will smelling joss sticks cause cancer
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At temples always got alot of people burning joss sticks and very smelly.
If you smell those joss sticks for a long period of time like if you work there and everyday you smell the joss sticks burning, will it actually cause cancer?
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Yes, it will.
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Chester, will breathing air cause cancer?
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Originally posted by ditzy:
Yes, it will.
got anybody get cancer from smelling joss sticks before?
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you don't write 'it will...' you'll have to replace it with 'it may'
anyway, it varies
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Originally posted by Chester_Lim:
got anybody get cancer from smelling joss sticks before?
How the fark would I know? You asked, I answered. Now you ask me who? Fark you. I tell you tan ah kow died, who the hell is tan ah kow? I tell you tan ah kow the 2nd elder brother died, who the hell is that? Fark.
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Originally posted by dangerboi:
you don't write 'it will...' you'll have to replace it with 'it may'
anyway, it varies
Yup, almost anything in great amount will lead to something bad
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You say great amount. Of course it will. the chance is there
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Originally posted by ditzy:
How the fark would I know? You asked, I answered. Now you ask me who? Fark you. I tell you tan ah kow died, who the hell is tan ah kow? I tell you tan ah kow the 2nd elder brother died, who the hell is that? Fark.
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how often we go to temple to breathe in air from joss sticks as compared to us walking on the road everyday and take in carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide etc from vehicle fume??
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Originally posted by Chester_Lim:
At temples always got alot of people burning joss sticks and very smelly.
If you smell those joss sticks for a long period of time like if you work there and everyday you smell the joss sticks burning, will it actually cause cancer?
Yes.
It's best not to breathe the joss sticks fumes continuosly, but I don't think people will sit beside the joss stick whole day. Or at least they should be wise enough not to.
People usually pay their respects and leave, they don't stand around all day at the same location.
However we should watch our house if we put joss sticks.
Btw, my house and my dharma center don't use normal joss stick.. cos normal joss stick are made of cheap materials that may be unhealthy etc. We use premium incense that is very very nice smelling (sandalwood aroma) and probably doesn't have all those cancer causing junk materials. And we only burn incense when chanting etc, only 1 incense.
However what people must watch out for is those who burn joss stick in their house everyday, and there is no good ventilation. That will be harmful for health.
Long-term Exposure to Incense Raises Cancer Risk
p.s. usually it is the Chinese folk tradition people who offer joss sticks at temples for worship. For Buddhists, there is no need to place joss stick, just bowing or prostrating is enough.
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actually I also dunno why need joss stick to pray one's respect in a temple?
is it because the smoke that rises to the sky, the god will know?
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Originally posted by ditzy:
How the fark would I know? You asked, I answered. Now you ask me who? Fark you. I tell you tan ah kow died, who the hell is tan ah kow? I tell you tan ah kow the 2nd elder brother died, who the hell is that? Fark.
HUH!!! tan ah kow and the 2nd elder brother really died from smelling joss sticks?