non-smoking

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having restrictions on smoking.

   We want a table in the non-smoking section.

2. 2
   adj

   Using no tobacco products.

   We have a room for a non-smoking tenant.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of abstaining from smoking; a policy of doing so.

   Yes, your Honor: non-smoking has been our policy in all of our hotel rooms for at least twenty years, and Mr Jones clearly knew that.

Etymology

From non- + smoking. The noun is back-formed from the adjective.