''Unfortunately, the family I bought it from (Lord Hesketh) had sold the contents at auction earlier, '' he says puffing on a Marlboro Light cigarette.

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Also hurting the plaintiff's case, according to Campagnino and others, was the lack of similar damages across the population of light cigarette purchasers, making class action status difficult.

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At the end of the first scene, Celia can choose to light a cigarette or not.

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Maybe his bootlace came untied, or maybe he wanted to light a cigarette.

NEWYORKER: So It Is in Life

As soon as he finished eating, he would light a cigarette and snap his fingers for the bill, not bothering to check whether I had finished, too.

NEWYORKER: Naima

No, these smokers were in thrall to the cigarette advertisements that said light cigarettes were potentially less deadly than other cancer sticks.

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Some e-cigarettes are made to look like a real cigarette with a tiny light on the tip that glows like the real thing.

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It said the law will give the FDA the power to restrict advertising, stop illegal sales of tobacco products, require graphic health warnings that cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs, ban misleading health claims such as "light" and "low-tar, " regulate health claims, require disclosure of the contents of tobacco products, require changes in tobacco products.

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She took a draw on the cigarette, and, in the smoke and the early evening light, she looked almost pretty, like a girl in a television show the night before she runs away from everything, written out of the script, to begin a new life somewhere else.

NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy