cigarette

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In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Listening to “The Boutique,” I feel like I should be smoking a cigarette and drinking the dirtiest martini known to man in a speakeasy, wearing a drop waist silk dress and bright red lipstick.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

The names of those to play both cricket and football for England conjure up the feeling of a very different era: cigarette cards, blazers and the faint whiff of Brylcreem.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Federal prosecutors, seeking to imprison Rinderknecht for up to 45 years, say they will call ATF experts to refute that fireworks, a cigarette or power lines started the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Awkwardly, for she still had her cigarette, she picked up the vase and balanced it on the rim of the basin.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan