Ever need a fact or quotation on cigarettes? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “cigarettes,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for cigarettes, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Cigarettes

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.–Anonymous

Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling well?–Anonymous

Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?–Anonymous

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.–Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In a very bizarre incident at the Miss United States preliminaries, the contestant from New Jersey leapt off-stage and tackled a man in the crowd who was just trying to light a cigarette.–Miss Congeniality

Cigarette!? That's CIGA-WEED!–Rush Hour

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself.–Barbara Kelly

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.–Milan Kundera

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.–Katharine Whitehorn

Use in Literature

Cigarettes

The pipe had been sold to a junkman for thirty cents and the boy had spent the proceeds on a ticket for a cheap theater and some cigarettes.–Horatio Alger in Joe The Hotel Boy.

And on the deserted paths of the garden where but a while ago Yura had wandered alone, imagining himself a prince in quest of the sleeping princess, now appeared people with cigarettes and with loud free speech.–Leonid Andreyev in The Crushed Flower and Other Stories.

• Preface vi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Cigarettes 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Cigarettes 2
• Cigarettes – "Air" 17
• Cigarettes – "Ash" 17
• Cigarettes – "Being" 18
• Cigarettes – "Box" 18
• Cigarettes – "Busy" 20
• Cigarettes – "Chair" 20
• Cigarettes – "Cigar" 21
• Cigarettes – "Coffee" 22
• Cigarettes – "Dinner" 23
• Cigarettes – "Drawn" 24
• Cigarettes – "Duke" 25
• Cigarettes – "Easy" 25
• Cigarettes – "End" 26
• Cigarettes – "Evening" 27
• Cigarettes – "Eye" 27
• Cigarettes – "Farther" 28
• Cigarettes – "Feet" 29
• Cigarettes – "Felt" 29
• Cigarettes – "Few" 30
• Cigarettes – "Fingers" 30
• Cigarettes – "Finished" 31
• Cigarettes – "Found" 32
• Cigarettes – "Francis" 33
• Cigarettes – "Fred" 34
• Cigarettes – "Friends" 34
• Cigarettes – "Gentleman" 35
• Cigarettes – "Glasses" 35
• Cigarettes – "Go" 36
• Cigarettes – "Gone" 37
• Cigarettes – "Great" 37
• Cigarettes – "Hands" 38
• Cigarettes – "Having" 40
• Cigarettes – "Head" 41
• Cigarettes – "Helped" 43
• Cigarettes – "House" 43
• Cigarettes – "Interest" 44
• Cigarettes – "Jim" 44
• Cigarettes – "Ladies" 44
• Cigarettes – "Lean" 45
• Cigarettes – "Let" 46
• Cigarettes – "Lighted" 47
• Cigarettes – "Little" 52
• Cigarettes – "Looked" 53
• Cigarettes – "Lunch" 56
• Cigarettes – "Made" 56
• Cigarettes – "Men" 58
• Cigarettes – "Match" 60
• Cigarettes – "Miss" 61
• Cigarettes – "Old" 62
• Cigarettes – "Once" 63
• Cigarettes – "Opened" 64
• Cigarettes – "Papers" 64
• Cigarettes – "Paul" 66
• Cigarettes – "Peter" 66
• Cigarettes – "Placed" 66
• Cigarettes – "Pockets" 67
• Cigarettes – "Puffed" 68
• Cigarettes – "Rolled" 69
• Cigarettes – "Room" 72
• Cigarettes – "Rose" 73
• Cigarettes – "Sending" 73
• Cigarettes – "Silence" 74
• Cigarettes – "Sir" 74
• Cigarettes – "Sat" 75
• Cigarettes – "Smile" 79
• Cigarettes – "Smoking" 80
• Cigarettes – "Standing" 88
• Cigarettes – "Table" 89
• Cigarettes – "Talked" 90
• Cigarettes – "Thing" 90
• Cigarettes – "Thought" 91
• Cigarettes – "Trying" 92
• Cigarettes – "Wait" 92
• Cigarettes – "Walk" 93
• Cigarettes – "Window" 94
• Cigarettes – "Young" 94
• Nonfiction Usage 97
• Lyrical Usage 97
• Script Usage 97
• Spoken Usage 99
• Presidential Usage 99
• Journalism Usage 99
• Legal Usage 129
• Governmental Usage 146
• Patent Usage 154
• Bibliographic Usage 177
• Encyclopedic Usage 243
• Lexicographic Usage 252
• Index 282