fag(CIGARETTE)UKslang
Don't offer him a cigarette, he's trying to give up.
He sat there, puffing away at a cigarette.他坐在那里，抽着烟。
Would you mind putting your cigarette out, please?请你把烟掐了好吗？
I used to smoke a packet of cigarettes a day.我曾经一天抽一包烟。
The law forbids the sale of cigarettes to people under the age of 18.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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ashtray
big tobacco
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butt
chain-smoker
cigarette butt
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puffer
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second-hand smoke
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tar
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cigarette | American Dictionary

cigarette
noun[ C ]
us/ˌsɪɡ·əˈret/
a small tube of thin paper filled with pieces of cut tobacco that is used for smoking:
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart disease.

Examples of cigarette

cigarette
The use of a dual task procedure for the assessment of cognitive effort associated with cigarette craving.
I have begun learning to smoke a cigarette already, man.
Damage to the insula disrupts addiction to cigarette smoking.
Such profiling was undertaken to identify and categorize the psychological needs of the target market as part of the process of managing consumption of cigarettes.
The cigarettes proved to be very costly: he would eventually pay for them with his life, and in the meantime with prolonged suffering.
In the patient group, 39 persons were cigarette smokers v. 11 non-smokers.
Like the personal behaviors noted above, from alcoholism to cigarette smoking, obesity had become socially sinful - a condition that has largely persisted ever since.
Participation in cigarette smoking has three outcomes; never smoked (j1⁄40), smoked and quit (j1⁄41), and currently smoking (j1⁄42).
However, it is important to remember that maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy has other consequences in addition to prenatal nicotine exposure.
Assessing the relationship between maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and age at first police contact.
Although this campaign leaves preferences unchanged, it affects choices via differences in information and leads to a consumption of 5-15 cigarettes per day.
More rarely, dried leaves and twigs have been boiled for drinking or rolled into cigarettes and smoked.
Finally, and most obviously, alcohol and cigarette consumption are very strong predictors of longevity.
It is interesting that activities concerning cigarette smoking and traffic injuries generally do not fall under ministries of health.
Gradually, this became standard practice, and the tobaccomen expanded their businesses and began to produce and sell ready-made cigarettes on a regular basis.
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Collocations withcigarette

cigarette

These are words often used in combination with cigarette.

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cigarette machine
He wanted her to buy a cigarettemachine.
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