gop guy, Repace is a certifiable lunatic. I know, I know, he bills himself as the "world's leading expert on secondhand smoke," and he used to work for the EPA, but that's only part of the Repace story.
When he worked for the EPA, even though the entire agency was smokefree, he claimed there were "toxins" in the air that made him sick. He demanded, and got, permission to work at home. On occasion, though, he was required to come into EPA headquarters for meetings, etc., and he wore a GAS MASK. He also sued EPA for those imaginary toxins causing his illnesses--which it turns out were all in his head. He lost.
This is the guy who says with a straight face that it would take winds of 300 mph to clear smoke from a room. At one meeting I attended, he upped that figure to 700 mph!! Just saw a special on Hurricane Andrew, one of the 3 worst hurricanes ever experienced here in the US, and the strongest gusts recorded were right at 200 mph. Repace also believes molecules of tobacco smoke hang around and jump out and attack those who enter the room where people have smoked in the past month or even longer. Will you PLEASE use your common sense??? Please?
FYI, the paragraph you quote uses the CalEPA report for its justification. The CalEPA report was based almost exclusively on the US EPA report which was a total farce and has been invalidated by a federal judge. It's also deceptive.
OSHA says the amount of toxins found in shs seldom if ever reach the necessary level to be considered dangerous. Toxicologists have proven that it would take THOUSANDS of cigarettes burning simultaneously in an UNVENTILATED room to reach permissible levels of ALL those things he mentions. The dose makes the poison. That's why the arsenic in your drinking water or the salt on your food won't kill you.
You have been bamboozled, dude, by a well-funded, very slick bunch of snake oil pitchmen and you've swallowed it whole. It's fine if you don't want to be "exposed to" environmental tobacco smoke and there's no reason in this day and age you ever should be. Just stay out of smoker-friendly places and you need never smell tobacco smoke. Just realize that it's not because it will harm you, it's because you don't like it.
ah - far more appropriate in describing you suckers who started smoking and keep smoking because the billions spent on advertising by Big Tobacco:
He is just a basher, Max. Might be good for debating, but I can't see any blinders coming off.
But on the other hand, I always find it so funny when repace is quoted that I couldn't help myself!!!!!
You just don't get it dude.
The neurotic can smell one part per billion.
And if they can smell it it is adversely affecting them.
The have No clue as to the cause/effect relationship, or the difference between perception and reality.
Why are you wasting your time?