
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


Third-hand smoke pose a real and dangerous risk to babies and young children.
7 years ago

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) – […]
9 years ago

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 […]
9 years ago