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| • | "She quit smoking in the early '90s.", "sneaking cigarettes in the back seats of cars", "smoking Winstons", "I read, I smoke, and I admire", Washington Post, May 14, '00, p. A1
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| • | "I read, I smoke, and I admire", Dagbladet (Norway), Dec. 16, '00 |
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| • | quit - " 'I read, I smoke, and I admire.' She has since given up smoking", Sunday Times (UK), Dec. 17, '00
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| • | smoking Kents with girlfriends while ducking down in the car in high school or something, also how she and friends would sit around the pool smoking and playing cards, People Magazine, Jan. 29, '01 |
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| • | "After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a teaching degree, where she smoked ... sneaking cigarettes on joy rides", Washington Post, Mar. 22, '01 |
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| • | "We've heard that the first lady, who admits to a smoking habit in her youth, is said to take a puff out of public view", Washington Post, May 31, '01, p. C3
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| • | "the Bush girls like a drink and now we learn that their allegedly non-smoking mother Laura is said to puff out of public view", Daily Express (UK), Jun. 1, '01 |
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| • | no - "Q: Does either President or Mrs. Bush smoke? Do they allow smoking in the White House? Judy Meade, Santa Rosa, Calif. Neither smokes, and they're continuing the Clinton policy of a smoke-free White House. Hillary Clinton banned smoking soon after her husband's election, though he smokes an occasional cigar. They ended a long tradition of tobacco use in the White House, going back to Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge, who served cigars with breakfast. Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt and their wives preferred cigarettes; Jackie Kennedy and Pat Nixon also smoked. JFK puffed a cigar, and Gerald Ford a pipe, but no president or first lady since Ford's day has been a regular smoker.", USA Weekend, Jun. 3, '01 |
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| • | quit - "JUDY WOODRUFF: About you, it's been reported that you smoke. Now is this correct? (LAUGHTER) BUSH: That is not correct. WOODRUFF: Okay. BUSH: I did smoke, though. I used to. WOODRUFF: When did you give it up? BUSH: A long time ago. WOODRUFF: Did -- was it because of the public arena that had anything to do with it? BUSH: No, no. No, no, it was because of the health", CNN Inside Politics, Jul. 30, '01
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| • | quit - "The first lady also denied reports that she smokes cigarettes. 'That is not correct,' she said. 'I did smoke, though. I used to.' Asked when she gave it up, Mrs. Bush said 'a long time ago'", Associated Press, Jul. 31, '01 |
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| • | "Despite claims that she quit smoking in 1992, in truth Laura would, in times of stress, bum cigarettes off friends and sometimes even from reporters so long as no photographers were around to snap a shot of her with a cigarette in her mouth. During the 2000 presidential campaign, whenever she was satisfied there were no members of the press around, Laura bummed a cigarette off the nearest smoker and appeared to savor every drag", Washington Post, Oct. 29, '02 |
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| • | "It hardly seems worth asking if George and Laura love each other. They always have, and no one could ever suggest otherwise. So, however they're celebrating - curled up in bed with matching copies of Andersen, eating tamales (Laura's favorite) or having a drag (they're both former chain smokers) - the First Couple deserve best wishes for 25 years.", Baltimore Sun, Nov. 5, '02 |
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| • | quit - "extra-strong mints - an addiction ever since she gave up smoking", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 4, '03 |
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| • | quit - "as a former smoker, do you have the secret to quitting? Mrs. Bush: 'The secret is not to start'", People Magazine, Dec. 29, '03 |
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| • | "Laura is revealed as a woman who enjoys a cocktail, smokes in private, doesn't share the political views of her conservative Republican husband and sometimes treats him as a mischievous kid.", "She smokes in private, drinks margaritas with Mexican food and wine at cocktail time and dinner and out of public view.", Globe (US), Jan. 20, '04, p. 16-17 |
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| • | "First lady Laura Bush last week got on the topic of smoking-then got off it in a hurry. At a health event in Georgia, FLOTUS fielded this question from the horde: 'Not to be indelicate,' said the indelicate questioner, 'have you ever had to struggle with weight or a habit like smoking?' The ever-delicate first lady said: 'Sure, absolutely. That's why I say to people, don't start. ... You know, I hope especially that young women and men don't smoke, don't ever start smoking because it's difficult to quit. And it's also very difficult to lose weight. 'In fact, I think that's even more difficult,' she continued, then launched into a lengthy analysis on the battle of the bulge. It seemed as if she couldn't get grind out the butt topic quickly enough. Perhaps that was because rumors of her sneaky smoking habit persist. Last year, a waiter at a fundraising event told the White House Weekly that FLOTUS caused a panic in the kitchen as waiters scrambled to find a VIC (a 'Very Important Cigarette') for her. The Post reported in 2002 that while FLOTUS claims to have snuffed the habit in 1992, 'in truth Laura would, in times of stress, bum cigarettes off friends and sometimes even from reporters so long as no photographers were around to snap a shot of her with a cigarette in her mouth,' according to her 85-year-old mother, Jenna Welch.", White House Weekly, Feb. 10, '04 |
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| • | "Several people suggested at this point that Sharon [Bush] write a lighthearted book looking back on her life, giving little tidbits such as Laura [Bush] smoking on the porch at Camp David.", Vanity Fair Magazine, Apr. '04, p. 34 |
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| • | quit - "A well-read, well-rounded woman, she has always felt free to pursue her own interests - including bird-watching in Belize, river-rafting to celebrate her 50th birthday or privately savoring a cigarette, a habit she has kicked", New York Newsday, Aug. 30, '04 |
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| • | "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty", "maintains that George W. Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David while his father was president. That he and Laura Bush once enjoyed 'heavy pot-smoking parties' on the island of Tortola. That Laura Bush was 'a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana' back when she was a college student", New York Times, Sep. 16, '04
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| • | Sandra Bernhard claims Laura Bush currently smokes and her brand is Newport, CBS Late Late Show, Oct. 20, '04 |
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| • | "LAURA BUSH allegedly found her husband's re-election campaign so stressful that she was driven back to her chain-smoking ways, the N.Y. Daily News reports. 'Absolutely no one was allowed to see her smoking,' one Dubya campaign insider told the newspaper. 'At events where she appeared, there had to be a room off to the side where she could close the door and chain-smoke before and after she spoke.' The spin is that Mrs. Bush quit smoking at the same time President Bush swore off the drink and spokespeeps for the first lady insisted she didn't request the smoking room during the campaign. Insert your own 'smoke `em out of their holes' joke here.", Boston Herald, Nov. 8, '04 |
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| • | "Laura smokes too much. An inveterate smoker for forty years, the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, had succeeded in stopping smoking last year and was very happy about it, but the stress of the electoral campaign will be the winner. Laura is smoking like a chimney again and that was a headache for the political organisers during the campaign. Absolutely no one must see her smoking. The campaign over and Laura well-installed as First Lady, we now know that she smokes two packs a day. Her twins smoke too, but the President hasn't smoked for fifteen years", Planète Québec (Canada), Nov. 8, '04
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| • | "An intimate describes her as a 'very nice woman who's got a lot of problems and smokes constantly.'", "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty" by Kitty Kelly, '04 |
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| • | "[used to be quiet and] sit out on the porch reading and smoking cigarettes.", "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty" by Kitty Kelly, '04 |
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| • | quit - "Mrs. Bush is a former smoker and a neat freak", Washington Post, Jan. 20, '05 |
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| • | "self-described former smoker", Baltimore Sun, Feb. 5, '05 |
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| • | quit - "Laura Bush used to be a smoker, and last week, when she sat down with editors from Time Inc.-owned mags--including People--to discuss women's health issues (a pet cause of hers), she remembered those days: 'Yes, I smoked. I smoked. A lot of my friends smoked. George smoked.' She said she quit when she was trying to get pregnant, People reports, but would cheat a little here and there after the twins were born, and eventually quit cold turkey. How? 'Well, I think because my husband got elected' governor, she recalled. Mrs. Bush also said that she knows who the smokers are in the White House press corps: 'Because I can see out my window,' she said with a laugh. 'Do you want me to tell the ones?'", Washington Post, Feb. 11, '05
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| • | quit - "I smoked. A lot of my friends smoked. At times in my life, when I was younger, probably [a pack a day]. I quit when I started trying to get pregnant, and then of course I started smoking again--cheating a little bit after I had Barbara and Jenna. It's hard to quit", People Magazine, Feb. 21, '05 |
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| • | quit - "You may have heard rumors that she was smoking again because of the stress of last year's presidential campaign. Not true, says her White House spokesman. Mrs. Bush smoked as much as a pack a day in the early years of her marriage. She quit when she was trying to become pregnant, then fell back into the habit after she had the twins. She smoked until her husband was elected governor of Texas.", USA Weekend, Jun. 19, '05
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| • | "is said to have become a chain smoker. My Washington DC source says: 'She has appropriated a special room in the White House for smoking and is always dashing here for a puff. Sometimes she has lunch parties for fellow smokers'", Daily Mail (UK), Nov. 30, '05 |
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| • | "during a visit to Carolinas Medical Center, she marked American Heart Month by encouraging women to protect themselves against the disease by doing five things: Eat healthy, exercise, keep the weight down, see a doctor about risk factors, and, she said, stay away from cigarettes. What Bush didn't tell the Charlotte doctors and patients who greeted her: She's battled nicotine addiction herself. In fact, media reports persist that she's still a social smoker, bumming cigarettes during times of stress", Charlotte Observer, Feb. 20, '06 |
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| • | "And since Mrs. Bush is reputed to be a secret cigarette smoker,(Margaret Cho said) 'I think she's trying to kill him (Pres George W Bush)with second-hand smoke.'", New York Daily News, Mar. 20, '06
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| • | "continues to 'bum' cigarettes from friends, even though she officially quit smoking more than 10 years ago", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Mar. 26, '06
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| • | "News that Laura Bush was a smoker--and speculation that the she still puffs away ... is a staple of the glowing press coverage that celebrates the first lady's uncalculated, unpretentious, unpolitical style: Upon being introduced to her future mother-in-law, Laura Bush allegedly showed her non-Washingtonian chops by responding to a question about what she did for a living by saying 'I read, I smoke, and I admire'", The New Republic, Oct. 26, '06
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| • | quit - "A former smoker who has to prod herself to exercise, Laura Bush seems determined to practice what she preaches, working out to maintain heart health", AARP Bulletin, Jul./Aug. '07
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| • | quit - "A former smoker of Kent cigarettes, Laura liked salt-rimmed margaritas.", "A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush" by Ronald Kessler, when?
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| • | "Helen Taft smoked in her youth, but quit shortly after her marriage as did Laura Bush", website
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