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China is already one of the largest markets for mobile telephones and pagers, personal computers and antibiotics, and accounts for about one-third of global cigarette consumption.
ECONOMIST: Not quite a billion
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But to add to the risk-list associated with the habit, this week's British Medical Journal found that cigarette smoking accounts for one in eight hip fractures in women.
CNN: Dangers on the Home Front
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But sadly, these marketing geniuses seem to have worked only for the cigarette industry, and only with the single-minded task of convincing consumers to buy one type of deadly cigarette instead of another.
FORBES: The Most Credible People On Earth? Cigarette Makers
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One person has so far been caught for allegedly throwing a cigarette butt from a car window.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Higher fines for litter hit home
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But then, for all his accuracy and arcing, tiptoe artistry, cigarette in one hand and dart in the other, he often threw games away altogether: once so drunk that he could hardly walk, and another time sealing his defeat by toppling off the stage.
ECONOMIST: Jocky Wilson, darts player, died on March 24th, aged 62
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In one case in Virginia jurors asked the judge if a cigarette butt had been tested for possible DNA matches to the defendant in a murder trial.
ECONOMIST: Forensic science
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When he had finished, the publisher lit a cigarette and paced up and down the office for a long time in silence, walking from one wall to the other, a distance of barely three yards.
NEWYORKER: ?lvaro Rousselot��s Journey