Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 2:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Scouted: Environmentalism is Evil and Must Be Destroyed
>
> > At 04:43 AM 12/20/03, Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > >--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe second-hand smoke isn't as dangerous as
> > > > professed, but I am sure as
> > > > hell happy I don't have to breathe it anymore.
> > >
> > >Anecdotaly, I got bronchitis *every time* I was
> > >exposed to 2nd-hand tobacco smoke for more than 3
> > >hours straight (as at a bar, or driving in a car with
> > >a smoker -- I avoid such exposure religiously now).
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >
> > Pun intended?
> >
> > It takes a lot less time than that for me to become ill from it. Even
> > being in a room where people have been smoking can do it.
> >
>
> *Note: Not a defense of smoking*
> [You may now return to the discussion which is already in progress]
>
> Do any of you who get "ill" (Not sarcastic quote marks, I use them to mark
> the difference between actual sickness and the kind of illness I am
> positing)
> around tobacco smoke get ill around other types of smoke?
> How about on the freeway or on downtown streets?
Some other kinds of smoke, yes. Getting behind some vehicles ends up
being less than pleasant for me.
And cigarettes are worse than pipe tobacco for me, and certain *brands*
of cigarettes are worse than others. I can hang around people smoking
Camels a *lot* longer than I can hang around people smoking Marlboros.
(Try "20-30 minutes" as opposed to "about 15 seconds".)
I'm wondering if my personal problems with secondhand smoke are not the
tobacco, but the @#$% additives. Given that there's a significant
difference in how much smoke of one brand I can handle as opposed to
smoke of another brand, I'm guessing that in *my* case, that is where
the problem is.
(And I have had some serious problems around cigarette smoke -- in the
days when smoking was permitted in planes, I asked for a seat in
non-smoking, got seated in the very last row of non-smoking, and I don't
remember much between the time I started coughing and some point where I
was in another seat a few rows forward of where I'd been originally
seated -- thank goodness I was travelling with someone and the flight
attendants were quick to help him. But usually there's enough air
volume to dissipate stuff before it gets to that point with me.)
Julia
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