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Tell it how it is.

No cigarettes either. But it's OK to go camping and live in a cloud of smoke for days. I wonder how many cigarettes a day equals being in a big campground with fires everywhere for 2 days is?



An AQI of 250 plus is equivalent to 7 cigarettes a day:

https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smok....


It depends how much time you spend outside? I’m just thinking back to my days in Beijing when 250 PPI was not a bad day.


The parent commenter was referring to camping, therefore all day.


What about an AQI of ~1500? Yeah, we lived through that here 4 years ago during the fires here in Oregon, while waiting to find out if we’d told to evac.


Once the AQI exceeds 300 or so, I would run an air purifier at home (keeping the windows closed) and wear an N95 mask whenever I venture outdoors.

Air filtration works very well for smoke (and other particulates).


Presumably the risk with cigarettes is addiction, whereas that is less of an issue with alcohol because alcohol is significantly less addictive than nicotine.


Alcohol is more addictive than nicotine. The "advantage" of nicotine is that it creates a physical dependence more readily at smaller doses, but alcohol is psychologically pervasive. To the point where entire cultures have gone to war over it throughout history.


Ugh I knew there would be someone who tried to push this ludicrous claim.

Obviously we are talking about physical addiction, not some cultural nonsense.


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