Posted by Alyxis on 19/6/2009, 11:59 pm, in reply to "update"
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Hello Travis
It's not that 'one time', nor is it the countless times that nothing happens when lighting up while on oxygen. It takes only one, when an errant spark or flame catches the oxygen just right, that you end up immolating your body and lungs. This is simply an unacceptable risk to me.
Do you remember your high school science class? The demonstration where they had the 2 balloons; one filled with air, the other with pure oxygen? The teacher touches the flame to the air one, and it pops, but nothing else. The teacher then touches the flame to the one with pure oxygen, and it explodes in a gigantic fireball.
I have no wish, nor desire to experience what that balloon went through first-hand. Burning the insides of my throat and lungs, and my skin with oxygen-assisted fire sounds like a very painful thing to do, and if it doesn't kill me in one shot, I have a suspicion that I will wish it did while I recover.
I am having a very, very hard time wrapping my head around this. I am smoking on oxygen right now. I've accepted what smoking is doing to my health. Why would I also accept going out, instantaneously, in a 'blaze of glory' as it were, just to enjoy my habit? Personally, I'd rather continue smoking a bit longer than even chance dying right here, right now, in a very painful fashion.
This is why I've personally not responded to your previous posts. It just seems like a very dumb risk to take, to me. Why would I want someone else to take it? Why would I encourage someone to do that to someone else?
I've tried to dissuade you from this line of thought. I've posted about it, I've tried just stopping posting about it, and now this.
Listen; smoking is a very pleasurable thing to me. If I'm encouraging people to encourage others to take what I consider stupid, brainless risks just to satisfy a fetish, I really want nothing more to do with this.
--Alyxis
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