pack-year

English

Alternative forms
  • pack year

Noun

pack-year (plural pack-years)

  1. A unit for measuring the number of cigarettes a person has smoked previously; it is calculated by multiplying the average number of packs of cigarettes the person smokes per day by the number of years the person has smoked.
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