"never-smoker" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: never-smokers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} never-smoker (plural never-smokers)
  1. A person who has never been a cigarette smoker or cigar smoker. Synonyms: neversmoker, never smoker [nonstandard] Coordinate_terms: quitter
    Sense id: en-never-smoker-en-noun-joQcdh4Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 78 22
  2. (strictly, operational definition for epidemiology) More precisely, someone who has smoked fewer than one hundred instances (e.g., cigarettes, cigars, pipe bowlfuls) in their lifetime.
    Sense id: en-never-smoker-en-noun-J0WkY4S6

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