Not only passive a danger to the health: cigarette smoke is Smoking can also stick to clothes, curtains, carpets and furniture, and in unexpectedly large amounts: researchers report that this so-called "Smoke from a third party Hand" comparable with passive Smoking one to ten cigarettes.
On the body and the clothes of smokers and passive smokers, harmful substances from cigarette smoke. This residual contamination can reach larger concentrations, report scientists from the Yale University and the Max-Planck-Institute for chemistry in Mainz, Germany, measured with highly sensitive methods for a week the quantities of harmful substances in the air of a cinema, in the prohibition of Smoking prevailed.
Residues from tobacco smoke in the cinema hall
They observed that the concentration of various volatile organic Compounds from tobacco smoke has increased dramatically, as certain viewers came to see the films. This was also dependent on the Genre of movies: In movies, the smoke is considered more likely to be the end of cinema-goers, were much registered greater quantities of these Compounds. The volumes corresponded to about the passive Smoking one to ten cigarettes per hour and reached their peak with the arrival of the audience. In the course of time they took, there is a persistent contamination remained but was also observed on the following days in the unoccupied theatre.
Bad belüftete Räume is particularly risky
This could explain why in many non-Smoking environments, values, levels of nicotine on surfaces, note can be found. "People are the main carriers of the smoke impurities in the third-Hand in other environments. Therefore, the idea is wrong, that someone is protected from the possible health effects of cigarette smoke, if he is not directly to the second-Hand smoke exposed to ist", concluded Drew Gentner, Professor of chemistry and environmental engineering.
He suspected that in less well-ventilated spaces, as the modern cinema, such as public transport, Bars, offices and apartments, similar smoke emissions from third-Hand is likely to significantly higher concentrations of many of these Compounds.
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