{"id":695,"date":"2013-09-28T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T08:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/cn\/?p=695"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T03:56:09","slug":"china-english-smoking-is-worse-than-outdoor-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/china-english-smoking-is-worse-than-outdoor-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking is Worse than Outdoor Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I posted data I collected from places around Beijing showing that <a href=\"http:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/how-safe-is-indoor-air\/\">indoor air is consistently cleaner than outdoor air<\/a>. When I analyzed that data, I excluded places that allow smoking, but I\u2019m posting the data here now:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-696 \" src=\"http:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/\u56fe\u7247-1-6.png\" alt=\"\u56fe\u7247 1\" width=\"479\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even on days where outside air was bad (AQI ~ 180), the air was even worse in the cafes that allow smoking. This is even more surprising because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I was not sitting in the smoking section.<\/li>\n<li>The smoke was not very noticeable. (I hate smoking, but the air seemed good enough to me that I sat there and worked.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My guess is things are much worse in smoky bars and clubs, where the smoke is so thick my clothes smell like smoke the next day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:\u00a0<\/strong>Indoor air is better than outdoor air in China, but you lose any advantage once people start smoking\u2013even if you\u2019re in the non-smoking section.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I posted data I collected from places around Beijing showing that indoor air is consistently cleaner than outdoor air. When I analyzed that data, I excluded places that allow smoking, but I\u2019m posting the data here now: Even on days where outside air was bad (AQI ~ &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Smoking is Worse than Outdoor Air Pollution\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/china-english-smoking-is-worse-than-outdoor-air-pollution\/#more-695\" aria-label=\"Read more about Smoking is Worse than Outdoor Air Pollution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1035,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,260,257],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-air-pollution-health-effects","category-pm2-5","tag-smoking","resize-featured-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}