Newly detected air pollutant mimics damaging effects of cigarette smoke
Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
A previously unrecognized group of air pollutants could have effects remarkably similar to harmful substances found in tobacco smoke, Louisiana scientists are reporting in a study scheduled for presentation today at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Inhaling those pollutants exposes the average person up to 300 times more free radicals daily than from smoking one cigarette, they added.
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