Hey all,

I guess since we're on the subject, I'll also add this in...

We also had our employee (who used to smoke), exhale cigarette smoke into a plastic container (the kind you store food in). We had already made a small hole in the container with a paper hole punch and put the sensing probe of the mercury meter into it and took a reading.

The reading was so high, that the meter displayed the "overload" signal and needed to go through it's self-cleaning procedure immediately after the reading—before it would let us take anymore readings. It's called "saturation" when this happens.

Now, we were all stunned by this (as you'll see in the video) and, in fact, we wonder to this day if there isn't something else that interfered with the meter when taking this test. We don't know. Nevertheless, it is what it is and people need to be aware of it. Basically, our conclusion is that there really should be more experimentation. Until then, no one should smoke <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

By the way, I was inspired to carry out this experiment because of talk on this forum months ago when someone said they heard that cigarette smoke contained mercury. I had never heard that before. Was the you Alex?

In fact, many of the testing ideas we conducted came from people on this forum, such as...

Fluorescent lights, we tested them on and off and found no mercury coming off of them.

We tested blue jeans and found no mercury coming from them either.

We actually put the lights (on and off) and the jeans into air-tight boxes for several days and then took readings from the air in the boxes so if there was some mercury, we thought we'd be able to measure it.

I'll post the videos as soon as I can find the time to convert them all, which can be time consuming.