Shoot! I Smoke Reviews

This is a really cool app that should have many users. There is just 1 flaw that I can’t seem to find answer to. If the solution is there it needs to be more obvious. How many hours would you have to breathe in the air for it to be equivalent to the estimated amount of cigarettes? This information means nothing to me because I am assuming you would have to breathe that air in for a 24hr time period for it to equate to the estimated number, which I doubt very many people are doing. If this is not the case and it is less than a 24hr period I’m sure these numbers would hit home with a lot more people. Also the likely hood of people to share this apps information would probably increase. I think the estimated number should be adjustable based on the number of hours spent outside. I also understand the AQI is a consistently fluctuating number but I would say the average stays within a reasonable range of the starting 24hr time period.

Really solid app. Can’t be sure how accurate the conversion is, but seems reliable.

I LOVE ShootISmoke. It’s an easy and interesting way to see the air quality near me.
However, out of nowhere, it has stopped updating the AQI near me. It says the nearest station was updated 4 months ago, despite it being updated and working yesterday.

i live in the sacramento area and the weather app says we’re currently under hazardous air quality with an air quality index of 330. ShootISmoke is great for showing you how bad/good the air is.

Whatever city I choose (Chicago, Oregon) it says I’m sorry “data times out”. I’ve yet to see any results. I hope the next version fixes this

I downloaded ShootISmoke while in Kathmandu. ShootISmoke repeatedly failed to find my location. I ended up searching the internet and finding an article that told me that the air quality was equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes a day. ShootISmoke never worked. I tried ShootISmoke again once I returned home to Colorado. It pegged my “location” as a town 130 miles from here on the other side of a monstrous mountain range and much closer to an industrial city. So I guess I’ll search the internet again for the information I thought ShootISmoke was designed to provide.

I am Washington DC but ShootISmoke is registering that I am in Rockville, Maryland. That’s 14 miles away and probably has very different air quality. There should be an option in ShootISmoke to manually set your location, or to search other locations (what about where my parents live? Etc). I really like the idea of ShootISmoke, it just needs some tweaking.

Feature to allow choosing a location did not appear, in fact it looks just like the first version. Did you upload the wrong version to be downloaded? Really cool app though

A lot of these reviews are complaining about being locked into the wrong gps locations.

The developer has fixed the gps location issue to be more accurate, also you can manually set your location.

I am using ShootISmoke in South Korea and it works like a charm.

Great work!

11/27/2018 The quick response to bug reports makes this great idea a 5-star app!
11/9/2018: Latest update supposedly fixed a bug calculating with AQI instead of PM 2.5 ug/m3 concentration, but today’s estimate of 8 cigarettes is derived from AQI=181 instead of 5 cigarettes based on a concentration of 113.6 PM 2.5. Maybe I don’t understand what airnow is reporting, and 181 is actually PM 2.5 ug/m3. Their labeling seems ambiguous. I’m giving one star to get your attention and will update it based on an explanation.

This was useless for me. I live in Cairo which has a serious air pollution problem and ShootISmoke gave me the reading for Sderot Israel which is over 200 miles away and separated by both desert and sea. It also likely has much cleaner air than Cairo. It's a cool idea just very limited. I'm deleting it.

Really useful app. I just wish you could change the location to see other areas

Need to be able to manually update location, otherwise this is quite useless.

This is a funny website that is hard to use because you have to download an app and can only access it from ShootISmoke . Plus, the location finder isn’t accurate and you can put in a location manually. Cool idea but totally bizarre execution.

While I find the information fascinating, I see no reason to add the disgusting expletives. This is not something I want to see on my devices & would be mortified if a friend or worse yet, a child were to see. I am deleting ShootISmoke

ShootISmoke does not work, it asked for location services access and chose Camp Pendleton. However, I’m in Irvine.

Further, it apparently has no option for just choosing a location on the map.

Seems cool but the research is flawed. Smoking two cigarettes a day reduces your life expectancy by over 5 years, but the air pollution in LA or Western European cities only by about 1-2 years. No way they are comparable!

Dumb that you can’t select other locations and compare or compare from your current location. Would be much more meaningful.

I checked half a mile from the Santa Monica Bay but it rated based on the 710 freeway which is 17 miles inland, i.e., 17 downwind of pollution sources from my location.

After ~9 May update ShootISmoke won’t launch.

Location is inaccurate. Tagged me in Florida while I am in Mexico. Great concept, though