Even nonsmoker Lizzie Middleton, a 65-year-old survivor of lung and colon cancer, agrees.

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It is much better to be a nonsmoker who's a little bit fatter than a smoker who's a little bit thinner.

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Alejandro Zaffaroni, a devout nonsmoker and one of the world's most successful biotech entrepreneurs, has always been fascinated with the cigarette.

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Rates of severe obesity which is a condition popularly associated with the underclass is actually more common amongst the highest class of nonsmoker than the lowest class of smoker.

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In a pitch for nonsmoker discounts, a Daihyaku Mutual Life TV ad shows two alluring women at a bar, one a prim nonsmoker, the other belching out a cloud smoke.

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The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.

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For a nonchewer, nonsmoker, she looks upon the upstairs room allotted to her as a hellhole, smelly, the walls green from the spit of the chewers, the crannies stuffed with the plant's unchewed stems.

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"If you had a smoker compared to a nonsmoker and were able to do imaging study of the brain, the smoker would have billions more of the receptors in areas of the brain that have to do with pleasure and reward, " says Richard Hurt, an internist who heads the Mayo Clinic's Nicotine Dependence Center.

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