Comment Re:Any chemists want to weigh in?? (Score 4, Insightful) 256
Chlorine gas is toxic. It was used in shells to poison troops in WW1.
Whereas both hydrogen and oxygen are perfectly safe and have never been known to case any sort of problem whatsoever... well, ok, there was the Hindenburg, and Apollo 1, and...
So if you do the described experiment while locked in a badly-ventilated room, leave it running for long enough to increase Ever Ready's share price by 1%, ignore the eye-watering stink that even a whiff of chlorine will produce and then light a cigarette, you could be in real trouble. If only from all the crap in the cigarette smoke...
However, all this pales into insignificance alongside the experiment's reckless use of the liquid death that is Dihydrogen Monoxide!
Seriously, guys, when everything is described as dangerous, nothing gets treated as dangerous. If you're not sure what it is, don't wait for someone on the internet to tell you not to snort it.