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Smoking a family out can be bad for health (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

smog

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'bad for health' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'smoking a family out' is the wordplay.
'a family' becomes 'kin' (synonyms).
'out' suggests deleting specific letters.
'smoking' with 'kin' removed is 'SMOG'.

'can be' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for smog that I've seen before include "Fog polluted by smoke" , "Fog and smoke mix" , "Pollution fog" , "Bad visibility caused by emissions from chimneys" , "Industrially polluted air" .)

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