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Do you think that just because you're a non-smoker staying in non-smoking
room in a hotel, you're safe from cigarette byproducts? Think again:
Non-smoking hotel rooms generally contained more third-hand smoke when
they were part of hotels that allowed smoking in other, designated rooms.
They had, on average, twice the amount of nicotine on surfaces and seven
times as much 3EP (another cigarette byproduct) in the air. In smoking-permitted
rooms, of course, the presence of these contaminants was much higher.
The women, after spending the night in a hotel that permitted smoking,
even after requesting a non-smoking room, the next morning had significantly
more nicotine on their fingers, and five to six times the amount of
cotinine -- a biomarker of second-hand smoke exposure -- in their urine.
Lindsay Abrams of The Atlantic summarizes the study:
Here
| The paper over at
Tobacco
Control
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