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presmoking en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + smoking.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before smoking a cigarette etc.
    • Stewart and Livson (129) had access to records from the presmoking years from kindergarten through high school, of smokers and nonsmokers at age 30. 1982, Fred Leavitt, Drugs and behavior, page 185:
    • In the placebo condition, heart rate decreased consistently from presmoking levels. 1972, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volumes 190-191, New York Academy of Sciences, page 211: