MeSH Browser

MeSH Heading: Smoking
Tree Number(s): F01.145.805
Unique ID: D012907
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012907
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
Scope Note: Willful or deliberate act of inhaling and exhaling SMOKE from burning substances or agents held by hand.
Entry Term(s): Smoking Behaviors; Smoking Habit
See Also: Marijuana Smoking; Tobacco Smoke Pollution; Tobacco Use Disorder
Entry Combination: prevention & control:Smoking Prevention
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 2024/11/06
Revision Date: 2024/11/06

Entry Combination: prevention & control:Smoking Prevention
Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects (AE)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

metabolism (ME)

mortality (MO)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

psychology (PX)

therapy (TH)

trends (TD)

urine (UR)

Smoking MeSH Descriptor Data 2025