I'm a social smoker but I can go for months at a time without even thinking about it.

Occasional or social smokers exist – but they are rare.

If smoking has become an antisocial behavior, how then could a social smoker exist?

Not all social smokers are chippers, but there is certainly some overlap between the groups.

We were social smokers, but we both felt it .

Now I'm what you call a social smoker.

Even those who considered themselves social smokers, having between one and nine cigarettes a day, had double the death rate of non-smokers.

If you're a social smoker, can you socialise in non-smoky places?

Hynes isn’t particularly hopeful since she and other social smokers don’t see their habit as being dangerous.

The biggest challenge may be in getting social smokers to admit that they do, in fact, smoke.

Social smokers are most likely to experience temptations.

The study aims to turn tobacco company research on its head, using industry data to help find ways to help social smokers quit.

I am a social smoker (trying to quit) and social drinker.

Another popular theory is that social smokers, unlike social drinkers, don't really exist.

Even social smokers are out of excuses.

Social smokers, the thinking goes, are low-level addicts either in denial or on the brink of addiction.

Today's smoking culture includes a subpopulation of smokers called "social smokers".

But can Safin, the social smoker on the club scene, sustain the intrigue he has whipped up?

The ads mocked people who say they are social smokers, with jokes about how the same claims would sound for behaviour such as farting.

Of the 20 participants only two were light social smokers and they agreed to abstain from smoking before and during testing sessions.

Lastly, social smokers don't perceive themselves at risk to tobacco related illnesses, nor believe they will ever become nicotine dependent.

What exactly is a "social smoker"?

"In my study I haven't come across anyone who does not know smoking is bad for them, even, 'social smokers' who only smoke once a week.

Such occasional users of tobacco are sometimes thought of as social smokers which is similar in meaning to social drinkers.

By definition, social smokers wouldn't dream of lighting up outside their office buildings at lunchtime, but they puff away with ease at happy hour.