Blood Tests Reveal Tobacco Smoke Residues In Non-smoking New Yorkers
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 22:28
in Health & Medicine
More than half of non-smoking New Yorkers have elevated levels of cotinine in their blood -- meaning that they were recently exposed to toxic secondhand smoke in concentrations high enough to leave residues in the body.
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