If they care about smoking, they will flip their shit over a lathe. They are also pretty loud and will cause vibration through the floor. His neighbors will start complaining when there is a constant humming coming through the floorboards while he tries making wands at 2 AM drunk.
The lathe is a tiny tabletop lathe. It is way too tiny and shitty to cause any sort of vibration. The noise is probably no louder than a vacuum.
Now would a full extraction and denture fitting count? Because I feel like that could be the easiest to "deal with" as far as a major medical problem. Unless you mean infection leading to sepsis, which is arguably just as likely...
Lathe sperging here -
Cobes lathe is a small lathe that relies on speed for cutting not tool sharpness, it was never levelled or ballenced, or more importantly fixed down correctly I have 3 lathes a Drummond M-Type pre B model that is over 120 years old and is a treadle actuated lathe, it's full steel and cast iron and even flat out tops 3/400 rmp and does everything I require of it and apart from swearing when I fuck up is nearly totally soundless and vibration free, I have a Myford Super 7 Large Bore that thing can vary from wispier quiet to screaming banshee of death depending on the speed I'm spinning the work and how deep I am cutting, and a small bench top Emco 2000 DB/SL that is the closest thing I own to Cobes machine - that thing is loud an causes vibration and it doesn't matter what I do to quiet it the vibrations happen.
My Emco is mounted to a 2in thick slab of marble, a sheet of leather and then some felt matting, now if I put it on a work bench in my small shop it's relatively quiet inside my shop, but if I leave it running with a centred load without any cutting force it can build up a vibration I can hear on my wheely bins and after a while on the door to my shop, and that's a "Hobby" tool I've levelled, centred and made sure all the oiling beats specifications small non mounted machines that have high RPM's will always cause vibrations and not all of them are directly related to the machine it's self.
His Lathe is resting on it's hard rubber feet, that the owners manual says to remove and bolt down to a heavy duty work surface, and to centre your head and tail stocks and also use sharp tools and if doing long work use a Steady or Traveller, he's not done or doing any of that so he is running a machine at load (more than likely the wrong load as well for his set up) and it's a screaming humming bashiee of death.
Just to give you an example, My Drummond Pre-B can turn wood and I have a freehand tool rest for it, I broke a stick on the back of a old chair last year and it was just at the limmit of my work holding ability I was able to turn a replacement on it at 10pm at night and had to hold off installing it as the sound of a mallet would have been louder than turning it.
Also fun fact for you all, Electric wood lathes throw more dust than Wheel / great wheel lathes do more traditional lathes force you to have sharp tools far sharper than modern turners use and cut the fibres rather than smashing through them, I don't want to get into a argument of tooling geometry here but Speed compensates for a lack of tool sharpness.