There have also been mini-concerts in the cafeteria the promote nonsmoking week. United Airlines created a nonsmoking section in 1971, the first airline to do so. In 1990, Air Canada adopted a nonsmoking policy on all its routes. In the rough-and-tumble 19th-century baseball era, White was a nonsmoking, Bible-toting, church-going deacon. White was a nonsmoking, Bible-toting, church-going deacon.