cancer stick

Example Sentences

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It is probably no surprise that the three cities in which citizens now pick a joint more often than a cancer stick are those hipster-loving soul mates: Portland, San Francisco and Seattle.

From Seattle Times

But the way the camera captures her in the last scene, standing outside her mother’s house in Dallas, ignoring her mother’s pain while smoking a cancer stick the way Frank has often done, she looks like a woman who definitely has something in her woodshed.

From New York Times

But is eating a slice of bacon really akin to smoking a cancer stick?

From Slate

Boehner’s cancer stick of choice is a filtered Camel 99, and, according to Thrush, he “smokes more or less constantly when he’s out of the public eye.”

From The New Yorker

It reminds us of the previous owners, who apparently sucked down many a cancer stick while they lived here.

From Washington Post