cigarette

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Rodent repellent, cigarette packets, and piles of very old newspapers are also among their finds.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

It contrasts the small “makeshift consolations” of our ephemeral human-scale lives—a shared cigarette, a game of cards—with the grand forces of progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

It is also present in cigarette smoke and processed meats.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

At first, we don’t quite know when we are — the TV sets are cathode ray, the phones are landlines and a cigarette machine sits in the town bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Absently and when a subject had so consumed and excited him, he would write with the cigarette and smoke the chalk.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy