Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft
Subject: Re: SMOKE machine problem ??
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From: Tomi Holger Engdahl 
Date: 18 Jul 1999 14:21:43 +0300
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Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Evan90295  writes:
 
> I was present and found the haze from the smoke machine to be especially
> irritating.  I was coughing a lot before leaving.  A few minutes later,
...
> Is it possible that large chemical concentration in smoke juice could
> cause symptoms like this?  

Good smoke juices are not especially irrating. They will cause the
"sore throat" and similar thigns to normal people. Asthmatics can
get very irrated from the normal smoke juice, so be warned on this.

The one thing to keep your eye on is that there at leas has been 
low quality inexpensive smoke fluids on the markets which were
not good quality. I have found out some smoke fluids to be much
more irrating than others. Maybe they happened to get some
smoke fluid which had been of bad quality (there might have
been somethign there whuch was not supposed to be there) or the smoke
machine was somehow broken (heated the some fluid too much which caused
chemicals in it to decompose to more harmful ones).

-- 
Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
Take a look at my electronics web pages at http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/