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| • | "Debbie Reynolds was in a huff...the first commercial (in the premiere of her 1969 NBC sitcom)had been for Pall Mall cigarettes. 'I never saw so much smoke since the San Francisco fire,' she said...Debbie has discovered she can't control her husband's smoking. She thought she could control the smoking on The Debbie Reynolds Show, of which she is a 50 percent owner.", "'Absolutly not,' Debbie Reynolds said to her agent. 'No cigarette commercials'", "The cigarette commercial infuriated Debbie Reynolds. She'd been forced to learn how to smoke for the movie 'The Rat Race' and it had taken her two months to break the habit. She'd again have had to smoke in the film 'Mary, Mary' and she could not quit for two years.", TV Guide, Jan. 31, '70 |
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| • | "her first series, 'The Debbie Reynolds Show,' lasted one season, 1969-70. 'They promised me no cigarette ads,' she said. 'The first show had a cigarette ad. I had a two-year deal, they couldn't fire me. So I quit. It cost me millions. Looking back, I shouldn't have done it. Miss Reynolds, who chain-smoked throughout the interview, explained she didn't approve of cigarette advertising 'because they are so addictive.' As for her own smoking, she added: 'People my age were not aware when they began smoking. ... I'm still trying to break the habit'", Associated Press, Apr. 29, '86 |
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| • | "To this day I am an on-again off-again smoker", autobiography, '88 |
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| • | "unwinding over a now-dead bottle of wine and chain-smoking furiously ... She tried TV first, but quit a series rather than work for a cigarette sponsor (partly because she was addicted to smoking, herself)", Los Angeles Times, Oct. 5, '90 |
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| • | "Having had a bit to drink, she was jolly and relaxed, her sequined clothing glittering in the night, holding on to a street sign, smoking a cigarette, greeting passers-by warmly.", San Francisco Chronicle, Jul. 27, '05 |
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| • | refused to advertise cigarettes even though she smoked after the children had gone to bed, autobiography |
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