v., -smoked, -smok·ing, -smokes. v.intr.
To smoke continually, as by lighting the next cigarette from the previous one.
v.tr.To smoke (cigarettes, for example) in continuing succession.
chainsmoker chain smoker n.
chain-smoke
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chain-smoke (chān'smōk') |
v., -smoked, -smok·ing, -smokes. v.intr.
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One who smokes continually by lighting a new cigarette from the one being finished, as in Before they forbade smoking, bridge tournaments often attracted players who are chain smokers. [c. 1930]
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From our Archives: Today's Highlights, November 24, 2005
On this date in 1971, the chain-smoking D.B. Cooper boarded a Northwest Orient flight in Portland, OR. Carrying a black briefcase containing what resembled a bomb, he hijacked the Boeing 727. Cooper demanded and received $200,000, then parachuted from the plane over the Cascade Mountains in Southwestern Washington, and disappeared. Except for $5,880 of the loot which was found on the banks of the Columbia River in 1980, no trace was ever found of Cooper or the money.
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IN BRIEF: n. - A heavy smoker (usually of cigarettes) who lights one off of another.
| Wikipedia: Chain smoking |
Chain smoking is the practice of lighting a new cigarette for personal consumption immediately after one that is finished, sometimes using the finished cigarette to light the next one. It is a common form of addiction.[1]
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Causes
The use of crack cocaine with cigarettes can result in chain smoking.[2]
The extent to which chain smoking is driven by nicotine dependence has been studied. It does not seem that the amount of nictotine delivered is a significant factor as the puff volume correlates poorly with the frequency of cigarette consumption.[3]
Clinical use
Chain-smoking is given as an example of excessive addictive behaviour in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.[4] It may be used as a form of aversion therapy for smokers who are unused to such heavy smoking, inducing them to give up altogether.[5]
Ventilation
An airflow of about 1000 cubic feet per minute per smoker is required to maintain satisfactory air quality when the smokers are chain smoking.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Charles Gerras, The encyclopedia of common diseases, p. 17, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U7NZwYhrBWIC
- ^ Gary L. Fisher, Nancy A. Roget (2008), Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery, p. 194, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wPJ-39gVHE0C
- ^ Kolonen S, Tuomisto J, Puustinen P, Airaksinen MM. (1992), "Effects of smoking abstinence and chain-smoking on puffing topography and diurnal nicotine exposure", Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 42(2): 327-32, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1631188
- ^ Helen Keane, What's Wrong with Addiction?, p. 100, http://books.google.com/books?id=QqZsDnXS3-cC
- ^ James Cocores, The Clinical management of nicotine dependence, http://books.google.com/books?id=f-lrAAAAMAAJ
- ^ Brian Allan Rock, Ventilation for environmental tobacco smoke, p. 48, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PDupTtFRClkC
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| Translations: Chain-smoker |
Français (French)
n. - gros fumeur
Deutsch (German)
n. - Kettenraucher
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μανιώδης καπνιστής (που ανάβει το ένα τσιγάρο μετά το άλλο)
Italiano (Italian)
fumatore a catena
Português (Portuguese)
n. - fumante (m) inveterado
Русский (Russian)
заядлый курильщик
Español (Spanish)
n. - fumador que enciende un cigarrillo con otro
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kedjerökare
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
连续抽烟的人
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 連續抽煙的人
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 立て続けに煙草を吸う人
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מעשן בשרשרת
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