nightlight, can you answer me this. You say there is no tar in smoking. I smoked years ago at age 19 with a friend. We went stupid and smoked one smoke after another chain smoking. I didn't stop until I started feeling odd, far away and nauseous. The feeling was frightening and finally I was overtaken with salivating uncontrollably and hit by extreme nausea. I ran and vomited up blood and a dark brown, almost black like liquid.. Nothing else came out, no sign of the usual vomit.

Now, I had not been doing anything else, other than smoking. I went home and had to go to bed and went into a drug like sleep. Luckily I recovered by the next day. Are you going to tell me that it was somethign else? Never in my life have I had such an attack, other than after that chainsmoking and the stuff I vomited up, with blood was digusting. It was exactly like liquid or tar type liquid. i cannot readily describe it and there was NO normal looking vomit.

I believe I was quite close to death, as my entire body during that before I vomited was cold/numb, I was far away, floating and senses almost shut down and the person who was with me was talking, but I could hardly hear them, I could see their lips moving and that was it and I could hardly speak or answer... The only thing i reckon that saved me was vomiting. The fact blood came out as well as dark liquid, was enough for me and once I did that, things began to improve gradually and I recovered as I said, the following day.

Nicky.