AccyD wrote:
bloodline wrote:
But what about walking down the street. I have no choice but to "enjoy" the experience of another persons addiction.
What say you?
Considering the density of the traffic these days I would think that you are more likely to become ill due to the traffic fumes than the brief one second that you may pass a smoker on the street.
Does everyone want to ban the car??
Boom. You just shot your cred down with that remark as it's the typical smoker "ace" that they like to play to try and take the heat from themselves. Happens every time in this topic of discussion.
There are a helluva lot more carcogens being sent out unfiltered into the air from cancer sticks than there are from cars.
The fact of the matter is here I have an 8 year old car that has 0% CO emissions due to it having a filter (catalytic converter), and only 18ppm HC emissions (well short of the limit of 150ppm). Plus I fill it up on the best road fuel available here (BP ultimate), which has less benzene and sulphur than every other fuel here, plus being 98RON means I burn less of it being a longer burn fuel. And yes my car has a learning ECU in it to make use of the superior fuel.
Also our traffic department here in my state is doing random emission test stops on cars. So it's something to cut down on the amount of people lighting up their smokey old mitsubishi's.
None of that is being done for unfiltered cigarette smoke.
