Become one of the pop star's millions of followers on Instagram or Twitter (she habitually posts self-pics suggestively exhaling strings of thick smoke, homages to her hero Bob Marley, and humorous stoner memes) and risk a contact high.
This study used a string of vertical smoke layer measuring instruments composed of several approved photoelectric smoke detectors, as well as a light attenuation measuring device composed of illuminance meters to conduct tests on the effect of makeup air.
On a steel grey, damp afternoon at the beginning of the third and last week of my journey, I watched a string of black smoke rise from the funnel of the MV Rus, the ship that would take me through the impenetrable mist of the Sea of Japan.
Types are generally said to be abstract and unique; tokens are concrete particulars, composed of ink, pixels of light (or the suitably circumscribed lack thereof) on a computer screen, electronic strings of dots and dashes, smoke signals, hand signals, sound waves, etc.
"My most spectacular one was in Sacramento.... ...... he now says with a smile, drifting off into a fond-sounding reverie that involves a guitar string touching an ungrounded microphone and clouds of smoke billowing out of his mouth.
But it was only the latest in a string of phrases, from "smoke them out of their caves" to "the evil one," that have punctuated Mr. Bush's speech and are destined to live on as signposts of his presidency.
They sprayed pedestrians with silly string and backfired their engines into the night air, the gun popping sound echoing through the plumes of smoke.
