tobacco use

Puffing on cigarettes

The use of tobacco products—smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, chewing tobacco, or using snuff.

The phrase appears frequently in medical and public health contexts: The form asked about tobacco use, Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death.

It serves as a neutral clinical term that covers all methods of consumption without specifying one.

Opposites
abstinence vs. consumption

tobacco usenon-smoking

Prohibiting tobacco use

tobacco-free · smoking cessation · quitting smoking · kicking the habit · clean living

health impact

tobacco usehealthy lifestyle

Habits promoting physical wellbeing

lung health · clean living · exercise · cardiovascular fitness · self-care

substance delivery method

tobacco usevaping

Using electronic cigarettes

electronic cigarettes · nicotine patches · nicotine gum · nicotine replacement therapy

Family

use, tobacco

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG