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A recent Times interview reports that Joanna Lumley – goddess of the Gurkhas – is a smoker: “quite a radical act in itself, now. ‘I know, it’s bloody mad. They picked on smoking as they didn’t dare pick on the alternatives, which were drinking and getting fat. They pretended smoking was the only thing that killed you.’”


A recent news report claimed that smoking rates are actually lowest among those aged 60 and over (only 1 in 8). But then earlier research also found that “old ladies are the most likely to ‘falsely deny’ to doctors that they are smokers”


Not that Joanna Lumley has any intention of lying about it: “I've earned the right to be heard”

Links

Joanna Lumley: Goddess of the Gurkhas UK news guardian.co.uk

Joanna Lumley: I've earned the right to be heard: Helen Rumbelow

Fewer are quitting cigarettes despite millions spent on anti-smoking services

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