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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: are ion generators bad for machinery and other living things?
Message-ID: <1291@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 21:42:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: hammer.1291
Posted: Sat Jun  1 21:42:01 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Jun-85 04:36:34 EDT
References: <4147@allegra.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Summary: not as bad as smoke

In article <4147@allegra.UUCP> mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes:
>A bunch of the non-smokers in our corridor have just received a
>shipment of Bionaire smoke filters.  These machines contain both air
>filters and ion generators.  I've read (perhaps in this newsgroup) that
>ion generators don't have any hazardous effects on humans (and in fact
>may make people feel better), but I seem to recall that they can cause
>plants to wilt and make certain types of plastics disintegrate in time
>(hopefully not as fast as the virus in The Andromeda Strain...).
>Anyway, would it be wise to move expensive machinery like Sun
>workstations, 3B2's, and plants out of our offices?
>	Mark Plotnick
>	allegra!mp

Interesting.  You are concerned about possible bad effects of air
filters, but not of smoke?  You know what a smoke particle can do
to a disk drive?  (Not to mention what they do to humans)

Companies that are serious about the health of their employees
don't allow smoking.

Snoopy
tektronix!mako!seifert

ps Anyone sending flames about the "rights" of smokers to inflict
carsinogens on nonsmokers, or about "sealed winis", will receive
a free core dump by return mail.