Smoking

When people say you smoke tobacco is that the same as smoking a cigarette?

yes

It all depends upon who said it , and what their intent was.
The terms smoking tobacco for years has meant smoking a regular cigarette.

However, in more recent years, the terms smoking tobacco quite often refers to smoking a joint, refer, Mary Jane, or plain and simple... marajuana. The words are substantiated because quite often smoking dope of any kind is referred to as smoking whacky tobacco ... or abbreviated, simply smoking tobacco.

So, in essence, it really could mean either. You simply have to consider the source of the statement to determine it's true meaning as it was intended.

:-)

I didn't know that, Rubber.
'Smoking tobacco' in my day was cigarette / pipe tobacco as opposed to chewing tobacco.

You didn't know that because that is so not true at all.

Yeah it is! :D

Bimjob...humm...seems I said that very same thing in my first paragraph, second sentence. :-) No argument here.

But you are absolutely right. Pipe smoking was one issue that I had left out of what I said previously. That certainly did constitute smoking tobacco back then in the definition of what the words indicated.

Being of the same age, I seriously doubt if where a person lived back then had much to do with the definition of how the words were used.

Good Point !