How effective are smokeless ashtrays?

QUESTION

Do smokeless ashtray actually help with secondhand smoke? Does anyone own one or know someone how has one?

ANSWER

No, smokeless ashtrays are a waste of money. If you're concerned about the air you're breathing, I suggest moving to a small island in the middle of the Pacific somewhere. It is curious that the billions of tons of auto exhaust that are funneled into the environment gets so little attention and that every other commercial on TV is a car commercial, yet cigarette ads have been banned on TV for decades. Don't believe everything you hear about secondhand smoke from some policital hack posing as a surgeon that didn't get a big enough bribe from the tobacco industry. How exactly are they able to tell that some person's respiratory disease was caused by second hand cigarette smoke and not the continuous tailpipe exhaust everybody is forced to breathe day in and day out? Sitting in a closed room for 8 hours and being forced to breathe cigarette smoke may not be pleasant, but try sitting in a sealed garage for 8 hours with your car motor running. That's called suicide. Look at the warnings the EPA has mandated be put on gasoline pumps -- just breathing the fumes while you're tanking up is purported to be a carcinogenic risk. The only difference is, the governmental mouthpieces are not behind an all-out ban of fossil-fuel burning vehicles. I'm no exception, but people believe what they want to believe and disregard the rest.

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