Third-hand smoke is tobacco smoke contamination that remains after the cigarette has been extinguished," says Jonathan Winickoff, a pediatrician at the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston and author of a study on the new phenomenon published in the journal Pediatrics. According to the study, a large number of people, particularly smokers, have no idea that third-hand smoke—the cocktail of toxins that linger in carpets, sofas, clothes and other materials hours or even days after a cigarette is put out—is a health hazard for infants and children..
There are 250 poisonous toxins found in cigarette smoke. One such substance is lead. Very good studies show that tiny levels of exposure are associated with diminished IQ
In an interview with ScientificAmerican.com, Winickoff observes that children ingest twice the amount of dust that grown-ups do. Let's say a grown-up weighs 150 pounds [68 kilograms]. Let's say a baby weighs 15 pounds [seven kilograms]. The infant ingests twice the dust [due to faster respiration and proximity to dusty surfaces]. Effectively, they'll get 20 times the exposure!
A point worth considering, for those who smoke at home and still wonder why their kids don’t make the grades in school!
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This kind of research should be made popular so that atleast the new age parents are aware of the harmful efects.
Though it will make little diference to chain smokers, but a step taken to spread awareness may just save a few lives.
Avina
It is not always true that youths imitate every thing shown in films. Even when there was a ban one could see youths smoking, so blaming films for encouraging youths is very wrong. As the justice has rightly said that smoking is a reality of life.. I personally believe that film makers should be given the liberty to express want goes in the society and the youths should think for themselves whats good and bad for them,..........
people say that films and television encourages the youth to smoke. But i feel that the youth is matured enough to understand what is good and what is bad for them. If the ban is there or removed it shouldn't make a difference.
According to me even if the actors in film donot smoke the youth due to peer pressure tends to follow the same trend, to the youth smoking is nothing but just a style statement and something which is in fashion and as we are adopting western culture, the hollywood films too seem to add in it,but yes personally i feel it is upon an individual whether he/she wants to smoke or no and as correctly mentioned by lifting this ban in films we are actually encouraging smoking amongst them.It is creating reverse mechanism.
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