Given that lung cancer kills more people each year than colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined, it's easy to understand why cigarettes are sometimes referred to as coffin nails.
He could see a familiar figure in a white shirt and dark slacks bending down and retrieving what was surely a pack of coffin nails from its belly.
The actor plays a whistleblowing ciggy exec, who suggests the coffin nails might not be as good for you as the advertising promises.
I myself am not a smoker, although I do occasionally indulge in a coffin nail before, say, a nerve-wracking public appearance.
Back in the first world war, cigarettes were known as coffin nails, even then.
Somehow, the website managed to deliver quality coffin nails to the States for around $1.50 a pack.
Smokers figure the pleasure derived from smoking today is more desirable than the beneficial future health effects of giving up the coffin nails.
Those coffin nails will catch up with you sooner or later.
It may not have been a coincidence that, shortly after I gave up, they stopped making that brand of little coffin nails altogether.
Definition of coffin nail in US English:
coffin nail
nounˈkäfən nāl
informal
A cigarette.
〈非正式〉香烟
those coffin nails are going to hurt your voice
Example sentencesExamples
Somehow, the website managed to deliver quality coffin nails to the States for around $1.50 a pack.
It may not have been a coincidence that, shortly after I gave up, they stopped making that brand of little coffin nails altogether.
Back in the first world war, cigarettes were known as coffin nails, even then.
Smokers figure the pleasure derived from smoking today is more desirable than the beneficial future health effects of giving up the coffin nails.
The actor plays a whistleblowing ciggy exec, who suggests the coffin nails might not be as good for you as the advertising promises.
I myself am not a smoker, although I do occasionally indulge in a coffin nail before, say, a nerve-wracking public appearance.
Given that lung cancer kills more people each year than colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined, it's easy to understand why cigarettes are sometimes referred to as coffin nails.
Those coffin nails will catch up with you sooner or later.
He could see a familiar figure in a white shirt and dark slacks bending down and retrieving what was surely a pack of coffin nails from its belly.