cancer stick

American  

noun

Slang.

1. a cigarette.

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cancer stick British  

noun

1. a slang name for cigarette

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Etymology

Origin of cancer stick

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

It is probably no surprise that the three cities in which citizens now pick a joint more often than a cancer stick are those hipster-loving soul mates: Portland, San Francisco and Seattle.

From Seattle Times

But the way the camera captures her in the last scene, standing outside her mother’s house in Dallas, ignoring her mother’s pain while smoking a cancer stick the way Frank has often done, she looks like a woman who definitely has something in her woodshed.

From New York Times