passive smoking

Ads

Quit Smoking Today www.nysmokefree.com/ Free support and nicotine patches. Call the NYS Smokers' Quitline now!

You Can Quit Smoking www.cdc.gov/Quitting/Tips Get Tips from Former Smokers to Stay Smoke-free. Contact CDC.

noun

the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.

Also called passive inhalation.

Origin:
1970–75

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source

Link To passive smoking

Collins

World English Dictionary

passive smoking

—n
	the inhalation of smoke from other people's cigarettes by a nonsmoker

passive smoker

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

00:10

Passive smoking is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon

Main Entry:	passive smoking
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	involuntary inhaling of smoke created by others

Matching Quote

"Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don't brag about it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die—at least not in the act—and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one."

-Fran Lebowitz

Remove ads like these. Upgrade now!