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canyoneer posted:I know someone who works at a VA hospital. They've told the staff that for COVID cases, if you're over 65 and/or have ever smoked, you won't get to have one of the scarce ventilators if someone else might need one. Jesus. I know with exactly 2 guys who didn't smoke while in at some point- Myself, and my old Gunner. E- I like Pudding Brains stories.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:33
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Is "ever smoked" a thing now?
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Jul 1, 2020 21:36
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spacetoaster posted:Is "ever smoked" a thing now? Yes, because in medicine your long-term risks are looked at using what is called "pack years". So even if you stopped 10 years ago we still want to know how many "pack years" of damage you have in your lungs.
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DaNerd posted:Yes, because in medicine your long-term risks are looked at using what is called "pack years". So even if you stopped 10 years ago we still want to know how many "pack years" of damage you have in your lungs. Yep, packs per day and years smoked. My medic and I like to calculate lifetime cigarettes off our heaviest smoking patients, the record is 996000ish.
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Jul 1, 2020 21:49
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Ugly In The Morning posted:the record is 996000ish.  yikes
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Jul 1, 2020 21:59
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yep, packs per day and years smoked. That person's chest must be composed primarily of a mass of tar with some lung tissue suspended in it.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:01
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Fearless posted:That person's chest must be composed primarily of a mass of tar with some lung tissue suspended in it. He called the ambulance because he had been coughing up blood. For six months. I don’t know why he was suddenly concerned by it, but, welp. The ambulance reeked of old smokes and Bengay for hours.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:05
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He wanted to break 1,000,000 before he died, it was really a race against time.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:15
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Ugly In The Morning posted:He called the ambulance because he had been coughing up blood. I find that very hard to believe. Specifically the idea that his body would still contain blood, rather than red-tinted nicotine sludge.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:16
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Once in a great while I'll get the urge, but cigarettes taste like rear end if your sense of taste hasn't been suppressed by smoking.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:33
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George Burns was smoking 15 cigars a day, and drinking, in his 90's. 
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Jul 1, 2020 22:50
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Volmarias posted:He wanted to break 1,000,000 before he died, it was really a race against time. "They send you a T-Shirt!" 
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Jul 1, 2020 23:18
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The Marlboro branded treadmill! *audience oooohs, then coughs, then hacks*
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Jul 2, 2020 01:26
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DaNerd posted:
Now do the math on how much he spent on it.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:06
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yep, packs per day and years smoked. That's like seventy years of smoking forty packets of cigarettes every day. Are you sure you didn't forget to carry the one somewhere? Twenty to a packet, that's nearly eight hundred cigarettes a day, or forty to fifty per hour depending on how much sleep he got.
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Jul 2, 2020 07:18
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Carth Dookie posted:Roll the army and airforce into the sea, whoever doesn't drown gets to join the navy. Then use the savings to fund public health and education systems so you stop regressing back to cro magnon. This but with space and the space force.
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Jul 2, 2020 08:25
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Memento posted:That's like seventy years of smoking forty packets of cigarettes every day. “Calculate lifetime cigarettes”, not lifetime packs. It’s forty cigarettes, or two packs per day, for sixty‐eight years.
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Jul 2, 2020 08:46
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Would a marlboro branded ventilator be an admission that smoking is bad for you
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Jul 2, 2020 10:19
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Platystemon posted:“Calculate lifetime cigarettes”, not lifetime packs. For a truly shocking number find historical price data on cigarettes and calculate how much money he spent to absolutely destroy his own health
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Jul 2, 2020 12:06
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To be fair, he couldn't afford NOT to smoke when it was under $2.50 a pack.
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Jul 2, 2020 13:55
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Platystemon posted:“Calculate lifetime cigarettes”, not lifetime packs. Platystemon posted:“Calculate lifetime cigarettes”, not lifetime packs. This specific guy was 3 packs a day for 45 years and change.
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Jul 2, 2020 14:27
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Found out two weeks ago that an old neighbor of mine, Vietnam vet, died. How? Welp, COPD and on oxygen... and you can guess what next: needed a smoke and exploded, leaving him in an ICU where he didn't make it.
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Jul 2, 2020 15:42
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https://twitter.com/AlanTudyk/status/1278399777307123712 Ah, the old "he was never abusive in front of me" chestnut.
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Jul 2, 2020 16:07
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Someone said this ray fisher guy has release the snyder cut in his profile right? Had anyone else corroborated his story yet?
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Jul 2, 2020 17:03
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yep, packs per day and years smoked. Tobacco in general contains some radioactive elements (lead-210 and polonium-210, the former decaying via the beta pathway and the latter decaying via the alpha pathway), since the tobacco plant basically hoovers up all the minerals it can gets it tiny little root tendrils on before it gets harvested. Once you start smoking, you start inhaling these radioactive elements. Over the lifetime of a serious teenaged smoker to an emphysema-riddled cancer patient, you can end up with some pretty serious accumulations of radioactive elements. Which makes me wonder exactly how much lead lead-210 and polonium-210 that dude's lungs and bones had managed to accumulate in his life time. Honestly, kinda glad I moved from smoking cigarettes to using Zyn. Nicotine by itself ain't much better for me, but at least I'm not turning my lungs and bones into a radioactive element catch.
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A White Guy posted:Which makes me wonder exactly how much lead lead-210 and polonium-210 that dude's lungs and bones had managed to accumulate in his life time. His bones are now mostly lead so he's like Wolverine and indestructible Also "using Zyn" makes it sound like you're some sort of cyberborg
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https://youtu.be/w7eoQl_rxgc Lmao I didn’t even know about the narco-genera.
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Jul 2, 2020 22:19
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the singular vice I kept from the military is a calorie free monster once a week
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A White Guy posted:Which makes me wonder exactly how much lead lead-210 and polonium-210 that dude's lungs and bones had managed to accumulate in his life time. One pack is a about 100 mBq retainer in your lungs and dose of roughly a microsievert.
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Jul 3, 2020 01:12
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I've been smoking 2-3 cigarettes a day for loving years. I quit for a month, start again. Quitting isn't that hard (I guess because I don't smoke much to begin with) but staying quit is hard as balls. Anyways I still smoke cigarettes in 2020, I'm the idiot.
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Jul 3, 2020 01:17
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Phanatic posted:One pack is a about 100 mBq retainer in your lungs and dose of roughly a microsievert. I have no idea what these unit labels are. How many roentgens are we talking?
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Jul 3, 2020 01:36
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bird food bathtub posted:I have no idea what these unit labels are. How many roentgens are we talking? *rushes into thread panting for breath* NOT GREAT... NOT TERRIBLE... LOLOLOLOL Sorry, is it obvious that I'm really tired of that "joke" whenever anything relating to radiation comes up?
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Jul 3, 2020 01:48
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3.6, not great but not terrible
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Jul 3, 2020 01:49
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Wingnut Ninja posted:*rushes into thread panting for breath* NOT GREAT... NOT TERRIBLE... LOLOLOLOL Sounds like someone needs some SAND AND BORON
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Jul 3, 2020 02:01
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:
I’m totally cross posting this to the TFR chat thread, I’m sure that’ll be fun.
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Jul 3, 2020 22:34
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:
this can't be real
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