Psychiatry and Psychology

Smoking

Willful or deliberate act of inhaling and exhaling SMOKE from burning substances or agents held by hand.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Willful or deliberate act of inhaling and exhaling SMOKE from burning substances or agents held by hand.

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Synonyms

8 entry terms
  • Smoking Behaviors
  • Smoking Habit
  • Behavior, Smoking
  • Behaviors, Smoking
  • Habit, Smoking
  • Habits, Smoking
  • Smoking Behavior
  • Smoking Habits

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Aspects Covered

19 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings adverse effects, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, drug therapy, economics, epidemiology, ethnology, genetics, history, immunology, legislation & jurisprudence, metabolism, mortality, pathology, physiopathology, psychology, therapy, trends, urine.

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Indexing Annotation

note specific types of smoking are available; smokers' patches, smokers' tongue = LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; cancer caused by smoking = neoplasm term with /etiol (not /chem ind) + SMOKING /adv eff (not TOBACCO USE DISORDER); behavioral and psychological aspects of smoking = SMOKING /psychol

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Tree Number

  1. F01.145.805w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Smoking. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012907. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012907
  2. Smoking. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking
  3. Smoking. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q662860