Posted on 02/04/2014 7:48:24 AM PST by rktman
Exposure to surfaces and objects that have been saturated in cigarette smoke, labeled as “third-hand smoke,” may be as deadly as smoking the cigarette itself.
A new study from the University of California, Riverside finds that the third-hand smoke that has soaked into the surfaces, objects and environment around people becomes increasingly toxic over time. Third-hand smoke is defined as the second-hand smoke that is allowed to settle on objects in any environment. Non-smoking children, co-workers, spouses and friends of smokers breathe in such carcinogens left in rooms exposed to smokers.
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Well it’s the FOURTH hand smoke I fear. We don’t even know what it is yet and it will probably kill us and destroy the planet.
nekkid smokers, beware!
That is when there is a single tobacco plant anywhere in the Universe.
And it causes cancer.
You get brain cancer.
In other news: residents on Alpha Centauri were just diagnosed with cancer from 256th hand smoke.
I was being facetious, but I expect if you can imagine it, someone there does it.
For example, sticking stuff where it doesn’t belong.
From The Straight Dope:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/478/is-it-true-what-they-say-about-gerbils
Brace yourself, toots. What follows isn’t for the weak of stomach. For starters, an awful lot of stuff has been found where that gerbil was found. The medical journals list, among other things, the following astonishing array: A bottle of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup, an ax handle, a nine-inch zucchini, countless dildoes and vibrators including one 14-inch model complete with two D-cell batteries, a plastic spatula, a 9-1/2-inch water bottle, a deodorant bottle, a Coke bottle, a large bottle cap, numerous other bottles, a 3-1/2-inch Japanese glass float ball, an 11-inch carrot, an antenna rod, a 150-watt light bulb, a 100-watt frosted bulb, a cucumber, a screwdriver, four rubber balls, 72-1/2 jeweler’s saws (all from one patient, but not all at the same time, although 29 were discovered on one occasion), a paperweight, an apple, an onion, a plastic toothbrush package, two bananas, a frozen pig’s tail (it got stuck when it thawed), a ten-inch length of broomstick, an 18-inch umbrella handle and central rod, a plantain encased in a condom, two Vaseline jars, a whiskey bottle with a cord attached, a teacup, an oil can, a six-by-five-inch tool box weighing 22 ounces, a six-inch stone weighing two pounds (in the latter two cases the patients died due to intestinal obstruction), a baby powder can, a test tube, a ball-point pen, a peanut butter jar, candles, baseballs, a sand-filled bicycle inner tube, sewing needles, a flashlight, a half-filled tobacco pouch, a turnip, a pair of eyeglasses, a hard-boiled egg, a carborundum grindstone (with handle), a suitcase key, a syringe, a file, tumblers and glasses, a polyethylene waste trap from the U-bend of a sink, and much, much more. In 1955 one man who was “feeling depressed” reportedly inserted a six-inch paper tube into his rectum, dropped in a lighted firecracker, and blew a hole in his anterior rectal wall. This changed his mood real quick.
Which brings us to gerbils. While the examples above are well-documented in the medical literature, live or recently deceased fauna are something else. Rumors of gerbil (and mouse or hamster) stuffing have been circulating since about 1982. In 1984, a Denver weekly said it had a confirmed report of gerbilectomy in a local emergency room. The Manhattan publication New York Talk reported several years ago that New York doctors first caught on to stuffing when they started encountering patients with infections previously found only in rodents. But no such case has ever found its way into the formal literature of medicine.
Second hand smoke is partially purified by the lungs of the smoker. Lots of the ucky stuff is removed by the time it is exhaled.
It is not even logically possible for 2nd had smoke to be as bad as first hand. By the time the reside settles on any surface, it is considerably different that when it was coming out of the cigarette.
This “study” is simply making it painfully clear that nothing is beyond being turned into a hazard by the loony left in their desire to control us.
Truly it is a mental illness to go to these extremes as they do. Creepy sick.
Quite real. Of course, the quantity that gets through is highly different on the size and location of penetrations between the spaces and on the pressure differential between them.
different - dependent.
Sorry bout that.
This is actually my field.
For exposure you need:
A source. Cigarette smoking.
A pathway. In this case penetrations between the air spaces.
A driving force. In this case a higher air pressure in the source room would be needed for significant contaminant movement.
A person to be exposed. In this case, the baby.
“Smoke Encounters of the Third Kind.”
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Very clever. :-)
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“I seem to recall Steve Jobs was ahead of this game. IIRC, Apple computer warranty was void in a smoker’s habitat. “
And RIP,Steve. (The clean air must have done him in.)
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I saw a cartoon once where people are sitting in a restaurant and complained to the waiter—
“Waiter,those people across from us are talking about smoking”.
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Ha—I’ve been waiting for a retort, “Steve Jobs is not available for comment.”
“Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 440,000 deaths each year in the U.S., which is about one-in-five deaths”
So let me see if I have this right.
80% of the deaths are caused by not smoking cigarettes.
Hmmm !!!
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Next report from the IPPC (used to be the IPCC) will be the particulate generated and it’s contribution to the skyrocketing CO2 numbers. But, that’s okay cause the “lyin’ king” already said stuff was gonna skyrocket.
I'm working on a study.
No fair - I was working on a study!!!!
Howdy, ladies :-)
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