chain-smoke
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chain-smoke (chān'smōk') |
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.
chain smoker chain smoker n.
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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.
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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] Many people chain smoke when drinking alcohol because of the sensation it gives the drinker.
The extent to which chain smoking is driven by nicotine dependence has been studied. It does not seem that the amount of nicotine 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
HVAC professionals claim that 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] However, research confirms that current HVAC systems, while important for general air quality, cannot control exposure to secondhand smoke: smoke levels remain high enough to cause significant harm.[7]
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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
- ^ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2006), The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General, p. 92, http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report/fullreport.pdf
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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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