smoker:
(plural: ‘smokers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
smoke from burning wood
‘smoke’ (noun) = the white or black the very fine particle of something in the form of thick or thin gas that is seen while or after something is burned; ‘to smoke’ (verb & in this context) = to inhale, to breathe in (through one’s mouth), tobacco smoke (cigarette, cigar, tobacco pipe) as a stimulant
a person who smokes (who inhales) tobacco smoke as a habit,
a smoker, being a nuisance to others at a bus-stop
e.g.
George is a smoker; he smokes cigarettes, cigars, grandpa’s pipe and the hookah, the waterpipe, the people in the Arab world use.
It’s found out that smokers not only harm themselves by inhaling tobacco smoke but also harm non-smokers by exhaling the same smoke.
As the number of cancer patients in passive smokers, those who don’t smoke but inhale the smoke exhaled by the smokers, has gone up in the recent years, the governments all over the world banned smoking in public places, including places of entertainment.
For an article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily browsing, please click here, for a health article about Cigarettes and smokers, please click here, for a health article about smokers and cancer disease, please click here and for a news article about smokers getting benefits from cigarette manufacturing companies, please click here.
Compare: chain smoker; nonsmoker
a barbecue smoker
Note: ‘Smoker’, also called ‘barbecue smoker’, is also used to refer to an apparatus for cooking foods. For an article that explains what smoker in this context is, please click here.
