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That car is really smokin'
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Jo
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That car is really smokin'
I have to hope the ban on smoking in cars does take effect, especially after reading this:
From the Globe & Mail:
Even when smokers roll down windows and flip on fans, they expose car passengers to hazardous levels of second-hand smoke, says a new Canadian study that buttresses efforts to ban smoking in automobiles with children.
University of Waterloo researchers found that levels of second-hand smoke in vehicles with the windows up exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines by up to 100 times in just 20 minutes of burning a cigarette. When drivers lowered windows halfway, the plume still surpassed EPA limits for 24-hour fine-particle exposure by six times.
The principal researchers, Taryn Sendzik and Geoffrey Fong, were astounded by their own findings, contained in a report by the provincial Ministry of Health's Ontario Tobacco Research Unit.
"We had to make sure the machines weren't broken," said Dr. Fong, a University of Waterloo psychology professor and principal investigator for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. "We eventually had to switch machines because the ones we use to monitor smoky bars couldn't actually record levels this high."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... eandHealth
From the Globe & Mail:
Even when smokers roll down windows and flip on fans, they expose car passengers to hazardous levels of second-hand smoke, says a new Canadian study that buttresses efforts to ban smoking in automobiles with children.
University of Waterloo researchers found that levels of second-hand smoke in vehicles with the windows up exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines by up to 100 times in just 20 minutes of burning a cigarette. When drivers lowered windows halfway, the plume still surpassed EPA limits for 24-hour fine-particle exposure by six times.
The principal researchers, Taryn Sendzik and Geoffrey Fong, were astounded by their own findings, contained in a report by the provincial Ministry of Health's Ontario Tobacco Research Unit.
"We had to make sure the machines weren't broken," said Dr. Fong, a University of Waterloo psychology professor and principal investigator for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. "We eventually had to switch machines because the ones we use to monitor smoky bars couldn't actually record levels this high."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... eandHealth
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CoffeeCanuck
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Re: That car is really smokin'
I have no doubt it will become law in BC, as well as right across the board with all Provinces. One town here in NS, Wolfville, was the first town to pass a bylaw prohibiting smoking in cars with children. The Province soon followed suit and quickly passed legislation banning smoking in cars with children. It takes place April 1st 2008 along with a ban on using cell phones while driving. That should make Struts want to pack up and move here pronto. 
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