Other forms: smokers
A smoker is somebody who smokes tobacco. A heavy smoker, ex-smoker, non-smoker.
Smoking rates in Britain have fallen from about half of adults in the 1970s to around one in eight, which is one of the largest public health shifts on record. Passive smoking is exposure to somebody else's, and the indoor ban of 2007 was built on it. Note smoker as a room where smoking was allowed on a train, which is a use now entirely historical.
1nounsmokerSomebody who smokes tobacco.
“About one adult in eight is a smoker.”
smoker is a person who smokes.
Middle English
smoke
English
smoke
English, today
smoker
From smoke + -er. smoke comes from Middle English smoke. From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), German Schmauch (“smoke (from a gun barrel)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA