How to Use cigarette in a Sentence

cigarette

noun
  • But so far, a rise in vaping hasn’t made up for the steady decline of cigarette use.
    Nicolas Rivero, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Smoking cigarettes has been linked to weight loss, and quitting smoking may lead to weight gain.
    Soma Mandal, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The cigarette landed on plastic trash bags kept beneath the porch.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But during the past decades, cigarette use has decreased among Americans.
    Natacha Larnaud, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The poll July 5 to July 26 comes as cigarette use has been on a downward spiral over the past decade-plus.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The other condemns cigarette smoking, recommending instead use of a miswak, or a stick toothbrush.
    Ian Talley, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Elliptical Beaux-Arts laylights on the ceiling have regained their vintage glow, now that decades’ worth of cigarette smoke has been scrubbed away.
    Curbed, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Philip Morris kept the international cigarettes business which was still growing.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Does the movie have cigarette burns on the top right of the screen as a film reel would?
    Nick Allen, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The cigarette smoke hung over the upstairs kitchen like a fog.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The sales tax on a pack of cigarettes will increase by $1.25, to $5 per pack.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Forced to sell cigarettes on the street to get by, the 56-year-old blacksmith is angry.
    Nabih Bulos and A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At the time, Mack was on his porch smoking a cigarette.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • She had been invited to smoke cigarettes in the trees on the far side of the running track.
    Karen Kicak, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Two of the men are smoking long cigarettes, a third is in a pinstripe suit.
    Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Their clothes, their house and their cars smell like cigarettes.
    Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • So the gas tax is just on gas, or the cigarette tax is just on cigarettes.
    Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The guy working the deli counter thought nothing of lighting up a cigarette on the job.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Then there was Trotter, a cigarette made by and for pigs.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Plus the unit can run off your car’s cigarette lighter, if needed.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Traci walked through the lot beside her, jumpy, the cigarette still behind her ear.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Just as the sailor lights up a cigarette to go with the spectacle, a blaze erupts between the vessels.
    Amanda Forbis, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Smith blames the cigarette habit her mother could not kick.
    Jim Stingl, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Waving a cigarette in the air, Chappelle sang the song karaoke-style, slightly off-tune and with a cheeky smile.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The New York Times wrote that Sorkin, once a heavy smoker who saw the habit as part of the writing process, quit cigarettes after the health scare.
    Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • On a midday run for Pepsi and cigarettes, Sicard took a video of palm trees bowing in the heavy winds.
    Karin Brulliard and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Adding Bronny James to the Lakers would be like lighting up a cigarette at the gas pump.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • The pungent smell of cigarette smoke and mold wafted through the damp, dark hallways.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Herring gave her a cigarette, and Lena gestured for him to light it.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • For as long as cigarette smoking has been linked to cancer, stroke, and heart and lung disease, quit-smoking campaigns have urged people to kick the habit as a way of improving their health.
    New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024

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