Smokers, like rabid animals, are usually confined to enclosed areas, away from the rest of us. The FRESH concept, designed for airports and other high-traffic areas, uses a “wall” of air to stop the carcinogen-laden smoke from reaching us normals.
The “wall” is actually created by colliding high and low air pressure in a spherical shape, keeping any harmful smoke within its boundaries. Fresh air is continually cycled through the interior of the FRESH unit so the smokers don’t hotbox the thing. It was designed by D.K. Wei, and doesn’t seem to be in the running for production, but it is definitely a cool-looking, functional way to reduce secondhand smoke as well as making smokers feel less like herded cattle. [Yanko Design]
marleneb
July 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM
This just goes to show how those equating smokers with rabid animals have been hookwinked. DO THEY HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH POLLUTION AN AIRPLANE IN AN AIRPORT PUTS OUT! What a bunch of nazi nuts!
Report PermalinkDaniel
July 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Oh, that’s just clinging at straws mate. “The planes pollute the air, so let’s just smoke to our heart’s content, seeing it won’t make a difference”.
Do you know how much cleaner it will make airports? besides, airports are just a starting point. If it’s successful, they will probably release it in more places.
Report PermalinkYou’re just one of these smokers that can’t accept new anti-smoking concepts. It’s not hurting you, so i don’t know why your so objective!
marleneb
July 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM
In an airport? An airport where hundreds of planes are freely spewing jet fuel fumes into the terminals’ air intakes?? Looking at just two of the emissions that jets and cigarettes have in common shows how ridiculous this is. According to the Surgeon Generals’ 1986 Report on Environmental Tobacco Smoke, a cigarette puts out a total of 3 mg of nitrogen oxide (NO) and 40 mg of carbon monoxide (CO). The 1995 EPA study on airplane emissions cites a single 747 takeoff/landing at about 115 pounds of NO and 32
Report Permalinkpounds of CO. That’s 52 million mg of NO and 14 million mg of CO if you do the math.
Doing a bit more math for a typical 500 takeoffs/landings per day shows us that
the nice clean smokefree air being pumped into those terminals has the CO equivalent of over 160 million cigarettes and the NO of Eight and a Half BILLION cigarettes. All of which is being shwooshed right into the lungs of travelers who are supposedly receiving a “dangerous dose” from a few cigarettes being puffed in secluded and
sealed off terminal areas and bars. This would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
Rebecca
July 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM
There has always been adequate ventilation technology to protect people from wisps of smoke. People who smoke are not rabid animals but are decent human beings who have as much a right to feel comfortable in a airport as anyone else.
Report Permalinksimon
July 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Boohoo, poor smokers can’t smoke anywhere.
Something like this would only encourage them to smoke and not quit that filthy habit.
…it does look cool though.
Report Permalinkvirgilk
July 2, 2009 at 12:50 PM
I was a Jet Mechanic in the Air Force. This rabid animal is a lot safer in that smoking booth than the normal people that are being subjected to the tons of carcinogens being spewed into the air by those Jet Engine every hour of the day, Dan Nosowitz needs to bone up on the subject, apparently for years, and only write another article when he has some provable facts. Instead of his opinion which has no basis in fact.I hate to think he considers himself normal.
Report Permalinkvirgilk
July 2, 2009 at 12:58 PM
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), the average age of death by all causes in North America in 1994 was 70 years of age. An analysis of the CDC’s own figures for the years 1990-1994 showed that the average age of death for smoking-related deaths was 71.9 years of age.
Report PermalinkSome smoking-related deaths are therefore, statistically “premature” – but many are not. About 17% of smoking-related deaths occur at ages greater than 85, fewer than O.5 % of smoking-related deaths occur at ages less than 35.
It may be true that the incidence of chronic degenerative illnesses in the elderly population occur at lower rates for non-smokers, non-drinkers and those who have never been “over-weight”, but that does not mean such persons have any guarantee that they will never develop these illnesses. Even if you were a health fanatic from the day you were born, the longer you live the greater the likelihood becomes that you will develop some kind of chronic degenerative illness. Human beings do not have a “life energy” that gets used up as time goes on, causing us to mysteriously die, in perfect health, in our sleep when it ‘runs out’.
One of the world’s most renowned pathologists, Dr. Ludwig Aschoff, stated that he had never found a case of purely natural death: autopsy had always revealed some pathological process as a cause.
Dr. Hans Selye of Montreal, probably the world’s leading authority on human stress, asserted that in all his autopsies he has never yet seen a man who died simply of “old age”, nor does he think anyone ever has.
Ben
July 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Great comments guys – I was going to quit but now….I do think that the anti-smoking brigade have gone too far. If you replaced “smoker” with “nigger” we’d be back in 1960′s with riots for equal rights.
Report PermalinkFreddie
July 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Urgh..always someone putting in their 2 cents on how much of a filthy habit it is. We’re smokers don’t you think we’ve heard it enough..well in return I give you my middle finger and say good day.
Report PermalinkabraXXious
October 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM
No, smoking isn’t a filthy habit, just like picking your nose and eating it isn’t a filthy habit either.
Smokers need to wake up to the fact it is not 1788 anymore, the world has moved on, opium parlours are no longer accepted, ritual sacrifices are no longer accepted, the world is not thought to be flat and smoking is known to be a thoroughly retarded thing to do.
I personally believe the government should implement a system where cigarettes must be packaged in asbestos boxes filled with radioactive lead dust – anyone stupid enough to smoke would probably continue to buy them and would at least wipe themselves out quicker so that the rest of us can get along with life in the 21st century.
Of course, I consider this a mercy killing – put the poor buggers out of their misery.
Report Permalinksimon
July 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM
It sounds like some of you smokers are forgetting that non-smokers also have rights.
Non-smokers have the right to not be affected by a smoker’s choice to smoke.
I don’t want to smell whiffs of the cigarette while you smoke it, nor do I want to have to sit next to someone who has smoked shortly before jumping onto a plane (I doubt the smoking booth would eliminate the stench that lingers on the smokers clothes and breath.)
I think some smokers lack common courtesy.
Lets put treadmills in airport terminals so I can get all sweaty and smelly before being crammed in a small room with 100 strangers for a few hours.
Report Permalinkandy
July 2, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Simon there are inconsiderate smokers but there are considerate smoker too. What the anti-tobacco industry with their bans and restrictions have created is incitement for hatred. Smokers are the only minority group who are encouraged to be demonised. All smokers want are comfortable environments where they can enjoy smoking. Smoking is no more a filth habit then that of taking a drink or enjoying foods. No doubt you enjoy a drink. Did you know that alcohol is a class A carcinogen and emits far more ‘toxins’ than tobacco smoke? The difference as with all objections to smoking is down to a smell! Its ironic that anti-smokers show the worse kind of intolerance in their criticisms of intolerant smokers.
Report PermalinkJohn
July 2, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Simon, your comments are badly thought out. Everyone has rights, including smokers, but the way you are carrying on no-one would have any. Let me see now, yes, let’s ban any other people’s smells which someone may not like. Soooo, let’s ban garlic, curry, onions, after shave, perfume, candles, incense bad breath and any other body odours we may find distasteful. Sheesh, sounds like a pretty nasty little world to me, but its obviously the one you want to inhabit. Me, I’d stop you eating garlic as those who eat it smell like latrines.
So, you see, a bit of mutual respect and tolerance are what are called for and certainly not the kind of hate speech you use.
Report Permalinkvirgilk
July 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Simon. So what you are saying is, you don’t like the smell. If you check you will find that we are not guaranteed the right to breath air of any kind. You may not need a treadmill because, like smokers, your unable to detect your own smell. You may stink to high heavens and not know it. Likewise smokers are not aware of the stench you claim. Common courtesy is not the problem because it isn’t thought to be offensive by the smoker.
Report PermalinkIf you worry about being on a plane with stinky smokers, that shouldn’t be your worst fear. Now that smoking isn’t allowed on Planes they no longer introduce fresh air into the Plane. Now the air is recirculated and any airborne virus is easily spread. There are more sicknesses spread world wide now than ever before.
Try spending 20 minutes in an enclosed area with a running car and you die. That same 20 minutes in a room full of smoker will just make you stink. And your lungs will be clear in an hour or less. There is no proof that SHS has caused one death.
The planes dump Tons of carcinogens at Airports every day. The CDC says the average non-smoking male lives to age 70 The average Smoking male lives to 71.9.
John
April 29, 2010 at 11:08 AM
For those whom think that we smokers are secondary citizen, consider this, if we all stop smoking, 2 billion dollars revenue in taxes is lost by the government, people will loose their jobs etc etc, now where do you think the government will get the lost 2 billion dollars in revenue…TAX INCREASE TO ALL OF YOU
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