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Brittany Murphy

Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed

Profession = actress

Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Her pictures at SmokingCelebs.com

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Brittany Murphy at MrSkin.com

Miscellaneous information

	•	hosted anti-smoking video, APC Productions, '98
	•	"She giggles so much, in fact, one can't help but wonder if that's just the way she is, or if a certain smokable leaf's involved. 'I'm not a regular pothead,' she says. 'I've smoked, but not a lot. Actually, I'm really scary on pot. I get almost mean in this sarcastic manner'", Bikini Magazine, Mar. '99
	•	"There's a videotape that has been making the rounds in Hollywood lately. In it, Janis Joplin appears to be bouncing around on the furniture, gesticulating wildly with a lighted cigarette. ... this is not some newly discovered, archival Joplin footage. It's a screen test by the young actress Brittany Murphy for 'Piece of My Heart' a biopic that, because of a music-rights snag, is no longer being made", New York Times, Sep. 30, '01
	•	"Most people try to give up smoking for the New Year but Brittany Murphy is only too pleased she started. The sexy 8 Mile actress says she can now smoke convincingly on screen after being taught how to do it by her Dead Girl co-star Kerry Washington. 'My character had to be chain-smoking for the role, but I had no idea how to do that,' says Murphy. 'Kerry and I went for dinner and she showed me how to do it so maybe that will come in handy for other roles'", Absolute Now, Jan. 12, '07
	•	"In the fall of 1997, a 15-minute youth non-smoking instructional video was distributed to more than 10,000 schools as a supplement to the 'Right Decisions, Right Now' educational program. The video is hosted by Brittany Murphy, a teenage role model", RJ Reynolds Tobacco web site, when?
	•	"If you want to look smokin', don't start smoking - it's one ugly habit", The More You Know (NBC PSA), when?

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

	•	"while she searched for a cigarette on the patio", fashiondish, Jun. 23, '00
	•	"her biggest current project is quitting smoking. 'It's time to quit again,' Murphy says. 'I smoked in my last movie, and it got me hooked. So now I'm struggling to get over it'", Calgary Herald, Sep. 30, '01
	•	"She smelled of vanilla and apricots. She had a cigarette in her hand. .... After a while, she pointed out that this was only her third cigarette of the week and that, consequently, 'I don't smoke, and I'm not smoking!' But you are smoking. 'Oh, now', she said, as if only a dullard could think otherwise. ... even though she doesn't smoke and wasn't smoking, she lit her fourth cigarette of the week and began smoking it avidly, passing time in the bathroom until it was yummy time for her again", Rolling Stone, Oct. 3, '02
	•	cigar - "chilling out and watching the hookup scene unfold were tight twosome Ashton 'n' Brittany, toking on Zino Platinum cigars in a cozycorner", Ted Casablanca's Awful Truth gossip column (E! Online), Jan. 30, '03
	•	cigar - "Actress Brittany Murphy, singer Eve and model Naomi Campbell have been spotted lately, cigar in hand. And new Monday Night Football sports reporter Lisa Guerrero was featured in June's issue of Cigar Aficionado", USA Today, Jul. 25, '03
	•	"britanny murphy at nobu malibu this past saturday. girls night out - dining with a very very thin young thing and rounder older thing. spent 40% of her mealtime out by the entrance smoking and doublefisting with her cell and blackberry.", Defamer.com, May 25, '04
	•	was smoking at an outdoors table at The Ivy restaurant, Los Angeles, netizen sighting, Jul. 28, '04
	•	"she was photographed last week leaving a party in Malibu looking disturbingly thin and a bit strung out with a cigarette dangling from her lips", San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 11, '04
	•	"She smokes", website, '04
	•	"But anyway, I'm [Kerry Washington] not a smoker and she [Brittany Murphy] is so we decided that she was going to teach me how to smoke [for Dead Girl, The (2006)], which was hilarious and was great.", Myjoblo, Jan. 9, '07
	•	"Brittany was spotted taking a cigarette and Blackberry break outside a dance studio in Westwood.", TMZ.com, Feb. 7, '07
	•	"Our lethal onlooker was equally dismayed that Brittany Murphy, also at the same spot, was 'chain-smoking and eating at the same time' and that the young, punk-looking guy she was with (who was not her new hubby)", Ted Casablanca's The Awful Truth gossip column (E! Online), Jun. 7, '07

Pictures of her smoking

	•	candid, holding, Sunday Express (S:2 magazine) (UK), May 5, '02
	•	holding, candid, US Weekly, May 13, '02, p. 13
	•	dangling, Pirelli Calenar, Aug. '02
	•	holding, candid, Daily Sun (Victoria Newton's Bizarre gossip column) (UK), Aug. 10, '04
	•	candid, standing, holding, In Touch, Aug. 30, '04

Collections of pictures of her smoking

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Pictures from the net

	holding, 23k
	dangling, 13k
	dangling, 42k
	holding, posed, Vogue (Italy), Feb. '03, 48k
	holding, posed, Vogue (Italy), Feb. '03, 112k
	dangling, posed, Vogue (Italy), Feb. '03, 116k
	holding, posed, Vogue (Italy), Feb. '03, 268k
	holding, candid, Los Angeles, TMZ.com, Feb. 7, '07, 67k
	holding
	holding, 101k
	holding, 91k
	holding