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2 unusual facts about Cigarette


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  • "Zigarettenautomat" (Cigarette machine) (Frege, Hanns Christian Müller, Müller, Frege) – 2:04 (Unsterblich demo)

    Prison commissary

    Cigarettes were a classic medium of exchange, but in the wake of prison tobacco bans, postage stamps have become a more common currency item, along with any inexpensive, popular item that has a round number price such as 25 or 50 cents.


    A Salty Dog

    Having an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover (a pastiche of the famous Player's Navy Cut cigarette pack), interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items A Salty Dog showed a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically less obscure.

    Amber Smith

    She has appeared in advertising for L'Oréal makeup, Buffalo Jeans, Camel cigarettes, Kahlúa liqueur, Volkswagen automobiles, and Panama Jack, among others, and has walked the runway for such fashion designers as Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier.

    At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

    The Museum of Contemporary Photography stated the book "captures the confusing emotions and developing identities of adolescent girls," particularly praising an image entitled 'Candy Cigarette'.

    Batschari

    Along with other cigarette manufacturers of the period like Josef Garbáty and Manoli, Batschari was at the time a patron of the arts, employing famous artists such as Hans Rudi Erdt, Ivo Puhonny, Lucian Bernhard and Ludwig Hohlwein to produce advertising material.

    The ABC cigarette marque was by then known beyond Germany, and the company had outlets in most major European cities as well as in Madison Avenue in New York.

    Bette Ford

    Bette Ford began her career as a model and actress in New York, where her modeling credits included stints as the Jantzen Bathing Suit Girl, the Camay (soap) Bride, and the Parliament Cigarette Girl, and her acting credits included appearances as a regular on The Jackie Gleason Show and The Jimmy Durante Show.

    Blic

    Knežević also claimed that the cigarette cartel also poses a security threat to Boris Tadić and that even Croatian president Stipe Mesić gave Tadić documents during their meeting in Sofia on April 25, 2009 warning him of possible attacks on him.

    Bulgartabac

    Bulgartabac produces over 50 cigarette brands and sub-brands in its modernized factories in Sofia and Blagoevgrad using both domestic and imported tobacco.

    C-ration

    The brown butcher paper accessory pack contained sugar tablets, halazone water purification tablets (for a brief period in 1945), a flat wooden spoon, a piece of candy-coated chewing gum, 3 "short" sample 3-packs or one "long" sample 9-pack of commercial-grade cigarettes and a book of 20 cardboard moisture-resistant matches, a paper-wrapped P-38 can opener printed with instructions for its proper use, and several sheets of toilet paper.

    One sundries can containing the accessory packet: (Gum, toilet paper, a P-38 can opener, granulated salt, and a flat wooden spoon) and the cigarette packet: (one 9-pack of cigarettes and a book of matches).

    Cale Case

    I don't like being exposed to Kenny G's music, cigarette smoke or patchouli oil, but I will defend the right of other folks to have all that junk, the right of business owners to allow it, and my right not to have to be around it.

    Candy cigarette

    Popeye Cigarettes marketed using the Popeye character were sold for a while and had red tips (to look like a lit cigarette) before being renamed candy sticks and being manufactured without the red tip.

    Chinese Jia-A League 1994

    The Chinese FA would also sell the television rights to CCTV for 450,000 Yuan and gain sponsorship for the league from Marlboro.

    Cigarette filter

    Using standard tests adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Novotny and other researchers discovered that a cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water for four days will kill both the topsmelt and the freshwater fathead minnow fish species.

    Collofino

    Josef Feinhals (1867–1947), aka Collofino, was a German cigar and cigarette maker, patron of the arts, and writer from Cologne.

    Donald Aronow

    In 1966, he founded Magnum Marine with Elton Cary and, in 1970, after campaigning his boat "The Cigarette" around the world and winning the World Championship, he started Cigarette Racing Team using his own designs.

    Egyptian cigarette industry

    Egyptian cigarette advertisements are parodied in Hergé's graphic novel Cigars of the Pharaoh.

    Fire safe cigarette

    In 1929, a cigarette-ignited fire in Lowell, Massachusetts, caught the attention of U.S. Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers (D-MA); she called for the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) to develop technology for "self-snubbing" cigarettes.

    Five Leaves Left

    "Five leaves left" is a reference to the old Rizla cigarette papers packet – which used to contain a printed note near the end saying "Only five leaves left".

    Greco Mafia clan

    Although descendants of the old, established rural Mafia, the cousins Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco and Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco quickly learned to profit from the post-war economic boom and became involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking.

    Health in Bolivia

    Addiction to coca paste, a cocaine by-product in the form of a cigarette called 'pitillo', was spreading rapidly among city youths.

    Janice Battersby

    In March 2004, Janice sneaks into the storeroom at the factory for a crafty cigarette but drops the cigarette when caretaker Harry Flagg (Iain Rogerson) locks her in, a fire starts.

    Jeffrey Wigand

    Wigand became nationally known as a whistleblower on February 4, 1996 when he appeared on the CBS news program 60 Minutes and stated that Brown & Williamson had intentionally manipulated its tobacco blend to increase the amount of Nicotine in cigarette smoke.

    Keats Rides a Harley

    # The Leaving Trains - "Cigarette Motel" (James "Falling James" Moreland) - 1:26

    Kim Green

    In 1997 KOOL cigarettes took over as a major sponsor with Parker Johnstone, and the team was renamed Team KOOL Green, before expanding to a two-car effort in 1998 with Paul Tracy and rising youngster Dario Franchitti.

    Korea Sogyong Trading

    Its cigarette manufacturing business began in September 2001 when it formed a 40%-60% joint venture with British American Tobacco called Taesong-BAT.

    Last Cigarette Ever

    Morning Mood from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, played during flashbacks of 13-year-old Marshall's camping trip, when he had his first cigarette.

    Last Tap Dance in Springfield

    After the surgery, Homer rejects the optometrist's advice to take eye drops to keep his eyes from crusting over -- and ends up blind from his eyes scabbing over and tricked into driving to the liquor store to buy Jack Daniel's and "a carton of smokes" for Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (the latter of whom fools Homer into thinking he's Marge).

    Laurier Palace Theatre fire

    The fire — reportedly caused by a discarded cigarette smouldering beneath wooden floorboards — started in early afternoon during a comedy called Get 'Em Young.

    Lenore Kandel

    Kandel appears in the Kenneth Anger film Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), smoking a marijuana cigarette contained in a miniature skull.

    Llamatron

    These enemies, referred to in the game as grunts, take a variety of forms, ranging from boxes of Rizla cigarette papers to the Eye of Providence, taking in cans of Coca-Cola, hamburgers and cutlery along the way.

    Lucy Page Gaston

    Other unexpected backers of the League included North Carolina tobacco farmers, who resented the tactics of cigarette monopoly American Tobacco Company.

    Malandragem

    Those who practice malandragem (o malandro) act in the manner of the popular Brazilian adage, immortalized in a catch phrase of former Brazilian soccer player Gérson de Oliveira Nunes in a cigarette TV commercial (hence the name it was given: Lei do Gérson, or Gérson's law): “I like to get an advantage in everything.”

    Meal, Combat, Individual ration

    Typical commercial brands issued in the cigarette ration were: Camel, Chesterfield, Kent, Kool, Lucky Strike, Marlboro, Pall Mall, Salem, or Winston.

    MV Anne Scan

    Anne Scan is a cargo ship registered in Antigua and Barbuda which was detained in Greenore, Republic of Ireland on 27 October 2009 when over 50,000,000 worth of cigarettes were discovered on board.

    Quebec-class submarine

    Other incidents caused oxygen-fueled flames to burst out from the boats, which led to their crews to nickname them zazhigalka ("lighters") or Zippos after the well-known cigarette lighter.

    Rad Racer

    At the car selection screen, the player can pick one of two cars: a Ferrari 328 or an F1 racing machine, similar in appearance to the 1987 Camel-sponsored Honda/Lotus 99T Formula One car.

    Santiago Carrillo

    His own courageous personal behaviour during the failed coup d'état was remarkable − he was, together with outgoing prime minister Suárez and defence minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, one of the three MPs not to obey the rebels' orders to lie down, choosing to sit and have a cigarette (as shown in the surviving TV footage of that day).

    Seminole Tribe of Florida

    Learning from operations on the Colville reservation in Washington state, Tommie directed the establishment of a tax-free cigarette shop on the Hollywood Reservation, where the tribe started to generate more substantial income.

    Sex and drugs

    Tobacco use (e.g., cigarette smoking), also reduces sexual function, with the incidence of impotence being approximately eighty-five percent higher in male smokers compared to non-smokers.

    Suzy Mandel

    Of Hill and Jackie Wright's famous ‘head slapping’ routine, she said "Jackie Wright was a chain smoker and he would often hide his cigarette in his mouth or behind his back during scenes. In fact, you could often see a little plume of smoke rising behind him if you looked close enough. Benny would slap his head to fan the smoke away.".

    The Tenant

    Gradually he changes his breakfast habits to those of Simone, and shifts from Gauloises to Marlboro cigarettes.

    Tobacco harm reduction

    In October 2008 the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) became the first medical organization in the U.S. to officially endorse tobacco harm reduction as a viable strategy to reduce the death toll related to cigarette smoking.

    Umberto Ammaturo

    He was related to Felice Malvento (his brother Antonio was married to Luisa Malvento), a cigarette smuggler with contacts to Sicilian mafiosi such as Tommaso Buscetta.

    Veronica Hamel

    She was the model in the last cigarette commercial televised in the U.S. (for Virginia Slims, aired at 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Day 1971 on The Tonight Show).

    Women shall not Weep

    One soldier she gives a cigarette dies minutes later, with the cigarette still in his mouth, and Georgina immediately volunteers to be a VAD nurse and soon starts training.


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