The phrase "acknowledged smoking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is recognizing or admitting to the act of smoking, often in discussions about health or personal habits.
Example: "During the health assessment, the patient acknowledged smoking for over a decade, which raised concerns about their lung health."
Alternatives: "admitted to smoking" or "recognized smoking".
White had acknowledged smoking marijuana.
He acknowledged smoking marijuana and using cocaine but said he stopped short of heroin.
Ms. Loughner said her son had denied using methamphetamine, but had acknowledged smoking marijuana and trying cocaine.
Then, the judges wrote, Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito, who acknowledged smoking hash that evening, "might have found it exciting" to help Mr. Guede sexually assault Ms. Kercher.
Mr. Heller noted that in last year's presidential election, Al Gore acknowledged smoking marijuana in college, while on the campaign trail, President Bush declined to answer questions about whether he had used cocaine and other drugs, saying, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible".
Legalization advocates see Obama's crackdown on some medical marijuana outlets as hypocritical, noting that in his memoir "Dreams from My Father" he acknowledged smoking pot as a youth.
Since the introduction of the smoking ban, it is broadly acknowledged that smoking is associated with break times rather than work time.
Dr. Puzant C. Torigian, the president of the Safer Smokes Corporation, a company in Hackensack, N.J., that makes the lettuce cigarettes, acknowledged that smoking anything carried risks.
No, said Mr. Kottak, who acknowledged that smoking is "risky behavior" at any age.
After they had left, Mr. Santiago, 36, acknowledged that smoking was a great equalizer, allowing him to mingle with strangers and briefly cross class boundaries without apology.
They just want to make a living, and as one journalist said of his tobacco farming father: "It's really hard to get someone to understand a truth when their entire livelihood depends on them not understanding it" - in that case, his father only acknowledged that smoking was bad for you after his wife died of lung cancer.
