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| • | Said that she had tried to quit but "kept going back", The Express (UK), c. '92/'93 |
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| • | "Marlboro-smoking", Sky Magazine (UK), Nov. '93 |
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| • | quit - "[in a PSA she] talks about the effort she and her father made to quit smoking. Choking back tears, she says her father died of lung cancer six months after he quit - he had waited too long.", Boston Globe, Mar. 15, '98 |
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| • | quit - "four years ago... she stubbed out her last Marlboro red", Black Book Magazine, Winter '98/'99, p. 107 |
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| • | quit - "Years later, she quit smoking for the first time but started again She said she tried the patch, hypnosis, acupuncture and a variety of other methods to break the smoking cycle but nothing seemed to work. She finally quit for good when she decided to 'just put the pack down and not pick it up again.' She hasn't smoked a cigarette in five years, three months and 10 days", AP, Jun. 14, '00 |
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| • | quit - "is to front the [UK] government's new anti-smoking campaign in a controversial move to persuade girls to give up. Ex-smoker Christy, who now campaigns against the habit with American Vice President Al Gore, shot the ads in the U.S. this week. Christy smoked for ten years until 1992 and became a campaigner after her father died of lung cancer in 1997. She is now spokeswoman for the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.", The Sun, Jul. 21, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Her father died of lung cancer three years ago, and she is - now - a passionate anti-smoker, campaigning alongside Al Gore for 'tobacco-free kids'", Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph Magazine supplement), Aug. 6, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Christy had quit smoking [in 1994] (she is now a fervent anti-smoking campaigner)", You magazine, Mail on Sunday (UK), Sep. 17, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Supermodel Christy Turlington is urging Americans to quit smoking by emotionally recounting her father's lung cancer death. She remembers her father, who died in 1997 after making a Christmas pact with his daughter to quit. Turlington agreed to join her dad in giving up cigarettes in 1996 after seven years of smoking, and says she'll never go back out of respect to her father and her own health", World Entertainment News Network, Nov. 29, '00 |
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| • | no - "I have never had a boyfriend who smoked. I never would. The last thing you want to do is kiss someone who smokes", World Entertainment News Network, Nov. 30, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Supermodel Christy Turlington was heading a campaign today to persuade smokers to kick the habit. Former smoker Christy, 31, whose father died of lung cancer, helped to launch a Government TV ad campaign urging people to call the NHS smoking helpline.", Daily Express, Nov. 30, '00 |
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| • | no - "If you want to win over supermodel Christy Turlington, you'd better throw out your cigarettes - her biggest hate is smokers. The stunning American, who used to smoke over two packs a day, revealed it was peer pressure that got her started, but resorted to acupuncture to cure her habit. Nowadays Christy, who has a degree in philosophy and religion, hates the smell of nicotine. She says, 'When I started modelling, I wanted to appear more grown up and smoking did that easily for me. By 16, I was smoking a pack a day.' Christy is convinced cliches of smoking supermodels are to blame for an increasing number of young women taking up the habit. She says, 'I stress to young girls that weight loss shouldn't be their main concern. I tell them to look around and notice people smoking, as there are as many large people smoking as thin, but I know myself how difficult it is to give up and I think smokers deserve compassion and respect'", World Entertainment News Network, Dec. 1, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Not only has Christy Turlington given up smoking, she won't allow the habit in her house...Although she started smoking before her catwalk days, high fashion served only to fix her craving for nicotine. 'When I started modelling I wanted to appear more grown up, and smoking easily did that for me. By 16 I was smoking a pack a day'", The Times (UK), Dec. 1, '00
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| • | quit - "Supermodel Christy Turlington has joined the Government's anti-smoking campaign. Her father died of lung cancer after smoking all his life. Christy also puffed away until she was 26. Now she is astounded to discover she is suffering early-stage emphysema at 31.", Daily Express, Dec. 2, '00 |
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| • | quit - "gave up smoking five years ago", Mail on Sunday (UK), Dec. 3, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Turlington disclosed she is suffering from early-stage emphysema. Although she quit smoking at age 26, the damage had already been done. 'The really frightening thing is, there was enough of an effect from my smoking that it caused permanent damage,' she told the British newspaper. 'When I started modeling, I wanted to appear more grown up, and smoking easily did that for me. By 16 I was smoking a pack a day,' said Turlington, who had her first cigarette at age 13", Mr. Showbiz, Dec. 3, '00
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| • | quit - "Turlington said she smoked up to a pack of cigarettes a day between the ages of 13 and 26, with a two-year break", South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Dec. 3, '00 |
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| • | quit - "had a pack-a-day habit by the age of 16, though she finally quit in 1995", Daily Mail (UK), Dec. 4, '00 |
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| • | quit - "A former pack-a-day smoker, Christy says she smoked from the time she was 13 until she was 26, with a two-year break. 'The really frightening thing is,' said Christy, 'there was enough of an effect from my smoking that it caused permanent damage'", Star magazine, Dec. 4, '00
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| • | quit - "She started at 13, a combination of teen rebellion and peer pressure. She rode horses, and in that world, she explains, smoking was considered a rite of passage. By 16, already a Ford model, she was puffing a pack a day to ease stress and appear more adult. At 19 she gave up for the first time, using hypnosis. 'I felt like I was addicted and I didn't like it,' she recalls. But at 21 she was back where she started. She quit the second time at 25, for good, using a nicotine patch", The Independent (UK), Dec. 5, '00 |
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| • | quit - said a special spiral CT scan revealed signs of early stages of emphysema due to smoking, discussed an antismoking special to be broadcast on ABC in the near future, Good Morning America, Dec. 5, '00 |
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| • | quit - "Model Christy Turlington, a former smoker turned tobacco prevention advocate, served as Master of Ceremonies at this year's [2000] Youth Advocate of the Year Awards.", website, c. '00
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| • | quit - "the former chain smoker has revealed vegetarian food and meditation will form the basis of her children's upbringing", World Entertainment News Network, Apr. 23, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Turlington has appeared in a British government advert calling for smokers to kick their habit. She has been an anti-tobacco campaigner since her father died from a smoking related disease in 1997. Christy herself only stopped puffing five years ago, and has recently been diagnosed with the lung disease emphysema. 'When I started modelling I wanted to appear more grown-up, and smoking did that for me. By 16, I was smoking a pack a day'", World Entertainment News Network, May 20, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Supermodel Christy Turlington has been a tireless anti-smoking campaigner since her father's death from lung cancer and her own lengthy struggle to give up the fags", Mirror (UK), Aug. 21, '01 |
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| • | quit - "Christy says she gave up alcohol and caffeine during her seven-year battle to quit cigarettes. 'I knew they'd make me want to smoke,' she tells the November issue of Glamour magazine. But now she has kicked the smoking habit for good and recently started treating herself to the odd glass of champagne and cup of java", New York Post, Oct. 7, '01 |
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| • | quit - "She has since launched her own skin care range and campaigned against tobacco. She was found to have early stage emphysema last year after years of smoking", Mail on Sunday (UK), Oct. 14, '01 |
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| • | "It took supermodel Christy Turlington seven years - 'and many tries' - before she finally quit smoking.", AP, Nov. 2, '01 |
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| • | quit - "The 32-year-old gave up alcohol and coffee. 'I knew they'd make me want to smoke', she said.", Associated Press, Nov. 5, '01 |
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| • | quit - "'As early as age 13 I lit my first cigarette. Out of curiosity, to be cool, and a bit to rebel against my parents...One cigarette became two, three and four, then a whole pack a day.' When, at 16, Christy got her first contract as a model, smoking was a part of daily life for her. And why not? Everyone did it. People who didn't were uncool...At 21 I tried to quit. For reasons of commonsense. I was not convinced.' Hypnosis and acupuncture didn't help at all. 'The personal will-power to stop was lacking.'...At the age of 26, she finally made the break, because she wanted to. After eleven years and 4380 packets of cigarettes. Since then the born Californian has committed herself to anti-smoking campaigns. She tries to convince children and teenagers above all of the fact that they are also hip without fags", Hamburger Morgenpost (Germany), May 29, '02 |
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| • | quit - "Having since graced the covers of thousands of magazines and the stages of numerous fashion shows, Turlington has forsaken the catwalk in favor of causes. Most recently, she's rallied against smoking as a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 'My life has been greatly affected by the drug in terms of personal addiction as well as the loss of my father,' the former smoker says on the CDC Web site. 'I won't take responsibility for anyone else's quitting, but I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit.'", Netscape Celebrity network, Aug. '04
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| • | quit - "When I started modeling, I wanted to appear more grown-up, and smoking easily did that for me. By 16, I was on a pack a day. The frightening thing is my smoking caused permanent damage. It seems so ironic - breathing is part of the process that sustains life; you breathe in cigarettes and they take your breath away", Fashionavenue.com, when?
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| • | quit - "It took supermodel Christy Turlington seven years 'and many tries' before she was able to quit smoking. The stunning catwalk queen, who lost her father to lung cancer, has now become an anti-smoking spokeswoman after she won her long battle with the wicked weed. She also gave up alcohol and coffee, explaining, 'I knew they'd make me want to smoke. I only recently started drinking them again.' Turlington also reconnected with something that made her feel powerful - yoga. 'It celebrates breath. Smoking just didn't make sense'", World Entertainment News Network, when? |
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