Where does “間接喫煙” come from?

間接喫煙 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 間接 — indirectness.

間接喫煙 (Japanese): second-hand smoke

Definitions

  1. second-hand smoke

Ancestry of “間接喫煙”, step by step

間接喫煙 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 間接

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese間接indirectness

via Japanese 喫煙

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese喫煙smoking
Every word from Japanese 間接
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