{"id":2659,"date":"2010-02-09T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:53:36","slug":"this-weeks-silly-health-panic-third-hand-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/this-weeks-silly-health-panic-third-hand-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s silly health panic: third-hand smoke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, anti-smoking campaigners! Even though the evil smoking empire is in retreat, and smokers get worse press than child molesters and people who talk at the theatre, there&#8217;s a new moral front opening up: third-hand smoke! The war <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8503870.stm\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t over yet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lingering residue from tobacco smoke which clings to upholstery, clothing and the skin releases cancer-causing agents, work in PNAS journal shows.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley scientists in the US ran lab tests and found &#8220;substantial levels&#8221; of toxins on smoke-exposed material.<\/p>\n<p>They say while banishing smokers to outdoors cuts second-hand smoke, residues will follow them back inside and this &#8220;third-hand smoke&#8221; may harm. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Efforts are currently underway to determine if there&#8217;s a strong media response to this &#8220;new threat&#8221;. If so, funding will be sought to research the possibility of &#8220;fourth-hand smoke&#8221; and possibly even &#8220;fifth-hand smoke&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry, anti-smoking campaigners! Even though the evil smoking empire is in retreat, and smokers get worse press than child molesters and people who talk at the theatre, there&#8217;s a new moral front opening up: third-hand smoke! The war isn&#8217;t over yet: Lingering residue from tobacco smoke which clings to upholstery, clothing and the skin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66],"tags":[52,156,39,244],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health-science","tag-absurd","tag-fail","tag-junkscience","tag-publichealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-GT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}