Heat oven to 300 degrees F. Line shallow roasting pans with heavy-duty foil. Stir liquid smoke into mustard, if desired. Combine brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder, pepper and salt in small bowl. Brush meatier side of each slab of ribs with liquid smoke-mustard mixture or the mustard. Sprinkle brown sugar mixture evenly over mustard. Place ribs in foil-lined roasting pans.
Synonym Discussion of influence affect, influence, touch, impress, strike, sway mean to produce or have an effect upon. affect implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction.
Note that affect does not have a noun sense meaning âan influence that brings about a change.â As a verb, affect is most commonly used in the sense of âto cause a change in:â the ways in which smoking affects health.ransitive verb. 1  To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar. 2  To act on the emotions of; touch or move. 3  To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.