PONDER IT
Not just blowing smoke
February 2, 2010
John Sakamoto
As if smoking wasn't already bad enough for your health: A new study has found that smokers are at additional risk from their own second-hand smoke.
Researchers from Italy's National Cancer Research Institute studied the effect on newsagents, "because they work alone in small newsstands, meaning that any tobacco smoke in the air they breathe is strictly correlated to the number of cigarettes smoked by that newsagent," study leader Maria Teresa Piccardo said on www.sciencedaily.com.
Their findings: Someone who smokes 14 cigarettes a day could be exposing themselves to the equivalent of another 2.6 cigarettes from their own second-hand smoke.
Perhaps those newsagents should each be given a cat.
A study last year showed that nearly one in three smokers would be spurred to quit because their second-hand smoke was harming their pets.
John Sakamoto
Toronto Star
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