Talk:Airbending/@comment-76.24.189.176-20120121100340/@comment-76.24.189.176-20120212052124

^ You are missing the point, too. Perhaps I am writing too much. It isn't a stretch. All a firebender has to do is exhale into a fire created in their hand and carbon dioxide has reached it. Take it up from there. You don't need bending to exhale into a flame. And especially if they can bend on a sub atomic level like with lightning, they should be able to convert the CO2 they breath into the flame into a CO flame.

You are right about breath control being important for other things though. It is also truly important for martial arts, and I suppose could be applied to every element. Air is breath related for obvious reasons.

However, I highly doubt that water and earth "come from the breathe" as much as fire. Therefore, there must be something about the element of fire that is different than water and earth. My theory is the breathe control helps with increased oxidization process. This must exist in some form or there would be no fire, weather or not the breathing is actually the source of it. And if they control oxygen within the fire to a certain degree, they can probably also control carbon within the fire to a certain degree. If they can do that then the poison gas (carbon monoxide) can come from the flame with the proper technique that we haven't seen yet (like literally breathing out into it). And if a poison gas comes from a flame, is it not a poisonous flame? At the very least, you can't prove it's impossible which you seem to be intent on.

Also, smoke only comes from fire and/or something that is burning. Burning is fire. Period. You won't see smoke classified under anything but fire for this reason, unless of course there was a separate category for I don't know say poisonous gas. And firebenders HAVE created limited amounts of smoke in the old show, even if they didn't bend any. It came from the fire they bended often even if nothing caught fire from it. So at the very least they can create smoke, and the technique can probably be improved to smokebending. But even if it can't, creating smoke is all you would need to create a smoke screen, or fill a closed room with toxic smoke (or a poisonous gas).

It's totally possible. Sorry.