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NOW IT'S CANDY CIGARETTES.


As if it wasn't hard enough to discourage kids from smoking, now there's a new product aimed at them for sale over the Internet. It's bidis, candy-flavored cigarettes made mainly in India that have to be puffed puff  
n.
1.
a. A short forceful exhalation of breath.

b. A short sudden gust of wind.

c. A brief sudden emission of air, vapor, or smoke.

d. A short sibilant sound produced by a puff.
 more frequently than regular cigarettes to keep them from going out. Bidis already have three times more nicotine nicotine, C10H14N2, poisonous, pale yellow, oily liquid alkaloid with a pungent odor and an acrid taste. It turns brown on exposure to air.  and five times more tar than regular cigarettes, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the Washington attorney general, who spearheaded a sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)  conducted by two children using false names and a state credit card. They were never turned down by on-line sellers and were seldom asked their ages.
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Date:Mar 1, 2000
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