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means A person who habitually smokes tobacco, typically cigarettes.
from From 'smoke,' tracing back to Old English 'smoca,' part of a broad Germanic family of words for the stuff that rises off fire. The verb sense of inhaling burning tobacco is a much later add-on, catching on as pipe and cigarette habits spread; 'smoker' simply followed, naming the person by the act — the same tidy pattern that gave English 'baker' and 'walker.'
- break length
- roughly 5 minutes, several times a day, forever
- addiction speed
- nicotine hits the brain in about 10 seconds
- social irony
- quitting is the only habit smokers brag about starting
- cost math
- a pack a day equals a vacation you never took