Engineering360: "Research links air pollution and COVID-19 mortality"

Secondary Smoke Time Bomb

This combined with this other study which quantifies secondary smoke contribution to PM2.5 exposure seems to me to be a powerful indictment of secondary smoke. Given this data, smoking in an HVAC zone where non-smokers might be either currently or within a short time is de-facto assault.

If you cannot even smell it, then it is worse, since it is also stealthy, cumulative, and delayed. You non-smokers are unawares contaminated over years, then a novel corona virus pops out and kills you. Smokers are hoards of anonymous binary time bombers whom you have nearly zero hope of even identifying and against whom you have nearly zero chance of recovering compensation for damages. Those double cross-terms are truly wicked.

Some smokers are too oblivious to understand this and others are just indifferent, evil addicts. It is enough to make an atheist hope to be wrong(God'll get you for that.) Believers in Karma might take solace in lung cancer but it is tardy, inconsistent retribution with slim hope of reforming any current perps. I identify this seminal malignancy in a likely futile hope that at least a few perps have the intellectual honesty to overcome their overwhelmingly-more-probable denial and defensiveness. And, of course, if you do not reform a preponderance of the perps you have probably had an undetectable effect. "Eyore's statement is genius, it is truly hopeless," muses my horse, Rosinante.

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