Smoking

[Bazf]

this is also a good site for information
http://www.thetruth.com/index.cfm?crazyworld=truth

[WillowTheWhisp]

A-b

Just a couple of questions:

Is there still lead if we are using lead free petrol?
Tiny suspended particles of what?

[-pixie]

Originally Posted by Less

How much harm will be suffered when you finally throw that keyboard you are using away? It isn't bio-degradable but your perfectly happy to use it even though umpteen pollutants have been released into the atmosphere in it's production!

We ALL turn a blind eye to what we do that isn't friendly to nature, but we all expect others to behave!

I don't expect everyone (myself included) to be saints, but I know that I do as much as I can to reduce polluting the world we live in.

[rockrabbit]

ive smoked for the past 11 years but i fully agree on banning it in restaurents id feel rude smoking while others are eating round me but how will pubs like the regency cope to ban smoking in somewhere like that will bankrupt the place as the majority seem to smoke most will probably walk straight past to the baileys either that or they ll have to cut there losses on serving food

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Less

How much harm will be suffered when you finally throw that keyboard you are using away? It isn't bio-degradable but your perfectly happy to use it even though umpteen pollutants have been released into the atmosphere in it's production!

I was quite horrified recently to see in TV what happens to old equipment like PC keyboards. Not simply a case of not bio-degrading but the things are shipped out to other countries where people pock out the tiny bits of useful metals etc and the rest is burned (yes in great piles of atospheric pollution!)

Here we are dutifully sorting out plastics and cans and bottles for recycling, taking our large rubbish items to the tip and re-usable items to charity shops and jumble sales etc so as to produce as little waste as possible and yet on the other side of the world OUR (I use the term meaning people who use this type of equipment - not AccyWebbers in particular) PC type junk is polluting the world at an alarming rate, not to mention the harm caused individually to the people who are salvaging the bits.

On the subject of car emmissions vs second hand tobacco smoke - the former rarely happens in an enclosed space and so doesn't have the same relative impact.

[Less]

Originally Posted by -pixie

I don't expect everyone (myself included) to be saints, but I know that I do as much as I can to reduce polluting the world we live in.

Even though your P.C. is only consuming somwhere around the same power as a 60w bulb, that use of electricity is helping to create CO2 emissions which are supposed to be bad for the world, they reckon that for every one in the world to have the same living standards as we in the west enjoy, we would need the resources of another three planets the equivelent to our home planet Earth. No my dear, neither you, I, or anybody around here is doing as much as possible to reduce the worlds pollution we are all TOO selfish!

[vorlon24]

My lovely tft screen supposedly uses less power than its bulky (and much heavier) predecessor

[WillowTheWhisp]

Oh good so I'm doing something for the environment then?!

[vorlon24]

You and me both!!!

The day I got my new computer was a good one!

[Less]

Originally Posted by vorlon24

You and me both!!!

The day I got my new computer was a good one!

Ah yes but what type of proccesses go into making that little wonder? the heating & moulding the plastic, the acids that are used to etch the printed circuits, the copper mining & smelting, the................

But what the hey? Don't worry about such things after all we are overdue to be hit by a rogue asteroid which will cause a nuclear winter destroying all life as we know it, so don't let little things like global warming worry you, get the fags out & then go for a spin down to London & back in your car just so you can use some more motor fuel. Life is for living lets enjoy it before it's too late.

[vorlon24]

All I wish for if something like that happens is that I am with my wife and kids at the time

[Less]

Originally Posted by vorlon24

All I wish for if something like that happens is that I am with my wife and kids at the time

If you are the last words you will hear are, "this is ALL your fault!".

[vorlon24]

Originally Posted by Less

If you are the last words you will hear are, "this is ALL your fault!".

Probably!!!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Less

Ah yes but what type of proccesses go into making that little wonder? the heating & moulding the plastic, the acids that are used to etch the printed circuits, the copper mining & smelting, the................

Good Grief Less! Are you trying to make us feel guilty or something?

:e36:

It's a good job I do all my cleaning with non-toxic substances after all the pollution I've already caused.

[MUMMIBOO]

Hey Pixie where in my thread did i once mention OK? I never said smoking was OK i simply went on that the non-smokers are talking about clean air and it being unfair we are polluting your right to clean air, well like i said im not a driver but me and my children have to breathe car fumes everytime we step out of our houses! but im not campaigning about it your right to clean air is simply the same as mine, in this day and age theres no such thing as *clean* air just the stuff we all have to breathe.
I could then start on the drinkers would we all be for it if they decided to ban drinking alcohol in public places? after all there is ill living and deaths caused by that too. Innocent people get killed instantly from drunk drivers and fights with glasses and bottles, the list is endless.

I would rather be a passive smoker and still die at a good age than to killed by a drunk driver tomorrow.