Word: puff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serenely lets the comedy come to her instead of frantically searching for it. Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of Moonlighting, operates in the same smart, patient manner. You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply--enough of these puff-pastry leading men--but the rest of the roles are crunchy, and Picture, if not quite perfect, makes a nice light snack for a hot summer...
...husband in order to get a raise) of this romantic comedy. "Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of 'Moonlighting,' operates in the same smart, patient manner," says Schickel You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply -- enough of these puff-pastry leading men -- but the rest of the roles are crunchy, and 'Picture,' if not quite perfect, makes a nice light snack for a hot summer...
...properly; perhaps revenues from a higher federal cigarette tax should be earmarked for this purpose. Arguments that government-certified weaker cigarettes might only encourage youngsters to take up the habit, would-be quitters not to, and addicted smokers to consume more cigarettes to compensate for their reduced fix per puff cannot be airily dismissed. But failure to outlaw the present high-yielding brands is a far more perilous course...
Imagine you are taking a slug of whiskey. a puff of a cigarette. A toke of marijuana. A snort of cocaine. A shot of heroin. Put aside whether these drugs are legal or illegal. Concentrate, for now, on the chemistry. The moment you take that slug, that puff, that toke, that snort, that shot, trillions of potent molecules surge through your bloodstream and into your brain. Once there, they set off a cascade of chemical and electrical events, a kind of neurological chain reaction that ricochets around the skull and rearranges the interior reality of the mind...
...Talk about underage SMOKERS. Newborns of mothers who puff away during pregnancy have nearly the same level of nicotine in their bodies as adult smokers. Hence the baby's first few days of life may be spent in nicotine withdrawal...