This article highlights a new study with potentially devastating implications. If the findings hold up, residue from smoking could trigger cancer through exposure even through the skin, as would happen to infants shuffling along a nicotine-stained carpet.
But electronic cigarettes get two damning paragraphs all their own here.
Read this and see the noose tightening not only on all public smoking, but on electronic cigarette use in public, as well.
Study reveals new details on the dangers of third-hand smoke
But electronic cigarettes get two damning paragraphs all their own here.
Co-author James Pankow points out that the results of this study should raise concerns about the purported safety of electronic cigarettes.
"Nicotine, the addictive substance in tobacco smoke, has until now been considered to be non-toxic in the strictest sense of the term," says Kamlesh Asotra of the University of California's Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, which funded this study. "What we see in this study is that the reactions of residual nicotine with nitrous acid at surface interfaces are a potential cancer hazard, and these results may be just the tip of the iceberg."
Read this and see the noose tightening not only on all public smoking, but on electronic cigarette use in public, as well.
Study reveals new details on the dangers of third-hand smoke