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January 2008

Webpage by Steve Hartwell
stevehartwell@ventilatedsmokingrooms.ca

My name is Steve Hartwell.
I am a Canadian Construction Association Certified Mechanical Estimator
In the 1970s I did Mechanical Contracting.
In the 1980s and early '90s I did computerized Mechanical Estimating on Projects up to $ 1.5 million.
Ventilation and Filtration Works for Second Hand Tobacco Smoke

Anti-smoking bans are sweeping the entire planet these days.

If the claims about Second Hand Tobacco Smoke were true,
anti-smoking bans would not be necessary today

because the entire human race would have gone extinct about 200,000 years ago
when we learned how to start a campfire in a cave

I am of the Baby Boomer Generation

The Baby Boomer Generation grew up literally in a veritable cloud of SHS,
most of us smoked tobacco ( many of us other things too ) as teens and adults,
and millions still do,
and we are still the largest population segment, alive and well today,
despite that fact now being politically incorrect to speak of nor admit to

Based on how far anti-smoking has progressed ( degenerated ) in just the past 2 years,
it would not surprise me at all if our generation were to one day soon
be forced to speak of it, to confess our alleged sin, our alleged criminal behaviour

and be wrongly punished for it

But for now, it is still our constitutional right for us to protest
the Junk Science of Anti-Smoking

There are many researchers, scientists, even doctors and politicians,
as well as millions of tax paying voters,
who do NOT believe the anti-smoking claims about Second Hand Tobacco Smoke

Second Hand Tobacco Smoke is NOT a Statistically Significant Health Risk to Others

Claims by anti-smokers about Second Hand Tobacco Smoke amount to nothing more than Junk Science.

There are links at the bottom of this webpage you can see and learn about for yourself.

The Global News Industry is not including that information with it's daily reporting about smoking bans,
and is therefore in violation of it's Fiduciary Duty to the Public to report all sides of the Second Hand Tobacco Smoke issue

Below is more information you should know that the global news industry is also refusing to report about

Filtration and Ventilation of Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Works

As stated above, many professionals and millions of people
do Not believe the anti-smoking claims about Second Hand Tobacco Smoke.

We believe Second Hand Tobacco Smoke is NOT a Statistically Significant Health Risk to others
and the links provided support that belief.

"The Poison is in the Dose"

All of the alleged Respiratory Toxins in Second Hand Tobacco Smoke
also get generated by many other sources, in far larger quantities, such as,
home furnaces, fireplaces, food cooking, BBQs,
motor vehicles, airplanes, office buildings, underground mines, and industrial plants,
just to name a few.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and similar regulatory institutions of other countries
have established acceptable potentially hazardous maximum exposure levels
for all those constituent components from all the myriad of sources,
except tobacco smoke.

The amounts of those components present in tobacco smoke is but a tiny fraction of those other-sources accepted levels.

In 1999
Littlewood & Fennel,
an independent public & health policy research institute in Austin, Texas,
released a study called Toxic Toxicology,
which indisputably proves that based on the other-sources accepted maximum exposure levels,
the constituent components in tobacco smoke can not possibly be considered statistically significant to worry about.

In 2000
the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee released another study proving that even without Ventilation systems, bars and restaurants employees are exposed to far less contaminants from Environmental Tobacco Smoke
than the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
had established for the workplace as potentially hazardous levels from other sources.

restaurant cooking in a non-smoking venue generates as much or more of the same particulates
found in venues that allow tobacco smoking

the average gas or oil house exhales 7.5 to 15 TONNES of Second Hand Smoke per year

the average car doing the average 21,000 km per year burns about 2,000 litres of gas,
exhaling 6-10 TONNES of Second Hand Smoke per year, or 2.2 Million milligrams per day

it is guesstimated that car pollution kills at least 30,000 people in the u.s. every year.
interestingly very close to what is falsely claimed by anti-smokers about second hand tobacco smoke

also consider the 3.7 million tonnes of respiratory toxins from industry on canada alone
and over 40 million tonnes on the u.s. from industry

also consider the 42,000 tonnes from airplanes on canadian cities per year
and over 500,000 tonnes on u.s. cities per year

compare to

the average smoker exhaling 500 milligrams or less per day
which even in a busy smoke filled bar amounts to about
2.1 to 16.9 micrograms (µg)/m3 (cubic meter)

and is far FAR below OSHA published
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) permissible exposure limit (pel)
for airborne nicotine of
500 micrograms (µg)/m3

Littlewood & Fennell
Independent public and health policy research group
Austin, Texas
1999

NUMBER OF CIGARETTES NEEDED TO
REACH DANGEROUS LEVELS OF POLLUTION
IN AN ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT
Estimated number of cigarettes required to reach TLV levels from side stream
smoke emission of selected chemicals in a sealed and unventilated 100 m3
enclosure (Gori and Mantel, 1991)
(Please note: 100 m3 are equivalent to a room 22' x 21' x 8' ceiling, or 3,696 cubic feet)

Methyl chloride        1,170
Hydroquinone           1,250
Cadmium                   1,430
Acetaldehyde             1,430
Acetic Acid                1,660
Nitrogen oxides           1,780
Phormic Acid              1,790
Pyridine                       4,100
Phenol                         7,600
Methylamine               13,000
Benzene                      13,300
Catecol                       16,500
Nickel                         40,000
Diethylamide               50,000
Hydrazine                 145,000
Acetone                   178,000
Benzo(a)pyrene         222,000
2-Toluidine               300,000
Polonium                  750,000
Toluene                 1,000,000

TLV = Threshold Limit Value. It is the threshold used in the USA,
a country with most restrictive standards for toxic exposure.
[*] Side Stream Smoke is the smoke from the cigarette released right downstream of the hot tip.
That type of smoke is the worst, since the chemical catalysis processes that occur a
few instants after the smoke leaves the burning tip still have to blend with the surrounding air
(in short, before becoming real passive smoke). But it is very unlikely that non-smokers
stand motionless 4 inches directly above the tip of a cigarette, as the sensor was positioned
for these measurements. Thus even the number of cigarettes estimated above
to reach the safety limits is understated.
[**] EPA data1990a, Table C-2, pages C-19, 20
[***] Based on the lower exposure limit for tar volatile compounds
[****] EPA 1990b

If the scenario described in the table above were undertaken in real life,
the smokers in the room would run out of oxygen long before
reaching the limit even for methyl chloride.

with fewer and fewer places left to exhale even those miniscule amounts

we are still very welcome to pay criminal level taxes to inhale
we just are not allowed to exhale anymore

and all based on anti-smoking falsified junk science claims

Many studies have the same conclusion-ary results.

In other words, business owners, employees, patrons, neighbours,
and family members, including children,
are Not at Risk from Environmental Tobacco Smoke
even without more advanced filtration/ventilation systems.

The issue is NOT one of falsely alleged Health Risks from Second Hand Tobacco Smoke,
rather it is one of

VISIBLE Tobacco Smoke and Odor

Contrary to anti-smoking claims
Ventilating and Filtering for the Visibility and Odor of Tobacco Smoke
does NOT require Tornado Speed Air Flows

VISIBLE Tobacco Smoke and Odor
are easily handled by modern Filtration/Ventilation Systems
at Normal Air Flow Speeds

Below are links to several quite affordable solutions to the issue of visible smoke and smell.

Airpura T600
specifically engineered for tobacco smoke

Lennox Indoor Air Quality Systems

Oreck XL Professional Air Purifiers

EpurAir

Nanotech Car Air Filters

and there are products made by other companies you can choose from
for non-residential situations, such as

IQAir

LIFA Air

Speaking of Cars
There is a huge push all over the world currently to ban smoking in Cars when kids are present

I can actually agree with Not smoking in a Car with kids present
based on the right of Freedom of Choice for all
butt
Not based on the false Junk Science claims by Anti-smokers

The Junk Science claims state the respiratory toxins levels inside the Car being 23 times higher than inside a house.

Well of Course the toxins inside a Car are 23 times higher than inside a house
butt
Second Hand Tobacco Smoke is Not the culprit

As stated above
the average smoker exhales less than 500 mg per day of SHS,
say 21-75mg during a 95 minute Car trip

the average Car exhales at least 2.2 MILLION mg Per Day of SHS
and a huge amount of that finds it's way INSIDE the Car

The 23 times higher level toxins are being created by the CAR
which is well documented and was published for the public in the following book
Indoor Air Quality

Based on the example above of a sealed room full of smokers, 1,170 to 1,000,000
and guestimating the cubic area of the average car to be about 10 % of that
It would require 117 to 100,000 smokers smoking in the car for 1 hour
with all the windows tightly sealed
to reach the EPA established potential Risk Levels of Respiratory Toxins

I would PAY to see somebody stuff that many smokers in one car - with KIDS !

It is KIDS who need banning from Cars
not tobacco smokers
or better yet, ban Cars altogether
because it is the millions of Cars that are poisoning the drivers, passengers, and people on city streets

Butt
since banning cars will never happen
products such as the Nanotech Car Air Filters
are a viable alternative to banning smoking in Cars with kids present
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Most tobacco smokers respect the right of others to choose - to be - or not to be - exposed to our smoke

We are simply asking for a few places left where we tobacco smokers are still allowed

to be
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Base Smoking Bans on
Real Science and Freedom of Choice for Everybody
Not Junk Science and No Freedoms for Anybody

Steve Hartwell
stevehartwell@ventilatedsmokingrooms.ca
www.ventilatedsmokingrooms.ca
www.reducedriskcigarettes.ca
www.tobaccosmokersofcanada.ca
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http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2004/04/american-cancer-society-test-results.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2006/02/air-quality-testing-and-secondhand.html