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Burning cigarette in ashtray, no smoking symbol
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A man smokes a cigarette at an egg stall in Beijing, China, on Dec. 10, 2008.
A burning and smoking cigarette
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Research on cigarette smoking and lung cancer, 1953.
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The caption that appeared with this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Scales read 119 as Alice steps on them as jockey Martin Fallon, smoking a big cigar, leers up at her. She is a former Cheyenne 'Frontier Days' champion rider."
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French writer Albert Camus smokes a cigarette on the balcony outside his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard's office in Paris, 1955. Camus won the Nobel in 1957; in 1960, when he was 46 years old, he was killed in a car crash along with Gallimard, who was driving.
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Sinatra and Martin take a cigarette break during the recording of Sleep Warm in 1958. The album was re-released in 1963 with a much more direct title: Dean Martin Sings/Sinatra Conducts.
Minister for Health and Ageing, File / AP
An artist's impression of what cigarette packaging will look like under a new Australian law. Tobacco giant Philip Morris launched legal action Monday, June 27, 2011, against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip all logos from packages
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Smoking a cigarette on French public transport.
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The world's biggest cigarette brand heads to the world's largest tobacco market
Man smoking cigar while examining stamps at stamp market on Avenue Matignon, Paris, 1963.
Man smoking cigar while examining stamps at stamp market on Avenue Matignon, Paris, 1963.
AP
A man smokes a cigarette on Sept. 11, 2012 in Indonesia, where two out of three men smoke.
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A proposed cigarette packet, to be introduced under Australia's cigarette plain-packaging law.
AP
A "No Smoking" sign in the waiting room of a bus station in the Chinese city of Nanning, on Jan. 9, 2011
Jean du Boisberranger / Corbis
"Smoking area" Stromboli guarantees fireworks
Dita Alangkara / AP
A cigarette vendor smokes as he waits for customer in Jakarta, Indonesia Tuesday, April 20, 2010
David Guttenfelder / AP
A North Korean man smokes a cigarette in front of a poster for the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival in North Korea in September 2008
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A cigarette in a woman's hand.
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Surgeon general's cigarette warning
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German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck lights a cigarette during a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Economic Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin's Chancellery on May 28, 2009
Joel Ryan / AP
Alcohol, cigarette and candy makers are all reporting healthy sales amid the economic gloom
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A man rolls a marijuana cigarette
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Eliminating key factors like smoking and drinking could significantly reduce heart disease and cancer risk.
DIMA GAVRISH—AFP
Lucky Ones: Miners enjoy a cigarette after a day of danger
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Smoking may be bad for you, but it can be good for government finances
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/AP
Cancer patient Creighton Frost lights a marijuana cigarette at his home
Ted Richardson / AP
A tobacco warehouse owned by Roy Johnson Raynor is shown at 1441 S. Church Street in Rocky Mount, N.C.
Nick Adams/REUTERS
A customer rolls a joint made of half marijuana and half tobacco to smoke inside of Frankie Sports Bar and Grill in Olympia, Washington.
Jim Cole / AP
Former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96.
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A man walks in Iitate village, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, April 21, 2011. Iitate village, where the worst level of radiation was detected since the March 11 earthquake damaged the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, is a major growing region of wagyu-beef cattle in the prefecture, as well as rice and tobacco
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Smoke and shadows lend Anthony Rogers the requisite air of mystery. In Fleming's novels, Bond has a 60-cigarette-a-day habit; he prefers potent "Morland Specials," a blend of Balkan and Turkish tobacco. In the movies, his habit changes — 007 smokes cigarettes in the films starring Connery, Lazenby and Timothy Dalton; puffs on the occasional cigar during Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan's tenure; and hasn't lit up at all so far under Daniel Craig.
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"On the evening of May 20, members of the Young Women's Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers." So begins an article in the June 16, 1941 issue of LIFE chronicling the shenanigans that erupt when a group of GOP women get together for an old-school "smoker" () for one memorable night.
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A woman smokes inside a bar in Madrid on Jan. 2, 2011, the day after Spain's smoking ban went into effect
Andreas Seibert for TIME
"Up against it" Salarymen in the town of Sendai take a cigarette break. Many Japanese companies are no longer as competitive as before
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These French advertisements, by the Non-Smokers' Rights Association, show youths with a cigarette in their mouth, on their knees before an adult. The ads are part of an anti-smoking campaign that is generating controversy in France
Human Rights Watch
The view of one of the destroyed doors and wall at Dwarika Middle School in Jharkhand. Local residents now use the classroom to store tobacco leaves.
Rob Carr / AP
A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers.
Robert Young Pelton, from Licensed to Kill, Hired Guns in the War on Terror.
Blackwater contractors sitting on the Mambas at the terminal at Baghdad International Airport after a run, smoking a cigar and waiting for new team members to arrive.
SMOKING LILY
WINDOW ON STYLE: Smoking Lily is one of the many independent boutiques opening on south Main Street
JEROME MING—REDUX FOR TIME
TOXIC: For Filipinos who survive by scavenging in trash, smoking helps combat their hunger and the stench
HENRI ARVIDSSON/AFP
SMOKING GUN: German exports may have helped build Iraqi weapons
MARK LEONG/MATRIX FOR TIME
An addict prepares heroin for smoking on a Chinese 100 yuan note
STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP
Don't Light Up: Christy Turlington at the Surgeon General's report on smoking
Greg Smith / Corbis
April 19, 1993: Smoking fire consumes the Branch Davidian Compound during the FBI assault to end the 51-day standoff with cult leader David Koresh and his followers
AP / Charles Dharapak
Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director B. Todd Jones talks to Attorney General Eric Holder in the South Court Auditorium at the White House.
Samantha Appleton for TIME
Mexican tobacco workers wait for their assignments at the Vass, N.C. headquarters of the North Carolina Growers Association.
WEI LENG TAY FOR TIME
UNDAUNTED: Working from home, Mackay battles the tobacco industry
ANDREW KAUFMAN--CONTACT FOR TIME
FRED LEVIN: A key player in Florida's tobacco litigation, he gave enough to the University of Florida to get its law school named after him
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