If you are a smoker, what do you do? It's not that you don't already know the health risks, and if you haven't quit it's highly likely that it's because quitting is too difficult. Smokers probably already know that smoking around kids is bad, but now there may be one more concern to think about. Heading outside to smoke and away from kids sounds like the best option, but this new study suggests even that is not as good as previously thought. BBC:
Lingering residue from tobacco smoke which clings to upholstery, clothing and the skin releases cancer-causing agents, work in PNAS journal shows.
Berkeley scientists in the US ran lab tests and found "substantial levels" of toxins on smoke-exposed material.
They say while banishing smokers to outdoors cuts second-hand smoke, residues will follow them back inside and this "third-hand smoke" may harm.
