People lit cigarettes so the smoke would absorb the gas.

BBC: Friday prayers: Differing views

Then there is his response to a tale told at the bank, that a BritArm employee once sat politely silent as a couple had sex in his train car, then objected only when the couple lit cigarettes.

ECONOMIST: But who's complaining?

When they had finished they lit cigarettes.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

And how that expression had come from World War I, because if you lit three cigarettes off one match in your foxhole or trench the enemy in his foxhole or trench had three pins of light to triangulate your location and then he blew up everything or maybe just shot you and your two buddies.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Estrellas y Rascacielos'

Japan Tobacco has been especially aggressive, therefore, in Russia, the world's fourth-biggest market, where smokers lit up 300 billion cigarettes in 2002.

ECONOMIST: The tobacco business