Another effect of the job was that I'd become a heavy smoker.

He used to be a heavy smoker but had given up many years ago.

He has become a heavy smoker to deal with the stress in his life.

South Africans are heavy smokers; between 28 and 34 percent light up.

Most of the students are not heavy smokers, the study found.

He told the court that his mother, a heavy smoker, had died of heart disease.

She had been a heavy smoker most of her adult life.

He was a heavy smoker for much of his adult life.

But if you asked heavy smokers whether they wanted their children to take up the habit, my guess is that most would say no.

He was a heavy smoker and died of a heart attack in 1987.