: a person who does not smoke tobacco : a person who is not a smoker
Radon poisoning is the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.—Jonathan Scholles
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At home, Anderson had been an assertive teetotaller, a nonsmoker, and in the closet about his sexuality.—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025 Listen · 17:26 min Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer four months earlier.—Rachel Bujalski, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 Smokers are 15 to 30 times more likely than nonsmokers to develop lung cancer.—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025 The life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonsmoker
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