According to the below explanation from Wiki, and by my math, If I smoke 7.5 cigarettes per minute for 24 hours straight, I’m going to die of acute radiation poisoning (as if I just touched highly radioactive plutonium or something). I have a hard time believing that. Thoughts?
Dose from smoking 30 cigarettes a day: 13-60 mSv/year[17][18]
Symptoms of acute radiation (dose received within one day):[4]
0 – 0.25 Sv (0 – 250 mSv): None
0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
3 – 6 Sv (3000 – 6000 mSv): Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
6 – 10 Sv (6000 – 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
Above 10 Sv (10000 mSv): Incapacitation and death.
It’ll cost almost $3,000 for that many cigarettes, please send government grants and donations to fund this scientific endeavor to my paypal account, christopher82179.
Hmm, by my reckoning en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning
“(fatal dose) is ~120 mg in chronic cigarette smokers, smoking an average of 20 non-light cigarettes delivering ~1.7 mg of nicotine each daily”
… given the lack of time to clear your system, you’d be well on your way to dead inside a quarter of an hour. Which would be a blessed relief from radiation poisoning.
The radiation comes from the chemicals used to treat the tobacco in order to mass produce it on an absurd scale.
Have you ever hear the old question as to why smoking related deaths are so common and frequent now, yet people have been smoking …forever? The common answer is that people were generally ignorant about the long term effects of smoking. I can’t say whether that was the case, but a more accurate answer involves the radioactive chemicals used to treat the crops.
Also, people are less likely to die of smallpox, TB, syphilis, etc - the longer they live, the more time they have to die of leisure-related activities.
