How to Use cig in a Sentence

cig

noun
  • Folks can still smoke; no one’s taking their cigs away.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
  • Among the most popular in the e-cig space is a model called Juul.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 June 2019
  • But critics say that message has led to soaring e-cig use among teenagers.
    Consumer Reports, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • Juul says the program would lock point-of-sale systems when its e-cigs are sold until an ID is scanned.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Those who stick with cigs are an increasingly gray crowd.
    Taylor Cromwell, Bloomberg.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The latest victim is Jesse Milk, a California man whose e-cig blew up in his mouth last week.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2016
  • Over the past three years, numerous comprehensive reviews of e-cig research around the world have found the same thing.
    Marie McCullough, Star Tribune, 11 July 2021
  • The flavors can also cause lung disease, and some studies have shown that some e-cigs can damage DNA and cause cancer.
    Victoria Albert, CBS News, 26 June 2019
  • Temperature, type, and age of the device all play a role in how much harmful emissions the e-cig produces, but the heat was a main point of interest.
    Samantha Cole, Popular Science, 27 July 2016
  • Kids hooked on e-cigs are more likely to smoke regular cigarettes later in life, CDC says.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 19 June 2019
  • The e-cig is marketed as a cessation tool for cigarette users.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • To pay homage to the celebrities who partook in the PG-13 party, the bathroom tiles of the exhibit will be filled with graffitied quotes from Met Gala guests who (allegedly) snuck a cig.
    Megan Decker, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Juul had revenue of about $2 billion last year and its share of the fast-growing e-cig market is estimated at 72%.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 June 2019
  • If, at that time, e-cig companies cannot prove their products protect public health, the FDA has the right to remove them from the market entirely.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Thirty-six percent of 12- to 17-year-olds who had never used tobacco but were receptive to ads ended up trying e-cigs by the end of the study.
    Rachel Bluth, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The back-to-smoke trend flies in the face of the e-cig industry’s most insistent PR pitch: Vaping helps people quit smoking cigarettes.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Why not use his small plant where e-cig liquid is bottled to produce a fluid that was much needed instead of recreational?
    John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Teenage use exploded, fueled by fruit and candy flavors that Juul and other e-cig makers added to the liquid nicotine.
    Marie McCullough, Star Tribune, 11 July 2021
  • But for current smokers of tobacco cigarettes, the e-cigs might be a slightly better option.
    Alice Park, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The excellent cig kofte ($8), served chilled, featured 10 bulgur wheat nuggets bolstered with aromatic spices, tomato sauce, garlic and onions.
    Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
  • This puts San Francisco -- where leading e-cig maker Juul Labs is headquartered -- at the center of a heated debate.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 July 2019
  • Pierce points to early e-cigarette ads, which featured celebrities smoking e-cigs in chic locations.
    USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2016
  • So, if pneumonia and lung damage weren't enough to discourage you from vaping, remember that popcorn lung is a fatal side-effect—and please, put the e-cig down.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Evers wants to prevent the sale of vapes to minors, ban e-cig use at school and prevent manipulative advertising.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Flavored e-cigs have been in the spotlight in recent weeks, with the Trump administration moving to ban the sale of all flavors except tobacco, and states taking action as well.
    NBC News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Those who received money fared much better, while e-cigs and medication alone didn’t really help people stay smoke-free.
    Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 23 May 2018
  • Vapes are meme-ready, funny in a way that cigarettes never were: the black-and-white photograph of James Dean smoking in shirtsleeves has been replaced with paparazzi snaps of Ben Affleck ripping an e-cig in his car.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 May 2018
  • This hostess, though, paid an unusual price for her e-cig use, according to a case study published Thursday in the medical journal Pediatrics.
    Susan Scutti, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • Walking down a desolate road, his shirt tousled, his signature bowtie undone, his hands poised to smoke a cig, Nye appears to be leaving some apocalyptic scene.
    Diana Bruk, Esquire, 9 Nov. 2015
  • Concession stands sell cig sueltos, or loose cigarettes.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017

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