Wouldn't some coolant options be healthier than the grinding dust?

Its pretty easy to wear a half face dust mask to avoid breathing
the dust and to clean up aftewards.

I don't know how to deal with mist coolent. Seems like anything
wet would plug up a resperator pretty quick and you have to
deal possible machine damage by the moisture as well.

No doubt that coolent gives a better finish, but for a small
rockwell/delta toolmakers grinder (like I have ) your not going
to compete with a real surface grinder anyway.

To me it easier to deal with the devil that I know vs the
devil that I don't know.

chuck