Word: submanifest
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...least in many individuals, habitual smoking does not result in the development of an immunity to the toxins of cigaret smoke. It would seem that experience teaches one, often subconsciously, to control one's smoking so that the effects are kept at a submanifest point. To be concrete, one does not take a puff from a cigaret if certain effects of the one preceding are manifest. Similarly, a second cigaret is not smoked until the effects of the preceding one have worn off. . . . The length of time for these effects to wear off varies greatly in different individuals...
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