煙草在線據《雅加達全球》報道編譯　　印尼三寶壟的兩名國立中學學生因發明了一種將卷煙煙霧轉變為氧氣的工具，而在曼谷舉辦的2012年青年發明家國際博覽會上獲得了金獎。

　　7月4日星期三，其中一名在競賽中獲獎的學生Hermawan Maulana在三寶壟說：“我們將這種工具取名為‘減少吸煙間內的一氧化碳與二氧化碳危險影響的工具盒應用。’”

　　Hermawan Maulana說，在感覺受到數量不斷增加的吸煙者的打擾之后，他與自己的校友Zihramma Afdi一起開始了這項計劃的研究。他們說，有了這個工具，含有一氧化碳和二氧化碳的卷煙煙霧就被分解為氧氣和碳。

　　他說：“至少吸煙的人在吸煙間內會覺得舒服一些，而不會在其他可能會打擾他人的地方吸煙。我們創造這種工具，是因為我們沒有辦法減少吸煙人的數量。”

　　卷煙煙霧被吸入機器，在機器里，電極將分子分解為構成它們氧和碳離子的構成成分。

　　Afdi說：“在機器內，煙霧被分解為氧氣，再回流到吸煙間里。除了氧氣之外，過濾嘴器留下了碳，但是是可以再利用的固體形式。”

　　這兩名學生擊敗了包括中國、馬來西亞、新加坡、越南、菲律賓、臺灣和日本在內的幾個國家和地區的其他參賽者。

Thailand: Indonesian High School Students Turn Cigarette Smoke Into Oxygen

　　Semarang. Two state high school students in Semarang have received a gold medal at the International Exhibition for Young Inventors 2012 in Bangkok for inventing a tool that changes cigarette smoke into oxygen.

　　"We named the tool 'T-Box Application to Reduce the Dangerous Impacts of CO and CO2 in Smoking Rooms,'" Hermawan Maulana, one of the students who won the competition, said in Semarang on Wednesday.

　　Together with his schoolmate Zihramma Afdi, Hermawan said they began research on the project after feeling disturbed by the increasing number of smokers. They said that with the tool, cigarette smoke containing carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) is broken down into oxygen and carbon.

　　"At least smokers will feel comfortable inside the smoking room and would not smoke in other places that could disturb other people," he said. "We created this because we can't reduce the number of smokers."

　　Smoke is sucked into the machine, where an electric charge breaks down the molecules into their constituent carbon and oxygen parts.

　　"Inside this machine, the smoke will be decomposed into oxygen and flow back [into the smoking room]," Afdi said. "Besides oxygen, the filter leaves carbon, but in solid form that could be reused."

　　The students beat other participants from several countries including China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.