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Etymology

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From non- +‎ inhaler.

Noun

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noninhaler (plural noninhalers)

  1. One who avoids inhaling the smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc.
    • 2007 August 19, Liesl Schillinger, “Light ’Em if You Got ’Em”, in New York Times[1]:
      In her slim and jaunty new graphic novella, “These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves,” the cartoonist Emily Flake riffs on her perverse, self-destructive habit for an audience of willful creative types like herself who know cigarettes are bad for them but can’t bear to join the ranks of safe, tedious noninhalers.
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