Cigarette

Definition: Cigarette

Cigarette

Noun

1. Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cigarette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Etymology: Cigarette \Cig`a*rette"\, noun. [French expression cigarette.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cigarette

Pungency

Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy.

Crosswords: Cigarette

French (cig, cigarette, weed).

You are not blind, you are drinking Jack Daniels and when you drink Jack, you start that Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, King of sad phase (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

You know, if it wasn't for the junior high school next door, no one would even use the cigarette machine (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

And I still remember that white-bread sandwich and that blonde dancing girl with the cigarette pack on her thigh (Liberty Heights; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Well look at you. Toxic as a crow, sneezing like a maniac, cigarette ash all down your front, nervous, out of breath, you've got married man written across your forehead in big neon letters (Man in the Moon; writing credit: Basil Dearden; John Foley)

Fix the cigarette lighter (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis)

I'm quitting cigarette smoking (But Anyway; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

I'd have another cigarette (Paradise City; performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light (The Gambler; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

They snap their teeth on your cigarette (Walk Like An Egyptian; performing artist: The Bangles)

And that cigarette you're smokin' 'bout scare me half to death (Mama Told Me (Not to Come); performing artist: Three Dog Night)

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other. (references; author: unknown)

Une cigarette pour un ingénu (1968)

Cigarette Girl (1947)

The Hocussing of Cigarette (1924)

A Cigarette Maker's Romance (1920)

La Cigarette (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Papastratos Cigarette Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Cut-to-Size Cigarette Paper: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (reference)

• Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aronow (reference)

• Collector's Guide to Cigarette Lighters (reference)

• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Branding and Design in Cigarette Packaging [BARGAIN PRICE] (reference)

• Switch Down & Quit: What the Cigarette Companies Don't Want You to Know About Smoking (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nova - Search for a Safe Cigarette (reference)

• History of the Cigarette (reference)

• The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (reference)

• The Last Cigarette (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cigarette Stomp (reference)

• Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Belkin Ipaq Sync Charger USB with Cigarette Lighter Adapter (reference)

• Micro Solutions Backpack Auto Adapter For Bantam Via Cigarette Lighter (reference)

• SUPERIOR COMMUNICATIONS 90528 OEM Ultra Saver Cigarette Lighter Adapter (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Black woman sitting at a picnic table in a park lighting a cigarette. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

A black woman is seated on a park bench in a wooded area inhaling cigarette smoke. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Line graph showing annual adult per capita cigarette consumption and major smoking and health events--United States, 1900-1998. Tobacco. Credit: CDC.

Heavy cigarette smoking increases the risks of a variety of serious diseases. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann..

Rolling a "joint" - a marijuana cigarette (Amsterdam). / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann..

Man with cigarette. Credit: Library of Congress.

Prince Albert, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, right arm resting on table, holding hat in right hand, cigarette in left. Credit: Library of Congress.

Douglas Fairbanks, dressed as a Spanish grandee, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, lighting cigarette. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man lighting cigarette for another on city street. Credit: Library of Congress.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, seated in front of fireplace, facing left, holding cigarette in one hand and a beer stein in the other, in her Washington, D.C. studio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The imitation was prevented by a mild expression of anger from Wallis in whose mouthpiece the cigarette had become too tightly wedged

He rolled his cigarette slowly and perfectly, studied it, smoothed it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Most patients with these diseases have a long history of heavy cigarette smoking. (references)

Through inhaling smoke, the average smoker takes in 1 to 2 mg nicotine per cigarette. (references)

Laboratory research indicates that cigarette smoking causes toxic cardiovascular effects. (references)

Business

This situation will continue to worsen as people’s diets increasingly include more meat, as they exercise less, and as they smoke more. Right now, 70% of Chinese men smoke, consuming 30% of the world’s cigarette supply. (references)

Children

Costa Rica

On January 25, four deputies in the Legislative Assembly filed an injunction against the Minister of Finance and the National Treasurer alleging that they had not paid the PANI funds allocated to it under the law on Alcohol and Cigarette Taxes. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

President Djukanovic sued Vladislav Asanin, editor of the opposition--and Serb nationalist--daily, Dan, for reprinting articles from the Croatian weekly Nacional, which linked President Djukanovic to a group involved in cigarette smuggling. (references)

Economic History

Chad

The Bollore group has invested in Chad's two largest transportation companies, SDV and STAT and MCT, a cigarette company. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

In April two police officers in Foz de Iguacu were accused of torture after beating two alleged cigarette smugglers. (references)

Tunisia

The forms of torture included electric shock; submersion of the head in water; beatings with hands, sticks, and police batons; cigarette burns, and food and sleep deprivation. (references)

Romania

In several cases of deaths in custody or deaths reportedly due to police brutality during 1999, investigations and trials continued to drag on. There was no further information on the progress of investigation into the following 1999 cases: the of the death in police custody of Aurel Uluiteanu in Barcanesti; the death of Cristian-Venus Dumitrescu, who allegedly was beaten by police in September 1999 and died after he "threw" himself out of a third floor window en route to a police station; the death of Sevastian Apostol, a Rom killed by police while trying to flee a bar where he had a serious conflict with the owner and other clients; the death of Elinoiu Toader, who died after being beaten by police; and the killing of Radu Marian, an unarmed Rom who was killed during a police raid on a group of cigarette smugglers. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

Liquor and cigarette production will be fully liberalized by 2004. (references)

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

These include poultry, fish, oils and fats, motor vehicles, cigarette papers, small ships and boats, and pesticides. (references)

MALAYSIA

Import duties on 55 "long-protected" items, (including suitcases, textiles, and cigarette lighters) have been reduced from between 20 and 105 percent to between 10 percent and 50 percent. (references)

Trade

Sri Lanka

As a result, the cigarette market remains effectively closed for significant legal imports of cigarette. (references)

Malaysia

However, tariffs on leaf tobacco, cigarette products, alcoholic beverages and some processed and high-value food products remain high. (references)

Venezuela

Some products can only be imported by government agencies, such as cigarette paper (tax authorities calculate cigarette tax on the volume of cigarette paper imported by the manufacturers), bank notes, weapons of war and certain explosives. (references)

Worker Rights

Nepal

The law prohibits child labor in tourism, cigarette or carpet factories, mines, or laboratories. (references)

Bangladesh

Many children work in the beedi (hand-rolled cigarette) industry, and children under 18 years old sometimes work in hazardous circumstances in the leather industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "cigarette": butt cigarette ♦ butt of cigarette ♦ cigarette burn ♦ cigarette butt ♦ cigarette case ♦ cigarette end ♦ cigarette holder ♦ cigarette lighter ♦ cigarette machine ♦ cigarette pack ♦ cigarette paper ♦ cigarette smoker ♦ cigarette vending machine ♦ cubeb cigarette ♦ filter cigarette ♦ get a light from smb.'s cigarette ♦ have a cigarette ♦ marijuana cigarette ♦ mild cigarette ♦ out of cigarette ♦ roll a cigarette ♦ tip me a cigarette. Additional references.

Beginning with "cigarette": cigarette-ash, cigarette-box, cigarette-burned, cigarette-butt, cigarette-cards, cigarette-end, cigarette-ends, cigarette-filled, cigarette-filters, cigarette-holders, cigarette-lighter, cigarette-packet, cigarette-packs, cigarette-sized, cigarette-smoke, cigarette-smoking, cigarette-stinking, cigarette-stub, cigarette-tapping, cigarette-tip, cigarette-voiced.

Ending with "cigarette": ex-cigarette.

Afrikaans

sigaret. (various references)

Albanian

cigare (fag, gasper, smoke, weed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سيكارة, ‏سيجارة (weed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цигара (burn, fag, smoke). (various references)

Chinese 

菸 (tobacco), 香烟, 香煙 , 煙捲兒 , 煙 (smoke, tobacco), 紙煙 . (various references)

Czech

cigareta (fag, smoke). (various references)

Danish

cigaret. (various references)

Dutch

sigaret, saffiaantje. (various references)

Esperanto

cigaredo. (various references)

Faeroese

sigarett. (various references)

Farsi 

سیگارت(cigaret=), سیگار (Cigar). (various references)

Finnish

savuke. (various references)

French

cigarette (cig). (various references)

German

Zigarette (fag). (various references)

Greek 

τσιγάρο (cigaret, fag). (various references)

Hawaiian

cigare. (various references)

Hebrew 

סיגריה (weed). (various references)

Hungarian

cigaretta (burn, butt, fag, pill, smoke). (various references)

Indonesian

rokok. (various references)

Irish

toitín. (various references)

Italian

sigaretta (fag). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巻き煙草 , 巻きタバコ , シェル構造 (Chicago, cigar, shell construction, Sierra Leon, siesta, to ignore, Zionism, Zionist). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まきたばこ, まきタバコ, シガレット . (various references)

Korean 

담배 (tobacco). (various references)

Malay

rokok. (various references)

Manx

tudjeen, toghteen, jaaghag. (various references)

Norwegian

sigarett (fag). (various references)

Pig Latin

igarettecay.(various references)

Polish

papieros. (various references)

Portuguese

cigarro. (various references)

Romanian

tabacherã (box, snuff box), ţigaretã, ţigarå, ţigarã (fag, smoke, weed). (various references)

Russian 

сигарета (ciggy), папироса. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cigareta (butt, fag, smoke). (various references)

Spanish

cigarrillo (joint, weed), cigarillo. (various references)

Swedish

cigarrett (butt, cig, fag). (various references)

Tagalog

sigarílyo. (various references)

Thai

บุหรี่ (cig, cigaret, ciggy, coffin nail, fag, faggerette, oily, tab). (various references)

Turkish

sigara (cigaret, fag, smoke), sígara. (various references)

Turkmen 

зilim. (various references)

Ukrainian

сигарета (coffin nail), цигарка. (various references)

Vietnamese 

điếu thuốc lá. (various references)

Welsh

sigaret. (various references)

Yucatec

chamal. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cigarette": cigarettes. (additional references)

Words ending with "cigarette": anticigarette. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cigarette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cagaretts, Cigareets, cigarett, cigaretts, cigarrete, cigarrett, cigarrette, cigerette, cigerrette, ciggarete, ciggarette, cikarette, Citaristi, Fingarette, Giaretto, Mcgarrett, Pifaretti, sigarette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aigrette.

-2 letters: ariette, cattier, cigaret, citrate, iterate, tergite.

-3 letters: aigret, attire, cagier, cattie, cerate, cerite, create, ecarte, ergate, gaiter, getter, ratite, recite, target, tercet, tierce, tragic, triage.

-4 letters: aerie, agree, areic, arete, attic, cager, caret, carte, cater, ceria, cigar, citer, crate, eager, eagre, eater, egret, erect, erica, grace, grate, great, greet, irate, ragee, react.

+1 letter: cigarettes.

+2 letters: teratogenic.

+3 letters: geostrategic.

+4 letters: anticigarette, catheterizing, decrepitating, expectorating, gastrectomies, heterogametic, letterspacing, magnetometric.

+5 letters: electroplating, letterspacings, teratogenicity, thermomagnetic, ultraenergetic.