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Volatile organic compounds are much worse than tobacco smoke as an
air pollutant.  It is now well known that tobacco smoke is a
carcinogenic assault on human health whether it is inhaled directly
or if it is inhaled as a second-hand unintended exposure.  But for
tobacco smoke the human body partially blocks out the particulates
of smoke by physically keeping some of those particles on the
outside of the lung cell wall.  Unfortunately organic solvents
present in the air easily pass through the human (lung) cell wall
because those cell walls are made of lipids that easily and quickly
absorb organic solvents of all types.  

I would ask for an outright ban or very strict regulation on most
volatile organic solvents, because even licensed commercial users
of these solvents can not restrict the movement of air from
carrying these solvents once they vaporize. Co-workers in the
vicinity can't avoid exposure in just the same way that second hand
smoke exposes non-smokers to the air pollution created by burning
tobacco. People, plants, and animals breathe these gases and though
you can't see vapors in the same way one might see smoke, breathing
those vapors constitutes a very toxic assault of organic solvents
that get absorbed and circulated in our bodies.

Solvents not filtered out air by victims of exposure, will
eventually end up in watersheds and in soils that should be kept
free and clean of this assault on our health. Too many wells and
water sources have already been declared as unfit to drink for
similar reasons of toxic plumes created by these same kinds of
liquids being dumped or leaked into the soil.  

Please, please, please help California lead the nation in banning
this toxic class of chemicals from polluting our air, bodies, and
environment.