non-smokern.

1846 Illustr. London News 12 Sept. 174/1 Smokers and non-smokers should be apart; but why should smokers exclusively be indulged with the use of the best carriages on the line.

1860 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 2 190 Dividing the pupils..into..the smokers and the non-smokers, it is shown that the smokers have proved themselves in the various competitive examinations far inferior to the others.

1898 Baedeker's Spain & Portugal p. xv Every train is bound to have a first-class compartment..and another for non-smokers.

1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah ii. 84 They believe the tee-totallers and non-smokers live longer.

1973 K. Giles File on Death i. 10 No car, two suits a year, non-smoker, allows more than he should afford on drink.

2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 i. 34 A recording of this conversation..could be played every time anyone lights up in front of an evangelical non-smoker.

1942 K. Tozer Mumfie marches On vi. 58 She bumped her way along the corridor, trying to find a seat in a third-class carriage, non-smoker.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top v. 74 All the first-class compartments seemed to be full; finally I got a seat in a non-smoker.

1971 ‘L. Black’ Death has Green Fingers iii. 29 When the woman angrily lit a cigarette, he pointed out to her..that she was in a non-smoker.

2001 Independent (Nexis) 27 Aug. 2 The air conditioning in the smoking carriage rendered it cool, smoke free and preferable to the humid and stuffy non-airconditioned non-smoker.