Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Adjective

The word "smoking" can be used as noun, adjective, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

water cooler

Capable Of

cause heart disease cause lung cancer give cancer increase heart disease lead to cancer result in lung cancer

Causes

bad breath bad teeth and gums birth defects cancer caughing death detrimental to health develop cough disease cancer dying getting lung cancer getting other people angry hair smells like smoke having carcinogens in lungs ill health illness in love lung cancer lung disease needed reparis persistent cough pleasure reduced lung capacity smell bad

Derived Terms

anti-smoking chain-smoking cold smoking no smoking non-smoking nonsmoking secondary smoking smoking bishop smoking cap smoking car smoking carriage smoking ceremony smoking compartment smoking gun smoking hot smoking jacket smoking room smoking stool syndrome what are you smoking

Derived From

smoke

Inflected/Variant Forms

smoke

Context

slang

Prerequisites

addiction burn cigarette frie having cigarette ignition source lighter lungs on fire stupidity tobacco tobacco and fire

Has Property

bad for bad for health foolish harmful to health hazardous to health unhealthy very bad for health

Subevents

blow smoke cough coughing damaging health develop lung cancer drop ashes on yourself eat peanuts exhale flick ash into ashtray go outside inhale inhaling narcotics for pleasure light cigarette lighting cigarette puff cigarette relax stand outside talk on phone talk with friends talking think about bad health effects think about quitting smoking

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

breathing evaporation external respiration respiration vapor vaporisation vaporization vapour ventilation

Type Of (IsA)

action performed by animals bad habbit bad habit definite health risk expensive habit filthy habit hazard to health human activity intelligent agent activity popular method of overcoming stress unnatural thing

Not Has Property

allowed in several public places good for health permitted at many public places

Related Terms

inhalation smoke tobacco

Similar Terms

smoky smoky

Synonym Network

smoke

Used For

attempting to appear suave being accepted by other smokers causing cancer causing emphesyma chimneys contaminate conversation destroying lungs endorphin release enjoy dying enjoying flavor of tobacco enjoying nicotine false sense of popularity getting cancer getting nicotine getting sick getting warm giving yourself early death habit ham harming body impressing others losers making raiad1024 cough people who addicted to cigarettes people who addicted to marijuana people who addicted to tobacco people who ignore health warnings relaxation relaxing relieving stress slow suicide social value staining teeth yellow waste money and life

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.