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| • | "I'm definitely a confirmed smoker. I don't know - you've got to do something... I did try to give up. I was so miserable. And I actually went though a phase of smoking cigars, but then I went back to cigarettes again. I just love them - I really enjoy cigarettes. I know my [cancer] specialist wanted me to give up, but at the time that I was having the chemo it was just I couldn't cope with giving up smoking as well as everything else I was going through. You know, it was just too much. And I have a chest X-ray every year and that's always clear, so I just keep doing it. It's my thing", plus seven pieces of footage showing her smoking cigarettes, "Deidre and Me" (Granada Television), Dec. 19, '01 |
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| • | "She still doesn't believe the cancer has gone away and yet carries on smoking. She waved a fag and said: 'I love 'em. It's my thing'", The Express (UK), Dec. 24, '01 |
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| • | "a liking for the odd cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Mar. 8, '05
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| • | "she's a smoker in real life...'Anne loves her fags'...In real life, actress Anne - who has played Deirdre for more than 25 years - raised eyebrows when she didn't stop smoking after battling cancer. Friends thought the trauma of battling Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma could force her into quitting. But despite chemotherapy and eventually winning her fight against the disease, Anne was soon spotted puffing away once more. She has not stopped since - 10 years after the cancer scare", Daily Mirror (UK), Mar. 12, '05
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| • | "Tracy's mother Deidre is also getting a new storyline - giving up smoking later in the year. However, Anne Kirkbride, who plays her, will continue with the habit. This is a woman who has suffered with cancer, for goodness' sake; is she nuts?", Daily Mail (Weekend magazine) (UK), Apr. 2, '05 |
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| • | "When I come across Anne Kirkbride (Deirdre) smoking a cigarette outside, I exclaim: 'I thought you'd given up!' ('Deirdre doesn't smoke, but I do')", The Observer (magazine section) (UK), May 22, '05
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| • | "Kissing her was complicated - she's a smoker, despite having battled throat cancer...'I'd tell her, 'It's like kissing an ashtray', he jokes. 'But she won't give up'", Daily Mirror (UK), Mar. 21, '06
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| • | "Coronation Street stars have expressed anger at show bosses who took their ashtrays away...Anne Kirkbride... [is] among the stars who regularly smoked at the show's studios.", Digital Spy (UK), Jul. 5, '06
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| • | "Granada plan [sic] to build a shed on set for smokers like Anne Kirkbride", The People (UK), Jun. 17, '07
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| • | "real-life chain smoking", Wikipedia, when?
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