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Passive smoking dosimeter

 Protect you health ...
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A pager-sized device which continually samples the surrounding air and checks the tar/nicotine/CO content by using heated semiconductor-block sensors, or ISFETS. The unit gives an integrated reading of smoke dosage in Equivalent Cigarette Units, and bleeps an alarm if user-defined thresholds arevexceeded.
—8th of 7, Jul 31 2003

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       I have a low-tech, less precise, more accurate version of this. I call it nose. Your version may work too. Logical question: why?
—Worldgineer, Jul 31 2003
   

       //bleeps an alarm//
+ on the condition that it would "cough" instead.
—Amos Kito, Jul 31 2003
   

       [World] - your nose may not, er, ... stand up in court. Maybe.
—lurch, Jul 31 2003
   

       Ah. The answer to my question is for lawsuits. Hmmm... You'll still have a tough time proving an unsafe dosage, but I'll bun it.
—Worldgineer, Jul 31 2003
   

       I agree with Worldgineer. What is the purpose of telling someone that their smoking is too smokey?
—crispee, Jul 31 2003
   

       its *passive* smoking, crispee   

       8th, I would have thought that you spend most of your time in smokey rooms <cough>
—po, Jul 31 2003
   

       /vexceeded/   

       + for the idea, and + for a new verb. To annoy through excess.
—egbert, Jul 31 2003
   

       remember that most toxic gases (e.g. CO) have no odor
—imho, Jul 31 2003
   

       This would be bad for everyone but the tobacco companies.   

       It would put the onus of proving level of exposure on the plaintif.
—FloridaManatee, Aug 01 2003
   

       I guess I don't get it. Why not stop, point and yell SMOKE! when you see someone light up? Unless it's illegal why would anyone care if their smoke levels are too high? I think all we can do is just sit in non-smoking.
—crispee, Aug 01 2003
   

       Or yell FIRE! as we all know there's no smoke without it.
—oneoffdave, Aug 01 2003
   

       This is not a novel invention. It is fact exists, and is used to check all kinds of air quality issues.
—xylene, Oct 07 2003
   


 

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