cigarette
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I said, “Why don’t you stick to the cigarette over your head, and I’ll handle this?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
When I asked what had brought her to the Trump Superstore, aside from the 50 percent discount, she lit a cigarette.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Near a petrol station draped in anti-drone netting, an employee casually smoked a cigarette, waiting for the alert to be over.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Researchers also found a pair of broken glasses; an IV needle with a bottle topper; a brass item with writing, perhaps a cigarette case; and a button with Japanese-looking iconography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Here Franny made the mistake of giving a little exhalation of impatience—she had just inhaled cigarette smoke.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
From being one of the city's big three employers - along with Boots and Players cigarettes - with 8,000 staff, it may have finished its days being little more than a logo.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The inspiring tale of a forgotten hero: In 1990, a single dad got fed up with the billboards for cigarettes targeting Chicago’s Black neighborhoods.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
While many sectors enjoy exemptions, the rule applies strictly to retailers, who may not sell anything on Sunday but the simplest necessities—bread, drinks, snacks, cigarettes and alcohol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Children aged 17 or younger now face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes, since it will be illegal for shops to sell tobacco to anyone born after 1 January 2009.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Then she drove off in the direction of McDougald Terrace, where a small knot of men waited, smoking cigarettes and talking in hushed voices.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
