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smoking
noun
The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
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"smoking" is an acceptable and often used word in written English.
You can use it in both present and past tense. For example, "I'm smoking a cigarette" or "I smoked a cigarette".
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The latest evolution of tobacco company strategies involves new nicotine products that make smoking attractive and confound the boundary between toxic and less toxic uses.
In last week's release Populaire, the suave Romain Duris character is asked to stop smoking in the office by the new secretary, played by Déborah François.
When he gave up smoking after major heart surgery in 1997, all his ministers had to follow suit, and he banned smoking in public places.
Having been pictured smoking outside a London nightclub last October one would have thought Wilshere might know better, but apparently not.
Put the remaining oil in a wide, deep pan and, when smoking hot, add the clams.
That includes everything from running obesity programmes and stop smoking services to promoting healthy lifestyle through responsible drinking and physical activity.
"The dead die hard," is how "Echo's Bones" begins, and here is Belacqua, "who now found himself up and about in the dust of the world, back at his old games on the dim spot"; "sat double on a fence like a casse-poitrine", smoking a Romeo and Juliet and wondering whether "if he had been cremated rather than inhumed directly he would have been less likely to revisit the vomit".
But it was exhilarating to watch kids hopping over metro barriers, smoking weed and shouting, walking wherever they wanted, disobeying every single one of the tight rules that normally control access to the station.
Strong action is needed to stop young people in particular seeing e-cigarettes as cool and glamorous, as some may then start smoking real cigarettes as a result, it fears.
While Bangladesh was the first nation to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2004 and adopted a Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage/Control Act in 2005, it has proved difficult to implement cigarette taxes, public smoking bans, and advertising restrictions – smoking rates remain the highest in South Asia.
Plain packaging is a misnomer: the packs show only horrible photographs of medical conditions caused by smoking.
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