replacement smoker
n.— «[The tobacco industry] calls teenagers “replacement smokers.”…The kids want to get the message out that they aren’t going to be “replacement smokers.” They aren’t going to fill those shoes.» —“Fayetteville : 79 teens at protest decry use of tobacco” by John Krupa in Fayetteville Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) Mar. 12, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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