The reason you should think twice about letting smokers near babies
Third-hand smoke pose a real and dangerous risk to babies and young children.
7 years ago
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This is why you shouldn’t let smokers anywhere near newborns and infants
That smoking harms the smoker has been known since as far back as the 1950s. A couple of decades later it also started becoming obvious that second-hand smoke is also extremely harmful to our health. And now scientists have gone a step further, and actually issued warnings about what they label “third-hand” smoke (THS) – […]
10 years ago
New Animal Study Shows Harmful Effects Of Secondhand Smoke Even BEFORE Pregnancy
A new animal study has highlighted the harmful effects of secondhand smoke even before pregnancy. Researchers at Duke University in the US have found that exposure to cigarette smoke – even before conception – appears to have a lingering impact that can later impair the brain development of a foetus. The researchers used rats in experiments that […]
10 years ago