Secondhand smoke exposure can cause cell damage in 30 minutes
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 06:21
in Health & Medicine
Exposure to secondhand smoke even for a brief period is injurious to health, a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has found. According to the study, a 30-minute exposure to the level of secondhand smoke that one might normally inhale in an average bar setting was enough to result in blood vessel injury in young and otherwise healthy lifelong nonsmokers...
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