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English
Etymology
Blend of smoking + texting
Noun
smexting (uncountable)
- (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.