nonsmoker
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- noun
- /ˈnɒnˌsmoʊkər/
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- Only recently has the public begun to grasp that smoking also harms nonsmokers.
- smokers and nonsmokers
- nonsmoker claims
- Nonsmokers Rights
Examples
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Infants of smoking parents are hospitalized for respiratory infections more frequently than children of nonsmokers.
Academic text (1992) -
I prefer a nonsmoker.
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I thought you were a nonsmoker.
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Professor Gold: I like to smoke as much as anyone, but the nonsmokers have a legitimate complaint.
Fiction book (1999) -
If you're a nonsmoker, you'll know.
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The real reason is that nonsmokers dislike the smell of smoke.
Academic text (1997) -
Someone's either a smoker or a nonsmoker.
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A world where smokers and nonsmokers live together in perfect harmony.
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Much attention has recently been focused on the rapidly increasing incidence of primary lung cancer in nonsmokers.
Academic text (2007) -
As a lifelong nonsmoker, she found it difficult to understand why anyone would choose to start smoking.
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Etymology
Nonsmoker is made of non- meaning 'not' and smoker meaning 'someone who smokes'. So a nonsmoker is simply a person who is 'not' a smoker, and you can remember non- from words like nonstop to mean 'not'.