PV),';JVh' SMOEING
f'Rp(-r presenr.,nl bf Dr. H-P. HrLrke Fit the
Cu~!.;TA
Meeting, I'll-nd - 28th October. 1972
PaStilVe SHLUkiILF, refers Lu !ijuuke. intialed by
iiQd-biaukt-i-,
in the company of people smoking cigarettes.
Dr. hariLe has measured the concentration o1
nicotine,
aldehydes, acrolein and carl>on monoxide
resultinF_ from
cigarettes smoked in unventilated rooms of 38 and
170
cubic metres. The cigarettes were machine smoked
and
the values compared with the maximum acceptable
concentration
(MAK) of the various chemical compounds whiph-are
applicable
in Germany.
In the small-r room (1c; sq. m.) the W vRlues
were-
exceeded only when 30 cigarettes were smoked in 13
minutes.
In the bigger room the values w-ere e-xceeded only
when 150
cigarettes were smoked in 32-34 minutes. An
example from
the actual results shows the MAK were not reached
when 11
smokers smoked 108 cigarettes in the larger
unventilated
room within 2 hours..
He 4=cludes that the problem of air pollution by
cigarette smdker6 may be solved by adequate
ventilation.
E.J. G RM
302059049
BATCo document for Province of British Columbia 19
April 1999