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单词 tobacco
释义
tobaccoto‧bac‧co /təˈbækəʊ $ -koʊ/ ●●○ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtobacco
Origin:
1500-1600 Spanish tabaco, probably from Taino, ‘tobacco leaves rolled up and smoked’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Alcohol and tobacco accelerate epidemics, such as tuberculosis and drug abuse.
  • In tobacco there are no less than eight such pairs of genes.
  • In the 1630s the tobacco boom showed signs of having reached its peak.
  • Men, however, do not tend to kick the tobacco habit.
  • Out comes the cigar: the consolation of tobacco bears all our cares away.
  • Taxes on alcohol and tobacco could be justified on these grounds.
  • The tobacco industry has never paid damages or settled a liability case.
  • The largest declines were in textiles, tobacco, chemicals, rubber, paper and food.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 apple growers
· The air was thick with cigarette smoke.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The battle against big tobacco waxed and then waned, leaving Clinton unable to convert major interim victories into a conclusive ending.· Black remains generally bullish on big tobacco stocks.
· B About 20 % of male high school students reported using smokeless tobacco in 1995.· The use of smokeless tobacco is now banned in the minor leagues.· A recent Arizona survey disclosed that 9. 8 percent of boys in the third through sixth grades had tried smokeless tobacco.
NOUN
· How does Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley hope to achieve a ten percent reduction in smokers without a ban on tobacco ads?· A ban on tobacco ads aimed at the young.
· Moscow is considering a ban on alcohol and tobacco advertising in most public places and on transport.· Britain bans cigarette advertising on television, but, with tough restrictions, allows other tobacco advertising.· The banning of tobacco advertising would be a great contribution to achieving what the United States has already achieved.· A television ban on tobacco advertising went into effect in 1991.· The second issue raised was the Government's stance on tobacco advertising.· That is a derisory total for a committee monitoring agreements on tobacco advertising and sponsorship.· It is about the impact of tobacco advertising and the promotion of tobacco on young people.· The bill will see all remaining forms of tobacco advertising phased out by the end of 1995.
· No one claims that advertising is the only determinant of tobacco consumption or smoking prevalence: to do so would be absurd.· Advertising directed at reducing tobacco consumption by parents has a substantial secondary knock-on effect on children.· They show that 100,000 unnecessary deaths a year are the result of tobacco consumption.
· Federal subsidies are still given to tobacco farmers.
· Legal firm to pay for widow's fight against tobacco firm.· Most of the donors had business links to Philip Morris or other tobacco firms.· The vendors, which depend on the tobacco firm for their livelihood, feel obliged to buy a table.· Wilson told voters he would refuse campaign contributions from tobacco firms and returned a $ 2, 000 check from Philip Morris.· The bill would allow smokers and their surviving families to sue the tobacco firms.· Granted, the tobacco firms cynically aimed their products at children.
· Why not target subsidies to tobacco growers?
· Now the tobacco industry is going for the slightly more subtle form of advertising which is sponsorship.· On the Democratic side, President Clinton has singled out the tobacco industry for attack.· Mr. Lawson knows it, the tobacco industry knows it and the Government know it.· The tobacco industry has never paid damages or settled a liability case.· The food, drink and tobacco industry reported the greatest number of machine injuries with 940 between 1990 and 1991.· The tobacco industry disputes the amount of exposure nonsmokers have to smoke in the workplace.· The pharmaceutical industry is concerned with maintaining high ethical standards, and to compare it with the tobacco industry is grotesque.· They think that unlike previous cases, the tobacco industry is not going to be able to avoid any financial liability.
· The little room smelled of his pipe tobacco, eau de Cologne, shit.· The 1988 is a concentrated, complex, classic wine with blackcurrant flavors and aromas of cedar and pipe tobacco.· The scent of rose water hung in the air, covering the stale smell of pipe tobacco and strong drink.· She smells of pipe tobacco, which gives me a sort of comfort.
· Advertising would only be allowed inside establishments which sold tobacco products.· After a two-year investigation, the Food and Drug Administration asserted control over tobacco products by deeming them drugdelivery devices.· Consumption date is given from 1870-1988 and includes information on all tobacco products.· They also plan to push for economic measures to reduce promotion and sales, and boost taxation of tobacco products.· Other measures including further restrictions on access to cigarettes and on the promotion of tobacco products need to be considered.· Every state has laws against the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to children, although they are rarely enforced.· The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products.· In California, teenagers spend $ 62million a year on tobacco products.
· Handrolling tobacco sales rose slightly between 1980 and 1982 but fell again to 4.8 million kilos manufactured weight in 1986.
· Then, smelling tobacco smoke, the word Woodbine wound into my head.· Smoking adds significantly to the risk because tobacco smoke bathes delicate cervical tissues in tar and nicotine.· The interior was gloomy; tobacco smoke hung motionless in the thin air.· Secondhand or environmental tobacco smoke causes 3, 000 lung cancers a year, Pirkle said.· You smell whisky and old tobacco smoke.· It treated primary and secondary tobacco smoke as identical though the latter is clearly diluted by contact with the surrounding environment.· The air in the room grew thick with tobacco smoke.· Firstly, chemical carcinogens in tobacco smoke might directly induce cervical carcinogenesis.
· However, Mr. Lawson then continues by making no distinction whatsoever between tobacco sponsorship and any other form of sponsorship.· In addition, young people's purchasing patterns can be influenced by the advertising and tobacco sponsorship of sports.
· More than 85 per cent of the films contained tobacco use.· Of the 26 kids who completed the program, 20 cut down on their tobacco use.· Women are certainly not immune to the damaging effects of tobacco use.
VERB
· Since you do not accept paid tobacco advertisements, why did you allow this one?
· New Zealand banned all advertising of tobacco in 1990.· The debate is not about banning the advertising of tobacco.· As I said earlier, one can not switch off the tap and ban tobacco.· It also bans free distribution of tobacco products.· The organisers should accept their responsibility and ban tobacco advertising.
· Despite this finding, the more people are using chewing tobacco and snuff.· Better yet, use wooden toothpicks. Chew tobacco and spit.· I was also jealous that he could chew tobacco.· So one night, Rich and another miner taught me how to chew tobacco.· Take a laxative! Chew tobacco!· All we need are cowboy boots with spurs and some Red Man chewing tobacco.· The nationwide minimum age of 18 to buy cigarettes and chewing tobacco remains in force.· Once, at the Mineworkers, I even chewed tobacco.
· The air in the room grew thick with tobacco smoke.· Tragically many trees have been removed from the valley in recent years by people who cleared land to grow tobacco.
· The president also would require tobacco companies to pay a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking.
· In addition to car boot sales, officers had visited shops selling tobacco and drink.· Shopkeepers and cigarette machine operators must display warning notices reminding customers it is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under 16.
· The bill would allow smokers and their surviving families to sue the tobacco firms.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • A recent Arizona survey disclosed that 9. 8 percent of boys in the third through sixth grades had tried smokeless tobacco.
  • B About 20 % of male high school students reported using smokeless tobacco in 1995.
  • The use of smokeless tobacco is now banned in the minor leagues.
1the dried brown leaves that are smoked in cigarettes, pipes etc2the plant that produces these leaves
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