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CIGARETTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

Synonyms:

butt; cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cigarette" is a kind of...):

roll of tobacco; smoke (tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder)

Meronyms (parts of "cigarette"):

cigarette butt (small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cigarette"):

cubeb; cubeb cigarette (a cigarette containing cubeb)

filter-tipped cigarette (a cigarette with a filter tip)

joint; marijuana cigarette; reefer; spliff; stick (marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking)

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 Context examples: 

It is calculated by multiplying the number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day by the number of years the person has smoked.

(Pack year, NCI Dictionary)

Researchers have discovered a mechanism in rats that links cigarette smoking and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)

Emphysema, usually associated with cigarette smoking, is a chronic disease in which lung tissue is destroyed and unable to effectively transfer oxygen in the body.

(Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema, National Institutes of Health)

Indicates a person who has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in his or her lifetime and who currently smokes every day.

(Current Every Day Smoker, NCI Thesaurus)

Those who consistently averaged less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had nine times the risk of dying from lung cancer than never smokers.

(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)

Smoking cigarettes can lead to nicotine addiction and can cause many types of cancer, including cancers of the lung, larynx, mouth, esophagus, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, and acute myeloid leukemia.

(Cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

It develops over many years and is usually caused by cigarette smoking.

(Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, NCI Dictionary)

Cigarette is a very efficient drug-delivery inhaler system for fast-acting substances.

(Cigarette Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An individual who currently, or recently, smokes cigarettes regularly.

(Cigarette Smoker, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike a cigarette, a cigarillo is wrapped in whole-leaf tobacco.

(Cigarillo, NCI Thesaurus)