Carbon Monoxide hangover !!

[BuzzKill]

Not sure but last night I was out with my buds drinking and my PV went south ! , so I smoked analogs

Wow FREAKIN killer hangover ( not just the beer for sure ! ) I used to have hangovers like this all the time , I just realized that they were NO MORE ?

Is this the CO ? or just all the chit in analogs ?

Also I used to wake up 3-4 times a night to smoke , I no longer do

 

[Greeneyeddevil]

definitely the analogs. i remember back in the younger days when i was a social smoker who would overdo it for one night, i would wake up feeling like hell. hacking my lungs up and congested and headachy. what in the heck encouraged me to keep picking them up i have no clue lol.

 

[yknotagain]

The CO2 will definitely give you a hangover.

 

[Kimber]

It makes sense that it's the CO2 because pure oxygen helps for a hangover.

 

[Kelemvor]

at work they made a breath test for smokers, to show them what amount of CO their breath even 2h after the last cigarette had. a very light smoker showed something like 14 ppm on this device, my breath was worth 0.01 and i was asked if i wanted to make them look silly, there would be no reason for a nonsmoker todo this test.

so vaping 4ml high liquid a a day, leaves no CO back, imo it was worth the test.

 

[Kilroy]

at work they made a breath test for smokers, to show them what amount of CO their breath even 2h after the last cigarette had. a very light smoker showed something like 14 ppm on this device, my breath was worth 0.01 and i was asked if i wanted to make them look silly, there would be no reason for a nonsmoker todo this test.

so vaping 4ml high liquid a a day, leaves no CO back, imo it was worth the test.

Nice, very nice.

 

[katkin]

Thanks for that info, Kelemvor. Nice to know.

 

[niclove]

“The smoker of cigarettes is constantly exposed to levels of carbon monoxide in the range of 500 to 1,500 parts per million when he inhales the cigarette smoke.”—G. H. Miller, Ph.D., “The Filter Cigarette Controversy,” 72 J Indiana St Med ...'n (#12) 903, 904 (Dec 1979). “The blood of cigarette smokers will contain from 2 to 10 percent carboxyhemoglobin . . . initial symptoms of poisoning . . . will result from exposures to 1,000 ppm for 30 minutes or 500 ppm for one hour. One hour at 1500 ppm is dangerous to life. Short exposures (one hour) should not exceed 400 ppm.”—Julian B. Olishifski, P.E., C.S.P., Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, 2d ed (National Safety Council), pp 1039-1040.

 

[niclove]

Tobacco's natural radiation dose higher than after Chernobyl

* 12:00 02 June 2007

If nothing else, this should worry smokers: the radiation dose from radium and polonium found naturally in tobacco can be a thousand times more than that from the caesium-137 taken up by the leaves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Constantin Papastefanou from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece measured radioactivity in tobacco leaves from across the country and calculated the average radiation dose that would be received by people smoking 30 cigarettes a day. He found that the dose from natural radionuclides was 251 microsieverts a year, compared with 0.199 from Chernobyl fallout in the leaves (Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol 123, p 68).

Though the radiation dose from smoking was only 10 per cent of the average dose anyone receives from all natural sources, Papastefanou argues that it is an increased risk. "Many scientists believe that cancer deaths among smokers are due to the radioactive content of tobacco leaves and not to nicotine and tar," he says.

 

[niclove]

(8 Sep 1888).

A person "who smokes forty cigarettes daily absorbs nearly a pound of nicotine annually. This is enough to kill at least eight thousand cats." It is "a poison whose toxic effects are manifested in every organ and part of the body." It does "interfere to a considerable extent with all his [the smoker's] mental and physical activities and detract appreciably from his usefulness [and] the pleasures of life."—Wood, supra, pp 123-124.

 

[Vapinginjapan]

Tobacco's natural radiation dose higher than after Chernobyl

* 12:00 02 June 2007

If nothing else, this should worry smokers: the radiation dose from radium and polonium found naturally in tobacco can be a thousand times more than that from the caesium-137 taken up by the leaves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Constantin Papastefanou from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece measured radioactivity in tobacco leaves from across the country and calculated the average radiation dose that would be received by people smoking 30 cigarettes a day. He found that the dose from natural radionuclides was 251 microsieverts a year, compared with 0.199 from Chernobyl fallout in the leaves (Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol 123, p 68).

Though the radiation dose from smoking was only 10 per cent of the average dose anyone receives from all natural sources, Papastefanou argues that it is an increased risk. "Many scientists believe that cancer deaths among smokers are due to the radioactive content of tobacco leaves and not to nicotine and tar," he says.

Just to play devil's advocate here, polonium as far as I know is not natural to tobacco. Unfertilized, natural tobacco will not have polonium content. Polonium occurs when the tobacco plant uptakes polonium from the phosphorous based fertilizers often used on them. Polonium is also present in huge quantities in food, and for the average smoker smoking only constitutes 20% of polonium uptake according to one study. According to a woman in an interview, ""There was a 1977 study that found, of the daily intake of the polonium 210 in a smoker, 77.3 per cent came from food and 17 per cent from tobacco. The World Health Organisation is trying to determine which constituents of tobacco smoke are most important in diseases including lung cancer, but as yet have not concluded polonium 210 is a priority constituent.""

Polonium as far as I know only constitutes about 1% of lung cancer cases.

I'm all for hating on cigarettes, but facts need to be kept straight.

 

[Vapinginjapan]

(8 Sep 1888).

A person "who smokes forty cigarettes daily absorbs nearly a pound of nicotine annually. This is enough to kill at least eight thousand cats." It is "a poison whose toxic effects are manifested in every organ and part of the body." It does "interfere to a considerable extent with all his [the smoker's] mental and physical activities and detract appreciably from his usefulness [and] the pleasures of life."—Wood, supra, pp 123-124.

Wouldn't that also indite us e-smokers, who sometimes have nicotine intakes 3-4 times higher than when we smoked cigarettes? I'm a 3ml 26MG kinda guy, 76mG a day. When I was smoking cigarettes, that was around 22mg a day.

 

[mamacat]

at work they made a breath test for smokers, to show them what amount of CO their breath even 2h after the last cigarette had. a very light smoker showed something like 14 ppm on this device, my breath was worth 0.01 and i was asked if i wanted to make them look silly, there would be no reason for a nonsmoker todo this test.

so vaping 4ml high liquid a a day, leaves no CO back, imo it was worth the test.

A true testament! Glad you decided to take the test!!

Nice, very nice.

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