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20/47Something the Casino screenplay shares with its Goodfellas counterpart is an abundance of cursing
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Even though I never experienced it personally hurled at me, as a Canadian, popular culture and media trained me to know that it was the gay N-word. Overheard in a bar back home, says Bengry, the word fag would have zero associations with cigarettes and would only ever be associated with faggot. While most likely to be used in a derogatory way, he says fag might also take on a less antagonistic inflection when used among some members of the gay community, where it could also be descriptive of a kind of effete or camp homosexuality, though in both senses, he says, its starting to feel a bit dated and has never been reclaimed in the way that queer has. I can remember going to the mall with a good friend in the late 1990s, says Bengry, to look at a shirt with her, and discussing playfully whether the shirt was too faggy. And it was
Things are bad, but they're markedly better than they were a year ago, and figure to keep moving in that upward trajectory
So, a pack a day smoker would get the equivalent amount of nicotine in an e-cigarette refill compared to a pack of cigarettes for between 1.50 to 2.00 a day
