How effective are smokeless ashtrays?

Question

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

Answer 1

From the ones I've seen, they are not very effective at all. They suck up the smoke when your cig is in them, but do nothing when you take a drag or exhale. I have owned and have friends that have owned several.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I'm not sure but what's the point? If it's a concern, why not just not smoke?

Answer 4

No matter what, it all still smells bad. Your body will love you and last much longer without cigarettes. (I would hate myself for not telling you that).

Answer 5

As long as you keep cigaretts away from them they are great.