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This is a non-smoking area. Can you put out your cigarette, please? vs This is a non-smoking area. Can you put off your cigarette, please?

The correct phrase is "this is a non-smoking area. can you put out your cigarette, please?". The term "put out" is commonly used to refer to extinguishing a cigarette or a fire. On the other hand, "put off" is not the correct term to use in this context.

Last updated: March 24, 2024 • 812 views

This is a non-smoking area. Can you put out your cigarette, please?

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to ask someone to extinguish their cigarette in a non-smoking area.
  • Although this is a non-smoking area, sir.
  • In some pubs and restaurants smoking areas are not physically separated from the rest of the premises, but fitted only with air extraction equipment, which is designed to prevent smoke from entering non-smoking areas.
  • We have had a splendid building constructed here, the Parliament building, with smoking and non-smoking areas clearly demarcated.
  • In addition, in recent years, restaurants and bars were required by law to set up smoking and non-smoking areas on their premises.
  • I think this is a non smoking room.
  • We remind you that this is a non-smoking flight.
  • I'm afraid this is a non-smoking facility.
  • This is a non-smoking house, young lady.
  • Sir, this is a non-smoking section.
  • Just a reminder, this is a non-smoking facility.
  • Global dynamics is a non-smoking facility.
  • Global dynamics is a non-smoking facility.
  • He lit up a cigarette in a non-smoking area that he called the "Porter Smoking Lounge"?
  • Global dynamics is a non-smoking facility.
  • The physical separation of smoking and non-smoking areas calls for substantial investments which are hardly realistic in the current economic and financial climate.
  • The proposal in the resolution dealing with non-smoking areas envisaged a considerable change - the imposition of a smoking ban in pan-European public institutions and public spaces.
  • I am aware, as others must be, that there are now no areas in this House at all - even those that are declared non-smoking areas - which are free of smoking.
  • Are findings available concerning the degree to which persons in non-smoking areas protected by means of air extraction equipment are affected by smoke?
  • When I say that Europe must introduce a ban, and therefore guarantee this non-smoking area for all workers, as an overwhelming majority of citizens are asking us to, that obviously does not mean that we are launching a crusade against smokers.
  • The Commission is actively campaigning for a non-smoking Europe but cannot impose anything on the governments, which are sovereign in this area, and have very diverse views on smoking bans.

This is a non-smoking area. Can you put off your cigarette, please?

This phrase is not correct in English. The term "put off" is not used to refer to extinguishing a cigarette.

  • Although this is a non-smoking area, sir.
  • In some pubs and restaurants smoking areas are not physically separated from the rest of the premises, but fitted only with air extraction equipment, which is designed to prevent smoke from entering non-smoking areas.
  • We have had a splendid building constructed here, the Parliament building, with smoking and non-smoking areas clearly demarcated.
  • In addition, in recent years, restaurants and bars were required by law to set up smoking and non-smoking areas on their premises.
  • I think this is a non smoking room.
  • We remind you that this is a non-smoking flight.
  • I'm afraid this is a non-smoking facility.
  • This is a non-smoking house, young lady.
  • Sir, this is a non-smoking section.
  • Just a reminder, this is a non-smoking facility.
  • Global dynamics is a non-smoking facility.
  • Global dynamics is a non-smoking facility.
  • He lit up a cigarette in a non-smoking area that he called the "Porter Smoking Lounge"?
  • Global dynamics is a non-smoking facility.
  • The physical separation of smoking and non-smoking areas calls for substantial investments which are hardly realistic in the current economic and financial climate.
  • The proposal in the resolution dealing with non-smoking areas envisaged a considerable change - the imposition of a smoking ban in pan-European public institutions and public spaces.
  • I am aware, as others must be, that there are now no areas in this House at all - even those that are declared non-smoking areas - which are free of smoking.
  • Are findings available concerning the degree to which persons in non-smoking areas protected by means of air extraction equipment are affected by smoke?
  • When I say that Europe must introduce a ban, and therefore guarantee this non-smoking area for all workers, as an overwhelming majority of citizens are asking us to, that obviously does not mean that we are launching a crusade against smokers.
  • The Commission is actively campaigning for a non-smoking Europe but cannot impose anything on the governments, which are sovereign in this area, and have very diverse views on smoking bans.

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