In rec.aviation.owning Bertie the Bunyip <AA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> jimp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote in news:0046p5-c0p.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> In rec.aviation.owning BobR <reed1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Sep 4, 1:25?pm, j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>>> In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic <mxsma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>>>>
>>>> >> As for smoking, that is utter, pulled out of your ass, nonsense.
>>>>
>>>> > Not when the air is thin.
>>>>
>>>> More ignorant nonsense; if it were true about half the population of
>>>> Peru would be incapacitated.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jim Pennino
>>>>
>>>> Remove .spam.sux to reply.
>>>
>>> Your knowledge of this subject is so seriously limited that you
>>> really need to drop out of the discussion before you make yourself
>>> look really stupid. The people of Peru who live at high altitudes
>>> have become acclimated to the altitude and are not as subject to
>>> altitude sickness as those who live at lower altitudes. Smoking has
>>> the direct effect of dimini****ng the ability of the lungs to absorb
>>> oxygen which becomes especially critical at higher altitudes.
>>> Smokers who are not acclimated to the altitude and who take off from
>>> lower altitudes and asscend to altitude can easily become oxygen
>>> starved resulting in numerous possible medical problems.
>>
>> Point totally missed.
>>
>> 1) No one becomes "immediately incapacitated", whatever that means,
>> from smoking.
>>
>
>
> Depends on what you mean by that. Smoking will exacerbate any situation
> where breathing sails close to the edge, like a sudden loss of
> pressurisation or if the individual has been comprimised and breathing
> becomes difficult. Like someone who has been badly inured and is
> comatose. All other factors being equal, if the individual has been
> pushed to the edge in a situation like this, a history of smoking will
> push them over it.
And in what kind of situation is any of that likely to happen to a
private pilot?
--
Jim Pennino
Remove .spam.sux to reply.
|
