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