Illustration: On the ledge of an apartment balcony, an adult opens a plain cigarette packet and accidentally tips several cigarettes onto a shallow tray. Their narrow paper bodies and contrasting filters are clearly visible, with the loose tobacco at the open end of the nearest cigarette exposed.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

たばこ

tabako

cigarettes, tobacco

Example sentences

  1. たばこ止やめたら？

    Why don’t you give up smoking?

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  2. 父ちちは煙草たばこを止やめた。

    My father gave up smoking.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 父ちちはたばこを吸すう。

    My father smokes.

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