Third-hand smoke

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Third-hand smoke is a technical term from English for tar and nicotine deposits from tobacco smoke , for example in clothing, hair, floor coverings or walls, which can be hazardous to health if inhaled.

term

The term third-hand smoke was coined by a working group led by pediatrician Jonathan Winickoff from the Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center , the largest US cancer center of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the United States. It is synonymous with all toxins that a smoker gives off directly or indirectly when he does not smoke. The name is obvious because second-hand smoking is the common word for passive smoking in the English language . German translations such as third-party smoke , smoke residue or residue smoking have not caught on.

effect

A large number of studies have found that there is no lower, harmless threshold for tobacco smoke. Therefore, even small amounts of tobacco smoke on clothing, in hair, floor coverings or walls can be hazardous to health. Children in particular are at risk from the toxic substances in the smoke residue. The potential risk persists months after a room has been cleaned and no smokers have entered it.

A special form of hazards caused by smoke residue are carcinogenic nitrosamines . These can arise from the reaction of the non-carcinogenic nicotine with nitrous acid - which is easily formed from nitrogen oxides and water, for example .

further reading

Individual evidence

  1. JP Winickoff, J. Friebely et al. a .: Beliefs about the health effects of "thirdhand" smoke and home smoking bans. In: Pediatrics. Volume 123, number 1, January 2009, pp. E74 – e79. doi : 10.1542 / peds.2008-2184 . PMID 19117850 .
  2. ^ C Ballantyne: What is third-hand smoke? In: Scientific American . 6 January 2009.
  3. T. Pany: Passive smoking on the sweater and on the floor. At: Telepolis on January 5, 2009.
  4. Manfred G. Raupp: The development of tobacco cultivation in Germany with special consideration of the development in the community of Staffort; Engineering school Nürtingen 1962; 2nd revised and expanded edition Lörrach October 2012, publisher: Lörrach international, ISBN 978-3-9815406-3-5 .
  5. ^ A b C. Seidler: Doctors warn against smelly clothing. In: Spiegel Online from January 5, 2009.
  6. ^ GE Matt, PJ Quintana, JM Zakarian, AL Fortmann, DA Chatfield, E. Hoh, AM Uribe, MF Hovell: When smokers move out and non-smokers move in: residential thirdhand smoke pollution and exposure. In: Tobacco control. Volume 20, number 1, January 2011, p. E1, doi : 10.1136 / tc.2010.037382 , PMID 21037269 , PMC 3666918 (free full text).
  7. M. Sleiman, LA Gundel et al. a .: Formation of carcinogens indoors by surface-mediated reactions of nicotine with nitrous acid, leading to potential third-hand smoke hazards. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 107, Number 15, April 2010, pp. 6576-6581. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0912820107 . PMID 20142504 . PMC 2872399 (free full text).
  8. chs / ddp: Researchers warn of nicotine residues. In: Spiegel Online from February 9, 2010.