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The dangers of smoking have been well established and are pretty much universally accepted.  The dangers of 2nd hand smoke, inhaling smoke from somebody else’s cigarette, has also been shown to be dangerous.  A new study indicates that smelling the smoke on somebody’s clothes could also be dangerous.

This latest potential danger, coined “third hand smoke”, is highly controversial and really isn’t well documented yet.  It is an interesting possibility, though, and should give everybody reason to think again about smoking and being around people who smoke.

Read the excerpt from the article below then click on the link at the bottom to be taken to the original article if you would like to read more about this controversial research.

In the tests, contaminated surface exposed to "high but reasonable" amounts of the pollutant nitrous acid – emitted by unvented gas appliances and in car exhaust – boosted levels of newly formed TSNAs 10-fold.

BBC News – ‘Third-hand smoke’ could damage health

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