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**Jim Logajan**

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote:
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.

ALERT THE PRESS! THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR! BERTIE HAS WRITTEN IN
SUPPORT OF A STATEMENT MADE BY MXSMANIC!!!!!

Ahhhh! WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!!!!! :-)

[Because up thread it were writ:]

In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

If the smoking or drinking were to eventually cause a problem that
could become incapacitating, and that takes lots of years, the problem
would be cause to fail the medical.

Both can be immediately incapacitating.