cigarette
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Putting out his cigarette before starting the evening service, he sighed: "I think we'll be without water for at least another two months."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
Responding to the watchdog, Jaded London argued it was "not clear" the model was holding a cigarette because it was slimmer than normal and "did not appear to be lit".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
And, of course, he was smoking a candy cigarette.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
Like the coffin-makers, they tell me they use their wages to buy extra food and cigarettes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
However, it said it "understood why it was best to avoid images of models holding cigarettes" and would not use smoking content in future ads.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
FARGO, N.D.—Oak Reile was delivering a pallet of washer fluid, cigarettes and candy to a local convenience store in 2020 when he slipped and fell, breaking two vertebrae and paralyzing him from the armpits down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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
A Russian colonel, holding up his pack of cigarettes, inquired of Farmer if America was a democracy.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
