Passive smoking

/pˈasɪv smˈəʊkɪŋ/

/pˈæsɪv smˈoʊkɪŋ/

[noun]

Passive smoking

[NOUN]

the act of inhaling smoke from another person's cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, especially involuntarily

Examples

1. According to statistics one of those 85 people will die behind the wheel, one will die of passive smoking.

2. And even the behavioral public health issues have now got their environmental emphasis and think of smoking and passive smoking and the way in which we've now got controls on smoking in public, smoking in restaurants, and even, I think, smoking in cars now, although I'm not sure that that gets enforced-- smoking in cars when you've got a child with you.