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Increasing amounts of research show that hazardous smoke residues can be absorbed through the skin, ingested, and inhaled months and even years after smoke has dissipated.
The latest study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, shows how tobacco smoke from outdoor air can seep into a nonsmoking classroom and coat its surfaces, and how those hazardous chemicals often become airborne again and circulate throughout buildings via central air-conditioning systems.
From The Washington Post : Thirdhand smoke is widespread and may be dangerous, mounting evidence shows
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @06:55PM (10 children)
We are now literally being scared by smoke and mirrors.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @07:06PM (2 children)
The stress induced by reading about the dangers of third hand smoke and how that stress will shorten our lives.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Friday May 11 2018, @01:02AM
I see your forth hand and raise you my hind leg.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday May 11 2018, @09:08AM
The stress induced by reading about the stress induced by reading about the stress induced by reading about the dangers.... Screw it, I'm going back to bed!
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday May 10 2018, @07:37PM (1 child)
Although the media is in the business of selling news, eliciting fear and drama are tops for motivating customers to buy, and the media overdramatizes and sometimes outright lies so that it's often hard to tell which of the many things to fear should be feared the most, have you considered that maybe this 3rd hand smoke problem is real?
Its sounds like far from the most serious problem we face, but if dealing with it is cheap, simple, and quick, why not take those few modest actions?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @08:00PM
Nothing is ever cheap, simple, and quick and typically requires a regulated industry like asbestos remediation or mold removal. You know, where the tent the entire building with hermetically sealed space plastic and go in with respirators and hazmat suits and charge $4k/hour to swab ever square cm.
(Score: 2, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday May 10 2018, @08:22PM (4 children)
If the smoke causes cancer, you should be afraid of it.
As for mirrors... well, have you looked in a mirror recently?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 10 2018, @08:36PM (1 child)
Living longer drastically increases your cancer risk as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday May 11 2018, @05:36PM
But smoking allows you to both live shorter and drastically increase your cancer risk at the same time. Two smoker's lungs with one stone!
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:07PM (1 child)
Heh, you are taking my semi-serious joke way too seriously. I get that it can be a real problem, but just walking down a street with any car traffic will undoubtedly expose you to more pollution than some surface a smoker was close to. I'm not a smoker, but I dread the day when we start banning every activity that has a .01% chance of a negative outcome.
I do not like the culture of fear and hysteria that is being tightly coupled to "live properly or ELSE". Alcoholics have a higher chance of getting into a fight or causing random damage, shall we go back to prohibition? Overweight people have more health issues, shall we send them to a forced government labor camp to get skinny?
The main takeaway I'm getting is that all surfaces should be periodically cleaned, but going into hysterics imagining that every child is going to get cancer because some teacher smoked a cigarette 30 feet from the building is just ridiculous. This should be a PSA, not a sky-is-falling announcement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @10:24PM
I think you have the wrong endgame in mind. For an example look at what they are saying about babies now: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LET YOUR BABY BE HIT BY DIRECT SUNLIGHT. Then: YOUR BABY IS AT RISK FOR VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY, BUY VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTS HERE.