Some people find the smell of tobacco repulsive, but its decline as a habit stems of course from the health risks involved.
Instead, there may be something to be gained by leaning less on modern gurus who pontificate about such things as best in class and more toward Aristotle, who defined virtue not in terms of maximum excellence, but as a habit of choosing the mean lying between the extremes.
There is still doubt as to whether Social TV as a siloed habit can scale.
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This has already happened with spitting in the streets, which many Chinese now regard as a backward habit.
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Films are at the very forefront of fashion and have chronicled fairly accurately the decline of the cigarette from being an enjoyment of the smart set to its present status as a dangerous habit.
The other is that when the denominator collapses, as it has a habit of doing in recessions, the ratio goes skyward.
Women smoking nowadays are far more likely to die as a result of their habit than they were in the 1960s, according to a new study.
"I've learned the hard way that quitting a habit as addictive as smoking is a constant struggle, " the Brooklyn Democrat said.
Council Member Stephen Levin, a backer of the plan who began smoking when he was a teenager, said he believes the accessibility of tobacco and near-ubiquitous advertising by the tobacco industry was the "main culprit" for his smoking habit as a youngster.
Nearly everyone, in recalling Rogers, talked about his great strength as a listener his habit of drawing people out and making them feel as though their best selves had been understood.
Besides, the very sages who say on Monday that the Tories cannot hope to be re-elected as the party of scepticism alone have a habit of saying on Tuesday that the Tories cannot hope to be re-elected as the party of tax-cutting alone.
However, as market behavior in recent months has shown, sentiment has a habit of switching and sending prices plummeting as fast as any rally.
An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
But psychiatry as a field has been skeptical of the idea of people being addicted to behaviors, because there is not proof that a bad habit is the same kind of biological issue as a dependence on alcohol, nicotine, or heroin.
Characters like Mr Ilyuzhinov have a habit of disappearing as dramatically as they appear.
How, then, can we fulfill our sometimes-unpleasant New Year's resolutions, such as losing weight or kicking a bad habit?
So as soon as they landed, people have a habit now of turning on their phones and reading their emails.
Fighting government has become a Buckeridge habit, as has fighting unions.
His aim is not to belittle the American achievement but to break the habit of treating it as a virtually isolated feat of self-creation.
The current heads of state and government lack the necessary willpower and courage to throw off their habit of seeing Brussels as a battlefield for national interests...
As a brand, Sidibe believes, Lifebuoy is uniquely placed to address this gap and help reposition hygiene habits as new norms, especially where a new habit can mean a matter of life and death.
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That may be why Ed McCuen has a Powerball habit that's as regular as clockwork.
As business leaders, we need to make a habit of exposing ourselves to divergent points of view.
America has a habit of opening its borders as a gesture of shame and responsibility after a foreign debacle.
Still, as critics point out, the temporary has a habit of becoming permanent.
She thinks of herself as being, already, a victim of the habit.
He said such phenomena had a habit of adjusting themselves, as was evidenced by last year's results - when the gap narrowed very slightly.
As others before Obama have discovered, history has a habit of toying with the best laid, most well-intentioned plans of American presidents.
Its becoming a hard habit to sustain these days, as Turkey's very own version of political correctness moves into high gear.
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