BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agoNon-smokers in the 1970s and 1980s, how the hell did you survive the second hand smoke?message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down113
arrow-up1215arrow-down1message-squareNon-smokers in the 1970s and 1980s, how the hell did you survive the second hand smoke?BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-squareVeloxization@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months ago How they are not completely mortified by that, I will never know. I once heard a claim that they just can’t smell it themselves. I can believe it, because our senses tend to filter out sensations that are continuous.
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe smoke itself also just clogs up your sense of taste and smell so you can also not notice other scents even if they aren’t constant.
minus-squareVeloxization@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI was going to say this, too, but I was too lazy to fact check so I left it out. c: In other words, I’ve heard about this too.
I once heard a claim that they just can’t smell it themselves. I can believe it, because our senses tend to filter out sensations that are continuous.
The smoke itself also just clogs up your sense of taste and smell so you can also not notice other scents even if they aren’t constant.
I was going to say this, too, but I was too lazy to fact check so I left it out. c: In other words, I’ve heard about this too.