Lots of cigarettes
Lots of cigarettes
Hi everybody! Is there an idiomatic way or a common term to describe a woman or a man who smokes lots of cigarettes a day?
Your answers will be greatly appreciated.
StevenLoan
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Your answers will be greatly appreciated.
StevenLoan
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He is a human chimney.
A chain smoker. ie he starts the next cigarette from the one he is just finishing.
A twenty a day man. (Or insert a suitable number).
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A chain smoker. ie he starts the next cigarette from the one he is just finishing.
A twenty a day man. (Or insert a suitable number).
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"He smokes like a chimney", although I don't hear this so much nowadays. Either because fewer people smoke or because fewer people have dirty coal fires.
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With cigarette prices being what they are in the UK, I would have thought a good a good description would be, "Skint"!
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Bob in Wales
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tony h, Phil White and Bob : Thank you guys so much for your answers.
StevenLoan
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We usually called ourselves, "pack-a-day" smokers, or (horrors!) "two- or three-packs-a-day." Cigarettes came twenty to a pack, so the result is the same. I was a pack-a-day smoker, off and on, until, thankfully, I quit for good -- almost twenty-five years ago.
Stevenloan, I know your question has been answered sufficiently, but I wanted to add my two cents. (I remember when that's how much a cigarette cost!)
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And I remember the days in the UK when a tobacconist would split a pack and sell single cigarettes ... and when you could buy a pack of five Park Drive.
I gave up my twenty-a-day habit last year and have become entirely civilized, if eccentric, and now smoke a pipe, to the great amusement of most who see me.
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I miss the opportunity to smoke a pipe, it ws a great aid to managing the rate of conversation to the leisurely pace of my thinking. Conversation is all too nippy these days.Phil White wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:23 pm
I gave up my twenty-a-day habit last year and have become entirely civilized, if eccentric, and now smoke a pipe, to the great amusement of most who see me.
So what type of pipe does Phil keep I wonder? Or does he have a collection?
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I had naively assumed that if one started smoking a pipe, one became a pipe-smoker. In fact, one becomes a pipe-collector. One has morning pipes, afternoon pipes, evening pipes, walking-the-dog pipes, just-in-case-I-have-a-few-minutes-after-the-meeting pipes, Virginia tobacco pipes, English blend pipes, Latakia pipes, Lakeland blend pipes, bent, thoughtful pipes, straight, stern pipes, churchwarden pipes and any combination thereof.
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and then there are the pipe cupboards, spill holders, cleaners, reamers, pipe lighters (the Nimrod is a favourite).Phil White wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:05 pmI had naively assumed that if one started smoking a pipe, one became a pipe-smoker. In fact, one becomes a pipe-collector. One has morning pipes, afternoon pipes, evening pipes, walking-the-dog pipes, just-in-case-I-have-a-few-minutes-after-the-meeting pipes, Virginia tobacco pipes, English blend pipes, Latakia pipes, Lakeland blend pipes, bent, thoughtful pipes, straight, stern pipes, churchwarden pipes and any combination thereof.
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Shelley : Thanks so much for the terms. They are wonderful.
StevenLoan
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Congratulations! I was a 2-pack-a-day smoker for 20 years, and quit about 26 or 27 years ago. I should have written it down, but I was afraid of jinxing my effort. I'm glad I quit. Not just because I'm in better health, but because I'd never be able to afford them now.Shelley wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:20 pmWe usually called ourselves, "pack-a-day" smokers, or (horrors!) "two- or three-packs-a-day." Cigarettes came twenty to a pack, so the result is the same. I was a pack-a-day smoker, off and on, until, thankfully, I quit for good -- almost twenty-five years ago.
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I smoked 20 a day for most of my life but then I met Margaret in 2002. She is an ex-smoker, and that was then end of me as a smoker.
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Bob in Wales
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