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While licking may temporarily moisten the lips, this habit can make matters worse

[17] Ibid

And the close contact a smoker maintains with his cigarettesa pack-a-day smoker reaches for the pack twenty times a day, picks up a cigarette when hes tense, habitually handles and puffs at it while hes making the decisions that his working day calls for, and continues puffing away hour upon hour in his free timemakes the cigarette he uses enough a part of his living style so that distinctive packaging and appearance provide a marked identity to the particular brands a merchandiser is promoting aside from its actual taste

Rangel was not someone who would just stop showing up