Examples of nonsmoker in a Sentence
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To date, studies of female nonsmokers in Asia have identified risk factors such as cooking oil fumes, secondhand smoke, air pollution and indoor heating with coal, but no research has focused on Asian American women, Gomez said.
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Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
Yet another who is a nonsmoker but eats fast food all the time should start with rethinking diet.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
The data suggest that the cytokine secretion in the innate immune response rapidly returns to the level of nonsmokers after a person quits smoking but that the effects on the adaptive response appear to endure for years or decades through a process called epigenetic memory.
—Alejandra Manjarrez, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2024
For example, when triggered, blood samples from smokers (current and former) released more signaling proteins called interleukins than the blood of nonsmokers—a warning sign that their white blood cells were kicking into overdrive.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
The researchers tested a small sample of 20 residents and compared the levels of several dioxins in their blood with samples from nonsmokers in a database maintained by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
But the reasons for the increase in lung cancer cases among nonsmokers have yet to be pinpointed.
—Korin Miller, Health, 18 Dec. 2023
Swanton wondered what might underlie the correlation between air pollution and lung cancer among nonsmokers.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
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
Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
Yet another who is a nonsmoker but eats fast food all the time should start with rethinking diet.
—Katia Hetter, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
The data suggest that the cytokine secretion in the innate immune response rapidly returns to the level of nonsmokers after a person quits smoking but that the effects on the adaptive response appear to endure for years or decades through a process called epigenetic memory.
—Alejandra Manjarrez, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2024
For example, when triggered, blood samples from smokers (current and former) released more signaling proteins called interleukins than the blood of nonsmokers—a warning sign that their white blood cells were kicking into overdrive.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
The researchers tested a small sample of 20 residents and compared the levels of several dioxins in their blood with samples from nonsmokers in a database maintained by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
But the reasons for the increase in lung cancer cases among nonsmokers have yet to be pinpointed.
—Korin Miller, Health, 18 Dec. 2023
Swanton wondered what might underlie the correlation between air pollution and lung cancer among nonsmokers.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
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
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nonsmoker
noun
non·smok·er
-ˈsmō-kər 
: a person who does not smoke tobacco
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