New Cigarette Hazard: ‘Third-Hand Smoke’

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1Hope4All — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:53:41 GMT

My daughter is affected by her father's smoking even though he does not smoke at home. I told this to her father and I don't know if he believed me. Perhaps he thought that I lied just to get him to quit. I am also affected by his "third-hand smoke" but not as bad as my daughter. His daughter I guess is not that important to him!! I know she is, but I thought letting him know that his daughter literally gets sick when she smells the cigarette smoke on him when he comes home from work didn't do the trick!

Perhaps reading this article might make him believe me now! I could tell him something and he doesn't take me seriously! I'm fed up already with his smoking and both his daughter and I want him to quit smoking already!!

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skip smyth — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:22:25 GMT

This rubbish about 'second-hand' smoke is a blatant lie. Born in '46. Everywhere I, or millions of other kids and adults went indoors the air was saturated with smoke. Lungs were size of a stub pencil through much of it, 99.99 % of the adults and kids did not contract lung cancer from that haze. It is a lie ! Few 'snoots' who dislike aroma have 'mushroomed' it to this. We are talking of, at least, 1880's to 1990's. Somebody must have hired a NY ad mad on this. 'Third-hand'. 'Forth-hand' and beyond .... those NY boys are good. Give it a sober, honest glance.

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R Mann — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:14:13 GMT

This comment is for HUM and any other non-believers. It's a secretly guarded fact that cigarette manufacturers use Potassium nitrate(better known as salt peter) (one of the elements of GUNPOWDER) in their cigarette papers to keep them burning faster and longer. Think about that chemical or changes it might have going into the lungs and blood! Besides it may increase the chance impotency to anyone that smokes.

And here is pet peeve to chew on, I'm tired of drivers flicking their ashes out of their windows. We don't deserve that kind of a slap in the face.

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LoridaLady — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:01:38 GMT

2nd hand smoke can cause learning disabilities for children, maybe 3rd hand smoke too. Children can get, not uncommonly undetected, ear infections from the smoke. This muffles the sound of people's voices at an age when it is critical for the brain to learn pronuciation and language skills. Even a very small and temporary hearing loss can cause a problem. I am a speech/language pathologist and saw many, many children with speech and/or language problems who had a history of ear infections.

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Ameliorate — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:19:12 GMT

Dlarah, that is an interesting site that you gave a link to. I bookmarked it, and will go back and check it out some more. I'd never heard of Germanic New Medicine, and it is quite interesting. Thanks!

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moo_203 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:19:28 GMT

100%

no i am not a smoker and yes i am healthy enough to smell everything....my father in law was a heavy smoker and he reeked...i refused to visit or ride in his car but that did not stop him!

i did not say that second hand smoke was ok ....it is not and i'm glad its been banned in public places....

BUT third hand smoke?.......... what do you do about someone having smoke on thier clothes? pass a law demanding they shower and change before going out?

its a good law that smokers do not have the right to smoke anymore in public but i will defend thier right to smoke in thier own homes and cars...............i don't have to go in them and i do not.

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moo_203 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:45:52 GMT

aaltrude, i was'nt putting down people who are chemical sensitive at all..but you have to look out for yourself.

carry a mask.

i have tinnitus and very sensitive hearing.....i can't expect others to care about the noise level around me so therefore i carry ear plugs on my person and ear protectors in my car as any loud noise can affect me for days on end.......... noise pollution is very real also. ( boom boxes, leaf blowers etc,)

some people will smoke no matter what but you cannot legislate common sense.

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Brandee — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:02:29 GMT

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Reverend Alan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:49:57 GMT

It is amazing how many people justify their use of tobacco while in the midst of innocient bystanders. I know you can't stop smoking no matter how hard you try, but you knew this before you started. Still that is no reason to justify forcing the rest of us to smoke with you.

Many smokers have learned to be considerate of those around them who do not smoke. While driving in a car, some smokers plan stops where they can take a few puffs every few miles so that those in the car don't have to breath in the poisons in their exhale or continue to smell the smoke in their clothes for the rest of the day.

The rest of you need to learn that many of us do not like smelling like ash trays all day.

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Rose Marie Waldram — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:36:04 GMT

If you must smoke [God forbid] then, at least smoke only certified organically-grown tobacco [raise it yourself and roll your own --with OG paper or in your own home-grown tobacco leaf. Commercially-grown tobacco is, like cotton, iceberg lettuce and grapes raised on commercial [fluoride-containing] chemical fertilizer, tended with fluoride-base weed killer and fluoride-base pesticides and quite possibly stored using sulfuryl fluoride to keep the barn or shed pest-free. These "fluorides" [a fluoride is a compound, a combination of this gas, fluorine, and whatever other element it has attached itself to ---be it lead, mercury, arsenic, ad infinitum, ad nauseum and when fluorides come in contact with your skin by handling or walking barefoot (eg. infants, children) these fluorides are immediately absorbed as they are electromagnetically attracted to calcium containing tissues, eg. bones, teeth. The yellowing of fingers and teeth, characterized by heavy smokers, is nothing more than another variation of the "fluorosis" which water-fluoridation-pushing dentists and public health authorities brush off as a "harmless cosmetic effect" [which, beginning in the Sixties, started a whole new lucratice dental practice, cosmetic dentistry] yet these same sources who pooh-pooh this outward sign of an inward bioaccumulation of this potent nerve toxin fail to tell you the term "fluorosis" means "fluoride poisoning." NOTE: anything bioaccumulative is mutagenic [capable of altering cell structure and/or function, eg. birth defects, et al] and anything mutagenic is carcinogenic [cancer-causing] and therefore capable of denaturing/destroying the immune system. AIDS, anyone?

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housemaid_203 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:46:47 GMT

I have often wondered if breathing the smoke from a wood-burning fireplace is toxic. My husband keeps the fire going almost all the time in winter to save money on electricity.

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nursing case manager — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:04:14 GMT

Okay lets give BRANDEE some observational evidence from a medical professional. I see 5-6 patients a day 95% of them are smokers or ex-smokers. They are all very ill with respiratory disease, dementia (yes smoking can cause dementia), cardiac disease or cancer. Most are not obese. Some have lost loved ones who lived with them to respiratory disease or cancer.

After I leave the smokers homes I reek of cigaretts even though I ask that they not smoke while I am there. All of them admit smoking was a mistake, and they know it is why they are so sick. It is a drug habit that is harder to quit than Heroin and one way or another it will damage or kill you.

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webwitch6 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:55:53 GMT

I have multiple chemical sensitivity also. "Normal" everyday things send me into a coughing and hacking fit. Cigarette smoke hasnt been one of them, strangely enough. Maybe because I was a smoker for 21 years, and quit cold turkey 9 years ago. Maybe I have a tolerance for it? My hubby almost goes into an asthmatic attack just at the hint of a cigarette, and he was a smoker also, and quit 11 years ago.

Send us down the chemical aisle in any food store or Wally World and the two of us come out the other end wheezing with purple faces and bright red ears. Either way, we get stared at a lot and go home feeling ill.

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Dale61999 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:05:47 GMT

Ok----smoking is bad---but do you know what I think is even worse? I think that all of this "anti-smoking Nazi" stuff is just as bad. We are seemingly becoming a people that will blame all diseases on cigarettes! What a crock of crap---3rd hand smoke---and with all of the other toxins that we come into contact with on a daily basis. Oh well---time to crawl into my bubble!