cigarette
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Israeli media reported that police were treating the fire as accidental, caused by cigarette butts thrown from a car window.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Environmental factors such as cigarette smoke and sunlight can increase DNA damage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Taylor Swift fans have paid $25 for pieces of trash -- including cigarette butts and an ovulation test kit -- collected near the US pop queen's wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
They can be found planting trees, pulling weeds, painting flagpoles and picking up cigarette butts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
She was standing by the window, smoking a cigarette, an odd, dumpy little figure I should not see again, her coat stretched tight over her large breasts, her ridiculous hat perched sideways on her head.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
Children aged 17 or younger now face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes, since it will be illegal for shops to sell tobacco to anyone born after 1 January 2009.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Food and Drug Administration threatened a major crackdown on cigarettes back in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The cast of the Disney+ hit show Rivals were confused when given fake cigarettes while filming in Wales due to a smoking ban in the work place, one of its stars has said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Cade Hernandez and I slept in a forty-five-dollar-a-night motel room somewhere east of Gallup, New Mexico, that smelled like cigarettes and Comet cleanser.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
