This paper describes an approach to global smoothing problems for non-dispersive equations based on ideas of comparison principle and canonical transformation established in authors' previous paper (Ruzhansky and Sugimoto, Proc Lond Math Soc, 105:393-423, 2012), where dispersive equations were treated. For operators a(D x ) of order m satisfying the dispersiveness condition ∇a(ξ ) = 0 for ξ = 0, the global smoothing estimateis well-known, while it is also known to fail for non-dispersive operators. For the case when the dispersiveness breaks, we suggest the estimate in the form