The phrase "abandon smoking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about quitting an addiction or bad habit. For example, "After many years of struggling, I finally decided to abandon smoking for good."
Such resistance may be to the closing down of potentiality in the future body that such advertisements connote, or to the rupture with their embodied self and habited past that abandoning smoking will require.
Because doing the things that my white peers do with ease could cost me my life -- trespassing in abandoned buildings, smoking joints, wearing a hoodie, looking an officer in the eye, playing music loudly, existing.
Nonetheless, it seems unlikely that the discovery of such a gene would lead us to abandon the claim that smoking causes lung cancer.
When I moved to the neighborhood five years ago, it was all electrical-supply stores and abandoned buildings and men smoking.
On the other end, the marines feel mainly contempt for the Afghans, who respond, predictably, by living up to the worst expectations of them: refusing to carry their own radios, blatantly smoking hash, abandoning any semblance of discipline, taking naps while on patrol.
"I've been driving recklessly, getting arrested, smoking weed, abandoning monkeys and urinating publicly.
She eventually went down to Toulon, where she lived at the dockside in an abandoned submarine and took to smoking opium intemperately, in which René joined her.
In 1985, many Cubans stopped smoking when Castro abandoned his ubiquitous cigars as part of a nationwide campaign against tobacco, which remains one of the island's principal exports. .
The preventive measures include changes in lifestyle, pressure to abandon dangerous habits like cigarette smoking or excessive alcohol consumption and efficient campaigns aimed at eradication of infections strongly associated with many common cancers (e.g. de Martel et al. 2012).
The French company, thought to be the first global insurer to abandon tobacco, pointed to figures showing that smoking kills 6 million people a year, projected to reach 8 million by 2030, with developing countries worst affected.
