[Hank Rearden]

Genetic allergies?

What percentage of people are like your family? Should we micromanage everyone's behavior based on the miniscule allergics?

[Ben Mugged]

Conclusion by a military flight surgeon was the allergy developed due to long term exposure to cigarette smoke. Interestingly enough, cigar smoke does not seem to affect me unless it is in a very closed environment like a car. Don't think it is genetic because Grandma chewed snuff well into her 90's and Grandpa raised tobacco in south Georgia. He was second generation tobacco farmer.