Essay On Gas Mask

The gas mask is a mask with a filter on it to keep you safe from airborne particles and toxic chemicals. The mask is tight to keep your eyes mouth and nose safe from toxic chemicals. The user of the gas mask is not safe from gas our skin can absorb.

Back in World War II Children had school drills where they would put on gas masks. They found it especially hard to do these drills. They had their own gas mask made for children. One of Britain 's model of the child 's gas mask was called Micky Mouse, which was an attempt to make the children want to wear it. The Soviet Union had a different model called PDFD and they believed that a child could not lift his head if the filter was hanging off of the gas mask so they added a hose so that way they could just put the filter in the pouch. They even had a gas mask made for a one year

Gas masks have been used for military, riot police, industrial and for citizen use. For the military sometimes has to fight in very toxic areas therefore they need gas masks to help them. For the riot police there are times where they need to shoot tear gas at people because a large group of people are disobeying the law and need to disperse. The industrial will have gas masks sometimes because there could be o zones in some areas and at least this way you could strap on an air tank and go in and be fine. For they citizen use is either used for decoration, collection, dooms day prepping or just to have if ever needed.

Something you would see a lot of back then was posters. Some of the posters would show how to put on a gas mask properly and would come up with fun rhymes like "loose lips sink ships" or "cough and sneezes spread diseases". They would even play small cartoons in movie theaters for the hope that it would help people with learning on what they should and shouldn 't do and the great importance of carrying a gas mask. So it wouldn 't be uncommon to go into to a town and see people wearing a gas mask or have a pouch with a gas mask