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chain-smoker

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chain smoker

A person who smokes cigarettes continuously, such that they begin a new cigarette as (or almost as) soon as the last one is extinguished. My grandmother died of emphysema after being a chain smoker for most of her adult life. Because I'm an anxious chain smoking, I lit a fresh cigarette with the end of my last one and barely even realized I was doing it. Like a lot of people, I smoked in the '80s, but at least I gave it up pretty quickly and was never a chain smoker.
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chain-smoker

n. someone who smokes cigarette after cigarette. She was a chain-smoker for thirty years, and then suddenly, boom. She’s gone.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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