Third-hand smoke

Third hand smoke residue or smoking is the name given to the potentially harmful inhalation of tar or nicotine stains from tobacco smoke, such as clothes, hair, flooring or walls. The exhalations of these deposits are referred to as third hand smoke and smoke residue. In the German literature, both terms are relatively not well established, so that often the English names of Third - Hand Smoking or third- hand smoke are also found in German-language publications.

Description

The term third- hand smoke was coined by a working group led by the pediatrician Jonathan Winickoff from Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the largest U.S. cancer center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the United States. He is synonymous with all the toxins that directly or indirectly emits a smoker, if he does not smoke. It should be noted that second-hand smoking in the English language is the common term for passive smoking.

In a variety of studies, it was found that there is no lower, acceptable threshold effect of tobacco smoke. Therefore, even small amounts of tobacco smoke, which has been deposited, for example, on clothes, in your hair, flooring or walls, to be potentially hazardous to health. Above all, children are at risk from the toxic ingredients of the smoke residue. The hazard potential exists in areas even months after no more smoking has entered the room and the rooms were cleaned.

A special form of exposure to smoke residue are carcinogenic nitrosamines. These may arise from reaction of the non- carcinogenic nicotine with nitrous acid - arise - for example, easily formed from nitrogen oxides and water.

Further Reading

• MH Becquemin, JF Bertholon and Others: Third - hand smoking: indoor measurements of concentration and sizes of cigarette smoke particles after resuspension. In: Tobacco control. Volume 19, Number 4, August 2010, pp. 347-348, ISSN 1468-3318. doi: 10.1136/tc.2009.034694. PMID 20,530,137th PMC 2.97599 million ( free full text ).
• JH Dreyfuss: third-hand smoke Identified as potent, enduring carcinogen. In: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Volume 60, Number 4, 2010 Jul-Aug, pp. 203-204, ISSN 1542-4863. doi: 10.3322/caac.20079. PMID 20,530,799th
• RC Rabin: A New Cigarette Hazard: ' Third - Hand Smoke '. In: New York Times on January 2, 2009
• LM Petrick, A. Svidovsky, Y. Dubowski: third-hand smoke: heterogeneous oxidation of nicotine and secondary aerosol formation in the indoor environment. In: Environmental science & technology. Volume 45, Number 1, January 2011, pp. 328-333, ISSN 1520-5851. doi: 10.1021/es102060v. PMID 21,141,815th
• Matt GE, Quintana PJ et al: Third hand tobacco smoke: emerging evidence and arguments for a multidisciplinary research agenda. In: Environmental Health Perspectives. Volume 119, Number 9, September 2011, pp. 1218-1226, ISSN 1552-9924. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1103500. PMID 21,628,107th PMC 3230406 (Free full text ). (Review).

Sources

• Smoking and Health