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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Stitchawl, I believe you. But you refer to your own smoking. The news report in question referred to being in the same room when someone else smokes. Different deal.
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True, but...
The only real difference is the delivery system. The irritant is the same. Can anyone other than a tobacco industry rep imagine that
any kind of irritant taken into the lungs will not be harmful? How about being in the same room with asbestos dust? Or perhaps the dust from grinding Mother of Pearl? Or formica? It really doesn't take little tubes to direct the irritant? Only the fact that it gets into the lungs.
The human body has built-in filters; all the hairs in our noses and cillia in our lungs are there just to remove irritants. They aren't tobacco smoke-specific filters. They don't care how irritants get to them. Their job is to either block them or repel them if they can. Unfortunately, they can't do a good enough job when the room is filled with irritants.
Stitchawl