Frequently Asked Questions:

Question: Many people smoke, cigarettes contain mercury, how does that compare to crematorium emissions?

Answer: Many US cigarettes contain as much as 60 nanograms of Mercury, you inhale about a tenth of that, 6 nanograms of Mercury. The average senior person has 4 grams of Mercury in their amalgam filling in their mouth. 6 nanogram inhaled from each cigarette is 0.000,000,006g of Mercury- there is a billion nanograms in one gram. Or taking the full amount contained in a cigarette it contains 0.000,000,06g of mercury. That means, one typical crematorium run with one body emits the same amount of mercury as smoking over 3 million packs of 20 cigarettes or if you smoke one pack of cigarettes a day, you would need to become over 9,000 years old to have inhaled the same amount of Mercury as one crematorium run with one typical person with several Amalgam teeth fillings. If a child stands close to a crematorium exhaust for 15 minutes during which the body in the crematorium reaches the evaporation temperature of mercury of about 700 degree F, it can end up with permanent brain damage or if wind conditions and the child’s location are unfavorable it can die! Crematoria should be fenced in, far away from schools and residential areas and have a very high smokestack to properly diffuse the mercury emissions!