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• n  the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
  smoking stinks
• n  a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
• v  inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
• v  emit a cloud of fine particles
• s  emitting smoke in great volume
  a smoking fireplace

• London Regional Transport banned smoking on buses, including the top smoking deck of double-deckers, in February 1991.
• After years of bombarding each other with flat denials and unflattering recriminations, the two sides in the smoking-and-lung-cancer controversy came close to sense-making .
• Another 2001 paper, in Circulation, found a nearly fivefold increase in the risk for heart attack in the first hour after smoking marijuanathough statistically that means .

• smoke
• fume

News & Articles

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• Smoking While Pregnant Boosts Kids' Drug Risk
  Smoking While Pregnant Boosts Kids' Drug Risk
  June 20, 2013 - Time Magazine
• Smoking Ban ordinance smoldering in Pascagoula
  The smoking ban battle continues to smolder in Pascagoula. The city council passed an ordinance this week to ban smoking in public places. But some business owners have mixed feelings about the council deciding where folks can light up.
  June 20, 2013 - WLOX-TV Biloxi
• Careless smoking leads to deadly apartment fire
  Police say careless smoking may have caused a fire that killed a 45-year-old man in the Lake Michigan shoreline city of Ludington.
  June 20, 2013 - ClickOnDetroit

Quotes

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• Paris Hilton in Times LIVE
  It's not hard to fathom Paris smoking pot, it's the doing it in the midst of the world's biggest sporting event, in public, blatantly enough to get caught, part that made it dubious. Again, Paris is not dumb,the article said. "It doesn't...
• Amy Winehouse in FOXNews
  The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her,Mitch Winehouse told the Mirror. "There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She has 70 percent lung capacity."
• Barack Obama in Bloomberg
  Each year, Americans pay nearly $100 billion in added health care costs due to smoking,Obama said today in an e- mailed statement.