Audrey Hepburn Smoking Addict
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Breakfast at Tiffany's
stormhappy106 — 9 years ago(July 01, 2016 03:24 PM)
She smoked from age 15 all the way until her death at age 63, sometimes up to three packs of day(Googled Audrey Hepburn Smoker)Although she died of a rare form of stomach cancer, smoking probably contributed to her death, as cancer cells love nicotine, cancer spreads faster in smokersShe wanted to quit but never couldSmoking didn't affect her looks until about age 39 when she was filming Two For The Road(1967)Sad that she never could quit, she was one of the greatest movie stars of all time
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Sox575 — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 01:52 AM)
Given the time she was born lots of people smoked. It was the norm. I'm glad that the tide is turning but it took a lot of decades to get to the present day where smoking isn't looked on as something elegant or cool. But now they have the smokeless e-cigs, which I hear are just as bad.
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fairy-3 — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 11:01 AM)
I agree, whean I was a child in the 70s everybody smoked, in family dinner tables and it was considered elegant and cool. Today I'm really surprised that there's still people who start smoking knowing hao bad ir for your health (and how disgusting it is).
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detataandrea — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 07:53 PM)
That's too bad because she was one of the most beautiful women of all time. Smoking does so much harm to the body in terms of your looks and health. Don't know why anyone would ever want to do that to themselves
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Paula57 — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 09:55 PM)
Well, she was never all that healthy because she almost starved to death during WWII. Her son said that she only weighed 88 lbs when she was 16. She was 5'6". For several months her family subsisted on wild endive and tulip bulbs, which they would grind into flour and make biscuits. It left her with many health problems. She ate plenty as an adult, but her body just didn't absorb nutrients very well.
It was that experience that got her involved with UNICEF. She had great empathy for suffering children, because she had been one herself. -
meowqueenx — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 09:40 AM)
Again, smoking was a normal social thing at the time and dangers of smoking were not nearly as well known, if at all. I'm sure if she were around and in her heyday now she wouldn't have started.
And that could very well be why she became so passionate about UNICEF. -
