Search results for "Cigarette" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • and forest fires, and is also a component of cigarette smoke. Up until World War II, benzene was produced mainly as a byproduct of coke production ...
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  • Tributes published after his death confirmed that he had been a cigarette chain-smoker. While The Tonight Show was broadcast live, he would frequently ...
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  • after it dried, packaged and sent for cigar, cigarette and chewing tobacco production. The freshly picked hops from the fields were raked into ...
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  • awards. The first prizes were "a scroll, cigarette lighter and articles of jewelry such as 14-carat gold compacts and bracelets for the women, ...
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  • Category:image wanted [[File:Abbott and Costello circa 1940s.JPG|thumb|200px|Photo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello from their NBC Radio program.]] ...
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  • upward from his clenched fist as if he held a cigarette lighter. His thumb would ignite, and he would light his pipe. Hardy, seeing this, would attempt ...
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  • The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United ...
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  • * Probably the best-known application is the electric cigarette lighter: Pressing the button causes a spring-loaded hammer to hit a piezoelectric ...
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  • Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on the coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is the country ...
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  • Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in the northeastern part of the country at an elevation of 1,483 meters (4,865 ...
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  • A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a professional who practices ...
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  • a tick. One legend states that something hot (a cigarette or burnt match for instance) should be applied to the back of the tick, which causes the tick ...
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  • used for dresses, draperies, upholstery, diapers, cigarette filters and other filters, and fiber-tip pens. * Ionomers: These are useful for golf ...
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  • Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major port on the Atlantic Ocean. Freetown is the hub of the nation's administrative ...
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  • country's principal crop, tobacco, as cigarette consumption in the West continues to decline. Traditionally Malawi has been self-sufficient ...
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  • brewing, sugar milling, palm oil, soap, and cigarette making also are major industries. The most important agricultural products are lumber, sugar, cocoa ...
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  • light industries such as match, liquor, and cigarette manufacturing were established. The city was occupied by the Japanese in 1940, and liberated ...
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  • en buste, posé au bureau, faisant face à gauche, cigarette de tabagisme.jpg | image_caption = Albert Camus, 1957 | name = Albert Camus ...
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  • that ban all forms of alcohol, drugs and cigarette smoking.[http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=789&profileId ...
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  • was well-known for its camera works and its cigarette factories. Between 1918 and 1934 Dresden was capital of the first Free State of Saxony. Dresden ...
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  • his speaking style, even swinging around a cigarette holder as he talked.Douglas Brinkley, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the ...
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  • Cigarette Labeling Act of 1965 required packages to carry warning labels. Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 set standards through creation of ...
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  • Famously, she presented him with a magnificent cigarette case from Cartier, at the opening to every new production that he'd written for and each ...
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  • a phenomenon similar to second-hand cigarette smoke. One of the studies conducted showed a likelihood that the entire population of the Island ...
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  • is of a former smoker having dreams of lighting a cigarette). Subjects who have had DAMT have reported awaking with intense feelings of guilt. Some studies ...
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  • chaukis in the manner of the Arabs… Smoking of cigarette or huqqa and the chewing of betels shall be strictly prohibited. No corporal punishment or ...
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  • Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (December 23, 1918 - November 10, 2015) was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Bundeskanzler ...
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  • stunt aimed at persuading women to take up cigarette smoking, which was then considered unfeminine and inappropriate for women with any social standing ...
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  • 1 All ER 978, a squatter flicked away a still lit cigarette, which landed on a mattress. He failed to take action, and after the building had burned down ...
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  • The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that rebelled against the United Kingdom and ...
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  • such as car fumes and increased amount of cigarette exposure. W.W. Holland, and D.D. Reid, "The urban factor in chronic bronchitis." ...
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  • the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette and burned more than 410,000 acres.]] A series of lightning-derived fires started to ...
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  • engine, or by inhaling it through a lit cigarette, cigar or pipe. Phosgene is a substance that was used as a chemical weapon in World War I ...
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  • War II American GIs being used as charcoal cigarette filters. It proposes a series of seemingly incredible interconnections between these and other ...
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  • Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of ...
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  • the reform of the penal code, the Evin Act on cigarette in public places. Besides, several large architectural works were engaged with the building ...
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  • asthma, is correlated with exposure to cigarette smoke, an older patient, less symptom reversibility after bronchodilator administration (as ...
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  • already own a bingo hall, a gas station, and a cigarette factory. The later-day organization of reservation property directly reflects the influence ...
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  • attempt various farming alternatives. Burley (cigarette tobacco) production was expected to total 144.9 million pounds on 69,000 acres in 2008, down ...
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  • Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the formula NH3. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure In this case, ...
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  • com/wp-dyn/articles/A23384-2004Jun7.html Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism.] Retrieved July 1, 2007. The source of the illegally-traded ...
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  • As for tobacco, in 2008 Missouri had the lowest cigarette excise taxes in the United States. Federation of Tax Administrators. [http://www.taxadmin ...
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  • , or a student relaxing with a mug of beer and a cigarette. The architect, James Gamble Rogers, faux-aged these buildings by splashing the walls with ...
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  • operated using a small wheel much like that on cigarette lighters which was wound up with a key before use and which, when the trigger was pulled, spun ...
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  • style, in full evening dress with a cigarette hanging from his lips. The introduction was a kind of challenge, or seduction, invariably addressed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive, affective, and behavioral ...
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  • a tick. One legend states that something hot (a cigarette or burnt match for instance) should be applied to the back of the tick, which causes the tick ...
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  • and managing director of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company in Stuttgart, Germany. The name Waldorf thus comes from the factory that hosted the ...
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  • the G4M the sardonic nick-name "the Flying Cigarette Lighter." Ironically, Yamamoto later died in one of these aircraft. ...
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  • Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Washington is located in the uppermost corner of the Pacific ...
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