Hints and tips:
...The flame gathers force and burns till it goes out, leaving behind a weak puff of smoke or an elegant meandering line....
...Mobile phone shops are becoming vape shops. Hairdressers and hardware stores sell them on the side....
...One thing to start: A New Jersey sandwich shop with a valuation of $100mn, which became a symbol of stock market exuberance in 2021, was at the centre of an international conspiracy that defrauded investors...
...But a few doors down from Wetherell’s office, customers of Sautter, the celebrated Mount Street cigar shop, where the priciest smoke costs £300, show no signs of apprehension as they settle into comfortable...
...A recycling scheme introduced by disposable vape manufacturer Riot Labs in 800 vape shops across the UK had less than a 1 per cent take-back rate....
...Weed came to symbolise a deeper chasm between our worlds, and one that, having never taken more than a few puffs in my life, made me feel slightly shamefully out of place....
...At some point, one of us makes the offhand remark that many shops and tavernas are called Odysseus or Telemachus but none are called Penelope....
...Occasionally I caught a glimpse of Anthamatten launching himself from wind lips, flying through the air and landing in a puff of white smoke. “This is the real freeriding experience,” he told me later....
...My friend Pete and I biked 15 miles through the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains to a “smoke-shop” on a local reservation in upstate New York because they didn’t ask for proof of age....
...The last time a friend offered me a puff on his “blunt” (a joint with no tobacco — the common, potent way to smoke cannabis in the US), I spun out on the street in Brooklyn, fell mute, and had to be escorted...
...He takes a puff of his ever-present electronic cigarette, a swig of his third beer of the morning and turns back to his canvas....
...Smoke puffs from its chimney as you soak and stare across at the twin peaks of the Dents de Veisivi....
...Men with hipster beards sip beers and women in ripped jeans puff on cigarettes beneath a line from Les Misérables scrawled on the wall. It could almost be the city’s motto: “It is nothing to die....
...Here, the eggs arrived in a puff of smoke and the olives turned out to be reconstituted and made of gelatin shell and filled with olive-tasting juice....
...“In the future people are going to be shopping for elecronics in the same way they shop for clothes.” Birdi, which makes smart smoke alarms. Yes, like Nest launched late last year....
...The remaining vapour evaporates without any smoke exposure to others. The products do not use tobacco....
...He takes his first puff at 4:15am, when he gets up to travel to the Hungarian capital for work, and smokes around 20 a day....
...Plumes of smoke puff from the chimneys. Butch Cassidy reputedly holed up here after robbing his first bank, in Telluride, just over the mountains to the north....
...The first time we met was in that shop, more than a decade ago....
...Both sport painstakingly styled beards and smoke a hookah or shisha water pipe while watching Prison Break. “My name is Oaday!”...
...Smoke of course is one of the oldest emblems of the fugitive nature of worldly experience....
...Oil lamps light the footpaths, wood smoke puffs from the chimneys....
...They appear from nowhere and vanish in a puff of smoke. The things they say! The things that offend them!...
...Selling tobacco in small shops or outlets near schools and hospitals would be be forbidden and smoking in public places banned altogether....
...A final, valedictory puff of cigarette smoke in the face of the taxpayer from Mr Daniels, then. But you have to admire his consistency....
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