Is it okay to smoke while performing CPR on someone who's dying anyway?

[Bucky]

... What if it's on someone who's dying anyway?

[MrCoffee]

1. If they too are a smoker, they'd probably thank you, but for the dying.

That may be the best sentence I've ever written.

[Bucky]

2. Wow. That really is eerily Faulknerian.

[billyoc]

5. I really never do this, and I hope I'm wrong.

You might want to make it "were a smoker" to match the verb tenses.

:hide:

[Bucky]

6. Naw, it's colloquial speech. Referring to one person as a "they" lets you break other rules too.

[billyoc]

8. Ah, cool, thanks.

[MrCoffee]

10. Which pronoun would you have used?

I think that sentence is absolutely correct in every way.

[Dogtown]

3. The smoke goes in their lungs.

They go in the dirt.
The smoke leaches into Gaia's flesh....


Unless they're cremated.
Then the smoke is released and we all have to breathe 1st hand corpse-smoke AND 2nd hand cigarette smoke.

Oh, wait....
Will burning the tobacco smoke *purify* it?

[Javaman]

4. Perhaps you should check if you are out first.

Think about it.

[rug]

7. The abdominal cavity does make a handy ashtray.

[mitchum]

9. It's cool, but if you're doing an emergency tracheostomy...

make sure you don't drop any ashes in the hole