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> Can you hide from wildfire smoke by merely closing your windows?

Um, yes? That's what we do every summer. Very little smoke gets in compared to an open window

Blast overpressure has a way of opening windows. And they're hard to close once the glass has become shrapnel.

"very little radiation" is still too much.

bananas are slightly more radioactive than background radiation

Everyone who eats a banana (eventually) dies. Coincidence? I think not!

"very little nuclear fallout radiation" is still too much.

Background radiation and bananas won't stay in your lungs... normally.