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It is important to take things in context. I do not care if you are
careful or not. It is sad you wish to make this a more personal issue,
as I do not.

Dominance exercises again for Mr. J, it would appear. It's something they
teach you in cop school - if you're asking the questions, you're in charge.
If you're answering them, you're not. That's why the officer never answers
the "why did you pull me over" question, merely demands your license and
registration, and asks "do you know..." fill in the ellipses.

Owen answered his own question, rather than the one that was asked -safety
in the manufacture of the monomer doesn't really carry over to safety in
breathing the gases evolved during polymerization. However, if the mystery
writers are correct, HCN, the gas mentioned by name has a distinctive odor
missing from all my experiences with CA. Those include, for the benefit of
the J, the _many_ times puffs of vapor have arisen from punky spots,
especially, or when accelerant has been used. I rather expect heat of
polymerization would answer for that. No bitter almond, though. Even
given the low LD50, I think you can smell it well before it kills you.

Which leads to another answer, I believe. Charcoal is not effective against
HCN, as near as I can find, so while your filters may protect you from the
other things involved, it won't help you there.

To quote Dean Edell, "the plural of anecdote is not data." First
frightening story I heard about CA users involved cardiac arrhythmias,
something for which I could never find documentation, and is no longer
repeated. I think the shooter is repeating anecdote, rather than data, but
he does tag it as personal opinion, so I guess we can take it or leave it.