Why should EH&S and FS professionals avoid inhaling the smoke produced when tar paper and roofing shingles smolder and burn?
a) It can produce contact dermatitis on the skin and burn the bronchial tree.
b) Byproducts of combustion can settle in the lungs and produce mesothelioma.
c) Inhaling the smoke involves the risk of stimulating respiratory ailments or of contracting throat and lung cancer.
d) Inhaling the smoke increases the carboxyhemoglobin to hemoglobin ratio possibly leading to asphyxia.