Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Smoke screen
There's this new international study out about how two lit cigarettes, in an enclosed room the size of a HDB bedroom, will generate 622 microgrammes of pollutants.
622 microgrammes of pollutants means that it's almost two and half times more polluted than when the PSI is at the hazardous level of 300 (which is like SG haze at its worst).
So that's why you get the smoky effect blasting into your face when you enter through the door of a pub/club.... the whole 'smoke gets in your eyes' thingy.
Now according to Dr Koong Heng Nung, Principal Investigator of Global Air Monitoring Study and Senior Surgical Oncologist at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, "It's very startling because that's the exposure that all of us second-hand smokers will get exposed to when we visit locations that allow indoor-smoking."
Yes, I can imagine it could be quite startling for you.
He continued, "That's the extent of the air pollution you're exposing yourself to if you go into an environment that allows smoking. The amount of contamination is up to 100 times the air quality that you may experience in non-smoking environment.
"So it's really up to the individual to decide, whether they want to have this 100 percent increase in the air pollution if you visit such areas."
Precisely!!!! You're my man, doc! I'm so glad you've said it coz if it was someone insignificant like me, the gahman will not take it seriously.
See, people, Dr Koong just said, it's a matter of choice. Non-smokers know the risk of second-hand smoke.. fuck we've all known it since primary/secondary school during health education and science lessons. So non-smokers can choose, whether they wanna go into a smoking pub/club or not.
Hence, there is no need to have a complete ban on smoking in pubs, clubs and karaoke lounges next year, as proposed.
Let the owners decide for themselves what they want. Some might wanna go smokeless, while there could be other pubs/clubs/ktv lounges who wanna continue letting smokers in. For the latter, they can put up warning signs at the entrance, informing non-smokers that they would be entering at their own risk.
How about that?
Ha... and when you read the beginning of the post, you thought I was going to talk about the vice of smoking right? :P
622 microgrammes of pollutants means that it's almost two and half times more polluted than when the PSI is at the hazardous level of 300 (which is like SG haze at its worst).
So that's why you get the smoky effect blasting into your face when you enter through the door of a pub/club.... the whole 'smoke gets in your eyes' thingy.
Now according to Dr Koong Heng Nung, Principal Investigator of Global Air Monitoring Study and Senior Surgical Oncologist at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, "It's very startling because that's the exposure that all of us second-hand smokers will get exposed to when we visit locations that allow indoor-smoking."
Yes, I can imagine it could be quite startling for you.
He continued, "That's the extent of the air pollution you're exposing yourself to if you go into an environment that allows smoking. The amount of contamination is up to 100 times the air quality that you may experience in non-smoking environment.
"So it's really up to the individual to decide, whether they want to have this 100 percent increase in the air pollution if you visit such areas."
Precisely!!!! You're my man, doc! I'm so glad you've said it coz if it was someone insignificant like me, the gahman will not take it seriously.
See, people, Dr Koong just said, it's a matter of choice. Non-smokers know the risk of second-hand smoke.. fuck we've all known it since primary/secondary school during health education and science lessons. So non-smokers can choose, whether they wanna go into a smoking pub/club or not.
Hence, there is no need to have a complete ban on smoking in pubs, clubs and karaoke lounges next year, as proposed.
Let the owners decide for themselves what they want. Some might wanna go smokeless, while there could be other pubs/clubs/ktv lounges who wanna continue letting smokers in. For the latter, they can put up warning signs at the entrance, informing non-smokers that they would be entering at their own risk.
How about that?
Ha... and when you read the beginning of the post, you thought I was going to talk about the vice of smoking right? :P
