As the smoke from these brands also contained less nicotine, smokers would get their fix by taking longer drags, smoking more frequently, or simply blocking the filters with their fingers.
In Sloane Square last night elegantly dressed women late-night shopping mingled with trashily dressed drag queens smoking Benson & Hedges in long cigarette holders.
Roman Candles was the first film to star Divine, in this instance in drag as a smoking nun.
In this novel, Faletti (and his protagonist) drag themselves from the smoking detritus of a repeatedly buried but never entirely forgotten national calamity, Italy's equivalent of the Kennedy assassination.
It has become clear that the tale of a universal flood was widespread in Mesopotamia for an entire millennium and a half before the hapless Judaeans, defeated in the early 6th century BC by Nebuchadnezzar, were dragged away from their smoking cities into exile, there to weep beside the rivers of Babylon.
The event abruptly, mercifully ended when an NFL p.r. guy suddenly shouted, "All right, thank you, we're good,'' as if dragging Goodell away from smoking wreckage.
Most famously, in Vietnam he rushed into the wreckage of his crashed and smoking helicopter to drag fellow soldiers to safety.
It was one of the first records I ever bought and on the cover of the 12in there's a drawing of a drag queen without her wig on, smoking a cigarette.
He pretended to drag on a cigarette like the chain-smoking speaker, and blew away smoke and Mr. Obama's tax demands in one raspy retort: "Ain't gonna happen".
And there's worse things than smoking," he said, taking a drag.
