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a slow handshake with death you pay extra to attend.
means The act of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of burning tobacco, or the emission of smoke from something burning.
from From Old English 'smoca,' the noun for the grey breath of a fire, tied to a Germanic root for smoke that shows up in cousins like Dutch 'smook' and German 'Schmauch.' The verb sense of drawing tobacco fumes into the lungs arrived only after tobacco itself crossed the Atlantic in the 1500s — at which point an ancient word for hearth-smoke quietly took on a new, lung-shaped meaning.
- clock cost
- each cigarette trims about eleven minutes of life
- plant truth
- tobacco is botanical kin to the tomato
- radioactive too
- smoke carries trace polonium, the spy's poison
- bizarre history
- doctors once endorsed brands in magazine ads
- quit clock
- heart attack risk halves within one year
marlboro — most sold cigarette brand globally, 9.6 billion cigarettes sold annually
winston cup series — nascar's premier racing series sponsored by winston cigarettes, 1971-2003
philip morris — largest tobacco company by revenue, $31.6 billion in 2022