Follow-up to my last smoke and exhaust episode. Two viewer questions in one: why is bread exhaust alcohols, and can plasma clean cigarette smoke in your apartment? Yes to both, but cigarette smoke has a surprise you probably haven't thought about.

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00:00 The two viewer questions in one

00:44 3 topics: VOCs, byproducts, and "some crap plasma can't remove"

01:15 Why bread exhaust is alcohols: yeast eats sugar and produces ethanol

01:40 Plus aldehydes, organic acids, esters (this is why fresh bread smells amazing)

02:14 One loaf smells wonderful. A factory produces clouds.

02:39 VOCs are easy for plasma to oxidize (alcohol burns readily)

02:58 Now cigarette smoke, which is the most studied smoke on earth (tobacco lawsuit funding)

03:22 Cigarette VOCs: easy. Nitrogen oxides from the the ...