ashtray
noun
a small flat container where people who smoke put ash and the cigarettes they have finished smoking
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noun
a small flat container where people who smoke put ash and the cigarettes they have finished smoking
to breathe in smoke from a cigarette
noun
a message that must appear on advertisements for cigarettes and packets of cigarettes in Britain, that warns people that it is dangerous to smoke
to light a cigarette
noun
chewing gum containing nicotine that people use when they are trying to stop smoking
noun
a small flat piece of material that people stick on their skin when they are trying to stop smoking
to press a cigarette hard against a surface to make it stop burning
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adjective
noun
verb
someone who smokes a lot, or who drinks a lot of alcohol
to take smoke from a cigarette etc into your lungs
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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