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Collocations for smoke - noun

ADJECTIVE

dense, heavy, thick
black, blue, grey/gray, white, etc.
billowing
acrid, choking
stale
the smell of stale cigarette smoke on your clothes
wood
cigar, cigarette, pipe, tobacco
second-hand
Hundreds of people die each year as a result of exposure to second-hand smoke (= smoke from other people's cigarettes, cigars, etc.).

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… OF SMOKE

cloud, column, haze, pall, plume, puff, spiral, wisp
We sat drinking in a haze of cigarette smoke.
The witch disappeared in a puff of smoke.

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VERB + smoke

belch, belch out, blow, emit
The car ahead was belching out black smoke.
Don't blow smoke in my face!
exhale, inhale
be wreathed in
She sat there wreathed in cigarette smoke.

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smoke + VERB

belch, billow, come, curl, drift, pour, rise
Blue smoke curled up from her cigarette.
Smoke rose into the sky.
fill sth
hang
A pall of yellow smoke hung over the quarry.
clear
When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage.

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smoke + NOUN

plume, ring
I taught myself to blow smoke rings.
signal
bomb, grenade
alarm, detector
inhalation
machine
The club had a smoke machine and laser show.
break (informal, esp. AmE)
I was taking a smoke break outside.

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PHRASES

go up in smoke
The barn went up in smoke.
full of smoke
thick with smoke
The bar was thick with stale tobacco smoke.

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Collocations for smoke - verb

1. cigarette, pipe, etc.

ADVERB

heavily
He has always smoked heavily.
openly
You see kids openly smoking in the streets.

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PHRASES

smoke like a chimney (= smoke a lot)
He smokes like a chimney.

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2. meat/fish/cheese

ADVERB

heavily
lightly
The ham is cured, then lightly smoked.

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Smoke is used with these nouns as the subject:
fire

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Smoke is used with these nouns as the object:
cannabis, cigar, cigarette, cocaine, dope, heroin, marijuana, opium, pipe, tobacco

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