Word: cigaretteless
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...anyone who joined the Smoke-out this or any year, I offer my good wishes. Buck up, stub it out, and watch the minute hand of your cigaretteless day creep like an hour hand. My aim here is not to defend smoking; I freely acknowledge that, as a hobby (all right, a habit), it smells, and that Woody Allen was probably being satirical when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that...
...being directed to a seat by a polite, quiet-voiced usher who seemed to know the difference between a shepherd and a sheepherder. Second was the clear air of the Garden's interior without its usual blue haze of cigarette smoke; hot-dog stands throughout the building were cigaretteless for the duration, and strips of cardboard covered the signs that normally announce "BEER" (a checkroom was converted to a Bible shop). Third surprise was the crowd itself: quiet, well-dressed, all ages-there was nothing to distinguish it from the audience at the Radio City Music Hall...
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