cigarette - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • smuggle: Most smuggled cigarettes have never had duty paid in any country and are smuggled by diversion from the transit trade.
  • smoke: Women who smoke 20 cigarettes a day are four times more likely to develop breast cancer.
  • discard: The bedroom was severely damaged by the fire which was caused by a discarded cigarette.
  • smolder: No movie star was seen without a smoldering cigarette in his hand.

Adjective modifier

  • counterfeit: More than 41 million packets of counterfeit cigarettes were seized in 2004, a rise of 25 per cent over the previous year.
  • contraband: Finally, contraband cigarettes that are intercepted by customs have then to be replaced creating yet more sales.
  • lighted: They put lighted cigarettes on cushions to see how they burn them.
  • hand-rolled: Mr Jones, 37, was arrested for smoking a hand-rolled cigarette containing cannabis outside No 10 Downing Street last month.
  • manufactured: Recommendations: A policy of further tar reductions in manufactured cigarettes should be pursued without compromising the message of the importance of not smoking.

Modifies a noun

  • butt: Cigarette butts get put in your pocket or in a bag NOT on the ground or in the water.
  • smuggling: Table 3 shows high levels of cigarette smuggling in the south of Europe rather than the north.
  • smoke: Cigarette smoke causes the muscle around the walls of the airways to tighten, making them narrower.
  • smoking: Fasting includes no eating, drinking, cigarette smoking, or gum chewing.
  • lighter: Make sure cigarette lighters are set to ' low ' or the flame can catch clothes or hair or burn you.
  • smoker: A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a non-smoker.

Noun used with modifier

  • low-tar: They always look faintly bored as they recline with their polystyrene cups of coffee and low-tar cigarettes.
  • tar: As a result some highly dangerous forms of lung cancer actually appear to be higher in smokers of low tar cigarettes.
  • menthol: Q: Is it healthier to smoke ' lite ' or menthol cigarettes rather than regular ones?
  • marijuana: It could be because that worker had a marijuana cigarette over lunch.
  • smoking: I stopped smoking cigarettes almost exactly four years ago.

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