noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
candle/cigarette/test-tube etc holder
cigarette butt
cigarette holder
cigarette lighter
cigarette paper
cigarette/cigar/tobacco smoke
▪ The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
forget your keys/money/cigarettes etc
▪ Oh no, I’ve forgotten my wallet.
ground out...cigarette
▪ He ground out his cigarette on the window ledge.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advertising
▪ Britain bans cigarette advertising on television, but, with tough restrictions, allows other tobacco advertising.
▪ In addition, government policies need to be believable; banning cigarette advertising would almost certainly cut consumption.
▪ This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising.
▪ Michel Charasse has put forward an amendment which would allow cigarette advertising at the Grand Prix.
ash
▪ It is subject to grease and grime from the hands, occasional coffee spills, cigarette ash, dead flies and sandwich crumbs.
▪ It was unlike Jasper not to object to cigarette ash, in ravioli.
▪ It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash.
▪ Madeleine put down her pen and knocked her cigarette ash into a blue Limoges dish like a saucer.
▪ For example, the cigarette ash referred to above remains in place some 24 hours after being discovered!
▪ He tapped his cigarette ash on the floor.
▪ He smoked constantly and his clothes were always smeared with cigarette ash.
brand
▪ Do you know of any discos or clubs in your area listing events under a cigarette brand name?
burn
▪ They showed a young man whose swollen back was a mass of cigarette burns and bruises.
▪ One matinee jacket arrived with a cigarette burn in the middle of the back.
▪ During his 18-month ordeal Ryan regularly went home covered in cigarette burns and bruises.
▪ The Formica-topped tables were scarred with cigarette burns and discoloured by spilled coffee.
▪ Hermes or Ermenegildo Zegna were dotted with cigarette burns.
▪ He was castrated and his body bore extensive cigarette burns and bullet and knife wounds.
butt
▪ He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet.
▪ She had a cigarette butt between her lips and a genial look on her face.
▪ An earlier cigarette butt smouldered in the grate.
▪ Some had cigarette butts, ground glass and bits of cloth glued to their inside surfaces.
▪ She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.
▪ I scraped cigarette butts and bloodied mashed potatoes off plates, dumped half-eaten steaks and broken lobsters into bins.
▪ Food and cigarette butts had been trodden into the precious carpet.
case
▪ The door closed, and Renwick could safely stow away his cigarette case.
▪ The cigarette case then falls and she grasps it.
▪ Plummer put down his glass and reached into his inside pocket for the monogrammed cigarette case.
▪ Dominic pauses to open his cigarette case.
▪ He took out his cigarette case.
▪ In the same swoop they took my father's silver cigarette case.
▪ Dominic has had this same silver cigarette case for almost twenty years.
company
▪ The cigarette companies started to issue cards once again in the middle of 1922 and they quickly became a craze.
▪ Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.
▪ If upheld on appeal, that decision would mark the first payment of damages by a cigarette company to a smoker.
end
▪ Sadat pitches his cigarette end through the window, gets out of the car and strolls to the gate.
▪ The soldier, becoming bored with the game, laconically reached out his cigarette end and burst the balloon in my face.
▪ Being a fanatic nonsmoker and health freak, he made us enact the ritual funeral of a cigarette end.
▪ Maltravers turned to flick his cigarette end on to the roadside.
▪ But where on earth did he manage to find that cigarette end?
▪ I have not found one cigarette end or one piece of waste paper.
▪ She sucked, and the cigarette end glowed.
▪ I go colour of rump steak, feel like burning cigarette end all over shoulders, thighs, feet.
holder
▪ He took the cigarette holder out of his wide mouth and beamed at his visitor, his Roosevelt smile, warm and toothy.
▪ There was a joint in the cigarette holder.
▪ He was carefully not displaying his cigarette holder and wore a floppy khaki drill jacket and baggy trousers of the same material.
lighter
▪ She heard the hiss of a cigarette lighter, and opened her eyes.
▪ There were two auxiliary power sockets next to the cigarette lighter.
▪ It's a portable car phone that can be plugged into the socket of a cigarette lighter.
▪ There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
▪ Traditionally, the rare earths have been used as catalysts in the chemical industry and in flints for cigarette lighters.
▪ Angry fists waved up, and some one threw something-a cigarette lighter? - at me, striking my knee.
▪ Wristwatch, wallet, tie, cigarette lighter.
▪ Forensic evidence showed the fire had been started in two places, possibly by a cigarette lighter or match.
maker
▪ The Castano settlement marks the first time that a cigarette maker has paid out as a result of smoking-related litigation.
▪ The latest rumors are separate from actual talks between cigarette maker Liggett and state attorneys general.
▪ That pleases the cigarette makers, who invested heavily in his election.
manufacturer
▪ For many years cigarette manufacturers survived the accusation that cigarettes killed you.
▪ That damaged the cigarette manufacturers more than you might imagine.
▪ I challenge the cigarette manufacturers rather than support them.
pack
▪ He fished out his crumpled cigarette pack and lit up.
▪ So the red lighter and cigarette pack had just been props for the pub scene.
▪ Campaigners, for example, are demanding strong warnings on cigarette packs.
packet
▪ Napkins and old cigarette packets did not, sadly, put in an appearance.
▪ Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.
▪ He crunched pea-nut shells under his feet and waded ankle-deep in ice-cream cartons, paper bags, cigarette packets, half-eaten apples.
▪ Bodie upturned the waste bin and sorted through the small pile of chewing-gum wrappers, empty cigarette packets, and cigarette butts.
▪ He taps the cigarette packet round and round on the table surface.
▪ You can't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet.
sale
▪ But before the plan gets under way tobacco sellers will be sent a letter advising them of cigarette sale rules.
▪ Clinton is the first president to challenge tobacco companies to halt cigarette sales to teen-agers, Lewis added.
smoke
▪ Catriona decided not to mention that she hated cigarette smoke.
▪ When she returned after midnight she smelled of beer and cigarette smoke.
▪ The car had a bench seat in the front and smelled of warm leather and old cigarette smoke.
▪ She sensed that mummy was growing tense with all the heat and noise and cigarette smoke.
▪ It began to seem that the room smelled like cigarette smoke.
▪ The smell was similar to the Essoldo's smell: of Jeyes' Fluid and old cigarette smoke.
smoker
▪ A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a nonsmoker.
▪ The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers.
▪ Examination of case notes of patients officially recorded as dying of asthma showed that many were aged over 60 and cigarette smokers.
▪ Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?
▪ Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
▪ Fifty one percent of the patients were cigarette smokers.
▪ Meadows was a longtime cigarette smoker, Allen said.
smoking
▪ Heart attacks and lung cancer are directly linked with cigarette smoking.
▪ These days all that seems innocent stuff - occasional cigarette smoking isn't enough for schoolkids in the Nineties.
▪ Lastly, as part of general health care, it is extremely important to discourage cigarette smoking.
▪ The anti-smoking lobby then switched to point out that cigarette smoking was anti-social and could harm friends and family.
▪ Secondly, cigarette smoking might produce a local immunological defect.
▪ Perhaps this is one reason why cigarette smoking is so attractive in adolescence.
▪ On balance the better controlled studies have shown that cigarette smoking promotes gall bladder disease.
tax
▪ The proposed cigarette tax was abandoned.
▪ Federal and state governments add cigarette taxes, big lawsuits and more.
▪ Smokers would pay an additional $ 1-a-pack cigarette tax.
▪ Congressional leaders left open the question of whether to raise the cigarette tax.
▪ Sharp disputes remain over the structure of the program and whether the cigarette tax should be raised to help pay for it.
■ VERB
ban
▪ Britain bans cigarette advertising on television, but, with tough restrictions, allows other tobacco advertising.
blow
▪ The woman pulled on her cigarette, then blew the smoke away straight up into the air with an exaggerated abandonment.
▪ By the end of the evening she was puffing her cigarette and blowing the smoke at Miss Poole in the darkness.
▪ Newman lit a cigarette, blew smoke rings, watched them float up, collapse against a heavy wooden beam.
draw
▪ He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea.
▪ Madame Gautier watched them for a moment, drawing deeply on her cigarette.
▪ He drew deeply on a cigarette and flipped open his thumb-worn Bible.
▪ The waitress drew on her cigarette and studied the photograph intently.
▪ He drew deeply on a cigarette, stubbing it afterwards in an ashtray which held an extraordinary number of butts.
drop
▪ Willie dropped his cigarette and ground it out carefully under his boot.
▪ He dropped his cigarette into his burrito.
▪ I dropped my cigarette on the floor and put my foot on it.
grind
▪ He ground his cigarette underfoot and walked slowly towards the Fiat.
▪ He grinds the cigarette into the gravel with his heel and puts his other hand on the handlebar.
▪ Coolly Adam ground out his cigarette on the hearth.
▪ He ground out his cigarette and glared at Litchfield.
▪ He ground out the cigarette and watched her, the burning need in him too fierce to ignore.
hold
▪ And then holding the cigarette in front of his face he snapped the tip like some breaker of bread.
▪ You learnt how to smoke, how to hold a cigarette.
▪ His body and amused gaze point at the camera, and he holds a cigarette in his free hand.
▪ Patrick held his cigarette in one gloved hand.
▪ He was holding his cigarette, looking for a place to dump the long smoldering ash.
▪ Christine held a cigarette between the fore and middle fingers of her left hand.
light
▪ I lit a cigarette and looked at him; tried to determine him.
▪ Eulah Mae saw her sharply strike a match against a square match box to light a cigarette over a fresh beer.
▪ Surkov's hand trembled as he lit another cigarette.
▪ McMurphy lights another cigarette and offers it to him.
▪ She lit a cigarette and closed her eyes.
▪ He sat in the wooden chair before the desk and lit a cigarette.
▪ Then, pulling a large white ashtray towards him so it would be within easy reach, he lit a cigarette.
▪ He stared through the windshield at Spider as he leaned against the hood and lit a cigarette.
offer
▪ I offered her a cigarette and a drink of coffee from a flask I had.
▪ First, she offers him a cigarette.
▪ When Madeleine offered him a cigarette, he hesitated, then took one.
▪ Langford offered him a fresh cigarette.
▪ McDunn finally offers me a cigarette.
▪ A man offered Marina a cigarette from a black-and-white case.
▪ Nicholas offered his host a cigarette but he declined.
▪ She offered him a cigarette from it.
put
▪ Nobody would dream of coming in uninvited, and telling me to put my cigarette out.
▪ I watched him put out his cigarette.
▪ Bethany said softly, putting out the cigarette.
▪ Alice hurriedly put out the cigarette and got up to empty the ash tray.
▪ He put out the cigarette just as the matron thundered past us down the aisle, looking for the perpetrator.
▪ Impatiently she put out the cigarette and got up to move restlessly about the room.
reach
▪ Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning, reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car.
▪ When the door closed, Penelope reached for a cigarette in her drawer.
▪ I reach for a cigarette but he withholds the lighter, tight in his fist.
▪ Instead, she reached for a cigarette.
▪ The. flesh of her upper arm hung down when she reached for a cigarette, but it scarcely mattered.
▪ Letia reached for a cigarette and automatically Toni picked up the table lighter and flicked it alive.
roll
▪ With a lifetime of practice behind him he rolled a passable cigarette in his fingers and lit it.
▪ Dunne rolled another cigarette, running his tongue slowly along the glued edge of the brown paper.
▪ He took off his shoes, climbed into a chair, rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee.
▪ He began to hum a tune, dissociating himself, rolling a cigarette with easy movements.
▪ And he rolled up a cigarette and he says, I want you to pray with me.
▪ Odd-Knut rolled a thin cigarette and poured himself yet another coffee.
▪ Dunne rolled another cigarette and lit it.
take
▪ The major's hand trembled slightly as he took the cigarette.
▪ The farmer took a cigarette for his pains and refused food.
▪ Byrne had taken a cigarette from his pocket and was sucking on it.
▪ She flopped down on an unmade king-sized bed, staring at me as she took up a cigarette and lit it.
▪ Then he searched his pockets and took out a cigarette packet and shook it, but it was empty.
▪ He took out a cigarette and lit it, finding it hard to look into her probing eyes.
▪ When he'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth, tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end.
▪ She took a cigarette from a monogrammed case and held it between her teeth, grinning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
draw on a cigarette/cigar etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pack of cigarettes
▪ The ashtray was full of cigarette butts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If Clarence had lit a cigarette and that caused the explosion, then the Trust would be under no liability.
▪ Mattie looked in confusion at Alice, watching her cooly smoking a cigarette.
▪ She was sitting on a grassy bank, leaning forward a little, a cigarette between her fingers, and she was speaking.
▪ There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
▪ They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool.
▪ To put a kid like Delia in eight-hour isolation for accepting a cigarette from a friend is bizarre and outrageous.
▪ When he'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth, tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end.
▪ When Madeleine offered him a cigarette, he hesitated, then took one.