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• Thirdhand smoke: is it something like making mountains out of a mole?
  Dr. Naseem A. Qureshi
  Published on: 5 January 2011

• Published on: 5 January 2011

  Thirdhand smoke: is it something like making mountains out of a mole?

  • Dr. Naseem A. Qureshi, Doctor
  • Other Contributors:
    • Dr. Abdullah M. Al-Bedah

  Smokers tend to leave their smoking prints permanently or semipermanently in buildings where they live and enjoy the taste of smoking regularly. The nonsmokers, newcomers moving into the said buildings, dislike smoking leftovers in terms of nicotine and other byproducts of tobacco use. The comparative analysis of relevant samples from firsthand, secondhand and thirdhand smokers would have shed some light on the levels o...

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  Smokers tend to leave their smoking prints permanently or semipermanently in buildings where they live and enjoy the taste of smoking regularly. The nonsmokers, newcomers moving into the said buildings, dislike smoking leftovers in terms of nicotine and other byproducts of tobacco use. The comparative analysis of relevant samples from firsthand, secondhand and thirdhand smokers would have shed some light on the levels of tobacco byproducts among them and their direct relevance to the serious or nonserious consequences of tobacco use. How long and why tobacco byproducts stay in such buildings needs to be addressed comprehensively. Do we have a decontaminating agent(s)for tobacco byproducts and hence prevention of THIRDHAND smoke exposure to naive renters of buildings having nicotine and other smoking byproducts left by smokers?

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  Conflict of Interest:
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