tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post5593452420793715025..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Infectious Cigarettes?Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-1224570776684747662010-02-15T23:16:09.303+00:002010-02-15T23:16:09.303+00:00That tobacco is sooo dangerous I have given it up ...That tobacco is sooo dangerous I have given it up and now smoke my weed neat. And if I have nicotine withdrawal symptoms, just feeling a pack of fags gives me a homoeopathic "hit".Ed Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-51740815249553410872010-02-15T11:37:39.286+00:002010-02-15T11:37:39.286+00:00I could believe that bacteria are living within th...I could believe that bacteria are living within the tobacco....if for example you smoke hand rolling tobacco, its not a good idea to go and fondle your tomato plants afterwards as tobacco carries a disease that affects tomato plants.<br /><br />But said bacteria surviving the temperatures involved in smoking a cigaretter....nah<br /><br />PS Like the new look of the blog!Man with Many Chinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06248880738395410731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-55307575655340005892010-02-15T00:12:54.602+00:002010-02-15T00:12:54.602+00:00Seen Velvet Glove recently? Fourth hand smoke is a...Seen Velvet Glove recently? Fourth hand smoke is apparently tiny smoke related products that you're pissing down the bog and befouling the water supply with. Yes, obviously the water is thoroughly treated before it comes out of a tap but I assume that the full name is Homeopathic Fourth Hand Smoke.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-25059479223375604002010-02-14T23:27:39.464+00:002010-02-14T23:27:39.464+00:00Any microbiologist (non-brainwashed) will confirm ...Any microbiologist (non-brainwashed) will confirm that the ash dropping off the end of a cigarette is sterile until it hits the ashtray. Which won't have much life in it either. Anything that's burned is sterilised. Dead. No life at all of any kind. Not even a prion.<br /><br />Bacteria cannot hitch a ride on smoke particles because a) the smoke particle is hot enough to kill them and b) they are much bigger than the smoke particles. It would be the same as you standing in front of a coal fire, getting hit by bit of floating ash and being carried across the room by the force of it.<br /><br />Then there's the structure of the cigarette. It isn't a series of stacked tubes through which bacteria can easily flow. They won't get far on the basis of the airflow, even if they weren't already attached to the tobacco leaves and stuck there until the fire gets them. Bacteria do not have the ability to run. Some can swim in liquid but they can't climb through dry leaves.<br /><br />Finally, the only way human pathogens could get into cigarettes is if someone put them there during processing. They do not naturally appear on tobacco leaves and any that were present on the leaves would be unlikely to survive drying. If you use filters, the only way you'd get any infection would be if the end of the filter was loaded with a big enough dose of something nasty, and that would have to be deliberate.<br /><br />In short, if this is the level of desperate junk they can come up with and call it science, I wouldn't employ any of them to sweep the floor of my lab.<br /><br />They know so little of the subject, they'd be a danger to themselves and to me.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-80223653965028609822010-02-14T22:00:27.656+00:002010-02-14T22:00:27.656+00:00I coined 4th hand smoke (seeing or hearing about s...I coined 4th hand smoke (seeing or hearing about someone smoking) and 5th hand smoke (reading about someone smoking - any blogs or sites spring to mind..?) a year or so back on the Smoke Screens forum so I'm not not sure where this ranks.<br /><br />Third hand sweaty bollocks through the looking glass perhaps..?<br /><br />I think I may have also suggested smokers' colonies as a response to an article on VGIF a while back.<br /><br />Keep up will you Dick..<br /><br />(Apparently there are pills available for that..)BTShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06329822079511033338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-29681271617394135112010-02-14T20:40:40.285+00:002010-02-14T20:40:40.285+00:00They're scraping the barrel here. The bugs won...They're scraping the barrel here. The bugs won't survive the 500C+ temperature at the tip of the cigarette so the hot particles pick them up on the way through the length of it, and carry them through the filter. Yeah, right. I'm trying to think what they'll come up with next, but I guess I haven't got the imagination of the anti-smoking brigade.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36154089184198997612010-02-14T20:40:12.697+00:002010-02-14T20:40:12.697+00:00get yourself elected you can still smoke in the ho...get yourself elected you can still smoke in the house of commons barAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-73500774498483969302010-02-14T19:24:56.184+00:002010-02-14T19:24:56.184+00:00But at least in a place where no-one else would go...But at least in a place where no-one else would go, we could have our own smoking pubs...and clubs, and restaurants, and coffee shops, and, and hey, wait a minute, that's reasonableness and normality.<br /><br />sign me up..IanPJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911432983440475284noreply@blogger.com