What's the difference between inveterate and smoker?

Inveterate


Definition:

  • (a.) Old; long-established.
  • (a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
  • (a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
  • (a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
  • (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is noteworthy that intracardiac evaluation is necessary when there is longstanding and inveterate tachyarrhythmia in otherwise healthy children.
  • (2) Graham, an inveterate jokester, slightly undermined the moment by joking shortly afterwards: “I feel like I’m on Oprah.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lindsey Graham wipes away tears while speaking at the Family Leadership Summit.
  • (3) Authors describe the operative method of Iselin for the treatment of inveterated extensor tendon injuries over the DIP joint and their results.
  • (4) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (5) The Man Who Can't Keep His Clothes On ( Thursday, 10pm, C4 ) catalogues his achievements while following this inveterate attention-seeker as he plans his testicular swan song.
  • (6) Cyril Smith , the late Liberal MP, accused since his death in 2010 of being an inveterate child abuser, was said to visit the property.
  • (7) It is the authors' opinion that, taking into account the late results following operative reduction of inveterate femoral dislocation, the operation of arthrodesis of the coxa is felt to be more rational in such cases.
  • (8) What the authors mean by locked dislocation of the shoulder is an inveterate posterior dislocation of the humeral head which remains locked within the glenoid cavity as a result of anatomopathological lesion.
  • (9) This action may prove of value in the treatment of ulcer patients who are inveterate smokers, alcohol users or who are compelled to consume non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain relief from rheumatic and allied diseases.
  • (10) This method has been used in the complex treatment of 12 patients with acute and inveterate injuries of the thoracic and the thoracolumbar departments of the spinal column and of the spine.
  • (11) Correction osteotomy of the bones of both forearms with excision of the radial head is recommended for inveterate cases.
  • (12) This technique, based on transganglionic regulation--a novel neurobiological principle discovered by Csillik and Knyihár-Csillik-, alleviated pain in both fresh and inveterated PHN cases.
  • (13) Personally, I’ll believe we’re getting somewhere when Channel 4 puts on Corporate-Benefits Street – with White Dee replaced by Amazon founder and inveterate tax-dodger Jeff Bezos.
  • (14) The authors report 9 cases of acetabular fracture, 6 recent complex and 3 inveterate, treated surgically through the lateral incision of Letournel.
  • (15) A tall, well-built man with an imposing physical presence, Sherrin was an inveterate first-nighter, always enjoying a couple of stiff Martinis before the show and a good supper afterwards.
  • (16) A chronic slip of the upper femoral epiphysis (also called by the authors inveterate epiphysiolysis) is a rare, but not an extremely rare, occurrence.
  • (17) The number of daily cigarettes consumed by inveterate smokers is considerably and lastingly reduced, and 27 p. cent of the patients quit smoking.
  • (18) Nevertheless, the high incidence of often serious complications makes the combined anterior-posterior approach preferable for severe inveterate fractures of the acetabulum.
  • (19) The authors present an analysis of the results of operative treatment for inveterate femoral dislocations in 13 patients, in 6 of them open reduction of the dislocation was performed, in 6--arthrodesis of the coxa, in 1--subtrochanteric osteotomy.
  • (20) In a 25-year-old female patient with right-sided adnex tumour and inveterate infection on the urinary tract a benign cystic teratoma (dermoid cyst) perforated into the lumen of the urinary bladder could diagnosed cystoscopically.

Smoker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dries or preserves by smoke.
  • (n.) One who smokes tobacco or the like.
  • (n.) A smoking car or compartment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prevalence was also higher in medium and heavy smokers.
  • (2) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
  • (3) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
  • (4) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
  • (5) In contrast to many other studies, cigarette smokers were at elevated risk (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.9-3.0).
  • (6) Alveolar deposition, however, assessed in terms of particle retention at 24 hours, was significantly (p less than 0.01) less in the smokers.
  • (7) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
  • (8) Twelve young male smokers each participated in four conditions on 4 separate days: stress + nicotine, stress + placebo (stress alone), rest + nicotine (nicotine alone), and rest + placebo.
  • (9) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
  • (10) Smokers who have had changes of above said subsets of lymphocytes in the lungs may develop lung cancer.
  • (11) Serum estradiol and estrone levels during oral hormone administration were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers, whereas no differences related to smoking habits were observed during percutaneous hormone administration.
  • (12) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
  • (13) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
  • (14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
  • (15) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
  • (16) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
  • (17) The effect of nicotine on the nervous system during rapid smoking of two calibrated cigarettes was measured in twenty subjects: light, medium, heavy and non-smokers, across the changes of a number of electrophysiological variables and in different situations.
  • (18) While millions have stopped smoking in the past two decades, about 55 million people continue to smoke in the U.S. Of these smokers 85% would like to quit, and a majority have tried to do so at least once.
  • (19) We investigated the effect of vitamin E (dl-alpha-tocopherol) on lipid peroxidation in 13 healthy smokers.
  • (20) These reversible changes in adrenergic regulation after smoking cessation may be associated with the relatively rapid reduction in cardiovascular disease risk among ex-smokers.