I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fire/smoke alarm
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A fire alarm went off and the building had to be evacuated.
a smoking area
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Employers do not have to provide smoking areas.
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
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He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
cigarette smoke
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The room was full of cigarette smoke.
cigarette smoking
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Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is bad for you.
drink/smoke heavily
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Paul was drinking heavily by then.
fresh/smoked salmon
pall of smoke/dust/ash etc
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A pall of thick grey smoke hung over the buildings.
passive smoking
plume of smoke/dust/gas/spray etc
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A black plume of smoke rose above the city.
puff of smoke/wind/air/steam etc
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The dragon disappeared in a puff of smoke.
smoke a cigarette
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Some of the boys were smoking cigarettes.
smoke alarm
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The smoke alarm went off.
smoke bomb
smoke detector
smoke dope
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Jeff used to smoke dope all the time.
smoke inhalation (= when you breathe smoke from a fire )
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One man was treated for smoke inhalation .
smoke signal
smoked fish (= left in smoke to give it a special taste )
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It was the finest smoked fish they had ever tasted.
smoked glass
smoking gun
smoking jacket
smoking pot
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Michael was smoking pot with some friends.
smoking room
thick with...smoke
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The air was thick with cigarette smoke .
wood smoke
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There was a smell of wood smoke.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acrid
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Afterwards, a huge black cloud of acrid smoke rose hundreds of feet above the town.
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An acrid smoke filled the room.
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Further attempts to fight the fire were abandoned as thick acrid smoke filled the department.
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Some workers, their faces blackened by the acrid smoke , fled in panic, escaping injury.
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When he arrived at the scene the shop was full of thick, acrid smoke .
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The acrid , half-burnt smoke , trapped by the overhead freeway structure, choked the spectators.
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He could smell above the all-pervading redolence of incense, the faint acrid smoke of the candle.
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Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside, and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air.
black
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There was no wind to bend the plume of black smoke rising from the hospital's incineration chimney.
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It sat stalled, the cabin shattered, with a column of black smoke rising from it.
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As dense black smoke swirled over the town, residents were told to stay indoors.
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Offshore a small tug belched black smoke as she struggled to pull a string of barges.
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Ragged black smoke led to the two-seater; the Pfalz scouts had gone, vanished.
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Smoke poured from the central chimney, the rich, black coal smoke from the furnace.
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A few hundred metres away I saw black smoke dissipating into the air.
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The only traffic in the whole area consisted of chugging yellow Navy tugboats which emitted heavy black smoke from their tall stacks.
blue
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The News Thin blue smoke poured straight up from the freshly mortared chimney of the McCullochs' house in Weem.
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There was a blue smoke hung near the ceiling over her head.
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Quills of blue smoke rose out of the swinging ball.
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The blue smoke rises straight up, blending with the haze.
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There was blue smoke swaying around the room.
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The whole cabin was full of choking blue smoke and there was still no fire in the stove.
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They both turned and looked out across the fresh greenery sparkling in the April sunlight towards the solitary plume of blue smoke .
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A few tipis had blue smoke coming from their tops.
dense
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As dense black smoke swirled over the town, residents were told to stay indoors.
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The candles were useless in the dense smoke , and it was many minutes before we could see.
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Standard polyurethane foam ignites rapidly, forming dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapour as it does so.
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Voice over Firefighters wearing special protective clothing made their way through the dense smoke towards the fuel flask.
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Great electrical bursts of dazzling blue and purple light explode behind copious amounts of dense smoke which obscures the entire stage.
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Remember, even a small fire can fill your home with dense and poisonous smoke in a couple of minutes.
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This shop is surely an outpost of hell, with its oppressive heat and dense clouds of smoke .
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Environmentalists have also criticised the dense smoke from buses which pollute the town centre.
full
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The room is full of smoke: nicotine has become the ambient atmosphere.
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My curiosity made me open the door, and I found the corridor full of smoke .
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The paddy was full of colored smoke , lavenders and yellows.
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The room will very quickly be full of smoke .
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Anyway, they had to call the fire brigade, the house was full of smoke .
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The air was full of cigarette smoke and chatter in several different languages.
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The house was full of smoke .
thick
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The air was so thick with smoke that one could barely breathe!
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The thick pungent smoke from the spliff filled the car in no time as Firebug took long leisurely tokes and sat back.
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A thick , choking smoke arose but the rug began to burn and she dropped it with a cry.
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For the stunt, De Cagny trained Clovis to slink low to the ground with thick smoke overhead.
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All three were firing now, but the thick smoke was confusing them; they couldn't see properly through their masks.
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I can just barely make out the forms of the fire-fighters through the thick smoke .
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The air in the room grew thick with tobacco smoke .
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Flames shot up amidst coils of thick smoke that blackened our kitchen walls and ceiling.
white
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Without pause the explosions became a continuous bombardment, and thick, white smoke engulfed the courtyard, blotting out the sun.
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Different individuals marked with the white smoke .
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The last log sighs and stirs in the white smoke that eats it slowly.
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I saw white smoke streaming behind the gunships, about a mile ahead of us.
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A thick, milky white cloud of smoke belches from this factory's chimneys day and night.
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Below, almost straight ahead, white puffs of smoke opened up in the paddies just outside the village.
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The sun was going down, the power station laid a creased white sleeve of smoke against the darkening sky.
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The beautiful thing about white phosphorous is that it puts out white smoke that you can see through almost anything.
■ NOUN
cigar
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My father went back to stirring the soup, which I could smell now above the cigar smoke .
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Hicks brushed aside the blue haze of his cigar and felt suddenly that he was trying to dispel more than cigar smoke .
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When the door opened a great smell of sweat and leather and stale cigar smoke rushed into the cold night air.
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That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets, grey hair and cigar smoke .
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All he got in return was a blank stare and a cloud of fresh cigar smoke .
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Not another word, a sigh, no raised eyebrow or even an impatient puff of cigar smoke .
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She sobbed into his cashmere overcoat, smelling the peculiar odour of him, Old Spice and cigar smoke .
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The atmosphere was electric with anticipation and unbreathable with cigar smoke .
cigarette
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Catriona decided not to mention that she hated cigarette smoke .
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The smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke spilled into the back-stage corridors as we groped along in search of my dressing room.
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The place always smells of beer, cigarette smoke , and cooking grease that should have been thrown out last week.
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He was passing the open door, caught the odour of cigarette smoke .
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She sensed that mummy was growing tense with all the heat and noise and cigarette smoke .
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Interestingly, it is apparently not the nicotine in cigarette smoke that induces liver enzymes to work more efficiently.
inhalation
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Father and daughter were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital and treated for smoke inhalation .
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Three of the people injured were brought to a local hospital suffering from smoke inhalation .
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She needed treatment for smoke inhalation and minor burns.
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Fire investigators believe the man died of smoke inhalation .
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Eventually the Fire Service put the fire out, but by then both women had died from smoke inhalation .
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Serrin was treated for smoke inhalation and burns on his right arm and was listed in serious condition in a Gloucester hospital.
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Ten classrooms were gutted in the arson attack, and three fire fighters were treated for smoke inhalation .
plume
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But the smoke plumes fascinated her.
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The first wells were set alight in February 1991 and their smoke plumes were clearly visible on satellite images of the region.
ring
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Kersey blew smoke rings and watched them with approval.
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As he blew smoke rings , his eyes grew more thoughtful, worried, filmed over with sadness.
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She smiled, showing off her plump, tight little mouth, and blew a failed smoke ring .
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I have pointed out a couple of omissions, cheekily blowing a smoke ring through Walton's much more substantial one.
tobacco
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Then, smelling tobacco smoke , the word Woodbine wound into my head.
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Smoking adds significantly to the risk because tobacco smoke bathes delicate cervical tissues in tar and nicotine.
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The interior was gloomy; tobacco smoke hung motionless in the thin air.
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Secondhand or environmental tobacco smoke causes 3, 000 lung cancers a year, Pirkle said.
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You smell whisky and old tobacco smoke .
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It treated primary and secondary tobacco smoke as identical though the latter is clearly diluted by contact with the surrounding environment.
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The air in the room grew thick with tobacco smoke .
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Firstly, chemical carcinogens in tobacco smoke might directly induce cervical carcinogenesis.
wood
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There was a smell of wood smoke and flowers, and the house felt as warm and as kind as summer.
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I soon became a connoisseur of wood smoke .
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The smell of Gongshan is the smell of charcoal wood smoke .
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But now a donkey brayed and the faint chant of women drifted with wood smoke from the town.
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A rich aroma of manure and wood smoke , pungent to my effete nostrils.
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The cottage was redolent with the zesty smell of lemon overlaying the more familiar tang of polish, wine and wood smoke .
■ VERB
belch
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After all, it wasn't that long ago that it was quite acceptable to belch smoke over the countryside.
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The fine sediments are fallout from a hydrothermal chimney that had been belching out smoke for years.
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The magazine in her hand plumed upwards in a long flame, belching smoke .
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Offshore a small tug belched black smoke as she struggled to pull a string of barges.
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Many London factories worked a twenty-four-hour day, and their chimneys only stopped belching smoke on Sundays.
blow
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By the end of the evening she was puffing her cigarette and blowing the smoke at Miss Poole in the darkness.
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One or two chimneys blew smoke at the edge of the scheme.
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Winnie whips out a stogie and starts puffing away, blowing smoke over to your table.
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She blew smoke out, coughed, and handed him the cigarette and he took it without a word.
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People had been blowing cigarette smoke on to them for years.
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He lit one of the cigars which he smoked nonstop and blew rich smoke upwards.
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He gnawed at his thick lower lip or blew smoke in my direction.
fill
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The gin flows and the room fills with smoke .
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The pub was filling and the smoke haze thickened as spirits rose.
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The watching team could see through the windows that the interior of the chamber quickly filled with smoke .
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But then the room was filled with light and smoke .
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The car was filling with smoke .
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Instead we sat silently in the cab as it slowly filled with smoke .
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Another passenger convinced her to leave the plane, which was quickly filling with a choking smoke .
inhale
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He inhaled the smoke with obvious pleasure.
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I inhaled a mouthful of smoke and let it out slowly.
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The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches, but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke .
let
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Do not let the patient smoke , if possible.
rise
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There was no wind to bend the plume of black smoke rising from the hospital's incineration chimney.
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That smoke rising from the chimney, for example, has never heard of time, space, qualities, or quantities.
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And up from the city of fumes and smoke rose a broiling cloud of steam, covering the stars.
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A huge column of dark red smoke rose to 1, 000 meters.
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Quills of blue smoke rose out of the swinging ball.
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Three times a day we hear steam whistles, and here and there are columns of smoke rising .
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In the distance smoke rose over the old city, where Hindu mobs were massacring Sikhs in reprisal for Indira's assassination.
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We aimed at the puffs of smoke we saw rising in front and on the left of us.
see
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Above the bare-branched trees on the edge of his vision he could see clouds of smoke .
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A motorist on Interstate 70 near New York Mountain had reported seeing smoke coming from the slope last week.
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Witnesses saw the jet belch smoke before it exploded into pieces.
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He saw no smoke or fire coming from the plane, Muelhaupt said.
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A few hundred metres away I saw black smoke dissipating into the air.
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These witnesses had heard an explosion and seen a column of smoke rise from behind a range of hills in Soviet territory.
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To see a black smoke is to see a body of ore actually being formed.
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I saw white smoke streaming behind the gunships, about a mile ahead of us.
smell
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Then, smelling tobacco smoke , the word Woodbine wound into my head.
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For days, every time you step outside, you can still smell the smoke from this fire.
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He needed a bath and quickly, he imagined he could smell smoke and the sour stench of sweat from his skin.
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If you smell smoke , hit the floor, and crawl to the nearest exit.
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All the man could smell was the nasty smoke he was making.
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The apartment door was already standing open and the hallway smelled of stale smoke .
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He says that there will be no pollution, nothing will smell , no smoke will be seen.
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It began to seem that the room smelled like cigarette smoke .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pillar of dust/smoke/flame etc
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The incinerator became a roaring pillar of flame, its iron bars instantly glowing red hot.
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There was a pillar of smoke then, too.
put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it
smoke like a chimney
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She's only thirteen and she already smokes like a chimney .
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My granddad, who smoked like a chimney and lived to 97, was lucky enough never to encounter a promoter.
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The only sadness was that they all appeared to smoke like chimneys .
smoked salmon/bacon/sausage etc
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A practical nurse brought old red wine, a silver tray of smoked salmon, crumbled hard-boiled egg, capers and lemon.
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And then, there was the smoked salmon, last Friday's gift, brought to her flat just before suppertime.
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Eating smoked salmon while talking to Johnny Prescott had seemed to last a lifetime.
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Extrawurst or Fleischwurst is another lightly smoked sausage for eating cold but may also be poached or grilled.
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Hot-pressed sandwiches such as basil, mozzarella and tomato; lemon turkey; smoked salmon; and roast beef.
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It was even better than smoked salmon.
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The most interesting is Tramazzine, toasted pocket bread filled with smoked salmon or mushroom.
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Village wedding feasts may soon forsake smoked salmon canapés in favour of such things as Lincolnshire chine and Wiltshire porkies once again.
veil of mist/cloud/smoke etc
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The moon was hidden under a veil of clouds, and there was not a breath of wind.
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Whose light retires behind its veil of cloud.
work/munch/smoke etc your way through sth
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Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
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He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.
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He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.
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He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
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Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
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We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
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You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Maybe you could get a smoke off somebody at the bar.
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The smell of cigarette smoke hung in the air.
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We could see a cloud of smoke rising above the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If you smell smoke , hit the floor, and crawl to the nearest exit.
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Suddenly she wondered if straight Lucy would mind the smoke ?
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The smoke drifted to and fro among us.
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The room will very quickly be full of smoke .
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The sky took their smoke , the earth their ashes.
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Then we noticed the smoke everywhere.
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White chimney smoke is the traditional signal that a new pope has been chosen.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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He rarely drank, never smoked and played the piano, but not for the purposes of a sing-song.
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You could never smoke marijuana in our house.
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Beware of cigarettes, cigars and pipes, particularly near furniture and never smoke in bed.
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I have never smoked and I object to being poisoned by other people's indulgence.
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I promised myself I'd never smoke again and I didn't often do that twice in a morning.
still
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There was a brazier newly in use, and still smoking a little.
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About 16 percent of California adults, about 3. 7 million people, still smoke .
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He found a wrecked hangar, still smoking .
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We apparently had surprised them because there were still smoking pots with food in them.
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A lot of older women still smoke a pipe, at least around the lower quarters.
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All around the house, within yards of it in some places, the land was black and still smoking .
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But smoke still rises from the ovens where bread is baked and the brick pits where meals are prepared.
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Still smoking , he started to get those violent images again when there was a soft tap on his window.
■ NOUN
chain
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None of the New College group are chain-smoking or drinking coffee, but there is still an authentic atmosphere.
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A diminutive figure sat chain-smoking at the head of a vast table.
chimney
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The only sadness was that they all appeared to smoke like chimneys .
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My granddad, who smoked like a chimney and lived to 97, was lucky enough never to encounter a promoter.
cigar
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Nigel was ostentatiously smoking a big cigar to give an illusion of poise.
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After all, men smoke cigars .
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Behind it, when he was in session, George would swing to and fro in his green leather swivel armchair smoking a cigar .
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Not surprisingly, young salesmen dashed around the place looking cowed and frightened, while young traders smoked cigars .
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She smoked cheap cigars , and the ash lay on her cardigans like catkins.
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Salesmen talked to investors, traders made bets, and managers smoked cigars .
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Keith smoked Dempster's cigars , ate his dinners.
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He was carried from the field... coolly smoking a cigar .
cigarette
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By the time the cigarette had been smoked the fire had burnt out.
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She would tap out a cigarette and pretend to smoke it, as if on break.
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It is estimated that for every cigarette you smoke you shorten your life span by five minutes.
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The social class gap in cigarette smoking between women from manual and non-manual households should be narrowed by 5 percent.
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Intimate little items: what she ate for breakfast, the occasional cigarette she smoked .
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There was no association with social class or cigarette smoking as has been suggested elsewhere.
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Manny lights a cigarette and drops the smoking match into the top of an empty Heineken can.
cigarettes
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Oh, she didn't smoke cigarettes - she smoked mackerel!
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The cigarettes people smoked smelt different as well and his policeman's nose told him they were not all honest virginia.
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Chief executive Gareth Davis estimates that 25 % of all cigarettes smoked in Britain escape domestic duty.
day
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She smoked sixty cigarettes a day .
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He said 3, 000 teen-agers begin smoking cigarettes every day .
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He'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years.
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But three thousand children start smoking every day .
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Some 200 ii north of Kucha lay a mountain that reputedly exhibited fire by night and smoke by day .
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He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups.
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Some one once told me that even breathing the air was the equivalent of smoking twenty cigarettes a day .
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If you've smoked 30 a day for 20 years, is it worth giving up?
people
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Inconsiderate smoking can cause considerable offence to the majority of people who do not smoke.
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The president also would require tobacco companies to pay for a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking .
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If you go among people who do smoke , you're just as bad, or worse.
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To some people , smoking is addictive.
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I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs.
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About 16 percent of California adults, about 3. 7 million people , still smoke .
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Outside the house there were a lot of people who were smoking , laughing and talking.
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The hotel has put up bronze plaques that ask people not to smoke in the elevators.
pipe
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Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
woman
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A lot of older women still smoke a pipe, at least around the lower quarters.
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So do women who smoke or drink.
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I have seen few women smoking a pipe.
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The young women smoked cigarettes and did the work of men.
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An old woman was sitting smoking a pipe.
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I did not see many women smoke , though.
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By 1990 only 16 percent of women in professional households smoked , compared with 38 percent of women in unskilled manual homes.
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Some years ago, I helped a woman to stop smoking .
■ VERB
allow
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And knowing the rules, you don't allow smoking in the drawing room.
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The 62 points were the most the Gators had allowed since Auburn smoked them, 63-7, in 1970.
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By now, though, no one was allowed to smoke .
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Whatever it was they did in there, they weren't allowed to smoke while they were doing it.
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The only time we was allowed to smoke more was on association, but we were banged up most of the time.
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These included cigarettes, because they were not allowed to smoke in the Institution.
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Read in studio A pub landlord in Oxford has been charged with allowing his customers to smoke cannabis on his premises.
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Just as well, as he wasn't allowed to smoke .
begin
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Mark took out a cigarette, and began to smoke .
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He pulls out his pipe, lights it, and begins smoking a favorite pastime.
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Continue to cook mixture until it turns translucent caramel color, just before it begins to smoke .
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When oil just begins to smoke , add squab-shrimp mixture.
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A red one jumped out on to the floorboards and they began to smoke .
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Gourlain, in fact, began smoking at 13.
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He sat on one of the barrel tombs near the Lazarus Tree and began to smoke a cigarette.
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He said 3, 000 teen-agers begin smoking cigarettes every day.
give
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Those who gave smoking up in later life occupy an intermediate position.
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The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits.
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The teenager said she has now given up smoking and is looking for a job.
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Then he remembered he'd given up smoking the damned thing.
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Still looking for his Woodbines even though he gave up smoking in 1956.
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Correction: I have given up smoking .
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How many times have I told you that you should give up smoking but you never listen to what I say.
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For a time he gave up drinking and smoking altogether.
quit
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I grieved over one dead person and one dying person and I encouraged one to quit smoking .
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Your decision to quit smoking will make you less susceptible to a number of diseases.
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I only drink in moderation and I quit smoking to protect my bones.
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Many have quit smoking and changed their diets.
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Loss of only 10 percent of body weight, regular aerobic exercise and quitting smoking lead the list.
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He quit smoking , he got on the Nicorette gum.
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I have at last discovered the true secret to quitting smoking .
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I made another mental note to quit smoking cigarettes and take up pipes.
reduce
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Do the Labour Party want it banned to reduce smoking or to increase it?
start
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Perhaps you should start smoking again?
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All three started smoking as teens, smoked for decades, and claimed to have tried unsuccessfully to quit.
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The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years' abstinence.
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If you don't smoke , don't start .
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When you turned the machine on, the plastic started smoking and created an unpleasant odor.
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About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again.
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But three thousand children start smoking every day.
stop
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Those who stop smoking considerably reduce their chance of developing one of these diseases.
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The president also would require tobacco companies to pay for a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking .
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On average, 28% of those who smoked in 1974 had stopped smoking by 1981.
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Morales said he is not trying to stop adults from smoking .
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Some years ago, I helped a woman to stop smoking .
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And every year, thousands of people break their new resolutions-especially when they resolve to stop smoking completely.
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Some habitual or excessive users can stop smoking when convinced by evidence of progressive respiratory and cardiovascular damage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anyone who smokes 40 a day can expect to have a lot of health problems.
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Dana started smoking again when her husband left her.
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Do you smoke ?
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Greg sat alone, smoking a cigarette.
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He sat behind his desk, smoking a fat cigar.
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How old were you when you started smoking?
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Sue never smoked a cigarette in her life, yet she still got lung cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He smokes cigarettes and speeds around on his motorbike with his friends.
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She walked back to the empty station and leaned against the wall, smoking a cigarette.
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She was smoking for twenty-five years.
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When you turned the machine on, the plastic started smoking and created an unpleasant odor.