Smoking at sea
Sir, —The Union Steam Ship Company is out of touch with the travelling public if it continues to ignore the rights of non-smokers. Carbon monoxide occurs in high concentrations in cigarette smoke and carboxyhemoglobin blood levels are definitely higher in cigarette smokers than in non-smokers. The smoke-laden atmosphere of some public rooms subjects those within to the same pollution level endured by a traffic policeman in mid-town Manhattan. Carboxyhemoglobin concentrations in the blood may one day be considered as important as alcoholic levels when determining the cause of traffic accidents.—Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. February 22. 1972. Sir,— We, too, being passengers, wduld like a nonsmoking lounge, perhaps not as large as the other.—Yours, etc., MR AND MRS T. February 22, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 16
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