adjective
- Engaging in the smoking of tobacco: smoking passengers.
- Designated or reserved for smokers: the smoking section of a restaurant.
- Of or relating to the use of tobacco: corporate smoking policies.
Nadine wished that she had never started smoking because it is hard to quit.
- A major reason why people smoke is because they are addicted to the nicotine in the tobacco.
- Other reasons people smoke is peer pressure.
- Health consequences include heart disease, cancer, stroke, cataracts, thyroid disease, gum disease, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and pnuemonia.
- Withdrawal symptoms from nicotine often begin with 48 hours without a cigarette. They include:
- Physical - Tingling in the hands and feet, cramps, nausea, sweating, headaches and cold symptoms.
- Emotional and Mental - Temper tantrums, confusion, insomnia, irritability, anxiety and depression.
The definition of smoking is using tobacco in a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
Facts About Smoking
An example of smoking is lighting up a cigarette in a bar.
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Verb
- Present participle of smoke.
Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural smokings)
- The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
- Smoking is permitted.
- (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
Adjective
(comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)
- Giving off smoke.
- (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
- That woman is smoking!
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smoking - Medical Definition
adj.
- Engaging in the smoking of tobacco: smoking passengers.
- Designated or reserved for smokers: the smoking section of a restaurant.
- Of or relating to the use of tobacco: corporate smoking policies.
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Sentence Examples
- Other things included smoking, using drugs or alcohol.
- Lydia Larkin stood, feet apart, in the classic shooting position, both hands clamped on her smoking gun.
- Bright or yellow plug and smoking leaf are grown on the pine uplands and pine " flats," and a small amount of cigar tobacco on the flats, prairies and " bluffs."
- Restaurants established a "smoking section," then some bold ones banned smoking altogether.
- Exhausted and diminished by the stout and successful opposition of the Moravians at Olmiitz, the Tatars vanished as suddenly as they had appeared, leaving a smoking wilderness behind them.
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