NYC Cops Arrest Man in Smoking Ban Death (of Nightclub Bouncer Who Enforced Smoking Ban)

he doesn't have the right to pollute the air you breathe.

And that carbon monoxide your car spews?

Oh, that's right, since it's YOUR choice, it's okay!

Bill, you are generalizing from one punk to a bunch of decent citzens. I smoke, but only where it is allowed, and even then if it even appears that it may bother someone, I go elsewere.

It's called 'good manners'.

I'm still wondering about the first three suspects...

Your right and that’s one (Among many) reasons why all these smoking bans are totally ridiculous.

Both gasoline exhaust and cigarettes smoke are the end release of the burning of organic materials they are pretty much the same. Actually gasoline is much worse because it contains all kinds of nasty stuff (like MTBE) where as Tobacco like most plants is mostly cellulose. The big difference of course is the weight, Cigarettes are relatively light compared to gasoline and Gasoline in a car is burned at a much greater rate that a smoker burns a cigarette.

Simple Algebra

Weight of One Gallon of Water = 8.37lb
In Grams 8.37/0.0022 = 3797 Grams

Specific Gravity of Gasoline = 0.7420 (https://constmail.gov.state.md.us/comar/03/03.03.06.03.htm)

Weight of one Gallon of Gasoline

3797 * 0.7490 = 2817 grams

Weight of cigarette (Not including the filter) =0.8 grams (Maximum)

Number of cigarettes needed to equal the weight of one gallon of gasoline.

2817 / 0.8 = 3521

So it would take 3521 cigarettes burned to equal just 1 gallon of gas burned.

To put that number in perspective if your car gets 20mph and you are traveling a 60 mph you are releasing about 3 cigarettes worth of pollution every second!!!! And that number is much higher when you are stuck in traffic at a toll booth or when you start and stop when parking your car or just when idling when your MPG is much lower.

And of course that’s a very, very low number because for one it is assuming the people smoking don’t inhale anything and instead the entire cigarette when burned was released as second hand smoke. I don’t have the link but I have heard that 30% of a cigarette is released as SHS while 70% is absorbed into the body. If that’s true than it would mean that it would take 11737 cigarettes to equal 1 gallon of gas.

More number Crunching - The average American uses 16 Gallons of gas per week which of course means every American including the anti-smoking Nazis are releasing depending if you use (3521 or 11737 cigs/Gallon of gas) anywhere from 56,336 to 187,792 cigarettes worth of pollution per week just by driving, It would take a pack a day smoker anywhere from 7 to 26 years to equal the pollution released in one week by the average driver.

I agree. Tobacco should be schedule 1. Then we won't have any more problems with it.

I think the left should start trying to ban knives.

My car isn't idling in a restaraunt or office building.