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At home, Anderson had been an assertive teetotaller, a nonsmoker, and in the closet about his sexuality.
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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
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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
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“Nonsmoker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonsmoker. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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nonsmoker
noun
non·smok·er
-ˈsmō-kər 
: a person who does not smoke tobacco
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