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smoker’s face

smoker’s face
 n.— «The doctor could tell the patient had once been an attractive woman. But now, though only in her 50’s, her face was etched with wrinkles, her features gaunt-looking with prominent underlying bones and her skin shriveled and gray with purplish blotches. Diagnosis: smoker’s face.» —“Smoker’s face: another reason to quit the habit” by Jane E. Brody New York Times June 19, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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