From the BBC:
Children living in flats have 45% more exposure to tobacco smoke than those in detached houses, a US study says. Researchers from Harvard and Rochester Universities say that is because the smoke seeps through walls and shared ventilation systems.
They tested cotinine levels in blood samples from 5,000 children across the US for the study in Pediatrics. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said there was a "strong case" for making blocks of flats smoke free.
This has got to be up there with the notion that if you smoke in car, opening the window does not make any difference as the smoke blows straight back in (the link to this claim is over at Dick Puddlecote's somewhere).
Monday, 13 December 2010
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Never mind making blocks of flats smoke free, it is about time our country was made ASH free!
WFW, I thought that the 'block of flats' idea would particularly appeal to you!
Only spoiled working class brats would be so feeble as to open only one window.
D, can you pay attention at the back please?
The long suffering children can't open a window if there's one single smoker elsewhere in the block of flats because their smoke will miraculously seek out and enter any open windows elsewhere in the block.
It's basic physics, innit?
c'mon guys n gals it's the BBC.
Take your TV tax and stick it....
I assume you've heard Leg-iron pointing out that the biomarker cotinine is also in potatoes?
Hilarious. They find non-smokers filled with cotinine and instead of concluding that their biomarker is useless they conclude that "it's worse than we thought, tobacco is everywhere".
I can believe this to be true.
I used to live in a block of flats we used to passive smoke pot.
I couldn't work out how it go there until one day I realized that my neighbour was the smoker - who smoked on his balcony and so when the wind went the right way (or rather wrong way) it went in my flat.
So opening the window will not always help the neighbours but make it worse.
(BTW this was the day I sold it - sorry to the new owner).
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