Usually means: Inhaling smoke from nearby smokers.
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  1. passive smoking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. passive smoking: Merriam-Webster
  3. passive smoking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. passive smoking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. passive smoking: Collins English Dictionary
  6. passive smoking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. passive smoking: Wiktionary
  8. passive smoking: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. passive smoking: Dictionary.com
  10. Passive smoking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. passive smoking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. passive smoking: Legal dictionary
  2. passive smoking: Financial dictionary

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  1. passive smoking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. passive smoking: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Passive smoking, Smoking, passive: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. passive smoking: Medical dictionary
  4. Passive smoking, Smoking, passive: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (passive smoking)

▸ noun:  The involuntary inhalation of tobacco smoke by a non-smoker due to the proximity to a smoker.

Similar:
secondary smoking, passive immunity, pneumotoxicity, transmission, pneumostimulation, community spread, cross-resistance, pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmotoxicity, autoinoculation, more...

Phrases:
passive smoking kills, more...

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Similar:
secondary smoking, passive immunity, pneumotoxicity, transmission, pneumostimulation, community spread, cross-resistance, pulmonary tuberculosis, pulmotoxicity, autoinoculation, more...

Phrases:
passive smoking kills, more...



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