"Peake's boyfriend thoughtfully lights two cigarettes and passes one to her as she enters his lorry cab after her rail journey; she is dangling as she later gets out. She has nine further scenes: dragging, lighting a Silk Cut in bed after sex, drawing frantically on a cigarette that is already practically down to its filter, dangling as she writes her diary. She, Haywood, and Staton puff in the office smoking room beneath a poster warning about the effects of smoking, but it all looks contrived and unconvincing."
Other references to this movie:
Maxine Peake - Picture - holding in bed, Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007) (TV), Mail on Sunday (UK), Jan. 28, '07
, Allposters.com