noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a smoker's cough (= one caused by smoking )
heavy smoker
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I used to be a heavy smoker .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Being in Alvin isolates us from anything but a visual impression of a black smoker .
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Are black smokers hot enough to emit light visible to the shrimp?
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I will spend that day in a field of black smokers , just looking.
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Raw and powerful, black smokers look like cautionary totems of an inhospitable planet.
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The temperature field around a black smoker always surprises me.
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I have often worked black smokers in Alvin and I never fail to be awed by them.
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Both the white and black smokers supported the same odd fauna that thrived at the Galapagos Ridge.
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In Fahrenheit, temperatures of black smokers sound even more impressive, greater than 600o, hotter than molten lead.
current
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There were no differences in the body-related attitudes of current smokers compared with ex-smokers.
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The results indicated that current smokers showed excess mortality when compared with non-smokers.
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The risk was calculated to be 1.53 for current smokers and 1.39 for ex-cigarette smokers.
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Therefore, we used the categories current smoker , former smoker, never a smoker, and unknown in our analyses.
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The results revealed that current smokers felt significantly less attractive than non-smokers.
heavy
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Mrs R. was a heavy smoker , and this was a fire hazard.
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The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers .
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At this age, heavy smokers have 10 to 15 times the rate of fatal heart attacks of nonsmokers.
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Occasionally, saturations of greater than 20 percent have been reported in heavy smokers . 402.
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Head and neck cancer affects about 500,000 people worldwide each year, mainly heavy smokers and drinkers.
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Cigarette smoking can double our risk of dying from a heart attack and heavy smokers are even more likely to die young.
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Another effect of the job was that I'd become a heavy smoker .
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The children born to heavy smokers are on average 200 grams lighter than those who do not.
male
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Cigarette consumption Average weekly cigarette consumption in 1988 was 120 for male smokers and 99 for female smokers.
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This may help to explain why male smokers have underweight children.
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The increase to an average of 120 cigarettes therefore suggests a reversal of the trend to lower consumption among male smokers .
new
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And you must notice in this new first smoker the seats and backs are fitted with embossed crimson leather.
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Adolescent girls are the largest group of new smokers in the United States.
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Having raised the settlement money by upping the cost of cigarettes, they still get new smokers .
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Government lawyers also contended the industry targeted its advertising toward children as potential new smokers .
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Cigarette taxes are rising; the number of new smokers is declining.
regular
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The earlier children become regular smokers and persist in the habit as adults, the greater the risk of dying prematurely.
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They found that more than six out of 10 children with emotional and behavioural problems were regular smokers .
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Thirty-two percent of regular smokers reported frequent coughs compared with 22 percent of non-smokers.
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Three quarters of the adolescent group were regular smokers .
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At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it.
■ NOUN
cigar
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Of male pipe and cigar smokers , nearly three quarters are ex-cigarette smokers.
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Real cigar smokers are getting screwed.
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In comparison, the risk for pipe and cigar smokers was only up to 10% higher than nonsmokers.
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Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?
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Both are New Yorkers, and obviously a couple of old cigar smokers .
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Historical notes profile lady cigar smokers dating back to the 1600s.
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Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
cigarette
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A cigarette smoker has two to three times the risk of having a heart attack than a nonsmoker.
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The data suggests that it is a bad idea if you are heavy cigarette smokers .
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Examination of case notes of patients officially recorded as dying of asthma showed that many were aged over 60 and cigarette smokers .
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Why are cigar smokers cool and cigarette smokers scum?
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Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
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Fifty one percent of the patients were cigarette smokers .
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Meadows was a longtime cigarette smoker , Allen said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a light smoker/drinker/eater etc
inveterate liar/smoker/womanizer etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The average smoker spends about £35 a week on cigarettes.
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The survey shows that most smokers would like to stop smoking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For smokers and the very wealthy, the taxes would be higher.
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His counterpart, Mr Eagleburger, is a smoker .
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Interviews with Moon and other teenage smokers reveal they smoke for the same reason adults do: They enjoy it.
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She was certainly not an opium smoker .
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The cigarette ban will be most troublesome for smokers on long train journeys.
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The report said that disturbed children were more than twice as likely to become smokers as other youngsters.
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We felt it was important that smokers limited the time they spend away from their desks.