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12/17/2010
A new study of "thirdhand smoke" shows that pollutants may linger long after a smoker has moved out of a home. Even after the homes had been vacant for two months, nicotine levels in the air were 35 to 98 times as high as they were in nonsmokers' homes. Nicotine measured on surfaces was 30 to 150 times as high. Nicotine on or in the bodies of nonsmokers who had moved into dwellings formerly occupied by smokers were seven to eight times higher. Children who’d moved into a home formerly occupied by a smoker had three to five times as much cotinine as those who lived in a nonsmoking home.
Source: MSNBC
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