Statistically, every week spent inactive is roughly equivalent to smoking a packet of cigarettes.

BBC: Laziness will send us to an early grave

Solid Snake starts off equipped with nothing more than a pair of binoculars and a packet of cigarettes.

ECONOMIST: Computer games

Four-fifths of the price of a packet of cigarettes is tax, and so is 60% of the price of a bottle of whisky.

ECONOMIST: Shopping for a drugs policy

The agreement will raise the tax on a packet of cigarettes from 24 cents to 34 cents in 2000, and then to 39 cents in 2002.

ECONOMIST: Declare victory and go home

That is plotting cigarette tax revenue as a percentage of GDP (vertical axis) against the percentage of the pricer of a packet of cigarettes that is tax (horizontal axis).

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Grace Flint has a device smaller than a packet of cigarettes that she can hide in your car, or on your boat or plane -- even, if it suits her, in your briefcase that will track your precise location for the next six months.

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He clung to a shipwreck on the Goodwin Sands before being rescued by a fishing boat, transferred to an RAF launch and brought ashore at Ramsgate, where he was greeted by a large crowd and presented with a packet of cigarettes by an elderly woman.

BBC: Battle of Britain hero William Walker dies aged 99

Since the mid-1990s, the proportion of 12th-grade pupils who believe smoking a packet or two of cigarettes a day carries a great risk has risen by about ten percentage points.

ECONOMIST: But efforts to warn people off drugs are still too timid

M. lobby on Seventy-ninth, or in the late-night Korean shop collecting, if you were Zwelish, a pack of cigarettes, or, if you were Blondy, a bottle of ginger beer or a packet of wasabi peanuts.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan

Yet every smoker for the past 34 years has known this, because each packet of cigarettes sold in the United States has carried a warning to that effect.

ECONOMIST: Blowing smoke