"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> jimp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>
>> 1) No one becomes "immediately incapacitated", whatever that means,
>> from smoking.
>
> A heart attack is immediately incapacitating, and smoking dramatically
> increases the likelihood of a heart attack (something that the FAA
> ignores).
>
>> 2) If smoking were "immediately incapacitating" from an altitude
change,
>> every ski resort would be littered with bodies.
>
> High-altitude ski resorts have their share of problems with people who
> develop
> altitude sickness, and many people without frank symptoms of illness
still
> are
> far from being in top form at altitude.
>
>> 3) Everyone becomes oxygen starved as altitude increases. For the
average
>> heavy smoker that will happen at a lower altitude than for the average
>> non-smoker.
>
> Yes. And so will the consequences.
>
>> 4) Oxygen starvation doesn't result in medical problems, it causes
>> phyisological problems that are eliminated by increased oxygen.
>
> Same thing. Not all of the problems can be fixed by increased oxygen,
but
> usually that helps.
Nonsense, you're just a dumb ass, headed of on one of your usual trolls.
Nothing here relates to the original intent of your statement.
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