Apology Of The Week

Snowdon (aka Velvet Glove, Iron Fist) has tracked down the origin of the claim that secondhand smoke in a car is 27 times more toxic than in the home and concludes thusly:

We could use the same set of figures to make the claim that there is nearly as little secondhand smoke in a smoky car (92µg/m3) as in a completely smoke-free house (87.8µg/m3) and, even then, only while the cigarette is burning. After that, a smoky car is less smoky than a smokefree house!

... Nevertheless, I owe ASH and the Faculty of Public Health an apology. I accused them of falling for someone else's bogus figure. In fact, they came with their own.