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Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette. Or not 

Friday is the Great American Smokeout, when millions of smokers give it up, at least for the day, so we figured it was a good time to round up cigarette songs from five South Florida bands. Their inspirations included an ashtray full of cigarette butts that caught on fire, a woman who had a much-desired cigarette in her hand but no lighter, and a 7-year-old boy who took his grandmother's car on a joy ride while his passenger, also 7, smoked cigarettes.

Kaley Wolfe/Clementine is a West Palm Beach singer, guitarist and ukulele player who performs under the name Contrast Colors. Like fellow local Rachel Goodrich, Clementine weaves stories into her songs, and "My Cigarettes Are Treating Me Fine" opens with the sound of a lighter being flicked . . .

Jenny Wolfson, a.k.a. Miami Beach folk singer-guitarist Upside Down Jenny, wrote "One More Cigarette" from the perspective of someone who smokes despite having a cough, which becomes "just the flu" and eventually "just cancer, I guess." . . .

This month, Americana band Mike Dunn and the Kings of New England released the album Sundowner, which contains a bonding-over-cigarettes song titled "Cigarette." "Oh I don't mind meeting you/'Cause it's the right thing to do," Dunn sings. "Can I bum a cigarette?

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