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May 27th, 2012:

Particulate matter from tobacco versus diesel car exhaust: an educational perspective — Invernizzi et al. 13 (3): 219 — Tobacco Control

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/3/219.abstract
Tob Control2004;13:219-221 doi:10.1136/tc.2003.005975

Particulate matter from tobacco versus diesel car exhaust: an educational
perspective

G Invernizzi1,
A Ruprecht1,
R Mazza1,
E Rossetti1,
A Sasco2,
S Nardini3,
R Boffi1

+ Author Affiliations

1 Tobacco Control Unit, National Cancer Institute SIMG-Italian Academy of
GPs, Milan, Italy
2 IARC, Lyon, France
3 Pulmonary & TB Unit, General Hospital, Vittorio Veneto, Italy
Correspondence to:? G Invernizzi? National Cancer Institute, Tobacco Control
Unit, 17 via Della Michela, Prata Camportaccio, 23020, Italy;
ginverni@clavis.it
Received 5 September 2003
Accepted 23 January 2004

Abstract
Background: Air pollution is a common alibi used by adolescents taking up
smoking and by smokers uncertain about quitting. However, environmental
tobacco smoke (ETS) causes fine particulate matter (PM) indoor pollution
exceeding outdoor limits, while new engines and fuels have reduced
particulate emissions by cars. Data comparing PM emission from ETS and a
recently released diesel car are presented.

Methods: A 60 m3 garage was chosen to assess PM emission from three
smouldering cigarettes (lit sequentially for 30 minutes) and from a TDCi
2000cc, idling for 30 minutes.

Results: Particulate was measured with a portable analyser with readings
every two minutes. Background PM10, PM2.5, and PM1 levels (mean (SD)) were 15
(1), 13 (0.7), and 7 (0.6) ?g/m3 in the car experiment and 36 (2), 28 (1),
and 14 (0.8) ?g/m3 in the ETS experiment, respectively. Mean (SD) PM recorded
in the first hour after starting the engine were 44 (9), 31 (5), and 13 (1)
?g/m3, while mean PM in the first hour after lighting cigarettes were 343
(192), 319 (178), and 168 (92) ?g/m3 for PM10, PM2.5, and PM1, respectively
(p < 0.001, background corrected).

Conclusions: ETS is a major source of PM pollution, contributing to indoor PM
concentrations up to 10-fold those emitted from an idling ecodiesel engine.
Besides its educational usefulness, this knowledge should also be considered
from an ecological perspective.

Ramadoss seeks ban on tobacco products

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3459921.ece

CHENNAI,May 27, 2012

Special Correspondent

PMK founder S. Ramadoss on Saturday demanded a ban on the manufacture and sale of tobacco products in Tamil Nadu on the lines of the one imposed by the Kerala government.

Citing a report published by the Cancer Institute, Adyar, that the sale of tobacco products had increased in Tamil nadu, Dr. Ramadoss said that according to the report of the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 20 crore people in India chewed tobacco and 40 per cent of them died of the habit.

In Tamil Nadu, though there was a ban on selling tobacco products within a 400-metre radius of educational institutions, it was not being implemented, resulting in more and more students falling prey to the products.

Dr. Ramadoss said that the Supreme Court had suggested a ban on tobacco products and Madhya Pradesh had implemented it.

“States such as Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir are considering a ban. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who is keen on making Tamil Nadu the number one State, should immediately ban tobacco products,” he said.

Local authority pension funds and investments in the tobacco industry

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