by Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 5, 2008 at 05:05 AM
BobR writes:
> 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.
Beyond a certain altitude, human beings can never adapt fully to the
thinner
air.
> Smoking has the direct
> effect of dimini****ng the ability of the lungs to absorb oxygen which
> becomes especially critical at higher altitudes.
Yes.
> 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.
Yes.
