Re: How poisonous is cigarette smoke?

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Andrzej Rosa wrote:

Dnia 2007-02-25 sylvester napisa?(a):
Watch this interesting television commercial from Cancer Research UK,
which talks about the toxicity of cigarette smoke.

http://cancernewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-poisonous-is-cigarette-smoke.html

Nonsense. Benzene is dangerous if you are exposed to it constantly for
a long time. Can't imagine evacuating a building due to a bottle of
this thing spilled on the floor. Simply wash it and ventilate a room
and you are done. A female professor of chemistry I knew told us once
how they used to drink an alcohol purified by benzene distillation.
According to her, only side effects (besides getting drunk, of course)
was annoying burping with benzene aftertaste. She was a smoker too, of
course.

I had a former chem teacher who told stories of his generation playing with Quicksilver. He specifically mentioned his fascination with putting it in his mouth.
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