Judging by the persistence with which the two smokers stuck to their seats by the open window, Malcolm felt certain that they had a special interest in the barge and its contents.
Before the smokers could rise from their seats the two fugitives were past and dropping over the low wall into a boat.
One of the smokers remarked: "What you say is right enough; but what about your second story?
If I go out I find the streets full of people, and, when I am tired of walking, I go into some cafe crowded with smokers and billiard players.
Herein did I not right, Ancient and Honourable Old Guard of Smokers all round the world?
But these political discussions by no means supplied the staple of conversation for the gossiping smokers of the galley.
Trousseau advises non-smokers who suffer from chronic constipation to smoke a cigarette fasting, a practice which, according to him, stimulates defecation.
The pedestrian paused a moment in his walk, and the smokerstook their pipes from their mouths.
The tireless pedestrians still paced to and fro, and the idle smokers puffed.
An old man who had crept in began to sing in a high and quavering voice a song of the smokers of hashish, accompanying himself upon an instrument of tortoise and goat-skin.
It's a very old and, among Easterns, very famous resort of smokers of hashish.
I would be willing to state right now if we processed both of your hands you would come up positive, because invariably pipe smokers stick their finger in the bowl and you would get a positive reaction.
I understand that pipe smokers are quite likely to get caught on these, on these tests.
The strong flavoured Cuba, by smokers of long standing, when indeed a pipe has not altogether superseded the cigar, are in the greatest request.
So if a man habituated to the pleasures of a pipe goes off in a consumption, the anti-smokers must immediately assert it was brought on by the use of tobacco.
Opium smokers are faddists essentially, however, and I think I can manage to pretend that I have formed a strange penchant for this particular cubiculum".
The Corsicans, unlike nearly all other races of the Mediterranean, aresmokers of wooden pipes.
He pressed down the tobacco into his wooden pipe--for they are pipe-smokers in a cigarette latitude--and waited cunningly for curiosity to grow.
Another way of saying the same thing is that when smokers are drunk they no longer care to smoke, a fact that is a matter of common observation.
Most habitual smokers consume every day more than enough tobacco to carry them far beyond the point where its stimulating effect ends and its narcotic effect begins.
Smokers keep on finding chewers disgusting, and smokersof pipes and cigars frequently object to the odor of cigarettes.
Smokers who for the first time meet chewers or snuffers or those who "dip" tobacco, as in the South, are affected unpleasantly.
To the surprise of the officials, they found that out of the fifty-five thousand opium-smokers they could obtain a registration of only from ten to twelve thousand, which meant that the great majority were getting smuggled opium.
Few men quarrel with a hostess who does not offer them drinks, but all habitual smokers expect that, regardless of her own desires, she will let them smoke after dinner.
Every physician knows that an enormous amount of insomnia is relieved by smoking, even if it is at the expense of laziness the next day; at the same time every physician knows that most excessive smokers are troubled with insomnia.
The time is already at hand whensmokers will be barred out of positions which demand quick thought and action.
While there are smokers of cigars and pipes who inhale their smoke, it will almost always be found upon investigation that they acquired the habit of inhalation through smoking cigarettes.
The popular belief that tobacco stunts growth is supported by the fact that non-smokers observed for four years at Yale and Amherst increased more in weight, height, chest-girth, and lung capacity than smokers did in the same period.
Have not smokers undergone a noticeable moral deterioration in at least one particular?
We find nowadays that smokers as well as non-smokers are suspicious of any form of tobacco-taking to which they have not become used.
In Russia during the earlier part of the seventeenth century the noses of smokers were cut off.
Turks and Persians are the greatestsmokers in the world.
From there we made good speed past Smokers Hook, and by evening arrived at the point of Elizabethtown Creek, in the tavern before mentioned, where we lodged for the night; but there was nothing to be had there except to warm us.
We made good progress, and came to Smokers Hoeck, which is about half way of Kil achter Kol.
The average grades of fifty smokers and fifty non-smokers were computed from the records of one term's work done in the Kansas Agricultural college and the results favored the latter group with a difference of 17.
Nearly all of the cigarette smokers were found to be untidy and unclean in their personal appearance, and a great many of them were truants; but among those who did not smoke not a single boy had been corrected for truancy.
Most of the smokers ranked very low in their studies as compared with those who did not smoke.
An investigation of all the students who entered Yale University during nine years shows that the cigarette smokers were the inferiors, both in weight and lung capacity, of the non-smokers, although they averaged fifteen months older.
Apart from affections of the throat and cancerous diseases of lips and tongue which frequently affect smokers there is a physical taint which is transmitted to offspring which handicaps the unfortunate infant "from its earliest breath.
On a train running between London and Liverpool, a compartment especially reserved for women smokers has been provided.
It was found that the minds of many of the cigarette smokers could not comprehend or grasp ideas as quickly or firmly as those who did not smoke.
Of twenty boy smokers who were under careful observation for several months, nineteen stood below the average of the class, while only two of those who did not smoke stood below.
A great many of the cigarette smokers had defective hearing, while only one of those who did not smoke was so afflicted.
At first the smokersof it merely strive to follow the fashion of the day, but in the sequel the poison takes effect, and the habit becomes fixed.
The following statements show some of the large establishments that are closed against cigarettesmokers in America:-- "Swift & Co.
Smokers are always at the bottom of the class in school and college, and backward at all kinds of study.
For we find that James laid many rigid sumptuary restrictions upon the practice which he abominated, based chiefly upon the extravagance it occasioned,--the expenses of some smokers being estimated at several hundred pounds a year.
The waste of saliva in young smokers and in immoderate chewers we admit.
The Viziers of Turkey spitted the noses of smokers with their own pipes; the more considerate Shah of Persia cut them entirely off.
Smokers and chewers, et id omne genus, mollified by their habits, or laboring under guilty consciences, have made but a feeble defence.
Latitude is allowed smokers over sixty years of age, but those under sixty "must get cured before arriving at sixty years of age.
There is now a rapidly growing number of officials and merchants who refuse to employ opium-smokers in any capacity.
Opium had been used, generations before, as a remedy for malaria; and these first smokers seem to have mixed a little opium with their tobacco, which had been introduced by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century.
Opium dens, as also all restaurants, hotels, and wine-shops which provide couches and lamps for smokerswere to be closed at once.
Both these quondam smokers sent in their apparatus to be burned, with a pledge that henceforth they would abstain from the use of the drug.
The smokers seemed to be mainly of the lower classes; though hardly so low as coolies, who are lucky to earn as much as fifteen cents in a day.
Few smokers can keep slaves to fill their pipes for them, like that wealthy official at Shau-ying.
At the river ports the dens were running openly, many of them with doors opening directly off the street and with smokers visible on the couches within.
The greater difficulty in China is, of course, that very few opium-smokers are well fed and properly housed and clothed.
No new smokers will be allowed from the date of prohibition.
There were twenty smokers on the couches, some preparing the pellet of opium by kneading it and pressing it on the pipe-bowl, some dozing off the fumes, and a few smoking.
The heavy smokers also show less ability than the light smokers to respond to increasing pressure of work in the late hours of the day by handling their full share of the work presented.
In the "Journal for Industrial Hygiene" for October, 1920, is an article entitled "Fatigue and Efficiency of Smokers in a Strenuous Mental Occupation.
The ladies who are regular opium-smokers sit up late at night, and do not get up till five or six in the evening.
While many smokers reach old age, many fail to live to old age because they are smokers.
Yielding unsuspiciously to the influence of a prejudice which originated in an absurd puritanical notion of "morality,"[26] many smokers are in the habit of reviling the practice which they nevertheless will not abandon.
They swore horribly; and of course Mr. Parton believes that if they had not been smokers they would neither have used profane language nor have condescended to talk with stable-keepers.
As a Nation of Smokers The Germans have always carried the palm & do still & with them Smoke & Song were ever inseparable.
Illustration] This most delightful country with its kindly inhabitants are great Smokers in a small measure if the regulation size of the generally used bowl be taken as a standard.
A separate compartment has been walled off for the treatment of opium-smokers who desire by forced restraint to break off the habit.
The number of opium-smokers is so large that the question is not, who does smoke opium, but who doesn't.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smokers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
