On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 07:13 PM, Michael Atherton wrote:
So here's my solution. Create rooms to serve as smoking parlors, lounges, clubrooms, or whatever else you want to call them. Insure that there is less air pressure in these rooms than in other areas using existing ventilation technology, thus creating a negative air room. It will always be possible to insure that the air pressure is negative enough to keep smoke within the room and if the exchange rate is high enough it might be possible to reduce even the exposure of smokers to secondhand smoke (of course cigarettes might burn a little faster). Do not provide service in these rooms to insure that employees are not exposed to smoke. If you want to do this with class do it with glass walls so that patrons can see out and others can see in. We can nickname them "fishbowls."
Okay, it's the anti-smokers turn. Shoot!
This assumes that smoking lighted tobacco will always be the U.S. preferred method of drug ingestion. It might not. Nicotine water failed to get FDA clearance but something like it may become available in the future. Other delivery means than smoking could very well be the next post public safety phase.
So having smoke scrubbing rooms is both costly and likely to have a low return on investment.
I have no doubt that the tobacco producers are working on not only new markets for old fashioned smoking but new delivery systems for getting the drug into human bodies. Bling. Bling.
Laura Southeast
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