Let's try this: What air filter are you using?

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Originally Posted by Joseywales

As I research this, I am learning a lot about the UV bulbs and how killing germs is what "kills" smoke. I can also tell you there are a lot of medicine man air purifiers out there.

The bolded intrigues me, what kind of research points to that? My instincts tell me it approaches quackitude, but I am a cynical man. I use an exhaust fan in my man cave, but would like to supplement or replace the need for it in the winter so I don't flush nice heated air $ out to the frigid wasteland.
Considering smoke isn't 'alive' I don't know what a short burst of uv light is going to have on it. I am certain that UV sterilization works for organisms, but pushing it to "kill" smoke seems a stretch.
Tobii pointed me to these units, which seem like a decent cleaner for the money (which is more than I can afford right now anyway, so the point is fairly moot) but they do seem to work well, and are based on a fairly popular platform from Toshiba, as I recall my google-fu told me.
http://www.rabbitair.com/minusa2-spa...-purifier.aspx