Millions of office workers enjoy a furtive fag out-of-doors now that many offices are smoke-free.

ECONOMIST: Smoking

Back at home, he had a machine he put tuppence in and a fag came out, like in a pub.

NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior

When Shelley went for a fag break in the parking lot, she switched her phone back on for a few minutes.

NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire

With a grand tobacco settlement now a burnt-out fag-end in Washington, the struggle has returned to the courts—and the first big class-action lawsuit by smokers has come to trial.

ECONOMIST: The tobacco wars

" He said, "Larry Klein is a fag.

NPR: Stories of Self-Awareness and Gay Culture

How a pale secret fag (did I just let that slip?) made his way first amid those blustery, sunburned hippie biology majors, then here to patriotic doom with me and the Russians, God only knows.

NEWYORKER: Lostronaut