Smoking
| Definition: |
Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or something similar to tobacco. |
| Notes: |
almost exclusively tobacco smoking: not for smoking marijuana ( = MARIJUANA SMOKING); smokers' patches, smokers' tongue = LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; cancer caused by smoking = organ/neopl term with /etiol (not /chem ind) + SMOKING /adv eff (not TOBACCO USE DISORD |
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