Word family noun smoke smoker ≠ non-smoker smoking smokiness adjective smoked smoking ≠ non-smoking smoky smokeless verb smoke
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnon-smokerˌnon-ˈsmoker noun [countable] DFTSMOKE#someone who does not smoke an area reserved for non-smokersExamples from the Corpus
non-smoker• Non-smokers get cheaper health insurance.• Smokers have adapted and accepted the new rules, and non-smokers are extremely grateful.• Analyses comparing rates of non-smoking among study groups at each follow up were repeated for non-smokers at baseline rather than never smokers.• This part of the restaurant is reserved for non-smokers.• We also found that the presence of human papillomavirus in the cervix of non-smokers was significantly associated with a history of smoking.• Thirty-two percent of regular smokers reported frequent coughs compared with 22 percent of non-smokers.• The Reading attitude survey found 15 percent of smokers - and 67 percent of non-smokers - favoured a total ban.• A quarter of those interviewed thought the rights of smokers outweighed those of non-smokers in the staffroom.• No significant differences in the proportions of students remaining never smokers or non-smokers were found.• Cigarette smoke can smell pretty filthy, even to a smoker, while non-smokers often find it unbearable. 