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11/23/2009

University of Maryland environmental health researchers and microbial ecologists in France agree that cigarettes are widely contaminated with bacteria, including some known to cause disease. The commercially-available cigarettes tested were chock full of bacteria, but researchers were surprised to find so many that are infectious in humans.