Cigarette odor Also Harmful to Your Health

Cigarette odor Also Harmful to Your Health -- Apparently, the dangers of smoking to the health not only in the smoke. Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, USA, discover the dangers of smoking to health residue. Cigarette residue called "thirdhand smoke" was the smell left on clothes or hair someone who has just smoked. Thirdhand smoke odor can also be left in the room that had been used to smoke.

Chemical is a derivative of nicotine left in the room and absorbed by the objects around him, such as carpets and curtains. This is the first study to show that thirdhand smoke are mutagenic and causes DNA damage, is considered as the first step toward cancer.

Researchers involved put a sheet of paper in a smoking room. Only a few samples were left for 20 minutes and then examined by researchers residue levels.
They call it "acute exposure". Other papers left over 200 days in a ventilated smoking room, to produce a "chronic exposure".
Chemicals extracted from the paper and added on cells. The result, "chronic exposure" which has a higher concentration of thirdhand smoke, potentially causing greater damage to DNA.

The cumulative effect of thirdhand smoke is very significant. These findings led to the toxic material from time to time. Other highlights of thirdhand smoke is the residue interacting with existing compounds in the air and create new toxins. Unfortunately, researchers have yet to find where the toxins that are harmful to humans.
The purpose of this study was to find how the nature of the toxic and hazardous compounds in thirdhand smoke, and how they pose a hazard.