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no-smoking


adjective

  1. nonsmoking.

adj.1905; the sign wording itself is attested by 1817. Smoking is a vice to [sic] — and a national one, of such magnitude that railroad corporations throughout all their routes in the United States, have a special command in large letters, conspicuously placed at depots and inside of the cars — “No smoking allowed here.” [“The Sailor’s Magazine,” December 1840]

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