly Hills checking her phone and smoking a cigarette before she headed off with her bodyguard", Daily Star (UK), Jan. 30, '03 |
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| • | "recently spotted smoking", The Sun (UK), Jan. 31, '03
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| • | "at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival Britney Spears, theoretically in town to jump-start her acting career, hit a Chrysler Lounge party, where she sat on a couch chain-smoking Marlboros and snapping her gum while her 'people' debated whether she should meet fellow film enthusiast...Babyface", Entertainment Weekly , Feb. 7, '03 |
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| • | "That night Britney also proved that shes not that innocent - smoking three cigarettes", website, Feb. 11, '03
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| • | "Britney Spears has shed her squeaky-clean image and clearly doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks, as once she was afraid to be seen smoking in public. Now she's rarely seen without a fag", Daily Star (UK), Feb. 12, '03 |
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| • | "yet another heavy-smoking, hard-drinking night on the town...she stopped hiding the cigarettes to which she has been addicted for years. Now she is rarely seen without a Marlboro Light smouldering in her nicotine-stained fingers", The Mirror (UK), Feb. 13, '03
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| • | "on another night, at the Chrysler Lounge, (Spears) asked a staffer to get a pack of Marlboro Lights for her at midnight", US Weekly, Feb. 17, '03
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| • | "When a perky pop star pairs up with Hollywood's handsome devil du jour, don't count on candlelight and clever chat. Instead, on the morning of Jan. 28, Britney Spears, 21, was spotted in L.A. getting a manicure, wearing an odd sleeveless shirt and smoking a cigarette ... 11 a.m. Preparing for her night out, Spears, sporting a tank top bearing, in delicate, tasteful type, the words 'Fuck You', heads to a West Hollywood nail salon. Later, she steps out for a smoke", People Magazine , Feb. 17, '03 |
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| • | "[Fred Durst:] Britney drinks and smokes", Howard Stern, Feb. 27, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears wore a see-through shirt to seduce him on their first night together, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst told New York DJHoward Stern. 'She's definitely not the sweet, innocent little thing ... Shedefinitely parties too much. She drinks and smokes so much. I think it'ssomething she picked up', Durst said", Press Association, Feb. 28, '03 |
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| • | "there was a time when club promoters would kill to get Britney Spears into their VIP area. But when she behaves like a diva these days,they can't get rid of her fast enough. The fallen pop princess's latesthumiliation occurred when she was shown the door in an LA nightspot fordefying their smoking ban. In scenes that suggested the 21-year-old is doingeverything in her power to single-handedly trash her career, she was removedfrom fashionable Hollywood club Joseph's after a furious bust-up withmanagement. The row erupted after she and two gal pals were shown to thebest seats in the house. Blonde Britney promptly lit up a fag even thoughshe was in a no-smoking zone. When a club security officer asked her to stubit out, he was told by Britney's bodyguard that as she was such a big name,the rules didn't apply to her. But club bosses had other ideas and told herto sling her hook. A club insider who witnessed the whole incident reveals:'She thinks that, because she's Britney Spears, she can smoke if she wantsto - but not any more. Those days are over'", The Mirror (3AM Gossip Column) (UK), Mar. 6, '03 |
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| • | "Life's a drag for pop princess Britney Spears - as she is caught having a crafty smoke again. Britney, 21, has made millions from her squeaky clean image but lit up twice during a shopping trip in LA. An onlooker said: 'She was puffing away. It looked like she has a bit of a habit.' The star, who had a hit with Oops! I Did It Again, was also seen with a cigarette in her hand at a party last August", w/pic, dragging, The Sun (UK), Mar. 10, '03
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| • | "It's hard to say which looks more out of place - the prominent cigarette in Britney Spears's mouth or the giant of a man striding beside her. The pop star was caught lighting up on a shopping trip to Los Angeles as her oversized minder puffed away beside her. And even her bodyguard looked as if he couldn't help pointing the finger at her latest bad habit. The singer's wholesome image has taken a serious battering recently. Britney has been caught smoking, eating cheeseburgers, dating Hollywood's latest bad boy Colin Farrell and breaking Justin Timberlake's heart. There have also been rumours that she has had her nipples pierced. The 22-year-old and her bodyguard travelled in her new Range Rover on her latest outing. She picked up a bouquet of flowers before heading back to her jeep for another cigarette", Daily Record (UK), Mar. 11, '03
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| • | "has tried smoking, drinking, bad boys and late nights in her attempts to reinvent herself", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 3, '03
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| • | "The Britney workout. Stretches by the pool - then a sly cigarette...Miss Spears kept busy with a series of stretching exercises. Once her exertions were over, the blonde...acted quickly to dispel any suggestion she was becoming a fitness freak. She surreptitiously lit a cigarette then lay back in the sunshine to savour every puff", w/pic, "The reward: She lights up", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 5, '03 |
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| • | "Even when she's relaxing, Britney Spears obviously likes to keep in shape. As she lounged beside a pool during a break in recording her latest album, the 21-year-old pop princess put herself through a few gentle exercises. And her sunbed workout in an orange bikini brought admiring glances from onlookers at the luxury Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. 'She looked sensational,' said one. 'Everyone was watching her' But Britney, who had an intimate dinner with tycoon businessman Phil Maloof earlier this week, eventually let her fitness regime slip - as she lit up a cigarette", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 5, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears has been told to kick her hellraising lifestyle intotouch - or face the boot from her new boyfriend. Clean-living Phil Maloof -who's been dating the sexy singer for the past month - hates smoking and drinking. And the teetotal tycoon has made it clear to Britney he expects herto be just as health-conscious. Former squeaky-clean warbler Britney recentlyshook off her girl-next-door image by partying hard, smoking in public, andeven having her nipple pierced. But sources claim 36-year-old fitness freak Phil has told Britney: 'It's the booze and fags or me'. A insider revealed:'Phil doesn't smoke or drink and can't stand being around people who do.He's really fond of Britney but he has made it clear that he hates hersmoking around him. He just can't envisage enjoying a long-term romance withsomeone who drinks and smokes.' The source added: 'Britney got hooked on thefags because she's had such a traumatic time lately. 'But she is desperate toquit and has told Phil she will try her best to kick the habit because shedoesn't want to lose him.' Britney, 21, took care to keep her ciggie awayfrom her lover as they hugged before boarding his private jet at the end of aromantic break in gambling capital Las Vegas. Our mole revealed: 'Britney wasnervous about the flight and told Phil that she needed a cigarette to calmher down. He understood but told her that she really should stop - for herown good'", Daily Star (UK), Apr. 10, '03 |
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| • | "She smokes, she drinks and she's been unfortunate enough to have exchanged bodily fluids with Fred Durst. But bad girl Britney Spears has another vice to add to her increasingly long list of naughty behaviour. The 21-year-old singer has taken up gambling", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 17, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears has got it made in Manhattan. She was the talk of the ladies who shop after taking a trip around some of New York's most up-to-theminute boutiques wearing just a pair of daring hotpants and a revealingly skimpy top. ... And just to prove that there's no fire without smoke, Brit lived up to her new image by puffing on a swift ciggie", The Express (UK), Apr. 18, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears has taken our advice and gone hunting for a new wardrobe. The star, who's got a tattoo on her bottom, chain smokes and recently dated Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, wore hotpants for her shopping trip in Lower Manhattan", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 18, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears with a large group at Go Lounge drinking vodka at a back table, dancing and - defying Mayor Bloomberg - smoking", New York Post (Page Six gossip column), Apr. 21, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears knocking back vodka and chain-smoking at Go Lounge in New York", The Mirror (3AM gossip column) (UK), Apr. 22, '03 |
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| • | "But smoking is also reclaiming a 'sophisticated' and 'cool' reputation as pop idols such as Britney Spears and Charlotte Church are snapped cigarette in hand.", The Western Mail, Apr. 24, '03
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| • | "you get the feeling Britney realizes this last year has been a liberation, both personally and professionally. After the normal period of heartbreak hibernation, Britney has emerged to find she loves being single --- single, really, for the first time in her adult life. She also seems to have finally realized she's the hottest freakin' babe on the planet. And a bonus? That the media obsession with the pesky virgin issue has waned. She smokes, she drinks and, like every other 21-year old woman, so what if she has the odd casual snog?", Glamour Magazine (UK), Apr. '03 |
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| • | "She was hitting trendy clubs in L.A. and N.Y., drank alcohol regularly and was repeatedly photographed with a cigarette in her hand ... Fact remains that few people still believe she's a virgin. 'I get so tired of that! Who cares whether I had sex or not? That's no one's business. I'm not going to do a press conference when it happens! I'm only human. Yes I have a drink now and then, I smoke and I date. I'm no different any girls my age'", Celebrity Magazine (The Netherlands), Apr. '03 |
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| • | "B.S. was partying Tara Reid style, and I'm not just talking about liberal use of eyeliner--she was smoking like a freight train and knocking back shots, say the slot sleuths.", E! Online (Ted Casablanca's Awful Truth), May 1, '03
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| • | "Britney Spears quickly leaving Underbar in the Bryant Park Hotel after being asked to put out her cigarette", New York Post (Page six), May 2, '03 |
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| • | "SIGHTINGS: Vodka-sipping Britney Spears being asked to put out her cigarette at Show nightclub", New York Post (Page Six gossip column), May 6, '03 |
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| • | "She has made no secret of enjoying a drink, and even a smoke, since her career hit crisis point last year after her split from Justin", Daily Star (UK), May 7, '03 |
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| • | "SIGHTINGS: Britney Spears asking permission to smoke, and abstaining when she was denied, while drinking hot-and-spicy martinis and 'hurricane shots' at Acme Bar & Grill", New York Post (Page Six gossip column), May 8, '03 |
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| • | "SIGHTINGS: Britney Spears, in leather halter and jeans, was at the Capitale launch party for Playboy's new CD series. The chain-smoking pop tart left as she arrived - in a taxi", New York Daily News, May 11, '03 |
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| • | "This spring and summer, celeb-hungry gawkers can skip the velvet-roped clubs and cruise the streets for some nighttime stargazing. That's because Manhattan's new smoking ban, which went into ironclad effect on April 30 (after a 30-day grace period) and prohibits cigarettes in bars and restaurants with very few exceptions, is forcing many nicotine-craving A-listers out of their private VIP rooms and on to very public city corners for their smoke breaks ... Even pop star Britney Spears isn't above the law -- she was asked to put out her cigarette at Underbar and Show nightspots recently", USA Today, May 12, '03
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| • | "Alongside bodyguards and inside a trashy outfit, Britney Spears the felon at Suede. Puffing and inhaling and exhaling and smoking and flicking and lighting up and stubbing out and breaking the law, she was. This kind of criminal action must cease and stop!", New York Post (Cindy Adams gossip column), May 19, '03
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| • | "We went to a party in the Ritz Carlton the other night and there were a few celebrities there. Guess who walks in with a cigarette in her mouth. None other than Britney Spears. She smoked and smoked and smoked. She was only there for about 2 hours but she went through 7 cigarettes while I was there. I can guarantee this to because she had her own ashtray which was empty when she received it. Smoking like that means she probably smokes 2 packs a day now.", netizen, May '03 |
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| • | "Pop chanteuse Britney Spears inhaling illicitly", Variety, May 26-Jun. 1, '03, p. 66 |
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| • | "Britney Spears has been accused of throwing her bad-girl attitude around at a New York nightclub ... Fellow clubbers reported Spears, 21, whose clean-cut image has taken a battering of late after being spied drinking and smoking was 'very tipsy and very wild. She's been getting soused a lot lately'", MX (Australia), Jun. 5, '03 |
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| • | "If Britney Spears' squeaky-clean image wasn't already up in smoke, then it certainly is now - because the naughty singer has been caught lighting up yet another fag. The pop princess - admired by a huge and impressionable teenage following - sparked up while taking a quick lunch break from the recording studio. And the gorgeous megastar, who's set to have her own waxwork at London's museum Madame Tussauds later this year, seemed a little stressed out as she had a bite to eat at the trendy Savore restaurant in Manhattan. Thank goodness Britney had a soothing nicotine fix to help her calm down", Daily Star (UK), Jun. 13, '03 |
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| • | "They weren't the only A-listers MIA from the [World's Most Powerful Celebrity] list. Last year's number one, pop thongbird Britney Spears ... fell off the list entirely after having a tough 2002 that included her breakup with Justin Timberlake ... her movie-debut bomb Crossroads, tales of wanton drinking and smoking", yahoo, Jun. 20, '03 |
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| • | "While cruising in the Bahamas, Britney Spears took time to fish for belly button lint. Then she and a friend celebrated her success with a leisurely smoke", National Enquirer, Jun. 24, '03 |
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| • | "Britney and a friend had lunch at Baluchi's Indian Food Factory, in the East Village, New York. Mid-meal Britney stepped outside for a quick smoke. The two of them shared chicken tikka, Baluchi shrimp curry, chicken tikka masala, rice and a cheese naan bread", Worldofbritney.com, Jul. 1, '03 |
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| • | "New York City's law has sparked a million 'butts' jokes in the tabloids and turned celebrities such as Britney Spears into alleged scofflaws for illegally puffing away", USA Today, Jul. 2, '03 |
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| • | "pooh-poohed her bad-girl reputation, despite furiously puffing away on a cigarette throughout the entire interview", ITV website, Jul. 8, '03
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| • | "She lights a cigarette during the interview and shrugs. 'I was never hiding anything', she says. 'It was the people around me that were hiding me'", USA Today, Jul. 9, '03 |
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| • | "Club owners will go to great lengths to protect their clientele.'Britney Spears was coming to the Lounge on Thursdays', says Cheryl Davis, who along with husband Art Davis owns the Los Angeles clubs Lounge, A.D. and the upcoming Kama Sutra. 'She doesn't want to be photographed smoking so we put up an enclosed awning outside so she could smoke in peace'", Variety, Jul. 21-27, '03 |
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| • | "she asked a staffer at a bar lounge to get her a packet of cigarettes at midnight", Australian Cosmopolitan, Jul. '03
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| • | "The trio later had lunch at a Mexican eatery, where Britney relaxed with a cigarette, before they hit the shops again", Daily Star, Aug. 6, '03 |
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| • | "While a dishevelled Britney was smoking and shopping in Los Angeles on Monday, just a few blocks away 12-year-old Jamie Lynn was attending a film premiere ... she is smoking and has pimples on her chin, a world away from the clean cut and clean-living girl she once was. ... She recently admitted that as well as having sex, enjoying a drink and having an addiction to cigarettes, she has experimented with hard drugs", Daily Mail, Aug. 6, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears is struggling to quit smoking before her comeback. A source says: 'Britney's tried everything from nicotine patches to acupuncture to try and kick it for good, but it's no use. Her mom is always on her back about it'", Daily Record (UK), Aug. 8, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears' mum is nagging her to give upfags before she launches her new album. But the singer, who's blown away her squeaky clean image by smoking, drinking and clubbing, is struggling. 'Britney's tried everything from nicotine patches to acupuncture to try and kick it for good, but it's nouse,' a friend said", MX (Australia), Aug. 11, '03 |
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| • | "The smoke's on Britney. Cig-toking Britney Spears is battling her addiction to the dreaded weed, according to reports. The smoking songstrel has been caught by the paps (sounds painful) on numerous occasions taking a sly puff. But she now intends to knock the fags on the head in time for the release of her next album...Attempts to kick the nasty habit have so far proved fruitless. Although not going out with Colin Farrell is surely a step in the right direction as far as becoming cig-free is concerned. An insider blabbed to America's Teen Hollywood hacks: 'Britney's tried everything from nicotine patches to acupuncture to try and kick it for good, but it's no use. Her mom is always on at her back about it' ", The Star (UK), Aug. 11, '03
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| • | "B.S. chain-smoked her way through the entire meal--much to the chagrin of those prissy non-puffing types situated around her politically incorrect ass.", E! Online (Ted Casablanca's Awful Truth gossip column), Aug. 21, '03
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| • | "Britney Spears lets it all hang out during rehearsals for an MTV show. The Baby One More Time singer seemed to have cast aside her squeaky-clean image as she smoked a cigarette while wearing a revealing sports top. But she's either toned down her gruelling fitness regime - said to include 300 sit-ups a day - or she wore the wrong pants for the shoot. The flies on her trousers gaped open as she puffed on a fag during a break from filming", Daily Record (UK), Aug. 22, '03
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| • | "It's hard not to believe Spears when she insists the press has embellished her wild side, if only because these days, at least, she makes so little effort to hide her less demure behavior. 'I was never hiding anything', she says, holding up her pink, rhinestone-paved Versace lighter to a cigarette and shrugging when asked why the tabloids made such a fuss recently over her smoking. 'It was the people around me that were hiding me. The publicists would call me and they were like, 'Oh, my God. This was in the newspaper'. And I'm like, 'Cool'. I mean, what are you going to do? I think if I sat there and tried to hide it, it would look kind of stupid. Honestly, because I know I'm not supposed to do it, it makes me want to do it'", W Magazine, Aug. '03
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| • | "Pop queen Britney Spears has fought a running battle with her cigarette habit - but nothing seems to have worked. The singer has tried everything from nicotine patches to acupuncture to try and kick the habit. After enjoying lunch with friends in Santa Monica, California, Britney was spotted lighting up in public yet again. Her current image is a world away from the clean-cut, squeaky-clean schoolgirl look she presented to the world when she first found fame with Hit Me Baby One More Time. Health campaigners in the States have urged her to stop smoking so that her teenage fans don't follow suit.", Evening Times (UK), Aug. 19, '03
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| • | "Other smokers or former smokers of the brand [Marlboro Lights] include Britney Spears", The Observer (UK), Aug. 24, '03
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| • | "When she wasn't sticking her tongue down Britney Spears's throat, Madonna was nagging the singer about her health. During rehearsals for the MTV Video Awards, Madge, 44, told 21-year-old pop princess Britney to quit smoking. 'Madonna was telling her she shouldn't smoke', said Liz Rosenburg, Madonna's rep.'It was a really funny exchange, but Britney said she liked the way cigarettes made her voice sound'", The Mirror (3am gossip column) (UK), Sep. 4, '03 |
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| • | "[Madonna] did chastise Britters throughout rehearsals for her consistent smoking. Madge has done a complete turnaround since her puffing days of the early 1990s where she was rarely spotted without a fag or cigar.", Peoplenews.com, Sep. 4, '03
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| • | "defiantly lit up", New York Daily News, Sep. 19, '03
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| • | "Britney Spears was there for hours, and she was illegally smokin' up a storm...When the other guests saw her light up, they thought that what was good for Britney was good for them, and they lit up, too. So anywhere she went at Butter it instantly became the unofficial smoking section", New York Post, Sep. 19, '03
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| • | "Britney and Demi light up New York. Cigarette-loving stars Britney Spears and Demi Moore have been defying the ban on smoking in public places in New York. Britney was smoking at hotspot Butter, where she was celebrating model Carmen Kass' 25th birthday", San Francisco Chronicle, Sep. 19, '03
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| • | "Britney and her pal Clarissa Jones summoned Clarissa's fella Joshua Clephas and Joshua's pal Tom Witchey to Santa Barbara's Four Seasons Hotel for some fun. 'It was a very unusual night;' says one source. 'The group sat outside, then moved in after the meal. They were in high spirits, drinking, smoking and cuddling. Britney then jumped up and joined the restaurant pianist to sing some of her new songs. She was very good and everyone was impressed - especially Tom, who seemed quite enamoured with her'. After the sing-song, Britney and the gang went for a smoke on the beach below. 'It was unbelievable. The four of them were huddled at the water's edge, then Britney dropped her jeans and had a wee on the sand'", The Mirror (3 am gossip column) (UK), Sep. 20, '03 |
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| • | "drinks, smokes and swears and has ditched the virginal look", The Observer (UK), Sep. 21, '03
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| • | "a cigarette in her hand", New York Daily News, Sep. 23, '03
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| • | "laughed and chatted with her friends as they ate, drank and smoked under a heat lamp ... The group then went to the beach, huddling close for a smoke", In Touch Weekly, Sep. 29, '03
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| • | "Britney says the word 'freakin'' a lot. If she isn't dragging a Marlboro Light, she'll be sucking on an iced cafe latte. ON SMOKING: 'I want to give up I really do. But when I'm recording, I go into the studio and everyone's smoking. It's like a zone you go in. But I'm hoping that when I go on tour I won't smoke anymore. With all the dancing I won't be able to'", Elle (UK), Sep. '03 |
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| • | "According to the Daily Mirror, Madonna was overheard nagging Spears about her smoking. One time during rehearsal, she actually told Britney that she really should give up the bad habit. 'Madonna was telling her she shouldn't smoke,' said spokeswoman Liz Rosenburg. 'It was a really funny exchange.'", website, c. Sep. '03
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| • | "Tourists taking in the sights of Broadway were dreaming what fun it would be to meet a star - when Britney Spears popped up from a sunroof and said a warm hello. The singer was en route to the last night of Nine, starring Antonio Banderas, when she made her entrance - cigarette in hand. One onlooker said: 'It was such a surprise'", The Mirror (UK), Oct. 7, '03 |
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| • | "Britney wasn't exactly looking glam in her baseball cap and was clutching a cigarette", Sun (Online), Oct. 7, '03
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| • | "Cig-toking popstrel", Daily Star (UK), Oct. 7, '03
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| • | "Britney hung outside her bus with Columbus and smoked during breaks. At one point, Columbus yelled something to Britney as she went in her bus, and Britney came out with a lighter. ... She playfully punched bodyguard at one point, but mostly smoked and talked to people from her team.", netizen sighting, Oct. 11, '03
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| • | "Britney and new beau Columbus Short bought cigarettes and then smoked a flavored tobacco hookah pipe", US Weekly, Oct. 13, '03 |
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| • | "fired up cigarettes, despite Manhattan's stringent smoking ban", USA Today, Oct. 20, '03
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| • | "chain-smoked Marlboro Lights and sipped brandy alexander drinks", London Evening Standard, Oct. 27, '03
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| • | "It seems Britney's diva demands are cause for concern for her personal fitness trainer. Joe Dowdell said: 'She needs to be in peak condition for her upcoming tour and I'm in charge of getting her back in shape. Britney's really fit but things like alcohol and cigarettes are never good for the body and soul. I'm planning on putting her on a strict low-carb, high protein diet so that she is the fittest she can be'", The Express (UK), Oct. 27, '03 |
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| • | "Spears- who dances through the air on a swing in the video, yet smoked nonstop during breaks from shooting- wears a shoulderless black leather strappy top and skintight pants.", US Weekly, Oct. 27, '03, p. 36 |
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| • | "chain-smoked Marlboro Lights and sipped brandy alexander drinks", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 27, '03
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| • | "Britney's poor health follows a series of late nights, mammoth boozing sessions and heavy smoking in London and Paris", The Sun (UK), Nov. 3, '03
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| • | "Britney has become increasingly known for her party lifestyle. During her time in London she threw a party at the capital's trendy Rex nightclub, where she was seen downing vodka and tonics and chain-smoking", The Express (UK), Nov. 4, '03 |
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| • | "Forget about same-sex kissing: For Britney Spears, even a minor transgression like being caught smoking or staying out late - normal infractions for most people - is cause for a stir. She can't just be herself without the whole world reading about it", MTV, Nov. 10, '03 |
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| • | "On her new album and in countless skin-baring magazine spreads and accompanying interviews, Spears has gone to pains to prove that she's no one's innocent naif anymore. She drinks. She smokes", USA Today, Nov. 12, '03 |
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| • | no - "Ok, This is the thing, I am cutting back, I have a tour to do soon, I am cutting back because there is not way in hell I can be on stage and perform the way I want to while smoking.", ABC Primetime, Nov. 13, '03 |
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| • | "Britney has been slapped with a smoking ban by ABC TV bosses. She was planning to open her upcoming In The Zone TV special with a lounge-style scene, in which she'd be smoking a cigarette, but TV chiefs didn't like to see her indulging. She says, 'I was actually supposed to smoke a cigarette at the beginning but they took that out. It's supposed to be like very cabaret, so now I'm just having a Martini glass'.", website, Nov. 14, '03
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| • | "[BBC interview] If you go out and have red wine with your dinner it's like, 'Oh my gosh, she's drinking, Britney was caught smoking.' You know, people have to realize you're human just like anyone else and people have to give you a break a little,", website, Nov. 16, '03
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| • | "In a BBC radio interview, the star, criticized for drinking and smoking in public, urged people to be realistic. 'If you go out and have red wine with your dinner it's like, 'Oh my gosh, she's drinking, Britney was caught smoking.' You know, people have to realize you're human just like anyone else and people have to give you a break a little'. she said", Associated Press, Nov. 17, '03 |
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| • | "Add her lip-lock with Madonna, cigarette smoking and tales of wild party escapades, and the former Mousekeeter seems to have turned into a Girl Gone Buck Wild", AP, Nov. 20, '03 |
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| • | "So how tough had it been going through her teenage years in the public eye? 'It is a hard thing. I'm still learning, like, if I go out and have a red wine or a cigarette and they see, ohmigod Britney's drinking or smoking. You have to let them know you're human, just like everyone else' ", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 20, '03
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| • | "Like her tear earlier this year through virtually half the nightclubs in New York (where she couldn't even light up a cigarette without tabloids making a huge fuss)", Entertainment Weekly, Nov. 21, '03 |
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| • | "So how tough had it been going through her teenage years in the public eye? 'It is a hard thing. I'm still learning, like, if I go out and have a red wine or a cigarette and they see, ohmigod Britney's drinking or smoking. You have to let them know you're human, just like everyone else'", Sunday Mail (Australia), Nov. 23, '03 |
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| • | "Britney Spears enjoyed a really wild Thanksgiving Day with pals in Hawaii ... Britney, who celebrates her 22nd birthday next week, drunk, smoked and made merry - flashing her boobs along the way", Daily Star (UK), Nov. 29, '03 |
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| • | "has been puffing on a scale that would shame [heavy smoking soap character] Dot Cotton. She may be young and lovely now but she'll have to watch out for wrinkles if she doesn't kick this nasty habit", The People (magazine section) (UK), Nov. 30, '03 |
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| • | "Since her absence from the charts, all we've seen of Britney Spears are pictures of her looking tipsy and smoking ... NW: You've been seen drinking and smoking. Britney: Going out, partying, having fun is normal for a 21-year-old girl. Give me a break about that", New Woman Magazine, Nov. '03 |
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| • | "Eye witnesses report that Brit was on her 'best behavior'--abstaining from cigrattes and sticking to soda pop all night.", US Weekly, Nov. '03 |
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| • | "On Tuesday night Britney along with two male friends entered a popular gay bar in New York's east village ... Britney had a few drinks and smoked a cigarette", Britneynieuws.com, Nov. '03
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| • | "Britney Spears spared herself for her 22nd birthday on Tuesday by having a fag, a cruise around in her car and a fruit juice. After visiting Jamba Juice, she cruised around in her Merc convertible with a pal before returning to her Santa Monica condo. There she was spied having a quick fag on her penthouse balcony", Daily Record (UK), Dec. 4, '03 |
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| • | "Up until the Christina outburst, Spears had answered questions politely, though sometimes huffily You ask how many cigarettes she smokes a day. She says, curtly, 'Nine million'. Nine million, huh? You must have lungs of steel. 'Yep'. Then, 'I don't fucking know. I'm sorry if I seem a bit bitter', she says in her least apologetic voice, 'but I've done a million interviews, and it's the exact same question every time' ... she prefers to hang out with her girlfriends. They have, she says, recently discovered hookahs. Spears's favorite smoke is strawberry flavored tobacco", Blender, Dec. '03 |
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| • | "She pooh-poohs her bad-girl reputation, revealing that she's not as wild as the press makes her out to be -- while fearlessly smoking a cigarette throughout the interview", W Magazine, c. '03 |
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| • | "After spending New Year's Eve over-indulging on Cristal champagne, the party-loving pop princess had to be carried out of a Las Vegas nightclub. Earlier in the year she was kicked out of fashionable Hollywood club Joseph's after defying their smoking ban", The Mirror (UK), Jan. 2, '04
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| • | "usually puffing on a cigarette and stumbling drunkenly out of trendy clubs in the early hours", Scottish Daily Record, Jan. 5, '04
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| • | "At Main Street's upscale Riverhorse restaurant, the staff found out the hard way during last year's festival how much pop star Britney Spears likes her nicotine. Spears attended one of the many private parties scheduled every year at Riverhorse and was intent on smoking while there, said Jeb Griffith, restaurant service manager. Griffith is in charge of enforcing Utah's ban on public smoking in the restaurant and explained to Spears that if she wanted to smoke, she had to go outside. The singer snuffed out her cigarette - at least temporarily. 'No sooner would she put one cigarette out and I'd turn around, she'd light up another one,' Griffith recalls. This happened several times", Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 14, '04
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| • | "She smokes, drinks, got married for a day and now seems to like the biker look", Scottish Daily Record, Jan. 28, '04
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| • | "[Britney tried to take a cigarette out of a novelty dispenser on the table and it jammed, tried a couple of times but it kept jamming on her] Maybe it's a sign I shouldn't smoke", Ellen Degeneres Show, Feb. 12, '04 |
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| • | "The superstar, in Atlanta for Tuesday night's concert at Philips Arena, popped into Mick's with her mother, a beefy bodyguard and a business associate for dinner Monday night ... At the conclusion of the meal, we're told that Spears snuck outside for an after-dinner smoke and posed for pictures with fans", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Peach Buzz gossip column, Mar. 25, '04 |
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| • | "Though she has claimed to be 'cutting back on smoking' while touring, Spears lit up before her live concert. And after; at 1 a.m., Spears and five friends danced and drank coctails at hot spot Opium Garden. 'Britney was so wild', a source tells us", US Magazine, Apr. 12, '04 |
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| • | "It is easy to know the most trivial details of Spears's life: her brand of cigarettes (Marlboro)...confessed - finally - to trying out smoking", The Observer (UK), Apr. 18, '04
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| • | "Britney lights up...she was smoking as well", w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 23, '04
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| • | "on a break in Los Angeles, `Britney looked a bit of a mess,' an onlooker said. 'She was dressed in clothes that didn't match and her shirt was only buttoned up halfway, making her look even more casual. She was just slouching about. To top it all off, she was smoking as well", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 23, '04 |
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| • | "a snivelling, fag-wielding moocher", Daily Star (UK), Apr. 27, '04
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| • | "now regularly seen puffing on cigarettes", Daily Express (UK), Apr. 27, '04 |
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| • | "I'm a hard-working girl. For this concert tonight I flew in from Los Angeles, came straight to the venue, had a four-hour sleep and then went straight on stage. Yet people only see me in the papers coming out of clubs or smoking a cigarette and it gives the wrong impression", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 28, '04 |
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| • | "Why did Britney Spears mime throughout her Wembley Arena concert on Monday night? The 22-year-old pop princess is constantly out of breath on-stage due to her 40-a-day smoking habit. Says my mole: 'Britney is hoping to arrange a meeting with hypnotist Paul McKenna to help her quit the evil weed'", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 28, '04
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| • | "Britney Spears topped a night out at a Scots bowling alley by munching caramel wafers with her pals. The Toxic singer partied until 5am on her first night in Scotland ... One staff member said: 'She was very sweet, but I was shocked at how many cigarettes she smoked'", Daily Record (UK), Apr. 30, '04 |
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| • | "She was very sweet, but I was shocked at how many cigarettes she smoked", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Apr. 30, '04
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| • | "has turned to celebrity hypnotist Paul McKenna to help her quit her smoking addiction...Britney had told American TV show host Diane Sawyer last year that she was trying to cut back the amount of cigarettes she was smoking. 'I am cutting back. I have a tour to do and I'm cutting back on smoking because there's no way in hell I can be on stage and perform the way I want to,' rate the music quoted Britney as saying", WebIndia, May 5, '04
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| • | "smokes a cigarette with bitten-down fingernails", w/pic, Bild-Zeitung (Germany), May 5, '04 |
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| • | "I am cutting back. I have a tour to do and I'm cutting back on smoking because there's no way in hell I can be on stage and perform the way I want to.", website, May 5, '04
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| • | "a girlfriend arrived bearing Jamba Juice and cigarettes", "tear-smudged black eye makeup, taking drags on one of her ever-present cigarettes", "Britney's been dropping pounds on a diet of sweets, caffeine and cigarettes", "Cigarettes and coffee. That's her way of dieting.", US Magazine, May 10, '04, p. 47 |
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| • | "says an insider, 'Kevin and Britney shared cigarettes throughout the night.'", Star, May 10, '04, p. 44 |
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| • | "Britney sipped spring water, puffed on a Marlboro Light and", Star, May 10, '04, p. 46 |
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| • | "The ex-girlfriend of Britney Spears' current flame - dancer Kevin Federline - tells US Weekly she isn't happy. Actress Shar Jackson says she has been dating the 26-year-old Federline for three years. She said, `If she and Kevin want to be a couple, then that's fine with me. They might be perfect for each other. You both smoke, you both drink and you both cheated on significant others after three years. You guys are made for each other'", Philadelphia Daily News, May 12, '04 |
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| • | "Now 22, her stage act features simulated sex, while off stage she has been boozing, smoking heavily and canoodling publicly", News of the World (UK), May 16, '04
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| • | "They sat close together on a towel as they smoked cigarettes", National Enquirer, May 17, '04, p. 3 |
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| • | "Britney Spears was left fuming after being told there is a smoking ban in Ireland and she'd have to puff on the streets with the rest of the public. The pop star was furious when she was told by tour bosses that she wouldn't be able to light up in any bars, restaurants or shops during her visit to Ireland next week. A source close to Britney, who performs four concerts in Ireland next week, said: 'She is aware of the smoking ban and was pretty surprised to say the least when she first found out about it. There's no secret of the fact that Britney smokes but she can't go out on the streets with the public or she would be mobbed. 'Also she has been trying hard to clean up her image and not be pictured smoking anymore but this is going to blow all that.' The star will be free to smoke in her penthouse suite at Dublin's Westbury hotel but it will be a different story when she leaves the confides of the luxurious city centre location. She won't even be allowed to smoke in the backstage restaurants at the Point where she will spend most of her time before the concerts. The source added: 'Britney's first reaction was 'this has to be a joke - there's no way they can stop you smoking'. But she soon realised that the ban is for real and she's going to have to rough it outside with the rest of the public if she wants a cigarette break during her outings. She said she wants extra security with her in case she does have to nip out but that's about all she can do'", The Mirror (UK), May 29, '04 |
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| • | "smoked one cigarette after another", Bild-Zeitung (Germany), May 30, '04 |
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| • | "Spears hit Dublin yesterday with her two most prized possessions - her boyfriend and her credit card and went to the exclusive Rococo shop... The sexy performer, who nearly pulled out of her Irish gigs in reaction to the no smoking ban, lit up a cigarette the minute she left Rococo and she puffed on it before being whisked back to her luxury hotel", The Mirror (UK), Jun. 2, '04 |
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| • | "I started smoking because of the work I deal with and the people. I have to crave something and when I go on break, I took up smoking", Onlookers Magazine (Japan), Jun. 18, '04 |
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| • | "looked very much in love as she puffed on a cigarette and waved to fans", Scottish Sunday Mail (UK), Jun. 19, '04
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| • | "Britney looked very much in love as she puffed on a cigarette and waved to fans as she and Federline who is a dead ringer for her ex Justin Timberlake stood on the balcony", Sunday Mail (UK), Jun. 20, '04
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| • | "often seen puffing away on cigarettes", The Scotsman (UK), Jun. 22, '04
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| • | "Spears is proof that you can't buy class. We caught the rich little blonde singer casually tipping her ashtray onto the roof of her neighbours below. . . without a flinch of guilt. As the Fag-ash Lil dumped her butts, she flashed her two carat, marquis-cut diamond ring which her fiance, dancer Kevin Federline, gave her", Daily Star (UK), Jun. 28, '04 |
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| • | "Britney Spears, 22, showed off the enormous rock given to her by new fiance Kevin Federline on the balcony of her swish Los Angeles apartment- and then proceeded to empty an ashtray full of ciga |
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