Female Celebrity Smoking List - Franklin

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Aretha Franklin

Quit = Probably has

Profession = actress

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Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"

	•	quit - "surprisingly, until just a few years ago, Aretha smoked 40 cigarettes a day, though she says her voice has improved no end since she quit the weed", The Express (UK), Sep. 12, '98
	•	quit - "In an interview with Time, Aretha herself acknowledged this improvement: 'I stopped smoking in 1991,' she explained. 'It helped my voice tremendously. The clarity and everything. The range even increased'", Salon.com, Aug. 3, '99
	•	quit - "her decision over a decade ago to quit her two-packs-a-day cigarette habit", New York Times, Sep. 28, '03
	•	quit - "claims to have quit smoking in 1991", Miami Herald, Mar. 24, '04
	•	quit - "Aretha went on to claim that her voice has vastly improved since she quit smoking 13 years ago claiming that, 'There's a world of difference. A lot more clarity, range, everything.'", xs4all.nl, Oct. 3, '04
	•	quit - "she gave up smoking", Scotland on Sunday (UK), Nov. 11, '07
	•	quit - "gave up smoking a few years back", where?, when?
	•	quit - "'my voice is at an all-time high--the clarity, the range, everything.', Franklin says, attributing her pristine vocal quality to her ending her longtime addiction to cigarettes", website
	•	shown holding, "The Story of the Making of the Blues Brothers", Blues Brothers, The (1980) DVD, c. '80
	•	"As a teenager she had a crush on Sam Cooke and even switched cigarette brands, giving up Kools for Kents because Sam smoked Kents", Divas - The Site, when?

Pictures of her smoking

	•	two, one posed, one candid, both holding and from 60's/70's, Record Collector (UK), Feb. '01
	•	posted, holding, Sunday Express (S Supplement) (UK), Aug. 26, '01

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