What is "smoker's cough"

Usage examples of "smoker's cough".

I had the feeling that sarcasm came easily to her, an automatic reaction, like someone with a smoker's cough.

It was a hollow, bronchial sound that turned into a phlegmy smoker's cough.

And the best thing about it was that he wouldn't have to take it up with the deacons, or with the Ladies' Aid (an organization which apparently only attracted two types of women - fat slobs with boobs the size of barrels and skinny-assed, flat-chested sluts like Pamela Sargent, with her fake ivory cigarette holder and her raspy smoker's cough), or with the few well-to-do members of his congregation .

Then he started to cough, a lung-rumbling, old-man, five-in-the-morning smoker's cough.

The eyes continued to stare into Seward's until the Secretary of State affected a cigar-smoker's cough in order to pull out his handkerchief and escape that curiously equable yet entirely disconcerting gaze.

Then he coughed, an old smoker's cough from the depths of his lungs.

The chair's heels scraping on the floor, the rasp of Somervale's smoker's cough.