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has been puffing
  • present perfect progressive of puff (3rd person singular).

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For two months, a Federal Trade Commission smoking machine has been puffing manfully on 59 different types and sizes of cigarettes representing 23 different brand names.

From Time Magazine Archive

Germany has been puffing for threescore years; France smokes to a man.

From The Fitz-Boodle Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Germany has been puffing for three score years; France smokes to a man.

From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer