smoker's cough

smoker's cough (plural smoker's coughs)

1. A persistent cough resulting from habitual smoking.
   • 2005, Bob Knopes, Any Damn Fool Can Be a Farmer: Growing Up on a Wisconsin Farm, Badger Books Inc., →ISBN, page 147:

     At home he was never without a cigarette, and, over the years, he developed a smoker’s cough and labored breathing.