smoker Definition
smoker (smō′kər)
noun
- a person or thing that smokes; specif., a person who habitually smokes cigarettes, a pipe, etc.
- ☆ a railroad car or compartment reserved esp. for smoking
- ☆ Old-fashioned an informal social gathering for men only
smoker Usage Examples
Converse of object
- discourage: He was of the opinion an increase in cigarette prices would not discourage smokers to purchase cigarettes.
- motivate: They motivate smokers to protect their families from second-hand smoke in the home.
- persuade: An exciting new approach to persuading smokers to kick the habit is to being launched today at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Converse of subject
inhale: She stated that tobacco smoke inhaled by non-smokers contained higher concentration substances than smoke inhaled directly by smokers.
Adjective modifier
- Non: Non smokers working in a smoke filled environment showed elevated DNA damage markers.
- late-night: Evening's costume party on duty late-night poolside smokers for miles southwest.
- non: Smokers are two to three times more likely to develop bladder cancer than non smokers.
- 20-a-day: Do you know how much a 20-a-day smoker spends on cigarettes in a year?
- pregnant: College graduate plan move into the all pregnant smokers.
- addicted: Prochaska et al ( 1992 ) Only ten to 15 % of addicted smokers were prepared for action.
Noun used with modifier
- poolside: Evening's costume party on duty late-night poolside smokers for miles southwest.
- marijuana: In the marijuana smokers, there was a tendency toward a much less rapid rate of clearance.
- cigarette: A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a non-smoker.
- cigar: Has a room within a room with air conditioning for cigar smokers.
- cannabis: But cannabis smokers will be shaking hands and singing along together.
- non-: Also try to spend some time with non- smokers.
Possessives
- cough: Heart of gold, somewhere in there, along with the purple hair and the smoker's cough.
- lung: It can stay in a smoker's lungs and may eventually cause cancer.
Preposition: of
cigarette: As a result some highly dangerous forms of lung cancer actually appear to be higher in smokers of low tar cigarettes.
Preposition: than
non-smoker: The rate at which HIV disease progresses, or the number of CD4 cells lost, is no greater in smokers than non-smokers.
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