smexting

English

Etymology

Blend of smoking +‎ texting

Noun

smexting (uncountable)

1. (chiefly UK) Sending SMS messages while smoking in the designated outdoor areas.
   • 2007 August 5, “Smokers Turn To Their Phones As They’re Sent Outside”, in Orange Mobile:

     In the two weeks following the smoking ban, texting across Orange’s network of 17 million mobile phone users shot up by 7.5 million texts, leading Orange to dub the trend ‘smexting’.

   • 2007 August 6, Bobbie Johnson, “What the hell is smexting?,””, in The Guardian:

     Hence the arrival of a new “trend” for “smexting”: an increased number of text messages being sent because smokers (now forced to hang outside since the adoption of a smoking ban in England on July 1) are spending their time tapping away on their mobile phones.

   • 2007 August 12, Bianca Bartz, “The SMS Phenomenon Caused By Smoking Bans”, in TrendHunter:

     Ever since the public smoking ban was set in the UK, a record number of text messages have been sent, a phenomenon the Daily Mail has dubbed, "smexting".

   • 2007 October 24, Jonathon Keats, “Jargon Watch: Bacn, Google Government, Smexting”, in Wired News:

     The British mobile carrier Orange reported a surge in texting when the ban went into effect, but the company claims that people were smexting friends who might help them to quit.

   • 2014, Nora Olsen, Maxine Wore Black, →ISBN:

     "Rule number four," I said, "no texting." “No smexting?” Maxine asked. “No texting, period. That's where we get into trouble.”

   • 2016 October 28, Misha Sesar, “We Asked Seniors What They Really Think About Millennials and Trump”, in Vice:

     I feel bad for this young age, though. You're living in a world now that's tough. Cellphones, this phone, that phone, texting, smexting—every freakin' thing there is.