anti-tobacco

adjective

an·​ti-to·​bac·​co ˌan-tē-tə-ˈba-(ˌ)kō 

ˌan-tī-

variants or less commonly antitobacco

: opposed to, discouraging, or restricting the use of tobacco : anti-smoking

anti-tobacco legislation

anti-tobacco activists

Examples of anti-tobacco in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As smoking becomes cool again, will decades of anti-tobacco activism be undone? —Charles Trepany, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025

Politicians, parents and anti-tobacco groups want the FDA to do more to stamp out unauthorized vaping products that can appeal to teens, many of which are imported from China. —Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025

The rule was released online Wednesday, but that only begins a bureaucratic journey that anti-tobacco advocates worry an incoming Trump administration may derail. —Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2025

But that county has some of the toughest anti-tobacco measures in the country. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024

Just a few short years later, after being squeezed by government regulators and prohibition-minded anti-tobacco advocates, Juul’s valuation plummeted and its market share vaporized. —Michael Calore, WIRED, 27 June 2024

What the bill would do: AB 2513, from Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz), would borrow from the anti-tobacco playbook, requiring that gas stoves come with a health warning label, NPR’s Jeff Brady reports. —Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024

Experts believe that China’s anti-tobacco policies are among the least effective in the world. —Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011

Parent groups and anti-tobacco advocates immediately criticized the decision, which comes after years of pushing regulators to keep menthol and other flavors that can appeal to teens off the market. —Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Well, 21 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1826, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-tobacco

• archipelago
• duodecimo
• impresario
• acknow
• aglow
• ago
• airglow
• aloe
• altho
• although
• ammo
• backflow