Posted on 02/19/2010 9:12:06 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
This is not from the Onion. Your tax money actually went to fund this as a "real" important study.
According to "research" Third Hand Smoke is a killer and smelling stale smoke that sticks to smokers clothes after they come inside from the cold where they have been exiled to, causes cancer.
That stale cigarette smoke smell in hotel rooms and bars is more than annoying - it could be hazardous to your health, according to new research from a team led by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Infants and toddlers are at greatest risk, the study reveals. Nicotine in third-hand smoke, the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, reacts with the common indoor air pollutant nitrous acid to produce dangerous carcinogens, the study shows.
"The burning of tobacco releases nicotine in the form of a vapor that adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, such as walls, floors, carpeting, drapes and furniture. Nicotine can persist on those materials for days, weeks and even months," says Hugo Destaillats, a chemist with the Indoor Environment Department of Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division.
"Our study shows that when this residual nicotine reacts with ambient nitrous acid it forms carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines or TSNAs," said Destaillats. "TSNAs are among the most broadly acting and potent carcinogens present in unburned tobacco and tobacco smoke."
"We know that these residual levels of nicotine may build up over time after several smoking cycles, and we know that through the process of aging, third-hand smoke can become more toxic over time," says Destaillats.
The authors say theirs is the first study to quantify the reactions of third-hand smoke with nitrous acid
This is why the reductio ad absurdum argument doesn't work with Statists and leftists. They have no shame. Normal people would be embarrassed to lie like this for cash. Unless that normal person was a prostitute. At least prostitutes provide a service that has some value.
A few years ago I wrote what I thought at the time to be satire about second hand smoke.
Man’s Impending Death To Be Caused By Second Hand Smoke
Atlanta, Ga. July 13, 2007– In a joint press conference on Friday, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the premature death of a Montana man will be caused by exposure to Second Hand Smoke.
“After extensive conversation with the SAMMEC computers and after long and grueling hours of torturing the data until it told us what we want to hear, we are finally prepared to definitively state that Richard Mooreheads’ death will be a direct result of his exposure to Second Hand Smoke.” Said WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan “We can find no other logical reason for Mr. Moorehead's soon to be tragic demise other than his exposure to SHS.”
The soon to be deceased Mr. Moorehead, 54, an unemployed HIV positive, type 2 diabetic, MS, ALS and kidney dialysis patient who is addicted to crystal meth and heroin, was shocked and visibly angry when told of his diagnosis and cause of death. Reached at his home in an exclusive gated trailer park community in Missoula, MT, Mr. Moorehead blamed his impending death on the careless brutes with cigarettes down at Jim’s Roadhouse Bar on Highway 263. “I’ve never smoked tobacco in my life. But that darn Jim’s Bar was always filled with that there smoke.”
Second Hand Smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of a smoker. It causes an estimated 450,000 deaths per day, according to health authorities, Al Gore and Dionne Warwick’s Psychic Friends Network. It’s also been known to cause AIDS, herpes, hemorrhoids, athlete’s foot and jock itch.
These statists and social engineers have no shame. The ends justify the means. Next thing you know they will tell us that the exhaust from our Chevy Suburbans will cause the planet to burst into a great big ball of fire. Oh wait, they did try that.
As Dr. Michael Siegelof the Boston University School of Public Health points out in the crusade to coerce smokers to quit, they are doing more harm than good by exposing themselves as liars to the public:
Even just focusing on the most vulnerable - infants and children - anti-smoking groups could make the argument that smokers should not be allowed to care for young children, either in day care settings or nursery school settings. They would also be able to argue that smokers should not be allowed to adopt or foster infants or young children, even if they only smoke outside of the home.
These are drastic measures that severely interfere with the freedom, autonomy, and rights of smokers. Surely, we would not want to impose such measures in the absence of definitive evidence that children are being substantially harmed by the tobacco-specific nitrosamines produced from nicotine residues resulting from deposition from the skin and clothing of smokers.
Unfortunately, the thirdhand smoke researchers have already disseminated - internationally - the conclusion that smokers pose a significant threat to infants and children even by their mere presence in the environment of these young people. Even if they do not smoke in their presence.
Their own arrogance and greed will destroy them.
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BS.
No one wants to stand up to defend smoking. I will.
BS.
I might have quit but i won’t now — just to p** off some do-googer.
Mind your own businesss. Leave me alone.
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How about third-hand tobasco sauce? Does that do anything?
Give a “researcher” $4,000,000 of tax payer money and he can “prove” that tobasco sauce causes prostate cancer.
Your addiction is killing you which is no big deal. But thousand of kids become new addicts each year and that is a big deal.
“Even just focusing on the most vulnerable - infants and children - anti-smoking groups could make the argument that smokers should not be allowed to care for young children, either in day care settings or nursery school settings. They would also be able to argue that smokers should not be allowed to adopt or foster infants or young children, even if they only smoke outside of the home.”
It’s always for the ‘children’ when they want to raise taxes and it never goes to the ‘children’. Isn’t that amazing! Unless, a gay couple want to adopt, then it doesn’t matter.
I guess their smoke don’t stink.
I’m so sick and tired of this PC, polarizing, leftist crap.
I don’t smoke anymore Drango, FWIW.
Actually I do. I will have one cigarette every year even if the taste bothers me, just so I can call myself a smoker. This way I won’t have to be put into the same category as sanctimonious pontificators like you.
That carbon has weight and quickly disapates and falls to the floor.
Second hand?
There's gotta' be a draft or something (moving car e.g., with a window open (oops ,,, prolly diluting the particulate) and a very small fraction of carbon enters a lung, which is then .... wait
This is magic bullet $h!t.
These people are smokin' crack !
The future of the human race: pale, feeble creatures living in cool, dark, ecologically green cubicles eating bland vitamin paste and sipping tepid water from a drinking tube. We’ll live forever...
Crack isn’t strong enough for them...
They are high on power and cash.
I still smoke two cigarettes a day. One with my morning coffee, one after dinner. Just because the statists are so intent on stopping me.
F them.
I see the theory, but where is the proof?
Scary scenario, but it’s happening....We’ll wish we were dead.
You get to live to be 190 and spend your last 110 years drooling on yourself in a nursing home while being lectured and scolded by libs.
Those lib death panels might start to sound good. Maybe that’s their plan.
They don’t need any proof. All they need is for the NY Times and major networks to broadcast the headlines.
Most Americans aren’t like you. They won’t try to verify what they heard.
They have to work and try to pay the rent and put food on the table.
Smoking is really stupid. (I used to smoke). It kills the lungs and the body. But, I’ve never had a prob with 3rd hand smoke. Second, yes; third-hand, no.
I’m a non-smoker but think I might light one up now in your honor, Eric!
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