This is only a guess as there is too much variety in the smokers' inhalation rates and I do not know how much of the arsenic would stay in the smoker's lungs.

I would appreciate it if you folks could keep track of the number of puffs that you take per cigarette for,say 5 cigarettes, and post that number here or email me the number at gkayser30@aol.com.

I will delete all emails after the number is noted so as to maintain privacy.

Gary K.

A nonsmokers exposure to SHS

Have you ever wondered just how much SHS nonsmokers are exposed to?

Let's put a smoker and a nonsmoker at a bar about 1 meter(3feet) apart.

Let's put the smoker, a cigarette, and an ashtray in a airtight cube 2 meters(6 feet) on a side.

The nonsmoker will have his nose sticking through the side of this cube so that he only can breathe air from the cube.

We will say that the smoker will take precisely 5 minutes to smoke the cigarette.

The Calif-EPA says that a sitting person breathes about 7.5 liters of air per minute.
(California Environmental Protection Agency)
http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/resnotes/notes/94-11.htm

Thus, the nonsmoker will breathe 37.5 liters of air from the cube while the cigarette is burning.

A cube two meters on a side has 8 cubic meters of air in it.

1 cubic meter is equal to 1,000 liters and our smoker's cube holds 8,000 liters of air.

The nonsmoker breathes 37.5 liters or .005% or 1/2 of 1/100th of the air and no more than 1/2 of 1/100th of the SHS in the air.

If the nonsmoker were sitting 6 feet from our smoker,the nonsmoker would breathe in only 6/10th of 1/1000th of the SHS in the air.

This is not very much exposure to SHS!!!

A cigarette's smoke contains about 32 nanograms(billionths of a gram) of arsenic.
(The 1999 Mass. Benchmark Study. Final Report 07/24/00)

A smoker(me) would probably inhale 1/4 of the smoke directly while smoking= 8 nanograms.
(Note: There are about 28 of my puffs to a cigarette, I usually take about 7 per cigarette.)

I do not know how to accurately figure the amount of SHS the smoker inhales; but, since the smoker is closer to the cigarette, I would guess it would be about twice as much as that non-smoker or 1/100th of the arsenic= .32(1/3) nanogram.

Smoker's total = 8.32 nanograms of arsenic.
Non-smoker's total = .16 nanogram of arsenic.

The smoker is exposed to about 52 times as much arsenic and other chemicals as that non-smoker!!

I'm game

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I keep forgetting, but I did manage to count one: 18.