How to Use nonsmoker in a Sentence

nonsmoker

noun
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  • At a pack a day (20 cigarettes), the risk is tripled compared to nonsmokers.
    — Ryan Blethen, baltimoresun.com, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Men who currently smoke have a risk of lung cancer about 23 times that of nonsmokers, while the risk for women is about 13 times higher.
    — Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2019
  • And tax increases have the backing of both smokers and nonsmokers, if the money is used to fund healthcare programs.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The industry points to a 2016 British study that says that vaping does not lead nonsmokers to become smokers.
    — Author: Kate Zernike, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • On average, a smoker lives eight to 12 fewer years than a nonsmoker.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Studies show that smokers are less productive (due to time away from their desk on smoke breaks), and have higher rates of illness than nonsmokers.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Doctors say that in the past decade, the number of lung cancer cases among nonsmokers has skyrocketed.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • And concerns remain about nonsmokers who take up the habit, as well as smokers who try vaping to quit their habit but end up using both forms of nicotine.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
  • But nonsmokers make up the majority of voters, and politicians listen to them.
    — Tribune News Service, OregonLive.com, 31 July 2017
  • For example, some nonsmokers get lung cancer, and some smokers do not get lung cancer.
    — Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers.
    — Scott W. Atlas, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • The doctor showed him a map of fine-particulate air pollution across the planet, and then a map charting the incidence of lung cancer in nonsmokers.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But those who vaped, the study found, had higher levels of unhealthy LDL cholesterol, on average, compared with nonsmokers.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2019
  • And a preprint study found that the gene that encodes the receptor ACE2, which the novel coronavirus uses to infect cells, is more active in smokers than nonsmokers.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Sure enough, employees who also smoked hung out with their managers more than the nonsmokers, and wound up having higher promotion rates, too.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In a 2008 study, for instance, doctors reported that nonsmokers were nearly three times more likely to get pregnant from I.V.F. than smokers.
    — Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Within a year, heart attack risk drops dramatically; within five years, most smokers cut their risk of stroke to nearly that of a nonsmoker.
    — Consumer Reports, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The lifelong nonsmoker starting feeling badly before Easter Sunday in April, hardly able to get out of bed.
    — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have urged people, especially nonsmokers and teenagers, not to vape at all.
    — Sheila Kaplan, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Without firm answers about the risks women face, doctors, patients and advocates are spreading the word about lung cancer among women and nonsmokers.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Upon returning stateside, he was hit with a stunning diagnosis for a nonsmoker who spent his life staying fit: Lung cancer had spread to his bones and brain.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 26 May 2017
  • One patio is reserved for nonsmokers and diners under 21.
    — Ed Murrieta, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • McKee agreed that wounds heal faster and recovery is quicker in nonsmokers and that services should be provided and promoted to patients to help them.
    — Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Maigue Bendorf said that as a previously healthy nonsmoker, her sister had to strongly push for further testing.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • When Paul Bagga was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer that soon spread to his brain, the nonsmoker was devastated and terrified.
    — Marie McCullough, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • For this study, the researchers divided people into smokers and nonsmokers, and recorded their decisions during the IGT.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2020
  • An aerosol monitor was placed where a nonsmoker might sit, recording PM2.5 levels before, during and after eight sessions.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Although smokers die, on average, a decade sooner than nonsmokers, those who quit at 50 are estimated to get back six years of life expectancy.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Men who were nonsmokers but who had been exposed to secondhand smoke also were more likely to be heavier, have higher LDL cholesterol and have higher fasting glucose readings.
    — Carrie Wells, baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2017
  • For example, smoking changes the environment in a smoker’s lung, so a mutated cell inside that lung would behave differently than the same cell in a healthy nonsmoker’s lung.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022

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