Quote from: TboneAgain on November 26, 2014, 04:01:26 PM
Maybe 25 years ago, I took a temp job working for an environmental company. Most of the time I was assigned to asbestos abatement projects, not as a worker doing the removal, but as a "tech" monitoring the work, and especially the workers' exposure.

Part and parcel of such a job is learning containment procedures, and especially PPE -- personal protective equipment. For low-risk environments, that generally includes a negative-pressure respirator, usually a half-mask. "Negative pressure" means there ain't no pressure on the air coming in -- you have to pull it in through the filters fitted on the mask.

All negative-pressure respirator users have to be fit tested, to make sure the thing fits his/her face properly and makes a good seal. The test usually involves what we used to call a "stink stick," a capsule that contained a volatile chemical that simply couldn't be ignored. It was waved in front of the testee's face to find out if the respirator was sealing properly. If not, the stuff coming out of that stink stick would make you sick instantly.

One day, while preparing for such a test, I was in a room, wearing a half-mask respirator equipped with two HEPA filters, and somebody lit a cigarette. What got through the filters to my nose literally made my mouth water. I wanted to EAT a cigarette on the spot. Those HEPA filters took away all the harshness and bite, and left pure roasted tobacco heaven.

LOL!

Both my parents smoked like a factory, however, cigarette smoke never brings back memories of them as you might suppose.

No, what does it for me is the smell of a struck match, or a lighter burning lighter fluid! Brings back a flood of fond memories!

Darth

Quote from: Skeptic on November 24, 2014, 04:07:20 PM
Smoking snob! I smoke e-cigarettes and find the, just as pleasant as the real thing. Smoking is smoking, who cares about how its actually done.

I smoke pipe tobacco, cigars, and e-cigarettes (the fancy expensive vaporizers, not the cheap gas station junk)

Beware that too.

After going round and round with my Dr's, telling them No I don't do LSD, no I don't do the weed smoke, and having them tell me repeatedly these sorts of thing are in my system

Finally traced it to the pipe tobacco I was getting.

And the rolling papers I used. If the boss, or the docs, pee test ya and you test positive for those kinds of things.

It's hard as hell and nearly impossible to convince them otherwise.

Which is why I am now on this crap, that fucks with me so badly, and makes it so I can barely sit up and type. And which has left me virtually bed ridden for several month's now.