Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Secondhand Smoke Bad for Brain?

Secondhand Smoke Bad for Brain?:
"People who are exposed to secondhand smoke may be more likely than their peers to have cognitive impairment, a new study shows.

The study, published in the advance online edition of BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal), doesn't prove that secondhand smoke exposure causes cognitive impairment. But it does show that cognitive impairment was more common among nonsmokers and former smokers with high levels of cotinine, a nicotine-related chemical, in their saliva samples."

(I was nice and deleted what I had originally put here...Short version, Please Don't Smoke!)

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