The Totalitarian Crusade Against Second-Hand Smoke

[jtpjc]

[h=2]"There are few issues that are as riddled with outright claptrap as the scare about what smokers' puffing is doing to innocent non-smokers."[/h]

[url=http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/09/the-totalitarian-crusade-against-second]The Totalitarian Crusade Against Second-Hand Smoke - Reason.com[/url]

 

[AgentAnia]

One of my all-time favorite sentences [re ban on smoking in a car with minors]:

These bans capture superbly the zealous miserabilism of the modern-day nannying'n'nudging set.

 

[Roger_Lafayette]

The whole THS (third-hand smoke) thing mentioned in the article is a complete crock ... the UC Riverside study mentined in the article cost $400K: http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/02/uc-riverside-scientists-release-results.html ... I still haven't figured out where the funding came from because it was funneled through a UCR org., but I suspect it came from NIH/CDC/etc. Your tax dollars at work.

Third0hand "smoke gets even more preposterous when it applies to vaping. RPCI just presented their initial findings last weekend at that ANTZ conf. in Seattle. If anyone knows where the actual study is, please let me know. All I can find is the terse press release: https://www.roswellpark.org/
media/news/roswell-park-researchers-present-findings-2-e-cigarette-studies-srnt-meeting

Looks like what they did was to set up some vaping machines in a room, and then scrape residue off the walls. And they get paid to do this?

Junk science taken to a whole new level.

 

[AgentAnia]

Here's how the RPCI press release describes their "evaluation":

In the first study, “Assessment of Thirdhand Exposure to Nicotine From Electronic Cigarettes” (abstract POS1-6), the Roswell Park team evaluated levels of nicotine released from e-cigarettes and deposited on surfaces. This residue left on indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke is often referred to as “thirdhand smoke.”

Researchers analyzed three brands of e-cigarettes filled with varying nicotine concentrations. The e-cigarettes were smoked, or “vaped,” with a syringe in an exposure chamber. Nicotine levels on five surfaces of the smoking chamber were measured. The surfaces included glass, floors, walls, windows, wood and metal.

This study apparently looked only at vapor as it leaves the coil. The only relevance their experiment could possibly have to the real world would be if bystanders were exposed to vapor produced by e-cigarettes "vaped" with a syringe in a similar exposure chamber. (Could someone please explain how a syringe would work here?)

In the real world bystanders are exposed only to vapor that has been inhaled and absorbed into and then exhaled from a vaper's mouth and lungs. Have any studies been done on such vapor, on what's in vapor that has gone through that process and settled on surfaces (if indeed such vapor exists)?