Vince Pitelka on tue 10 may 05
Adding to Mel's comment about smoking, I'd like to emphasize the gravity of
the situation. My apologies for sounding a little preachy below, but
perhaps this is where a little preaching is necessary.
A non-smoker's healthy lung is lined with "cilia"- small hair-like
protrusions that capture airborne particles and move the mucous over the
surface of the lung tissue. Have you ever been in a smoky or dusty
situation and subsequently coughed up discolored phlegm? That is the lung's
natural protective response. The cilia capture the dust or smoke particles
and move them up towards the bronchial passages, and the natural coughing
reflex expels the contaminants as phlegm.
The cilia in a healthy lung can expel most dust particles including all but
the finest silica particles. This isn't permission to breath dust. Any
dust is hard on your lungs, and it's the finest silica particles that will
kill you. But the point is that smoking kills the cilia, so the smoker's
lungs cannot expel even the coarse silica particles, and lung problems like
silicosis advance much more quickly. The smoker's lungs loose their ability
to expel foreign contaminants.
Sorry for the graphic description, but smokers really need to know this
stuff.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
Cat Jarosz on tue 10 may 05
In a message dated 5/10/2005 1:45:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
vpitelka@DTCCOM.NET writes:
cilia in a healthy lung can expel most dust particles including all but
the finest silica particles. This isn't permission to breath dust. Any
dust is hard on your lungs, and it's the finest silica particles that will
kill you. But the point is that smoking kills the cilia, so the smoker's
lungs cannot expel even the coarse silica particles, and lung problems like
silicosis advance much more quickly. The smoker's lungs loose their ability
to expel foreign contaminants.
Sorry for the graphic description, but smokers really need to know this
stuff.
- Vince
Please Please listen to Vince on this one... It took me yrs to get any
cilia back into my lungs once I finally was able to get that monkey off my back.
I believe I had one lonely cilia left and it ab scramed when it saw the
HUGE sweep up job it had... I kid you not. sounds funny and I had the
gary lawson lone cilia in a smokers lung cartoon ( it was a picture of one
cilia playing solitare cards ) it all makes for a funny joke but it isnt a
JOKE....
If there is any way possible that you can keep smoking out of the studio
and your not so young that you feel invincible try to take that outside for
your future!!! Smoking is really bad for your lungs but smoking and being
a potter will expidite the damage expotentially... more than double I
believe... think about how you inhale deeply ... more deeply than a regular
breather... I have permanent lung damage and wish I had listened to common sense
way back when... though it wasnt so much I didnt listen as much as it was
ADDICTION !!! so for my fellow addicts please try to take the smoking
outside as much as possible ...
Plus Not such a good idea to drag an oxygen tank around when your
firing a kiln ka boom a trip to the moon alice.. and a woo hoo woo hoo
hoo commercial no one spinnin on head for that scene... and trust me
if you are a smoker in the studio long enough you will end up with a tank
and sooner than you think...
Cat Jarosz... not trying to scare anyone unnecessarily , just a heart to
heart talk to my fellow addicts in hopes that even ONE potter will try
harder to go outside to slow down the damage to their lungs...
http://www.guildcrafts.com/cat/
V)''(V woof & >^..^< mew; Chicks with beards rule !!!
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URL Krueger on tue 10 may 05
Since smoking seems to be the topic of the day and there are
those who believe cancer to be an old-persons disease let
me add that my wife's 42 yr old son was admitted to the
hospital today for his few remaining days. Last week he
had what appeared to be a stroke but what has turned out to
be lung cancer that has spread to the brain. And, yes, he
has been a heavy smoker since age 15.
Please, I didn't post this for your sympathy, but if you are
of the religious ilk a prayer or two might be noticed.
Thanks...
--
Earl K...
Bothell WA, USA
Tracy Wilson on wed 11 may 05
> so for my fellow addicts please try to take the smoking
>outside as much as possible ...
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Those poor little cilia die whether you smoke in the studio or outside.
They are damaged by the smoke and unable to rid themselves (and your
lungs) of other harmful particles. I found the easiest way to quit after
smoking for 16 years was to get pregnant :-) Hey, it worked for me...
Tracy Wilson (smoke-free for the last 18 years)
Saltbox Pottery
4 Shaw Rd.
Woolwich, ME 04579
1-800-755-7687
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