# the dangers of blowing glass (early death?)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 11, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-blowing-glass-early-death/372348 "2006-09-11T22:18:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-blowing-glass-early-death/372348/21 "2006-09-13T16:27:07Z")

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[QUOTE=metonymic]  
wow, I spent the first five minutes at [butterflavoringlunginjury.com](http://butterflavoringlunginjury.com) convinced it was all an elaborate hoax. The URL alone is hilarious.

That it’s not is pretty alarming…  
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Yah no kidding. Who would have thought that making popcorn was more dangerous than sticking your face up to a glass furnace?

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangers-of-blowing-glass-early-death/372348/22 "2006-09-13T18:34:44Z")

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One non-hazardous condition some glassblowers get is Gillespie’s Pouches. That’s big, puffed-out cheeks. Some twenty years ago, a medical researcher noticed that jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie had cheeks like a glassblower. He asked Diz if he could study his face in the lab. Gillespie said he’d do it if the condition would be named after him. Now you know.

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