Third Hand Smoke NBC Today Show 05JAN09

Experts now have identified another smoking related threat to childrens health that isnt as easy to get rid of: third-hand smoke.

Thats the term being used to describe the invisible yet toxic brew of gases and particles clinging to smokers hair and clothing, not to mention cushions and carpeting, that lingers long after smoke has cleared from a room. The residue includes heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials that children can get on their hands and ingest, especially if theyre crawling or playing on the floor.

Doctors from Mass General Hospital for Children in Boston coined the term third-hand smoke to describe these chemicals in a new study that focused on the risks they pose to infants and children. The study was published in this months issue of the journal Pediatrics. Everyone knows that second-hand smoke is bad, but they dont know about this, said Dr Jonathan P Winickoff, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Third-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. Your nose isnt lying, he said. The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: Get away.

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[portbue]

Snyderman, sounds not very catholic, she is one of the zionazi jews that want to control USA and the world. They start just with this smoking bans and finish with a big Holocaust of all smokers......

Please see the Milberg experiments.......

[wallycard]

Dr. Snyderman is reporting on factors reported in a journal by OTHER authors, physicians from a Boston hospital.... and your comments come dangerously close to being anti-semitic... please keep your comments relative to the subject matter.

[Frostylude]

This is just brap from liberals. It's these high strung middle aged liberals who are just looking to pussify the next generation even more. I grew up in the 60s, and EVERYONE SMOKED. I mean geez everyone doesn't mind seeing a fatass kid waddle into mickey dees but as soon as you see someone lighting up, god forbid they remain in your presence

[wallycard]

and mothers were putting bourbon in their infant's milk bottles to help them sleep better in the 60s. In the 60s, we didn't know that Nicotine was as addictive as heroin and cocaine. We didn't know chemicals like Hydrogen Cyanide (also used in prison executions) Geraniol (found in pesticides) and Formaldehyde were in cigs. It wasn't until 2006, that we discovered tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels to keep people addicted. This isn't the place to defend smoking...

[TheObliterator92]

What is this crap, it just gives the liberals another excuse to control peoples actions.

[wallycard]

is it possible that researchers are simply trying to promote health?

[ETSisbull]

@gardevoirjarron When has it been proven? The '93 EPA report didn't prove it. The '98 WHO study found that there was "no association between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk" and that the increased risk for adults was not statistically significant. A report out of Canada last year proves that something other than smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmokers. Its is made up and driven by PC. canada.com/health/Lung+cancer+­smokers+looks+different+than+s­moker/3803239/story.html

[magrathean0]

We should have resisted these lunatics properly when they started; now they have a foot in the door

[energydrinkperson06]

thats why i smoke outside it feels like ur suffocating after just smoking like 3 cigs in the house even though i use to have to live in an apartment with 2 pack a day smokers and sometimes someone who smoked 2-4 packs a day and someone else in the same house smoked a pack a day its miserable in a smoky house

[tatomuck18]

cars have to run on cleaner fumes with all this strict regulations. Thats why you never see huge clouds of smoke coming out of car tailpipes you used to see 20-30 years ago.

[eoo8]

what about cars!!

[gardevoirjarron]

@throwshoesatobama but it has been proven

[throwshoesatobama]

@drsmp And another thing doc I know your time is precious but it has been my exp with doc and others in your field that they love to blame whatever ails you smoking these days because it gives them a quick and out the door diagnosis . Its ALL about money. condemn the smoker, tax the smoker, condemn the smoker again for condemning others because all docs say so Tax the smoker and condemn again and pay the doc when you go out the door. since I am a condemned smoker I will enjoy my cigarette

[throwshoesatobama]

@drsmp so just because you are a doc I am to take what ever comes out of your mouth as the gospel. You know it all and I am just an ignorant lowly layman. Yet when asked to for the proof that people are dying from 2nd hand smoke your diagnosis is I am just stupid and are out of time. Thats funny doc and only proves I hit a nerve because you know you don't have any evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that smokers are harming others when they light up much less this 3rd hand BS

[throwshoesatobama]

@gardevoirjarron wrong I don't feel guilty about a damn thing. nobody has ever proven that anybody has ever died from someone else's smoke. And to say that smokers are killers of others would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law that person died solely because of being near someone with a lit cigarette. And you can't because there is no evidence to support this and until it is proven this is just more bogus propaganda. What next Fourth hand smoke? ridiculous

[gardevoirjarron]

@throwshoesatobama second hand smoke is real! u just dont want to believe it because it makes u guilty of hurting people if u ever smoked around someone

[drsmp]

@throwshoesatobama: If you don't see any scientific evidence, then you obviously haven't looked. Instead, you are going by your own ignorant, misinformed, uneducated opinion. How about you spend some time reading medical journals or even speaking to people who work in the medical field and then maybe you'll learn something. But then again, you haven't listened to me and I am a doctor. I suppose stupid people like yourself will always be stupid. I wont waste any more time responding to you.