(n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Example Sentences:
(1) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
(2) "Cheroots" smoking was found to be an important potentiating factor in the occurrence of non-specific respiratory diseases and reduction in FEV1.0, particularly among jute workers.
(3) Cheroot and cigarillos yielded 588 micrograms and 1119 micrograms hydrogen cyanide respectively.
(4) Cheroot and cigarillos yielded 400 micrograms and 333 micrograms steam-volatile phenol respectively.
(5) Not only are there temples, teashops and mouldering colonial-era mansions to explore but, increasingly, tourists can rub shoulders with both investors and cheroot-smokers at art galleries and chic bars, and experience a vibrant youth culture.
(6) The decline in FEV1 in cigar or cheroot smokers was the highest for all the smoking groups, and associated with a very high tobacco consumption in this group.
(7) Herbal bidi and cheroot had 1315 ng and 2519 ng benzo(a)pyrene respectively.
(8) Cesar Luis Menotti and cheroot A very well turned out Sepp Herberger flanked by Fritz Walter and Helmut Rahn in 1972.
(9) In female smokers, the risk of CMH increased significantly with short school education and was, after adjustment for the amount of tobacco smoked, approximately twice as high in cigarette smokers as in cheroot smokers.
(10) Cigarette smoking was the same in the two groups, but tobacco workers also smoked cheroots.
(11) In a field study, 75 workers from a cheroot factory were compared with 50 reference workers from a large telephone company.
(12) In cigarette smokers the risk of infection and reamputation was 2:5 times higher than in cheroot smokers or nonsmokers.
(13) Eastwood pauses, deliberately - once it would have provided him with the beat in which to spit out his cheroot before flinging back his poncho - and offers a last word of advice to the most influential black director in American movies.
(14) Differences in lung function between the two groups may result from excess cheroot consumption and higher previous exposure to tobacco dust among the tobacco workers.
(15) According to smoking habits, comparing social class V with social class I, the relative risk was 7.7 (2.6-22.4) in cigarette smokers, 6.0 (1.1-32.1) in pipe smokers, 3.5 (1.7-7.1) in mixed smokers, 2.25 (0.4-12.9) in cheroot smokers, 3.8 (2.4-5.9) in all smokers, 1.95 (0.8-4.6) in ex-smokers, and 4.7 (1.01-22.2) in non-smokers.
(16) After adjusting for number of cigarettes and cheroots smoked, there remained no significant differences.
(17) The study sample comprised 1492 smokers of plain cigarettes and 1936 smokers of filter cigarettes, 1711 smokers of cheroots or cigars, and 233 male pipe smokers.
(18) Of the 77 patients who smoked, 44 smoked cigarettes, 30 cheroots, and three a pipe.
(19) The concentration of cadmium in kidneys from 16 subjects who had been smoking pipes, cigars or cheroots did not differ significantly from the concentration in non-smokers and cigarette smokers.
(20) However, as female cheroot smokers on the average consumed much more tobacco than female cigarette smokers the incidence of CMH was almost the same in the two groups.
Cigar
Definition:
(n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemical data are presented from a comparison study of the smoke of cigarettes and little cigars.
(2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(3) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
(5) Larger cheap cigars and cigarillos would have to be sold in packages of four.
(6) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
(7) Women smokers, cigar, and pipe smokers also face an increased risk for lung cancer.
(8) The proportion of nicotine in the mainstream smoke delivered to the smoker's mouth was greater than that observed for cigarettes, but the proportion of nicotine in the cigar smoke which was retained by the smoker was about the same.
(9) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
(10) We've already done it, says his cigar-smoking colleague.
(11) The cancer of cigar smokers is more often a central lesion than a peripheral one (p less than 0.025).
(12) The cigar smokers usually had sqcc (p less than 0.0005).
(13) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
(14) He then brought further drinks – four gin and tonics, a champagne cocktail, and even a £15 Romeo and Julieta cigar.
(15) The absorption of nicotine from cigars was measured in 7 male subjects who each smoked a single small cigar containing 14C-nicotine.
(16) Primary cigar smokers had a much lower mean carboxyhaemoglobin concentration (0.93%), and only 10.3% had concentrations greater than 1.7%.
(17) We conclude that carbon monoxide exposure from cigar and cigarette smoke is a frequent cause of an elevated red-cell volume or a reduced plasma volume (or both).
(18) Large cigar-shaped inclusions (designated type 1) and smaller ovoid inclusions (designated type 2) were purified from cell lysates, using differential centrifugation in discontinuous glycerol gradients and isopycnic density gradient centrifugation in sodium diatrizoate.
(19) Different inhalation practices were observed according to smoking habits: while among exclusive cigarette smokers 29.8% never inhaled the smoke, among exclusive cigar and exclusive pipe users these percentages were 89.5% and 86.9 respectively.
(20) Occasionally, nonclear cells were elongated, with a centrally located cigar-shaped nucleus.