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| • | "Melanie C, the only Spice who doesnt smoke", Face Magazine, Oct. '96 |
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| • | "gasps Geri, as she casually takes a cigarette out of Mel B's packet", Select, Jan. '97
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| • | reportedly smoked cigarettes throughout the Brit Awards ceremony, The Sun (UK), early Mar. '97 |
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| • | bought a $1000 cigarette holder, about Spice Girls: "They all smoke fiendishly", Vogue, Jan. '98 |
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| • | Geri has a "40-a-day voice", FHM, Jul. '98 |
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| • | "between takes, the star was spotted smoking a few cigarettes to pass the time", Daily Mirror (UK), Mar. 30, '99
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| • | "Photographs of Geri Halliwell filming the video for her new single, Look At Me, showed her smoking between takes. The former Spice Girl has been a spokesman for the charity Breast Cancer Care. At the Cancer Research Campaign, an official complains: 'That Geri Halliwell is smoking when she is spokesperson for a cancer campaign shows how addictive smoking is.' A friend of Geri's tells me: 'Her role was to raise awareness of breast cancer among women. Geri is not an anti-smoking campaigner and will never be", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 31, '99 |
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| • | "pop stars Geri Halliwell and Robbie Williams were under a cloud yesterday. The pair were condemned for smoking in public - Robbie at the Brit Awards and Geri on the set of her new video. The former Spice Girl came in for particular criticism because of her work to raise awareness of breast cancer. Amanda Sandford, of anti-smoking group ASH, accused her of sending out mixed messages. She said: 'On the one hand, she seems to be doing quite a lot of work to draw attention to the causes of cancer, and on the other she does something which is a prime cause of cancer.' And Steve Woodward, of the Health Education Authority, added: 'as a role model to so many young women, we believe Geri should be more aware of her responsibilities to her fans.' But a spokesman for the singer said: 'Geri has campaigned about breast cancer specifically and has tried to raise awareness of the disease and help young women go and see their doctors. She has never campaigned against smoking, nor has she spoken out about smoking. Geri also got backing from the charity set up by Roy Castle, who later died from lung cancer. A spokesman at his Cause for Hope Foundation stressed that breast cancer had nothing to do with smoking and added: 'If she had been campaigning against lung cancer, it would be different'", Scottish Daily Record, Mar. 31, '99 |
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| • | "Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has come under fire from anti-smoking campaigners after she campaigned for a cancer charity - and then allowed herself to be pictured smoking. The singer, who has worked for Breast Cancer Care, was photographed puffing on a cigarette as she took a break from filming the video for her new single, Look At Me. Amanda Sandford, of the anti-smoking group ASH, said: 'It can undo all the good that health education messages can do. On the one hand she seems to be doing quite a lot of work to draw attention to the causes of cancer, and on the other she does something which is a prime cause of cancer. 'We would prefer stars not to be seen to be smoking in public.' Steve Woodward, smoking and cancers programme manager for the Health Education Authority said: 'As a role model to so many young women, we believe that Geri should be more aware of her responsibilities to her fans. Being photographed smoking a cigarette could lead to young women thinking it is cool and glamorous to smoke.' Geri, 25, was prompted to quit the Spice Girls last year because the hectic schedule did not give her enough time to speak out to raise awareness about breast cancer - an issue close to her. At the age of 18, she had an agonising wait to find out whether a lump found in her right breast was cancerous. However, a spokesman for the Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation said breast cancer was nothing to do with smoking. 'It is one of women's biggest fears, but smoking has no provable link, so far as I am aware, to breast cancer. If she was campaigning against lung cancer it would be different.' A spokesman for Halliwell said yesterday: 'Geri has campaigned about breast cancer specifically and has campaigned to raise awareness of the disease and help young women go and see their doctors. She has never campaigned against smoking, nor has she spoken out about smoking'", Evening Mail, Mar. 31, '99 |
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| • | "her attempts to ditch her naughty Spice Girl image took a knock last month when she was snapped smoking a cigarette, despite her support for cancer charities", Daily Record (UK), Apr. 10, '99 |
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| • | "Geri throws herself onto one of the sofas and lights a Silk Cut. 'It's my New Year Resolution! I started smoking again!' She takes a few puffs, then stubs it out", Vogue (UK), May '99
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| • | "cigarettes hidden in handbag", Q, Jun. '99 |
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| • | Loaded (UK), Jul. '99 |
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| • | "She smokes Silk Cut fags and dips sandwiches in her tea", Loaded, Jul. '99 |
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| • | quit - "She has banned booze, fatty foods, ciggies and caffeine from her diet.", The Sun, Jul. 17, '99 |
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| • | "She smokes Silk Cut fags", Loaded Magazine (UK), Jul. '99
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| • | "lights another cigarette", NW (Australia), Sep. 27, '99 |
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| • | "Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell's voice is husky for a reason - she's a chain smoker...the star has been seen puffing one cigarette after another...she's a total chain smoker", World Entertainment News Network, Feb. 22, '00 |
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| • | "Pop star Robbie Williams had to stop for a breather in the middle of a friendly football match to 'borrow' a cigarette from close friend Geri Halliwell", World Entertainment News Network, Aug. 14, '00 |
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| • | "Robbie Williams and Geri Halliwell clearly didn't make a resolution to give up the fags in the New Year. The pair were spotted sharing a ciggie during a quiet winter holiday in Gstaad", Jan. 4, '01
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| • | "She doesn't drink or do drugs. Her only vice is smoking", World Entertainment News Network, Jan. 28, '01 |
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| • | "Her only vice is smoking", Daily Star (UK), Jan. 30, '01
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| • | "Her only vice is smoking", Now magazine (UK), Feb. 14, '01
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| • | cigar - "Demi Moore, Madonna and Geri Halliwell have all made a point of brandishing a cigar and the Decent Cigar Emporium can boast former Little House On The Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert among its customers.", where?, Feb. 27, '01 |
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| • | "Geri Halliwell's secret behind her slim and gorgeous figure has been revealed - she has a serious smoking addiction. Smoking is known to dull the taste buds - and for Geri, who has been known to attend Overeaters Anonymous meetings, this is ideal. She recently attended London's Nobu restaurant with her 'boyfriend', fellow smoker Robbie Williams - and an onlooker said, 'I was stunned that she smokes at all because she is such a keep-fit fanatic. It looks like she's turned to bingeing on fags instead of food.'", World Entertainment News Network, Apr. 1, '01 |
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| • | "Ginger Spice smoking her way to thinness. Geri Halliwell has been chain smoking to supress her appetite and keep herself thin. Ginger has been recently spotted in many London nightclubs chain smoking numerous packages of cigarettes", Celebs News website, Apr. 2, '01
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| • | "The Star also reports that Geri Halliwell is 'battling the bulge by smoking non-stop'. Seems 'Geri is controlling her love of junk food by smoking pack after pack of cigs, well known for dulling the appetite'", New Musical Express (UK), Apr. 2, '01
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| • | "Geri Halliwell is devoted in unimaginable proportions to cigarettes for that is for her the most effective means of losing her appetite", French website, Apr. 2, '01
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| • | "Geri Halliwell is battling the bulge by smoking non-stop. The former Spice Girl has transformed herself from podgy popster to super- fit waif. But Geri is controlling her love of junk food by smoking pack after pack of cigs, well known for dulling the appetite. She was spotted 'puffing away like a chimney' during a meal with boyfriend Robbie Williams at London's trendy Nobu restaurant at the weekend. The fitness fanatic, who hardly touched her grub, has recently been attending Overeaters' Anonymous groups in London and LA to beat her addiction to binge. She was once bulimic, and would gorge on fattening foods then make herself sick. An onlooker at the restaurant said: 'Robbie was wolfing down his meal but Geri was just picking at her plate. Before, during and after the meal she was smoking like a chimney. I was stunned that she smokes at all because she is such a keep-fit fanatic. It looks like she's turned to bingeing on fags instead of food.' Geri's fans will be amazed to learn that she is hooked on ciggies. In the video for her latest single, It's Raining Men, she puts herself through a rigorous dance routine and shows off her sensational new body in shorts and a cropped top. She may now be reluctant to kick the habit because quitting smoking often piles on the pounds. Geri may find it hard to kick smoking while she's still with Robbie - he is said to puff his way through 40 cigs a day", Daily Star (UK), Apr. 2, '01 |
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| • | "Geri has taken up chain smoking", "has been spotted... smoking pack after pack of cigarettes", Peoplenews.com, Apr. 2, '01
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| • | "The singer has been seen at countless parties smoking cigarette after cigarette. It so happens that tobacco is known to decrease the appetite...like numerous young women, she prefers to smoke like a fireman without worrying about repercussions of tobacco consumption on health than to have some superfluous kilograms or follow a regime that is a little more constrained, but so much better for her health, when done in order to re-balance eating disorders", ActuStar website (France), Apr. 3, '01
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| • | "She can't for the life of her give up smoking", Anorak, Apr. 7, '01
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| • | Boy George: "Glad to hear Geri Halliwell is not only a fan of macrobiotic food but smokes like a chimney", Sunday Express (UK), Apr. 8, '01
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| • | "Halliwell soaked up the sun in Monaco for Easter, sunning her stunning new body but also revealing a flaw in her healthy new image, a packet of cigarettes", World Entertainment News Network, Apr. 16, '01 |
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| • | "But the 28-year-old former Ginger Spice also revealed a flaw in the fitness regime that has made her the picture of health - a packet of cigarettes", Daily Express (UK), Apr. 17, '01 |
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| • | "Then she went for a stroll, tightly clutching one of the secrets behind her new slimline figure - a packet of cigs", Daily Star (UK), Apr. 17, '01 |
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| • | "Halliwell, who eventually lit up a Silk Cut and sipped some peppermint tea after her meal", Toronto Sun, Jun. 8, '01
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| • | "cigarettes per day right now: three", InStyle Magazine (Germany), Jul. '01 |
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| • | "Halliwell has campaigned for a cancer charity - and then allowed herself to be pictured smoking. Shortly after her high profile work with Breast Cancer Care, the singer was photographed with a cigarette as she took a break from filming the video for her single Look At Me", Birmingham Post (UK), Jul. 16, '01 |
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| • | "It's not Geri's first slip-up in recent months. She was pictured smoking days after finishing high-profile work for the Breast Cancer Care charity", Daily Record (UK), Jul. 20, '01 |
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| • | "once buxom Geri Halliwell has given away the secret of her new slimline figure - cigarettes. The singer puffed on a ciggie during a day out sunbathing in Antibes in the South of France", Daily Star (UK), Aug. 4, '01 |
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| • | "after her Spice Girl career went up in smoke, Geri Halliwell got back on track thanks to a punishing fitness regime. But her obsession with health which includes regular yoga sessions obviously does not extend to stopping smoking. Friends say the singer uses the occasional cigarette to suppress her appetite. She paused only to change from one skimpy bikini into another before treating herself to a deep drag on her cigarette in the Mediterranean sunshine", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 6, '01 |
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| • | "On a rare day off, she kicks back and spends an afternoon at a Holland Park cafe, drinking a refreshing bottle of water and enjoying a sneaky cigarette", "Spotting a lurking photographer, Geri remembers her pop training, grits her teeth and quickly stubs out her fag", Heat (UK), Aug. 11-17, '01 |
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| • | "But on a recent holiday in the south of France, she stunned onlookers as she puffed on cigarettes while soaking up the sun", Sunday Express (UK), Aug. 19, '01 |
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| • | "surviving, apparently, on a diet made up entirely of cigarettes, air and yoga", Peoplenews.com, Aug. 21, '01
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| • | "She is known to like the occasional cigarette", The Sun (UK), Sep. 7, '01 |
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| • | "Geri Halliwell puffing away while dining at The Ivy", Mirror (UK), Sep. 27, '01 |
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| • | "Do you regret anything? 'I wish I didn't smoke. I try to quit, but it's just too hard. Other than that, no, I don't have any regrets'", Cosmopolitan (Australia), Sep. '01
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| • | "although she's taken the healthy-living regime to heart, Geri's conversion has not been entirely complete - she has still been snapped dragging from the occasional cigarette", Daily Record (UK), Oct. 17, '01 |
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| • | "has been snapped numerous times trying to hide her cigarettes and was recently spotted 'smoking like a chimney' at a London restaurant", Daily Mail (UK), Oct. 29, '01 |
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| • | "lunch started quite healthily: salad, mineral water with lemon slice and a cup of tea. Unfortunately, she then ruined it all by lighting a cigarette ... Geri was photographed reaching for a cigarette during a poolside lunch with a male friend in Los Angeles, a city famously intolerant of smokers. ... before she had even cleared her plate, her nicotine cravings got the better of her, and she reached for a cigarette", Evening Standard (UK), Mar. 4, '02 |
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| • | "lunching by her hotel pool in Los Angeles, the 29-year-old singer started with a wholesome salad, light on the dressing. Next came a handful of vitamin pills. Alcohol? Not a chance. Her beverage of choice was a cup of herbal tea. Then what did she choose for afters? A cigarette. Granted, it was low-tar, but a cigarette all the same. Geri's nicotine dessert will not have gone down well with fellow guests - smoking is banned in most public places in California", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 5, '02 |
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| • | "A cancer charity is standing by Geri Halliwell despite the publication of photographs showing her smoking. The former Spice Girl is a patron of Breast Cancer Care. The charity has refused to criticise her after she was pictured lighting up in Los Angeles. A spokesman said: 'Geri is a valued patron of Breast Cancer Care and continually makes a significant contribution to our work and we have no comment on her personal life. There is no evidence to suggest that smoking is linked to breast cancer but as a cancer charity we would encourage women to lead a healthy lifestyle'. Geri has been known to be a smoker for years but tries to avoid being seen in public with cigarettes", Ananova.com, Mar. 5, '02 |
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| • | "Could you fail to fall in love with Geri Halliwell this week? She completed her gruelling yoga routine, sensibly ordered a salad, drank a healthy beaker of herbal tea, swallowed a couple of vitamin pills, then leaned back and sparked up a fag.", The Observer (UK), Mar. 10, '02
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| • | "But I can't help thinking that [Halliwell] won't be passing on showbiz survival tips such as how to cope with sleep deprivation when youhave been on the go for 48 hours, or how smoking helps beat food cravings to keep you stick thin", The Sun, Aug. 1, '02 |
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| • | "She also revealed the 'laxative properties' of cigarettes", The Mirror (UK), Sep. 18, '02 |
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| • | "I have a fag. It helps me go to the loo", Frank Skinner Show, ITV (UK), Sep. 21, '02 |
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| • | "hypnotist Paul McKenna, who has used his art on Daryl Hannah and Geri Halliwell in their attempt to quit smoking", The Express (UK), Nov. 28, '02 |
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| • | "Right now, in a comically opulent suite of the Dorchester Hotel, she's in jeans and a cropped, blue V-neck, her pre-styled hair in aneck-length bleached bob (she regrets cutting her fringe), currently elevated in gigantic, cylindrical rollers and smoking a Silk Cut ExtraMild", Glamour (UK), Nov. '02 |
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| • | "Spice Girl Geri Halliwell's fume-ing - after breaking her New Year resolution to stop smoking. The health nut has battled to quit since takingup the habit in her teens. And after two weeks of 2003 without a smoke Geri,30, thought she'd done it. But this week she revealed she'd cracked and bought a packet of 10 while walking her dog Harry near her west London home. The star, who campaigns for breast cancer charities, now fears she'll never have the willpower to pack in. A pal said: 'Over the past few years she's managed to completely change her lifestyle with yoga and healthy eating and wanted to finish by quitting smoking. Now she's not sure if she'll ever quit'", Daily Star (UK), Jan. 19, '03 |
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| • | "Geri, who flew to Los Angeles to get over her heartache, was spotted chain smoking outside the Ivy Restaurant in Beverly Hills wearing a tracksuit, sunglasses and a scowl", Sunday Mail (UK), Feb. 9, '03 |
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| • | "Geri Halliwell is a girl full of contradictions. The former Spice Girl wore a dodgy Adidas tracksuit, unusually teamed with a pair of high heels for a lunch out at the Ivy in Beverly Hills. Then the fitness fanatic lit up a cigarette to complete the classy look", Sunday Mirror (UK), Feb. 9, '03 |
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| • | "Geri pauses for a puff...The keep-fit fanatic could not control her craving for a cigarette after eating at the exclusive Ivy restaurant in Beverly Hills, but because smoking in public places is banned in Los Angeles, the former Spice Girl was forced to light up in the street", w/large pic, dragging, Mail On Sunday (Night & Day magazine) (UK), Mar. 2, '03 |
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| • | "Despite advocating yoga to keep her slim, singer Geri Halliwell has been pictured smoking, as has supermodel Kate Moss.", Femail (UK), Apr. 24, '03
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| • | quit - "During a break in filming an episode of 'Sex in the City', Geri, 30, relaxed with her latest craze - knitting. It gives her 'something to do with her hands since quitting smoking', says a pal", Daily Star (UK), Jul. 9, '03 |
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| • | quit - "The star, who has given up smoking, is said to have taken up knitting instead", The Express (UK), Jul. 11, '03 |
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| • | quit - "admitting with shame that her 10-year smoking habit, which she kicked only last year, was founded on a belief that cigarette consumption would suppress her appetite", The Harvard Crimson, Feb. 26, '04
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| • | quit - "Cigarettes have also gone out of the window for Geri...'I quit smoking and had nodules in my throat removed. You'll here the difference to my voice on the new album' ", Digital Spy, Oct. 25, '04
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| • | quit - "There's no denying her voice has improved since she gave up smoking", Daily Express (Saturday magazine) (UK), Jun. 4, '05 |
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| • | "rants on about health kicks - funny she never mentions her Marlboros", The Sun (UK), Jan. 6, '06 |
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| • | "Mel B... hands a cigarette to... Geri", Mail on Sunday (UK), Oct. 28, '07
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| • | "Singer addicted to tobacco Geri Halliwell has taken up chain-smoking in order to check her appetite and stay slim. She has been spotted in a number of top London nightspots smoking pack after pack of cigarettes, which are known to act as an appetite suppressant... A source close to Geri said: 'It's possible that she's got a problem; her smoking really does seem to be getting out of hand.'", People News, when? |
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| • | "former band member Geri Halliwell chain-smokes", "Mel C is the only Spice Girl that does not smoke", website
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| • | "Geri smokes to help her lose weight", The Sun (UK), when?
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| • | "has come under fire from an anti-smoking group after she campaigned for a cancer charity - and then allowed herself to be pictured smoking", website, when?
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| • | "in her accountant's office in East London, Geri Halliwell and I are facing each other across a long conference table. Teacups filled with milk and cigarette butts are shoved aside to give us plenty of room to maneuvor properly", Jane Magazine, when? |
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| • | "she flops forward and reaches for her pack of Silk Cut, seemingly unaware that she's one of the world's most famous women. She lights up", Bliss Magazine, when? |
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