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I wonder where roasted marshmallows rank?
by csours 11y ago
I wonder where roasted marshmallows rank?
- pavel_lishin 11y agoWell, apparently wood fires aren't great for you, so unless you're roasting it over a gas flame, probably fairly high: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion
- zeveb 11y agoI remember when that article first came out. As I note elsewhere, the fundamental flaw in his logic is thinking, 'if something is worse than tobacco smoke, then it must be banned!' My own thought is, 'if tobacco smoke is less bad than wood smoke, then it must not be banned!' A world without wood smoke would be a poorer, sadder, less pleasant-smelling world. Yes, it's a pollutant. Yes, it's carcinogenic. But it's one of the things which makes life worth living.
- fredkbloggs 11y ago> A world without wood smoke would be a poorer, sadder, less pleasant-smelling world. It would also be a world without trees, because that's the only way to avoid ever breathing wood smoke. Forest fires are a natural phenomenon and there is no known way of entirely preventing them.
- RankingMember 11y agoConsidering how most of the people I know like to consume them, probably around the same ranking as taking charcoal briquettes internally.
- goatforce5 11y agoDr Karl (hugely respected media personality scientist guy from Australia) likes to point out that candles are bad for your lungs, but on the other hand they can be relaxing and peaceful so it's kinda six of one, half dozen of the other. And as he also is fond of saying: "everything is a poison... what matters is the dose."