Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.
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Some find it easier to grasp the short-term effects of smoking, which include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness (smokers take twice as many days off sick as non-smokers), bad breath, bad skin and so on.
v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Wheezed p. pr. & vb. n. Wheezing. ] [ OE. whesen, AS. hwēsan (cf. Icel. hvæsa to hiss, Sw. hväsa, Dan. hvæse); akin to AS. hwōsta a cough, D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. hōsti, Lith. kosti to cough, Skr. kās. √43. Cf. Husky hoarse. ] To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. “Wheezing lungs.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Phon.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the “stage whisper.” It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone. [ 1913 Webster ]