Statistically, every week spent inactive is roughly equivalent to smoking a packet of cigarettes.
How many confirmed coffee drinkers have found themselves staring down a grim packet of fruity tea?
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Falling in love with a stock is like falling in love with a packet of lard.
For a packet of potato chips like these, 75 grams of CO2 was emitted for these products.
The energy of a packet of light -- or "photon" -- is inversely proportional to its wavelength.
Each day, he sent to her house, on Dupont Circle, a packet of billets-doux and state documents.
It's 'I'll go in my trainers and take a butty, packet of crisps and a bottle of water'.
He instructed me to dump a packet of salt and some government-issue powdered grape drink into my water.
Solid Snake starts off equipped with nothing more than a pair of binoculars and a packet of cigarettes.
For breakfast, he ate what was left of a packet of peanuts he had bought on the train.
The cheerful bearded sailor on her packet of Players was as close as my grandmother ever got to the sea.
But Italians should pause before celebrating: a packet of Nurofen to soothe a hangover is 70% dearer than in Amsterdam.
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Yes, smoking is bad for you, as every packet of cigarettes sold in America for the past 30 years has pointed out.
What, after all, is the replacement cost of a packet of dense, easily transportable energy that formed over hundreds of millions of years?
But experts can tell the origin of a packet of rough diamonds, even if individual stones or mixed parcels are harder to identify.
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Four-fifths of the price of a packet of cigarettes is tax, and so is 60% of the price of a bottle of whisky.
Passengers notice it far less if an airline switches a sandwich for a packet of biscuits and a plastic cup of coffee, he says.
They are called quantum because it takes a packet of energy of a very specific size - a quantum - to create the states.
Yet in the rich world pretty nearly every packed lunch in a schoolchild's satchel contains a packet of potato crisps heavily dosed with both.
She expressed concern at the number of children whose breakfast consisted of packet of crisps and a fizzy drink or fried meat in a bun.
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The agreement will raise the tax on a packet of cigarettes from 24 cents to 34 cents in 2000, and then to 39 cents in 2002.
In my day, the classic bored teenager hung around the bus-stop with a few mates and someone produced a packet of 10 and a bottle of cider.
The first thing I bought when I was asked to follow the Millennium Centre's foundation stone on its journey to Cardiff was a packet of sea-sickness tablets.
Fresh from college, she was hired as a business analyst at a private company in New Hampshire and handed a massive packet of information from human resources.
They did not merge with you, or give you any cell membranes or nutrients just an infinitesimally small packet of DNA, less than one-millionth of your mass.
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The court heard how Mr Baker bought two bottles of bleach, a packet of toothbrushes, a disposable barbecue and firelighters in the days after Mr Coates was killed.
The ready availability of that snack bar, packet of crisps or can of soft drink is reinforcing the grazing culture that is adding pounds to our children's waistlines.
Yet every smoker for the past 34 years has known this, because each packet of cigarettes sold in the United States has carried a warning to that effect.
"Some children say they have had last night's KFC for breakfast or a packet of custard creams and you can tell by their behaviour and hyperactivity, " he said.
Desserts were also found to be a surprising source of hidden salt, Cash said, with five found to contain the same or more salt as a packet of crisps.
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