Learning Objectives: Identify tobacco industry tactics to implement ventilation technology as a substitute for smokefree air policies; Learn the history behind the ventilation smokescreen and the effort to convince the public that ventilation is an adequate, healthy alternative to clean indoor air policies; Examine specific tobacco industry forays into the ventilation industry rule-making process to subvert the process of determining ventilation standards; Relate what the state-of-the-art science says about ventilation's ability to remove harmful constituents of tobacco smoke from the air.
Abstract: Presenters will present technical, scientific, academic and advocacy perspectives on the tobacco industry's recent ventilation efforts based on presenters published academic literature, practical experience, technical and mechanical backgrounds and histories. Presenters will convey the tobacco industry's flaws in the ventilation argument, provide examples and descriptions of tactics to undermine smokefree air policies based on ventilation strategies, offer insights into next avenues from which the tobacco industry attacks may next come, and arm advocates with materials and resources to combat this tactic out in local communities.
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