1.   Smoking seemed to relax her, especially when the strain of working full time and maintaining a tense, sometimes violent marriage with my father got to her.

2.   The European countries where smoking seems most pervasive are often those where the bans on cigarette ads are the tightest.

3.   Smokers tend to have impairments in such things as the knee jerk reflex, so smoking seems to affect coordination, Leistikow said.

4.   While incoming college students were more likely to drink alcohol than smoke cigarettes, smoking seemed to be on the rise.

5.   Smoking also seems to be less popular, especially among boys, according to the study.