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How useful to know if you were lighting a fag, or fossicking in the glove box for a CD at the crucial moment.
Putting aside for a moment the benefits of giving money to save the donkeys/eradicate landmines/raise cancer awareness, you have to wonder whether pledging to not do something – whether it's lighting a fag or picking up a razor – really qualifies as an act of charity.
Whereas the latter depicted the sort of men who may conceivably have believed that lighting a fag and splashing on the Brut was sufficient preparation for another emotionally overcast working day, there was no such obvious escapism or light relief in Red Riding's brilliant and harrowing brutishness, which lingered like a stubborn bloodstain long after the final credits.
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Titian, Rembrandt, they got really good, didn't they?" He lights a fag and dunks a biscuit.
Kerry carried on downing the vodka, lit a fag, fell asleep and – oops! – burned the house down.
She sits down, just about manages to light a fag with a shaking hand and morphs into the terrified (and terrifying) wisp of a girl from yesteryear.
By the time it reaches the Chinese capital, the giant Bic will have been fondled by no fewer than 21,880 different individuals – even if only one of them had used it to light a fag, it would've proved more useful.
Channel 4 made such a big splash of it, and I'd made all the lads pile back and watch it, and by the end, when the credits rolled, there was this big silence and someone just lit a fag and went, 'Yeah'".
"I know, I know, but I thought if they weren't going to say anything, neither was I!" There was a pause before he continued in a matter-of-fact tone: "They did get a bit narky when I tried to light a fag".
Do you remember someone at school once said lighting a girl's fag was like a third of having sex with her?
"I'm actually still recovering from a rock'n'roll party," he says, lighting up a fag (of course, the Four Seasons is a non-smoking hotel).
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