inhaler

plural inhalers

1. One who inhales.

   The exposure of the mouse lungs to smoke was, of course, relatively mild as compared with the exposure of the lungs of a human smoke-inhaler who gets true cancer.

   1963, Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports, volume 28, page 277

2. medicineA device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed and inhaled by the patient, often for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases.

   Gay peep shows -- adult magazines, movies, locker room, inhalers.

   1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18

   2 more examples

   Smokes incessantly Caporals, using a denicotinizing holder. At frequent intervals inhales from benzedrine inhaler.

   1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 20

   For years he'd made relatively light of it, referring to the little inhaler he had to use as his ‘puffer’.

   1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 96