Re: Re: tobacco and oxygenation

[Guest guest]

>What about the effects of tar? I often hear about the " bad " nicotine but I

seldom see people discussing what tar does. In fact most people will see the

yellow-brown discoloration of tar and tell you its from the nicotine, but

nicotine is colorless isn't it?

>

>Darrell

I don't know what tar *does* but my mother was a nurse, and described (at

dinner,

usually!) how smoker's lungs looked. Which is probably why I never took

up the habit. Also I knew an airline pilot (before smoking was banned from

airlines) who told me that new airplanes leaked, but they didn't worry about it,

because after a year or so, all the leaks were plugged by tar from the smokers.

(and of course I make the caveat that all these were commercial cigarettes, I

have

no idea about natural ones).

Heidi Jean