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cigarette

Tobacco A cylinder of cut blonde or black tobacco ensheathed in a tube of usually white paper, often with a filter to ↓ inhaled tars, which is lighted and inhaled at the lips to achieve a pleasurable level of nicotine. See Clove cigarette, Fetal tobacco syndrome, Fire-safe cigarette, Low-tar cigarette, Passive smoking, Safe cigarette, Smokeless cigarette, smoking, Tobacco.
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Again he went down on his knees and elbows as he had done when he lighted a cigarette, got out his matches, and proceeded to strike one.
"I am a connoisseur," said he, taking another cigarette from the box--his fourth--and lighting it from the stub of that which he had finished.
At first her complacency disturbed me, but gradually it became part of my life at two o'clock with the coffee, the cigarette, and the liqueur.
Mackenzie opened the cigarette cases and shook each particular cigarette.
You'll find the cigarettes behind the Madonna of the Chair."
Santos advanced leisurely, and puffed his cigarette over the poor wasted and exhausted frame.
Aynesworth left the house, and lit a cigarette upon the pavement outside with a little sigh of relief.
"I observe from your forefinger that you make your own cigarettes. Have no hesitation in lighting one."
"The ground-floor here," the other replied, "belongs to a prosperous cigarette manufacturer who lives himself upon the first floor.
He wrote plays and smoked cigarettes in it all day long.
Lady Carey threw away the end of her cigarette, and looked for a moment thoughtfully at her long white fingers glittering with rings.
During the conflict, I had talked a little, now and then, with a young gentleman of the White Cap Corps, and he had mentioned that he was to fight next--and had also pointed out his challenger, a young gentleman who was leaning against the opposite wall smoking a cigarette and restfully observing the duel then in progress.
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