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**Bertie the Bunyip[_25_]**

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In rec.aviation.owning BobR wrote:
On Sep 4, 1:25?pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote:

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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

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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 diminishing 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.

Bertie