Invisible smoke

Agree - we should go back to the good old days of asbestosis, mesothelioma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, miners' lung, pneumoconiosis, silicosis, etc etc.

Then we could move on and bring back rickets, TB, polio, dysentery, and cholera.

Ah, the good old days........

Originally Posted by Nidge41

I'm with you on that one mate, can't beat the smell of burning coal in a morning when you open the door.

I come from a family of miners which stretch back hundreds of years. I remember the mornings when the smoke used to billow down the chimney when there was a wind.

Ah them were the days.

They where in deed ,cleaning the ashes out before school and chopping the firewood on saturday morning, loved it (especially the axe) .Of course these days kids would be taken into care if they where asked to do that these days

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Agree - we should go back to the good old days of asbestosis, mesothelioma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, miners' lung, pneumoconiosis, silicosis, etc etc.

Then we could move on and bring back rickets, TB, polio, dysentery, and cholera.

Ah, the good old days........

Yes but ,as my dad would say ,"it will put hairs on your chest"

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Agree - we should go back to the good old days of asbestosis, mesothelioma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, miners' lung, pneumoconiosis, silicosis, etc etc.

Then we could move on and bring back rickets, TB, polio, dysentery, and cholera.

Ah, the good old days........

back to back communal toilets/ clogs /rotten teeth /the black death

and all because of 1 cigarette smoking northerner toasting his bum around a coal fire . wow you just never realise the consequences till its too late .

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Originally Posted by martyh

They where in deed ,cleaning the ashes out before school and chopping the firewood on saturday morning, loved it (especially the axe) .Of course these days kids would be taken into care if they where asked to do that these days

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Yes but ,as my dad would say ,"it will put hairs on your chest"

on the inside

Originally Posted by papa smurf

back to back communal toilets/ clogs /rotten teeth /the black death

and all because of 1 cigarette smoking northerner toasting his bum around a coal fire . wow you just never realise the consequences till its too late .

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on the inside

and all the coffing was down to "you need some fresh air in your lungs ,now get in the coal house and break some coal up "....(my old dad again)

a good tip when breaking coal up for 3 hrs is to breath through your mouth ,stops you getting black snot

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by martyh

and all the coffing was down to "you need some fresh air in your lungs ,now get in the coal house and break some coal up "....(my old dad again)

a good tip when breaking coal up for 3 hrs is to breath through your mouth ,stops you getting black snot

you just described my childhood -I'm welling up ohh the happy memories

[Tim Deegan]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Anyone saw the adverts for 'invisible smoke' (smoking)?
are they just making it up?
can I get high from breathing in the fumes of that Bob Marley stuff without actually smoking it?

Smoke is vapours. If you can smell it, then you are breathing it in. It's as simple as that.

Just the same as a fart is small particles of s##t, which you breath in if you can smell it.

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Originally Posted by martyh

and all the coffing was down to "you need some fresh air in your lungs ,now get in the coal house and break some coal up "....(my old dad again)

a good tip when breaking coal up for 3 hrs is to breath through your mouth ,stops you getting black snot

The reason you get black snot is because your nose is doing what it is supposed to do. It's filtering out the coal dust, and helping to stop it reaching your lungs (which is where it does the damage).

Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

The reason you get black snot is because your nose is doing what it is supposed to do. It's filtering out the coal dust, and helping to stop it reaching your lungs (which is where it does the damage).

No way ,all those hours breathing through my mouth to stop my snot being black and i should have been doing the other way around ....who'd a thunk it

[Tim Deegan]

Originally Posted by martyh

No way ,all those hours breathing through my mouth to stop my snot being black and i should have been doing the other way around ....who'd a thunk it

You would be amazed how many people don't realise.