How to Use nonsmoker in a Sentence

nonsmoker

noun
  • Yet another who is a nonsmoker but eats fast food all the time should start with rethinking diet.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • At a pack a day (20 cigarettes), the risk is tripled compared to nonsmokers.
    — Ryan Blethen, baltimoresun.com, 3 Apr. 2019
  • For example, some nonsmokers get lung cancer, and some smokers do not get lung cancer.
    — Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Even nonsmokers can’t avoid the consequences.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • But the reasons for the increase in lung cancer cases among nonsmokers have yet to be pinpointed.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 18 Dec. 2023
  • On average, a smoker lives eight to 12 fewer years than a nonsmoker.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers.
    — Scott W. Atlas, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Women who smoke, for example, often reach menopause two years before nonsmokers.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But nonsmokers make up the majority of voters, and politicians listen to them.
    — Tribune News Service, OregonLive.com, 31 July 2017
  • 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
  • At the time, smoking was seen as annoying to nonsmokers but not necessarily hazardous to them.
    — David Zipper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • 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 cruel twist, Dana, a nonsmoker, would follow 17 months later from stage-4 lung cancer.
    — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But these lawmakers put propositions out there and there’ve always been more nonsmokers than smokers, so in a democracy smokers are screwed.
    — David Marchese, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Normal levels are under 2% for nonsmokers and under 5% for smokers.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Smokers are 15 to 30 times more likely than nonsmokers to develop lung cancer.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But those who vaped, the study found, had higher levels of unhealthy LDL cholesterol, on average, compared with nonsmokers.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The county emphasized that dangerous radon levels have been found in homes in all 50 states, and smokers and nonsmokers alike are at risk for lung cancer from the radioactive gas.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Healthy nonsmokers, diagnosed late, often by accident.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2026

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