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Auto Cigarette Toxic Exposure Exceeds World Health Organization Pollution Limits

October 17, 2012 | Filed under: Blog

Recent toxic exposure findings uncovered that people who smoke cigarettes inside a vehicle create toxins that exceed the World Health Organization(WHO) pollution limits by at least three times.

Tobacco and smoking indian

Tobacco and smoking indian (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

According to Health Care Today in the UK, Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have announced to smokers that smoking in a vehicle –even if the windows are down – may prove to be a toxic health risk to other occupants in the vehicle, even once the smoking has ceased. Driving and smoking, they proved, even if the windows are down and the front passengers is the person smoking carries a heavy dose of toxins to those people occupying the rear seats.

Data was collected by measuring the amount of pollution gathered on 85 car trips, according to the Tobacco Control journal. Using a monitor attached to the back seat, researchers analyzed data from the cars journey, which often ranged from ten minutes to one hour of travel time.

It was then revealed that out of the eighty-five trips, a driver would be caught smoking an average of up to four cigarettes on 49 journeys. On average the levels of toxic matter or “fine particular matter” amounted to 85µg/m3, which is over triple the maximum safe indoor limit of 25µg/m3 recommended by WHO.

Data indicated that on the trips where the occupants would not smoke, there remained levels of fine particular matter that averaged at a 7.4µg/m3 level.

According to the publication, the research authors said: “The evidence from this [research] paper is that second-hand smoke concentrations in cars where smoking takes place are likely to be harmful to health under most ventilation conditions.”

“We believe that there is a clear need for legislation to prohibit smoking in cars where children are present.”  In the United States smoking in a vehicle where people under the age of eighteen are present can get the driver or owner of the vehicle in trouble with the law.  Simon Clark, director of the smokers’ group Forest, responded: “We don’t encourage adults to smoke in a car if small children are present…according to research, 84% of adults don’t smoke in a car with children present so legislation to ban it would be disproportionate.”

Smoking emits a large amount of toxins that not everyone’s body can fight against and it poses a health risk. This is why smoking is banned in various public locations such as buildings. If you have ever suffered from toxic exposure at a public place, contact our attorneys today.

 

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