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Tell it how it is. No cigarettes either. But it's OK to go camping and live in a cloud of smoke for days. I wonder how many cigarettes a day equals being in a
by jakupovic 2y ago
Tell it how it is.
No cigarettes either. But it's OK to go camping and live in a cloud of smoke for days. I wonder how many cigarettes a day equals being in a big campground with fires everywhere for 2 days is?
- iancmceachern 2y agoAn AQI of 250 plus is equivalent to 7 cigarettes a day: https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smoke#:~:text=Communities%20exposed%20to%20wildfire%20smoke,were%20outside%20the%20whole%20time https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smok....
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoIt depends how much time you spend outside? I’m just thinking back to my days in Beijing when 250 PPI was not a bad day.
- iancmceachern 2y agoThe parent commenter was referring to camping, therefore all day.
- mgarfias 2y agoWhat about an AQI of ~1500? Yeah, we lived through that here 4 years ago during the fires here in Oregon, while waiting to find out if we’d told to evac.
- hollerith 2y agoOnce the AQI exceeds 300 or so, I would run an air purifier at home (keeping the windows closed) and wear an N95 mask whenever I venture outdoors. Air filtration works very well for smoke (and other particulates).
- pfdietz 2y ago"Daddy, what is 'whataboutism'?"
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- IshKebab 2y agoPresumably the risk with cigarettes is addiction, whereas that is less of an issue with alcohol because alcohol is significantly less addictive than nicotine.
- deafpolygon 2y agoAlcohol is more addictive than nicotine. The "advantage" of nicotine is that it creates a physical dependence more readily at smaller doses, but alcohol is psychologically pervasive. To the point where entire cultures have gone to war over it throughout history.
- IshKebab 2y agoUgh I knew there would be someone who tried to push this ludicrous claim. Obviously we are talking about physical addiction, not some cultural nonsense.