noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a smoking area
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Employers do not have to provide smoking areas.
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
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He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
cigarette smoking
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Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is bad for you.
passive smoking
smoking gun
smoking jacket
smoking pot
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Michael was smoking pot with some friends.
smoking room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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It is known, for example, that there are serious risks in heavy smoking during pregnancy.
maternal
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In other studies information on maternal smoking during pregnancy was not available.
passive
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Or it may have been through passive smoking .
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This means that several hundred of the 40,000 deaths from lung cancer each year may be caused by passive smoking .
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An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking .
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The tobacco industry requested that Stivoro be stopped from propagating its position on passive smoking .
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Specialist medical evidence in the case showed that he had developed lung cancer as a result of active and passive smoking .
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Cotinine in the urine is a reliable indicator that the subject has been exposed to passive smoking .
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The authors conclude that the risk of respiratory conditions resulting from passive smoking , although small, is not negligible. 2.
■ NOUN
cigarette
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Smoking Cigarette smoking is harmful to you and to your baby.
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Conclusions Cigarette smoking is a major cause of arterial disease, whether of the heart, brain or legs.
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Heart attacks and lung cancer are directly linked with cigarette smoking .
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These days all that seems innocent stuff - occasional cigarette smoking isn't enough for schoolkids in the Nineties.
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Lastly, as part of general health care, it is extremely important to discourage cigarette smoking .
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The anti-smoking lobby then switched to point out that cigarette smoking was anti-social and could harm friends and family.
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Secondly, cigarette smoking might produce a local immunological defect.
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Perhaps this is one reason why cigarette smoking is so attractive in adolescence.
■ VERB
cause
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Approximately 90% of deaths from lung cancer and bronchitis are caused by smoking .
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Yet some diseases caused by smoking have characteristics specific to women.
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About a third of deaths caused by smoking occur in people aged under 65.
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It kills more people than any other type of cancer and 90% of these deaths are caused by smoking .
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This means that several hundred of the 40,000 deaths from lung cancer each year may be caused by passive smoking .
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In Northern Ireland, £7.3m was spent on a cancer programme, including treatment for diseases caused by smoking .
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Lung cancer Lung cancer kills more people than any other type of cancer and 90% of these deaths are caused by smoking .
give
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However, socioeconomic preconditions and reasons for giving up smoking have not been investigated to the same extent.
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For some, giving up smoking may not be easy.
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If this were so, giving up smoking would not alter an individual's chance of developing lung cancer.
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No one pretends that giving up smoking is easy.
stop
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The most important feature is to stop the patient smoking .
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We know that doesn't work very well - it hasn't stopped people smoking .
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When he stopped smoking , he put weight on.
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Voice over Doctors forecast that only half the people who stopped smoking will still be off cigarettes in a year.
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He now says it's nor worth him stopping smoking as the damage has already been done.
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Change my image - different hairstyle, younger clothes, stop smoking . 4.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smoking is not allowed in any part of the building.
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Roy believed his illness was caused by passive smoking .
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Some teenage girls think that smoking helps keep their weight down.
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These days smoking is seen as an anti-social habit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between half and two-thirds of smokers die of something other than smoking .
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Now, though the office air is clean, the butt-crammed ashtray outside testifies that smoking is far from stubbed out.
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Passive smoking has come to the fore.
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The amount of tar in cigarettes is also important but less so than the number smoked or duration of smoking .
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The case of smoking and alcohol abuse illustrates the controversy.
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The strange thing was that he derived no real enjoyment from smoking .