Cigarette Definition–noun | a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking, considerably smaller than most cigars and usually wrapped in thin white paper. | |
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paper-wrapped roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking; modern cigarette tobacco is usually of a milder type than cigar tobacco.smoking
Lorillard
oldest tobacco manufacturer in the United States, dating to 1760, when a French immigrant, Pierre Lorillard, opened a "manufactory" in New York City. It originally made pipe tobacco, cigars, plug ...
Business and Industry Review
In spite of a worldwide increase in antitobacco sentiment, and a marked rise in legislation designed to curb smoking, global sales of cigarettes rose in 1997 by 0.9% to an estimated ...
Holmes, Martha Louise
American photographer (b. Feb. 7, 1923, Louisville, Ky.-d. Sept. 19, 2006, New York, N.Y.), specialized in taking intimate portraits of celebrities, politicians, and sports figures while working for ...
American Brands, Inc.
American industrial conglomerate that was once the world's largest cigarette maker. It was formed in 1969 as the parent company for the American Tobacco Company (founded 1890). Corporate ...
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Cigarettes were originally sold as an expensive handmade luxury item for the urban elites of Europe. However, cigarette manufacture was revolutionized by the introduction of a rolling machine called ...
Auerbach, Oscar
American pathologist whose research showing that cigarette smoking was causally related to lung cancer, based on his examination of thousands of lung tissue samples, gained national prominence in the ...
respiratory disease
Also known as pulmonary histiocytosis X, this disease causes granulomas associated with eosinophil cells, a subgroup of the white blood cells. It sometimes also causes lesions in bone. Eosinophilic ...
Samoa
Samoa's diversified light manufactures include beer, cigarettes, coconut products (mainly creams and oils), corned beef, soap, paint, soft drinks and juices, and handicrafts. Most are produced for ...
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