Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!rasp From: rasp@bmcg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: why smoke? Message-ID: <1049@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 12:22:20 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.1049 Posted: Tue Jun 19 12:22:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:40:48 EDT Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego Lines: 22 I'm curious about something: Are ex-smokers more sensitive to second hand smoke than non-smokers? In my own case I smoked from ages 13 through 32. In the ten years since I quit, I've taken up running. I can't stand second-hand cigarette smoke! Physically, I find it very uncomfortable and psychologically, I feel that it is threatening to my own health. I think that I avoid being a jerk about my anxieties; but, I don't hesitate to ask people not to smoke in my office. The question is, do any other retired smokers think that THEY might be even more sensitive than those who have never smoked? Has there ever been any clinical examination of this phenomenon? I am curious, but no longer yellow (fingered) Ron Perloff