George wrote:

Mucus is no respecter of particle size. It'll trap anything it contacts.
Thus, despite what SWMBO says, keep the hair in your nose long to create
the turbulent flow which maximizes catch.

Might want to do some reading on what really hurts - inorganic particles
and
organic poisons. Not to mention that the data which shows a modest
increase in emphysema is based on particulate environments where the air
was opaque with suspended cotton/saw dust.

Believe what you want to. They're your lungs. Just don't come crying to me
when you've wrecked them.



"J. Clarke" wrote in message
...

The trouble is that the stuff that your nose fills with, while it is
annoying, doesn't really hurt you--it gets caught by your nose, which is
there for that purpose, and you get rid of it with a few good blows.
The stuff that _hurts_ you is the fine stuff that gets past your nose and
into
your lungs and stays there. What your clean nose is telling is that
there
isn't anything in the air that it can capture--that's all. It's not
telling you the air is _clean_.

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--John
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