glimpses of the moon
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glimpses of the moon the earth by night, sublunary scenes (originally with reference to the scene in Shakespeare's
Hamlet in which Hamlet refers to his father's ghost's revisiting ‘the glimpses of the moon’.
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SNUFF DID NOT CAUSE CANCER, SAYS EXPERT
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 6/14/1986; ; 636 words
; ...s tongue cancer was not caused by the snuff he used for six years. But Drs. John...Hansen agreed under cross-examination that snuff contains more of the cancer-causing agent...using the company's Copenhagen brand snuff for six years. Friday was the second day...
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Snuff making a comeback.
Newspaper article from: Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England); 10/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...kickstarted a new boom behind the bar. Snuff - powdered tobacco for sniffing up the...displaying a dozen different varieties of snuff, more than 65 tins had been sold to regular...those included a new non-tobacco white snuff, various menthol varieties as well as...
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Snuff bottles survive in private collections; Exhibit: Portland Art Museum has 400 of the delicate items
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 6/9/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...one of many embedded in antique Chinese snuff bottles, tiny rounded containers carved...to hold finely powdered tobacco called snuff, evolved over the years into a separate...exhibit, called "The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle," represents a portion of Brazilian...
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Snuff Bottles: Miniature Masterpieces
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...you would simply treat your condition by inhaling snuff. Tobacco, a luxury imported to China from Europe...nobody was allowed to smoke tobacco. Why was snuff acceptable? Ironically, snuff was allowed because of its valuable medicinal attributes...
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Features: Snuff to make you want to give up smoking It's not just old men in clubs who enjoy a pinch, finds Ross Clark
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/26/1997; ; 700+ words
; THINK of the word "snuff", and your mind conjures up a Dickensian...endless cigarette breaks in the rain, snuff is becoming the latest fashion item...Happily there is no such thing as passive snuff-taking," says Andy, a PR Consultant...
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Social differences in smoking and snuff use among Norwegian adolescents: a population based survey.(Research article)(Report)
Magazine article from: BMC Public Health; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...past ten years, the sale of oral moist snuff has increased in Norway, while the sale of tobacco for smoking has decreased. Snuff use and occasional smoking have to some...among adolescents and young adults. The snuff marketed in Norway and Sweden (snus...
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Snuff's Tough Stuff;How the Smokeless Tobacco Industry Plugs Its Deadly Trade
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/16/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...officials are alarmed at the rapid increase in "snuff dipping," particularly among teenagers. Snuff - pulverized tobacco that you tuck between...Some health experts warn that long-term snuff dippers are 50 times more likely than non...
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Ancient Chinese snuff bottles survive in private collections
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...one of many embedded in antique Chinese snuff bottles, tiny rounded containers carved...to hold finely powdered tobacco called snuff, evolved over the years into a separate...exhibit, called The Art of the Chinese Snuff Bottle, represents a portion of Brazilian...
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Bottle Stations! Bottle Stations!; Snuff? Don't Scoff. To Devotees, the Tiny Chinese Vials Are to Die For.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/29/2000; ; 700+ words
; Accumulators of Chinese snuff bottles don't actually snort the stuff. Another craving...nose with startling immediacy. Accumulators of Chinese snuff bottles seek a different high. Their snuff lore is extensive. They know its derivation (that...
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Surreal Snuff Bottles And Some Profound Latter Days Of The Law
Newspaper article from: AsianWeek; 1/6/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Renouf AsianWeek 01-06-1995 Surreal Snuff Bottles And Some Profound Latter Days Of...Kansas in Lawrence. The other show, "Snuff Bottles from the Qing Dynasty," will...little known Chinese art forms. The 238 snuff bottles exhibited were drawn from the collections...
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Snuff Boxes
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
Snuff Boxes Europeans first began snorting snuff, the pulverized form of tobacco, in the early seventeenth...one hundred years it was widely used by men and women alike. Snuff boxes, tiny decorative containers for the powdered herb, became...
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SIC 2131 Chewing and Smoking Tobacco and Snuff
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...SIC 2131CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCO AND SNUFF This industry consists of establishments...manufacturing chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff. Other tobacco product industries are...and distributor of chewing tobacco and snuff in the United States with $1.74 billion...
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snuff
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
snuff 1 / snəf / • v. [ tr...bulletproof fabric. ∎ ( snuff it ) Brit., inf. die. ∎...n. the charred part of a candle wick. snuff 2 • n. powdered tobacco that is...
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Chewing and Smokeless Tobacco, Snuff
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
CHEWING AND SMOKELESS TOBACCO, SNUFF Smokeless tobacco (ST), referred to...is placed in the mouth, in the form of snuff (moist, dry, sachet) or chewing (loose...differences between cigarette smokers' and snuff users' intensity of addiction. Smokeless...
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snuff movie
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
snuff movie a pornographic film or video recording of an actual murder (the name...snuffing out of life which such a film or video portrays). Privately circulated snuff videos were allegedly known to the police in the 1970s, and figured briefly...
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