Survey: How many of SWIY and SWIY's friends practice Safer Sniffing?

[silenius]

You could do me a great favor answering those questions:

a) Did SWIY know the term "Safer Sniffing" before SWIY read this thread's subject.
b) What's the percentage of people around SWIY who are practicing Safer Sniffing.
c) The top 3 reasons NOT to practice Safer Sniffing as given by the people around SWIY.

I ask purely out of personal interest in risk reduction, that means that none of the answers is going to be used in any further context.... (not even anonymized).

[fnord]

swim is the only one of his friends that knows/cares

[Heretic.Ape.]

safer sniffing? make sure not to get any glue on your nose or your finger will get stuck

[old hippie 56]

Thought he was talking about the sinus seasons or the buffet at the Chinese diner.

[fnord]

for those that dont know:
sharing straws/bills can pass hepatitis around.i know its nice to share with your friends but...

in fact i think i might make a post on this.

[sparks1420]

wow, swim is gonna have to learn this and use this from now on..

[fnord]

basically dont share straws with anyone you wouldent share a needle with,so that shold mean noone i hope!

[silenius]

Originally Posted by fnord

basically dont share straws with anyone you wouldent share a needle with,so that shold mean noone i hope!

this advice is not really good..

I don't have real numbers at hand but an astonishingly large group of people lives with Hepatitis without even knowing it.

From http://www.worldhepatitisawarenessday.com/whatare.shtml
* "Unfortunately, many people with chronic hepatitis C may not experience any symptoms at all"
* "Symptoms occur in about 70 per cent of adults who have hepatitis B. It may take several months after a person has been infected for symptoms to appear"

So, I'd rather say "basically dont share straws with anyone, never ever"..

[fnord]

Originally Posted by silenius

this advice is not really good..

I don't have real numbers at hand but an astonishingly large group of people lives with Hepatitis without even knowing it.

From http://www.worldhepatitisawarenessday.com/whatare.shtml
* "Unfortunately, many people with chronic hepatitis C may not experience any symptoms at all"
* "Symptoms occur in about 70 per cent of adults who have hepatitis B. It may take several months after a person has been infected for symptoms to appear"

So, I'd rather say "basically dont share straws with anyone, never ever"..

that was basicly what i was trying to say,but maybe i should of worded it better because there are people out there that actually do share needles