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  • present participle of smoke.

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The actual cost of obtaining new coverage depends heavily on factors such as age, health and smoking history, as well as other underwriting considerations.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Lung cancer incidence has declined across much of the United States as smoking rates have fallen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Listening to “The Boutique,” I feel like I should be smoking a cigarette and drinking the dirtiest martini known to man in a speakeasy, wearing a drop waist silk dress and bright red lipstick.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

But if “you see men in sweatpants smoking cigarettes, hanging with their boys, lifting weights in the yard, riding children’s bicycles as their actual transportation, then you are in danger.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Figures, rough customers, slouched in the boxcar doors, smoking.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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