smoke like a chimney
Inhale tobacco relentlessly
To smoke like a chimney is to smoke cigarettes or other tobacco heavily and frequently.
The image is of a factory chimney or old-fashioned hearth constantly producing smoke: My grandfather smoked like a chimney his whole life and lived to ninety.
- cigarettePaper-wrapped tobacco cylinder
- pack a dayDaily cigarette box habit
- inhaleDraw air in
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- habitualDone by routine
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