nose and mouth masks.

[mm]

On Jay Leno.

Package of those thick-paper or cotton masks that go over your mouth and nose. Includes the words:

"Mask offers no respiratory protection".

What a deal!

Headlines.

[Frank]

Dust masks do offer protection from dusts but not toxic gasses or germs. He left that out ;)

[LSMFT]

It's not a gas mask. It's just a particle filter. Since there is no tight air seal, particles can go around it too.

[Steve B]

It's for looks. If you buy it for protection, it says a lot about you.

Steve

[Thomas]

You wear them to protect others from your germs.

[Molly Brown]

Good quality respirators used to state that they protected from asbestos on the package but not anymore. The manufacturers are now so scared of being sued that they don=92t want to put it on the package anymore. Some attorneys somewhere are making a whole lot of money.

[Steven L.]

I use surgical masks.

They work well enough to keep dust out.

-- Steven L.

[mm]

I don't know. If they protect from dust, I think that would be respiratory protection. I don't think you mean from dust settling on your nose.