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How bad is smoking pesticide vs eating pesticides?

• dzink 2y ago
  The eaten one goes through your stomach acid and can be flushed out naturally through the system. The inhaled particles may get stuck in your lungs or worse: absorbed. Lungs are not a through channel. Things absorbed there go to the brain, blood stream, a lot faster. The stuff you spray on plants is usually meant to kill or repel bugs and critters. So won’t be friendly to lung or brain tissue. Possible cancerous too.
  • fransje26 2y ago
    These pesticides are a bit like the magical Chernobyl radioactive cloud, which, thanks to some miraculous high pressure and low pressures zones, neatly avoided some countries by flowing along their borders. Here, the pesticides are magically contained by our stomach acids, and never pass the gut barrier to enter our bodies, making them absolutely safe.
    • dzink 2y ago
      The produce you buy at safeway comes from all over the place and spraying sometimes is done with a a crop-dusting air plane. Nobody claims they are contained in food. Just possibly less absorbable than via lungs.
    • kortilla 2y ago
      That’s a stupid comparison because country borders don’t have physical differences. The stomach is nothing like the lungs. Inhale a glass of water and let us know how fake that difference is.
• rolph 2y ago
  some chemistry occurs as a result of burning. dependent on substance it can be worse, or more immediate. e.g. benomyl [fungicide] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benomyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benomyl will produce cyanide as combustion product.