Inhalation was discussed, including one scene when the idea of offering victims food and drink was shot down because inhalation would be compounded if victims got their hands near their mouths, and another with a loudspeaker warning to the cordoned victims to avoid drinking, eating or touching their mouths, again, because it might aggravate the inhalation problem.
".....warning to the cordoned victims to avoid drinking, eating or touching their mouths, again, because it might aggravate the inhalation problem."
Figures.....did they also say that folks should have stopped breathing when the dirty bomb detonated? I'll bet not....
Touching your mouth after external decon would in fact be insignificant. "Dirty" bombs are/will be constructed so as to generate and spread fine radioactive PARTICULATE as wisely as possible, to cause insidious "radiation sickness"......they are not a nuclear or "neutron" detonation or reaction. Radioactive particulate is spread by conventional explosives OR OTHERWISE DISBURSED without an explosion.
Having been exposed to breathing such dust prior to a rinseoff, I would have no qualms about hand/mouth contact, considering the repeated inhalations (breaths) of particulate-laden air into my particulate-trapping lungs.