Alright, so I just had a moment when thinking about the lore of Caustic and stuff. So, as revealed by the devs recently, Caustic gas is corrosive, which explains why it damages Pathfinder and other...
@Sir_Named Guess we’ll find out in S5. My own opinion is that he had a failed experiment in which the gas affected his respiratory system and he now uses a mobile respirator (that bulging tank on his person) to breathe. Either that or that tank converts the NOX gas into breathable air without affecting him.