Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Air Cleaners Message-ID: <1388@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 08:49:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1388 Posted: Wed Oct 10 08:49:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:40:35 EDT References: <4302@fortune.UUCP> <405@amd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 29 > The *ONLY* valid complaint a person has about people smoking is the > effect of the smoke on himself. If there is no such effect, i.e. if > the smoke is trapped by a filtration system, he should shut up. Fine. You design a filtration system that captures every single molecule of smoke. Then market it for a price so low that there is no excuse for any room in any building in the world to be without one. Many modern buildings have "efficient" heating/cooling systems that give very poor ventilation. (e.g. none, for practical purposes) For example, the building I'm in keeps the temperature pretty constant (at least compared to similar buildings), but there is virtually no ventilation at all. In talking to the designer, I found out that the airflow is variable. If the temperature is already correct there *isn't any airflow* !!! Someone pokes their head in the door with a cigarette, and I get to breath smoke for hours! Not acceptable. The rule of thumb is that you need at least ten times as much airflow with smokers present as you do with strictly non-smokers. 'twould be nice if they actually followed the guidelines. -- "We've got a full tank of gas, it's dark, and we're _____ wearing sunglasses" /_____\ "Hit it!" /_______\ |___| Snoopy ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert