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Barbecue experts say it’s important that he picked up his first nomination only after his 2017 move to Charleston, although Scott and his family have been smoking meat in Hemingway since the 1970s.

From Washington Times • May 21, 2018

Anecdotal evidence from Ho-Chunk members I interviewed also suggests fewer people have been smoking in the past few years.

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2018

Agrees University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "There have been smoking guns, but we've never seen the act committed before."

From Time Magazine Archive

True, the town water-supply had been temporarily out of commission, some stranger was said to have been smoking in the hay loft, Providence had not specially intervened to save property, and hence this result.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

"Reginald," she said, as soon as she entered the room, "you have been smoking."

From Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will by White, Matthew