----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Scouted: Environmentalism is Evil and Must Be Destroyed
At 11:28 AM 12/21/03, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> > > >*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?
Yes.
I had asthma as a child, though I eventually outgrew it. I still have allergies to various inhaled irritants. There have been numerous occasions when I went into a room and my nose and sinuses start running, my eyes start itching, swell, turn red, tear up, and close to the point I just about can't see at all, etc., and only then when I look for the cause do I discover that someone is or has been smoking in the room. The same thing happens _some_ cats, rabbits, and other furry animals: if I handled such an animal, I would get the above symptoms, plus itchy hives on my face and neck, and would have to take my allergy medication, then take a hot bath and put on clean clothes. Fortunately, I have gotten less sensitive to fur-Midnight was on my lap when I started typing this reply-though sometimes I still get a bit of irritation when I play with some cats (no obvious pattern as to whether they are mostly indoor or outdoor, long-haired or short-haired, etc.) Sometimes I have had a similar reaction when going into a fabric store. Some types of pollen and dust cause me misery as well. Other things do bother me as well, although it does seem that, like the furry animals, I have gotten less sensitive to some of them as I have gotten older.
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Two of my younger brothers had serious allergies. And one of them seemed to be allergic to everything.
When I had the "scratch test" as a child, just about everything produced a giant red welt.
I used to suffer seasonally from hay fever so bad that my face would swell and I had terrible headaches. The funny thing is, when I started smoking that all ceased. I never get "bad" allergies anymore. I suppose the smoke is keeping my system distracted.<G>
I don't think I want to try it.
And FWIW, like Julia, different types of smoke do cause different levels of reaction. Like her, pipe smoke doesn't bother me as much as cigarette smoke. And I suppose it is indeed possible that different brands of cigarettes do cause different levels of irritation: generally when those symptoms start, all I can think about is getting out of there to some fresh air, not asking the smoker(s) what brand they are smoking . . . especially because sometimes� when you tell someone that their smoke is making you ill, their response is to take a big draw on the cigarette and then blow that smoke directly in your face . . .
_____ �Not always. But sometimes.
-- Ronn! :)
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