Expert: Walter Hintz - 11/25/2008

Question
hi my name is pablo and im doing my science fair project on does ciggarette smoke effect plants so if you could help me out with this i would be very happy, but the thing is i know othing about this topic and im already behind in my project.I haven't even started :o All i need to know is how to set up my project in just 1 week, finish it, and do all of the back board, pics, and writing papers i have to do.  You can email me any time during the next few days and you should also know i am in 8th grade in jax florida so PLEASE HELP ME !!!!!!!!!

Answer
Smoke can effect plants depending on how much smoke is involved.  To set up your experiment so that you can put live plents in a enclosed box or something.  You cannot obviously smoke cigarettes but maybe you can burn some cigarettes.  Be sure you use two plants and do not let smoke get to one of them.  I frankly do not see how you can get this done in a week because you will have to measure plant growth.  Maybe you can test the effects on the leaves.