I'm a fascist, because I object you putting poison and toxins into the air I breathe? My, my, my aren't we emotional.
Below is a list of the amount of selected chemicals, emitted in sidestream smoke, that a
restaurant employee, weighing approximately 65 kg (140 lbs), would directly inhale (not the total
exposure amount) over an 8-hour shift in a 300m2 area.
All chemicals marked in bold type are carcinogens (they cause cancer). All of the chemicals
below cause adverse health effects.
These calculations assume 10 smokers per 300m2 each smoking 2 cigarettes per hour,1 totaling
160 cigarettes over the 8-hour time period, and take into account standard ventilation rates.2
Further information about these calculations can be found at: www.smokefree.
ca/eng_issues/etschems2.htm
Table 1: Amount of Chemicals Inhaled by A Restaurant Employee
CHEMICAL
amount
(ug) CHEMICAL
amount
(ug) CHEMICAL
amount
(ng)
carbon monoxide 5606 1,3-butadiene 25 resorcinol 123
tar 3128 hydroquinone 24 benzo[a]pyrene 18
nicotine 678 methyl ethyl ketone 23 cadmium 9.7
acetaldehyde 207 catechol 22 1-aminonaphthalene 8.5
nitric oxide 190 propionaldehyde 17 chromium 7.1
isoprene 151 cresols 15 lead 6.0
acetone 121 hydrogen cyanide 14 2-aminonaphtalene 5.2
toluene 66 styrene 13 nickel 4.2
formaldehyde 54 butyraldehyde 12 3-aminobiphenyl 2.4
phenol 44 acrylonitrile 11 4-aminobiphenyl 1.4
acrolein 40 crotonaldehyde 10
benzene 36 quinoline 1.3
pyridine 33
1 Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights: Questions and Answers Regarding Eliminating Smoking in
Restaurants. February 5, 1992.
2 ASHRAE Standard (62-1981) office ventilation rate of 10L/second per person (assuming 7 persons per
100 meters squared floor space). According to American’s for Nonsmoker’s Rights: Protecting Nonsmokers
from Secondhand Smoke (fact sheet), these ventilation rates would need to be improved 270 times, at
enormous cost, in order to reduce the carcinogenic risk from tobacco smoke to federal (US) accepted levels.
This would “create a virtual windstorm indoors”.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/factsheets/pdf/8%20hour%20shift%20fact%20sheet.PDFAnd guess what - Do YOU know how many of those chemicals can be found in the breath of a nonsmoker?
I can tell you if you want me to.
I'm a fascist, because I object you putting poison and toxins into the air I breathe? No, you are a fascist if you believe that government can rightfully control private property. Fascism is a system that allows property to be privately owned but government controled.
And, it's not YOUR air. Your air is outdoors or on your property, not in my house or my business. That is MY air.
My, my, my aren't we emotional.
I'm very emotional about my rights. And those who would attempt to usurp them. (all at the point of a government gun)
All of that cut and paste nonsense is irrelevant because your first assumption is nonsense. Namely that people have a right to work a certain place or dictate the terms of their employment. They do not, they have feet, they can walk.
Anything coming from ANR (Americans for Non-smokers Rights) is automatically discounted by people who know and understand what that group is about.
Are you aware that a single jet plane emits as much carcinogens as 3 million cigarettes being smoked at one time?
As to the workplace comments by ANR - OSHA has never set any levels for acceptable workplace levels. Either ANR or ASH (another of the rabid anti-smoker groups) sued OSHA because OSHA would not issue a standard of no acceptable level of SHS exposure. OSHA couldn't because in order to do so they would have to eliminate numerous other things in workplaces, especially restaurants.
The lawsuit was eventually, very quietly withdrawn because OSHA was ready to set a standard of acceptable levels and it would have caused lots of problems for the antis. You see the standards they would have set would permit smoking. So by there being no standard set by OSHA the antis can say whatever they wish to say and no one will argue with them.