Second hand smoke damages teen EARS

[Valsacar]

BBC News - Passive smoking 'doubles hearing loss risk among teens'

Someone needs to send this to the good doctor for comment, on my droid or I would.

 

[mcrt]

"It is still unclear how much exposure could be harmful and when the damage might occur. "
"We already knew from our own research that regular active smoking is a significant risk factor leading to hearing loss."

"This research strongly suggests that children exposed to tobacco smoke are at increased risk of hearing loss.

"Further research is needed to demonstrate a causal link, but in the meantime to protect your child's hearing, and health, it would be advisable to avoid smoking around them."

Great article,this is exactly the kind of medical research that's urgently needed by society.
I'm a fanatical supporter of science and it's methods but sometimes i wish i wasn't...

 

[Eddie.Willers]

Pah! What rot!
Scaremongering at its worst!

Notice they didn't say anything about a control protocol or whether other variables were taken into account - like having ear-buds jammed in there hour after hour with an MP3 player belting out the noise and causing the very kind of sensitivity loss (at extremes of frequency range) that such volume exposure is known to cause?

Looks like someone doesn't want his research grant cut...

 

[rothenbj]

I'll go back to the 40's through 60's. We must all be deaf by now. At least we're not blind and dumb.

 

[Vap0rJay]

 

[malyden]

Here's the link to the study info Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg -- Abstract: Secondhand Smoke and Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Adolescents, July 2011, Lalwani et al. 137 (7): 655

 

[Eddie.Willers]

Thanks for the link - but still no sign of consideration of other environmental variables.

 

[Vocalek]

I have some hearing loss, but somehow I feel that my years playing in a R&R band had a lot more to do with that than SHS. The loudest part was practices in the basement, because we had to amplify everything in order to hear instruments and vocals over the drums.

And then my son took up drums and his band(s) practiced in our basement just about every night for 6 or 7 years. We had to crank the TV volume to "11" upstairs in the family room and still could barely follow the program. (Those of you who are fans of This is Spinal Tap will get the joke in the previous sentence.)

My husband has some hearing loss, but it happened right after an explosion took place near him when he was in the Army.

I have friends and relatives who were exposed to SHS, but not loud noises, and they have no hearing loss.

 

[Vocalek]

Just found this:

Medical News: Teens' Hearing Loss Linked to Secondhand Smoke - in Primary Care, Smoking & Tobacco from MedPage Today

"Exposed adolescents were 1.83 times more likely to experience low-frequency hearing loss (95% CI 1.08 to 3.41) than those who had no exposure, according to Anil K. Lalwani, MD, and colleagues from New York University in New York City."

"And the greatest risk for hearing loss -- a 2.72-fold increase (95% CI 1.46 to 5.06) -- was in those with the highest levels of exposure as determined by serum cotinine levels, Lalwani's group reported in the July Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery."

"Limitations of the study include its use of cross-sectional data which doesn't allow assignment of causation, lack of information on duration and sources of secondhand smoke exposure -- including prenatal exposure -- and absence of data on other factors such as exposure to loud noises."

 

[Vocalek]

Just had a thought. How do the researchers know that the SHS exposure wasn't caused by the hearing loss?

 

[Eddie.Willers]

Repeat, ad infinitum, after me...

CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION

 

[TomCatt]

Doesn't everyone already know that teenagers CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING?????

"Limitations of the study include its use of cross-sectional data which doesn't allow assignment of causation, lack of information on duration and sources of secondhand smoke exposure -- including prenatal exposure -- and absence of data on other factors such as exposure to loud noises."

 

[imbt01]

LOL!!! I've "heard" it all now!!

 

[Vap0rJay]

 

[Vocalek]

doesn't everyone already know that teenagers can't hear anything?????

huh? what?

 

[Credo]

"It is still unclear how much exposure could be harmful and when the damage might occur. "
"We already knew from our own research that regular active smoking is a significant risk factor leading to hearing loss."

"This research strongly suggests that children exposed to tobacco smoke are at increased risk of hearing loss.

"Further research is needed to demonstrate a causal link, but in the meantime to protect your child's hearing, and health, it would be advisable to avoid smoking around them."

Great article,this is exactly the kind of medical research that's urgently needed by society.
I'm a fanatical supporter of science and it's methods but sometimes i wish i wasn't...

Hitler chose the colors red, black, and white to front the symbols of the Nazi regime, so we can clearly link those colors (and anyone who likes or wears them) with Genocide. He also spoke German, so it must be that speaking German causes Genocidal behaviors. I think he drank water, ate food, and liked pretty women too!

OK, by the end of the day here...everyone in the world is without doubt a Genocidal murdering ........ Tyrant.

Link link link link...........................................

People just don't buy it anymore...seriously. We're all quietly seething at how stupid the think-tanks and media machines think we are when it comes to their ummm...'scientific quantitative' research.

 

[classwife]

...?? the ear ??...I've always "heard" that smoke was blown elsewhere .......

 

[Demarko]

Earlier today on the news I saw a "study that linked quitting smoking to alzheimers prevention, but they admit that there's no factual data to back it up." Why did that even make the news then?

 

[Credo]

Earlier today on the news I saw a "study that linked quitting smoking to alzheimers prevention, but they admit that there's no factual data to back it up." Why did that even make the news then?

Because true 'editors and journalists' have been pushed out of the media? Why pay a gum-shoe to get stories when amateurs are pumping it out on Google for free. All they gotta do is link to it.

Even if they did try to do real 'reporting', on stories that MATTER, few people with a scoop would trust them to TALK anymore....they don't guard or protect their sources.

Hmm...seems they aren't much interested in 'news' anymore. It's about saying what folks 'want to hear', and audience 'sorting'. Pick your poison and maybe you'll buy whatever book the 'experts' are pushing today It's only $2! And you can have it instantly sent to your e-reader via 4G

 

[Vocalek]

...?? the ear ??...I've always "heard" that smoke was blown elsewhere .......

[I'm trying hard to restrain myself....can't help it!!!]

Punchline: "I don't know; I never looked."