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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SMO'KING, ppr.
1. Emitting smoke, as fuel, etc.
2. Applying smoke for cleansing, drying, etc.
3. Using tobacco in a pipe or cigar.
SMO'KING, n.
1. The act of emitting smoke.
2. The act of applying smoke to.
3. The act or practice of using tobacco by burning it in a pipe or cigar.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: emitting smoke in great volume; "a smoking fireplace" n
1: the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks" [syn: smoke, smoking]
2: a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles" [syn: smoke, smoking]

Britannica Concise

Breathing the fumes of burning plant material, especially tobacco, from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Despite social and medical arguments against tobacco use, the habit has spread worldwide. Nicotine and related alkaloids furnish the psychoactive effects and, along with tar (a residue containing resins and other by-products), the negative health effects. Those effects include lung cancer, oral and throat cancers, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and macular degeneration. Smoking also increases the effects of other risk factors (see asbestosis). Passive smoking (breathing the smoke from others' cigarettes) increases nonsmokers' risk of lung cancer and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Self-help and doctor-run programs, along with nicotine patches and gums that provide diminishing doses of nicotine, are among the aids available to help those who wish to quit smoking. Antismoking campaigns have greatly reduced smoking in the U.S. even as it rises in many other countries.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Smoke Smoke, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smoked; p. pr. & vb n. Smoking.] [AS. smocian; akin to D. smoken, G. schmauchen, Dan. sm["o]ge. See Smoke, n.] 1. To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. --Milton. 2. Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke agains. that man. --Deut. xxix. 20. 3. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion. Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field. --Dryden. 4. To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner. 5. To suffer severely; to be punished. Some of you shall smoke for it in Rome. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Smoking Smok"ing, a. & n. from Smoke. Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Smoking is the act or habit of smoking cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe. Smoking is now banned in many places of work. ...a no-smoking area. 2. A smoking area is intended for people who want to smoke. ...the decision to scrap smoking compartments on Kent trains. ADJ: ADJ n 3. see also smoke, passive smoking

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