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From: mab@ttidcb.UUCP (Michael A. Bloom)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: How bad is rosin vapor?
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 02:17:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 16 02:17:43 1985
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In article <212@ihlpg.UUCP> fish@ihlpg.UUCP (Bob Fishell) writes:
>
>I've been doing a lot of soldering lately.  Try as I might, I can't
>completely avoid getting a snootful of rosin vapor from time to
>time.  Now, I know this can't be good for me, but is rosin vapor
>something that's been singled out by, say, OSHA as a significant
>occupational hazard?

While I'm unaware of such a study, my own experience indicates that
rosin vapor can indeed have bad effects.

When I was a teenager, I spent much of my time building experimental
circuits.  The fumes from the rosin after a while would cause my
breathing to become labored, much like an asthmatic, and It would
often take half an hour from the time I left the room where I'd been 
soldering before I could breathe freely again.  

Occasionally It was so bad that I would have to borrow my sister's
prescription asthma inhaler.
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--    Michael Bloom 	---  {philabs,trwrb,cadovax,randvax}!ttidca!mab