What's the difference between cigar and tobacconist?

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.

Tobacconist


Definition:

  • (n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
  • (n.) A smoker of tobacco.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) France’s tobacconists are protesting against plans to force cigarette companies to use plain, unbranded packaging by disabling traffic speed cameras.
  • (2) While the tobacconists have preferred direct action, tobacco manufacturers are taking the legal route, reporting the legislation to the European court of justice.
  • (3) James Yu, who runs the King of the Pack tobacconist in central Sydney, said the uniform packaging made it harder to stack his shelves "It used to take me an hour to unload a delivery, now it takes me four hours," Yu said.
  • (4) The cat was taken in by Yoichi Maeda, a local editor, who asked the tobacconist’s owner, Kaori Hasegawa, to look after her during the day in the hope that she would bring some luck to local businesses affected by the disaster.
  • (5) BFM TV showed a group of tobacconists wearing white masks on a night-time radar-hooding expedition.
  • (6) The confederation claims there are nearly 27,000 tobacconists in France, more than half of them operating as bars, employing a total of 100,000 people.
  • (7) In other parts of the country, furious tobacconists put plastic bags over traffic cameras with the slogan: “Getting rid of tobacconists will not reduce smoking.
  • (8) Luther Pendragon's Brussels office has also been working for the European Retailers and Tobacconists Association.
  • (9) French tobacconists dump four tonnes of carrots on street in cigarette protest Read more Nine years ago, France controversially banned smoking in enclosed public spaces , including bars and restaurants.
  • (10) He is especially eloquent on the latter’s performance as Abel Drugger, the easily tricked tobacconist in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.
  • (11) It may be the year of the monkey in Japan , but people from across the country are reportedly flocking to a tiny tobacconist north of Tokyo for an encounter with a cat that has ”lucky eyebrows”.
  • (12) Shops (except specialist tobacconists), shopping centres and markets.
  • (13) But yesterday René Le Pape, president of the tobacconists' confederation, said bars and cafes would need more than a year to prepare, and warned that the ban would destroy small country businesses.
  • (14) He drifted through dead-end jobs – stable boy, farm hand, errand boy, pawnbroker's clerk, leather worker, tobacconist and gents' outfitter's assistant – maintaining afterwards that the only one that gave him satisfaction was the tobacconist's kiosk in Piccadilly, where he bought American cigarettes from a US sergeant and sold them profitably to selected customers.
  • (15) After dumping the vegetables against the gates of the party headquarters at Rue de Solférino at 6.30am, the tobacconists marched to the health ministry en route to the Sénat to demand that senators throw out the law, which the government intends to introduce next year.. On Wednesday afternoon, French senators took out the clause requiring plain cigarette and tobacco packets.Instead, passed an amendment requiring health warnings to be made larger, in keeping with a European Union directive.
  • (16) Angry French tobacconists have dumped four tonnes of carrots outside the ruling Socialist party’s headquarters in Paris in protest at plans to force the introduction of plain cigarette packets.
  • (17) The Confédération des Buralistes – the tobacconists’ union – chose the carrot because it resembles the sign outside French shops selling cigarettes.

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