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cigarette

Thin paper tube stuffed with shredded tobacco for smoking, now usually plugged with a filter. The first cigarettes were the papelitos smoked in South America about 1750. The habit spread to Spain and then throughout the world; today it is the most general form of tobacco smoking, although it is dangerous to the health of both smokers and non-smokers who breathe in the smoke.

Since the 1960s warnings from the US Surgeon General have been added to packages and cartons, about the dangers of smoking and cancer, lung disease, heart disease, and the effects on the developing fetus.

In the prisons of many countries, and in wartime, cigarettes have been used as an unofficial form of currency.

During the period 1975–95 cigarette production worldwide increased an average 2.2% per year; world population growth increased at 1.7% during the same period.



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Next day the same thing happened, and I was so furious that I bit through my cigarette.
The first things I had been able to get for myself had been cigarette pictures, cigarette posters, and cigarette albums.
I hardly know which of the pair I see more plainly as I write - the young girl with her soft eyes and her sunny hair, or the old gentleman with the erect though wasted figure, the noble forehead, the steady eye, the parchment skin, the white imperial, and the eternal cigarette between his shrivelled lips.
 
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