Smoking device including a flowmeter

A smoking device, comprising:

• a tubular holder, which has a bottom, for surrounding a cigarette except for a mouth end thereof;
• an outside-air drawing-in passage, which is connected to the bottom of the holder, for drawing outside air to a fore-end of the cigarette fitted in the holder;
• a flowmeter arranged in the outside-air drawing-in passage for detecting a flow of the outside-air drawn into the holder, said flowmeter comprising a thermal flow sensor including a pair of temperature measuring parts arranged in a direction of the flow of outside air with a space between, and means for heating outside air flowing across the temperature measuring parts;
• and
• a heater which is incorporated in the holder, and which is driven to heat the cigarette fitted in the holder when the flow of outside air drawn into the holder is detected by the flowmeter.