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Regular puffing on cigarettes is now thought much more dangerous than occasionally smoking crack.
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You may be wondering whether the bureaucrats at the OECD who put together these numbers are smoking crack or high on crystal meth.
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Marion Barry held the office for more than ten years before he was caught on video smoking crack and had to step down.
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Officers found a pipe for smoking crack cocaine in Nixon's pants pocket and found a suspected crack rock in the driver's seat, the report says.
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In one disused garage, littering the floor, we found foil-covered plastic water bottles, used for smoking crack cocaine, and tell-tale slivers of silver foil used for smoking heroin.
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In the throes of his addiction, Taite was smoking crack every day, going for a week or more without sleep, and eating a Big Mac once a week just to stay alive.
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"He's giving Marion Barry a run for his money, " Wiseman said, referring to the 1990 arrest of then-Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room during an FBI sting operation.
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The story started on Thursday night, when Gawker posted a piece by John Cook detailing how the site came to be offered a video of what was claimed to be Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
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He was first elected in 1998 as a political aspirin to cure the hangover left behind by the infamous Marion Barry, who ran down the budget, cavorted in strip bars and was jailed for smoking crack (but still re-elected after his release).
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She was fined for cannabis possession in Norway last year and has been questioned by London police in connection with a video apparently showing her smoking a crack cocaine pipe.
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But consumption of coke and crack is still a minority taste in Jamaica and even ganja-smoking Rastafarians denounce its corrosive social effects.
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