: 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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Recent Examples on the WebFor 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 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 On average, a smoker lives eight to 12 fewer years than a nonsmoker. Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2022 Kurvers, a nonsmoker, was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer, early in 2019. Jana Hollingsworth And Chris Miller, Star Tribune, 21 June 2021 American Family Insurance quotes a price of almost $40 per month for just $10,000 in coverage on a 60-year-old nonsmoker. Holly Johnson, CNN Underscored, 23 Feb. 2021 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 Imagine being young and healthy, a nonsmoker with no preexisting health conditions, and then waking up one morning feeling like you were being suffocated by an unseen force. Margot Gage Witvliet, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2020 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 See More