----- 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
> 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?
rob
I have a reaction to certain chemicals. My liver was damaged when I was a kid.* When I was unemployed I contracted with a placement agency. My first job was with a company that made inks. I had to make samples and run various tests. I loved the job, the owner had a nice daughter who was my age and very smart, but by the end of week three I was coughing and felt awful. The owner even said he was going to hire me full time but I had to quit. Around paint, gasoline, perfume and similar I have bad reactions.*
Cigs can annoy me. People who sit them in an ashtray and let them burn down to the filter are the worst. Being around a campfire when you get a face full of smoke, no normal person can handle that. But I've been a bartender, our camp has an open fireplace so I can be in the environment and not get sick. Many times (like today) I cannot believe how bad my clothes smell the next day after being in a bar. But I don't have a reaction like I do around chemicals.
Smell is a strong sense and tied into a lot of memories and emotions. I would agree that some people (no one here of course!) are only reacting to the idea of smoke, not having an actual physical reaction.
*I cannot remember now if I reacted as badly to perfume before I was hurt as after. Perfume was the first thing I noticed. I only get sick when it's a heavy does. I can pump gasoline, get it on my hands. But just a month ago my boss was siphoning gas out of his truck, and my stomach turned over quickly. I didn't know he was doing it, the smell came into the store and I was sick.
Kevin T. - VRWC back to the bars, go san fran!
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