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puffer

n. a cigar. Can you imagine anyone smoking a puffer like that in a restaurant?
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From the slopes to the streets another key coat trend this season is puffers and ski jackets, as seen at Balenciaga, Dior and Moncler.
That's winter wrapped up; Style on Sunday; Timeless classics for chilly season
The PUFFER -  Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot - could traverse ground that a standard rover would get caught on, making a helpful travel companion.
NASA Makes A Little Robot Friend For The Mars Rover
So we'll hopefully have three seagoing puffers in Scotland soon, and that would be fantastic.
DONUT FORSAKE OUR HERITAGE; Actor David's TV plea for shipbuilding museum
Pooley's Puffers has building kits from Metcalfe, Parkside, Dapol, Wills and Ratio together with a good range of fully-tested and guaranteed second-hand model railways, diecast road vehicles and accessories.
The Valley offers lots of ideas for everyone
oral paresthesias, weakness, and dyspnea) after consuming dried puffer fish (also known as globefish) purchased during a recent visit to New York City.
Tetrodotoxin poisoning outbreak from imported dried puffer fish--Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2014
Distinctive little Clyde Puffers became world famous thanks to the antics of Captain Para Handy, skipper of the fictional Vital Spark.
Steam cuisine; Recipe book helps save the last puffer on the Clyde
THE WORLD'S oldest surviving Clyde Puffer, which starred on television as the Vital Spark, could be broken up within a year.
SAVE OUR SPARK
Occurrence of paralytic shellfish poisons in Thai freshwater puffers.
Saxitoxin puffer fish poisoning in the United States, with the first report of Pyrodinium bahamense as the putative toxin source
Wholesale prices for torafugu at Shimonoseki's Haedomari Market can approach and occasionally surpass [yen]30,000 for a single fish caught in its natural habitat, while the far more common commercially bred puffers will cost a third of this, or even less.
Not quite your last supper
In addition, the cigar puffers faced twice the risk of dying from all forms of cancer and from certain diseases of the circulatory system, such as cardiomyopathy, a disorder of the heart muscle.
Cigars linked to disease of the heart
CHICAGO - New research gives smokers one more reason to quit: Pack-a-day-or-more puffers double their likelihood of developing the most common cause of blindness among the elderly.
GUM ILLS TIED TO EARLY BIRTH
A number of puffers are caught in North American waters.
Japan's "fugu" or puffer fish market
Although potentially deadly, puffers are usually extremely placid fish and only become dangerous if threatened or stressed.
Billy the Puffer Fish has a new home
Many youngsters don't understand the importance of puffers but hopefully the Vital Spark's appearance here can help change that.
THAT'S HANDY; TV puffer back on the Clyde
The peak year for puffers of both genders was back in 1966, when 83.
Smoke gets in your eyes. (Blowfish)
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