Could smokers hold the key to purifying the air? Bear with… Last night I had the most interesting #CleanAir chat with a pub landlord and it has sent me down quite a rabbit hole… 🐇
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The pub in question is the excellent Muddled Man in #WestChinnock, #Somerset 🇬🇧 They now have an air monitor and a poster. But the most interesting thing was not the air monitor - it was the discussion it started…
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Smoking indoors was banned in 2007, but before then many pubs and bars had ceiling-mounted air cleaners like this one👇 I’ve only had a precursory glance at the tech but the concept is sound.
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And then I found @purifan in the US. Is smoking inside still allowed in the US? I guess so. Why else does this business exist?
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purifan.com/smoke-removal-…
And then I saw they have a page dedicated to cleaning the air in schools! Isn’t it amazing - we appear to have all the tools here, already at our disposal, to clean the air indoors and bear down on Covid and Flu, allergies, and hay fever etc…
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I’ll leave you with this wonderfully retro clip explaining the positive effects of clean air in a US school in… 2017👇
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