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Word: secondhands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...times more likely than nonsmokers to die from lung cancer. Those who inhale their stogies are nearly eight times more likely to succumb to lung cancer than nonsmokers, while non-inhalers are three times as likely. The reason for the death rate among non-inhalers may come down to secondhand smoke - mostly from their own cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cigars Healthy? You're Blowing Smoke | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

...trainee's Army is like a poor, proud family - all patched-up hand-me-downs and secondhand roses. Nearly everything we touch - our tent, our gas mask, our sleeping bag and our M-16 A2 semiautomatic - is merely gear, to be returned in the same worn, perforated, dinged-up condition it was issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No $500 Toilet Seats at This Old Boot Camp | 1/2/2000 | See Source »

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