On 3/7/2012 11:35 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Stormin Mormon wrote:
Many people are allergic to tobacco, but wood smoke is OK. I am one
such.


What symptoms do you develop when exposed to cigarette smoke?

Anaphylaxix?
Hives?
Overwhelming compulsion to consume badger musk?

Or do you just not like it?



It seems allergy to cigarette smoke would be easy to demonstrate.
There is plentiful evidence that components of cigarette smoke can be
antigenic. However, most of the testing has been done with cutaneous
exposure to tobacco extract (as with other allergy testing).
Here's a review for the interested:

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/NNBBPT.ocr

Steve

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