pack-year

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pack-year

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Compound of pack + year.

noun pack-years · PY · py · pack year

A unit of measure for estimating the number of cigarettes a person has previously smoked, equivalent to average number of packs (each containing 20 cigarettes) smoked per day multiplied by the number of years the person has smoked.

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noun unit for measurement

Português	ano-maço
Français	paquet-année
Deutsch	Packungsjahr
Română	pachet-an

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"pack-year." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pack-year. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pack-year. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pack-year

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"pack-year." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pack-year.

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@misc{pack_year_2026,
  title = {pack-year},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pack-year},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}