According to a study appearing in this month's Pediatrics, medical scientists have now identified "thirdhand smoke," which is:
a) What you get when the kid of somebody who smokes talks to your kid;
b) Only possible through a Facebook widget, or;
c) The trace chemicals from smoke that hang around objects like clothes, making them smell "smoky."
The correct answer, of course, is (c). So far.
Once-secret documents reveal the tobacco industry's battle to gut anti-smoking education in California. Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and former Gov. Pete Wilson helped.
G.B. TrudeauDislike tobacco industry shills? That's a good sign for your lungs.A U.C. San Francisco study has revealed that young adults who deeply believe that the tobacco industry is composed of low-down, degenerate, gutless, slimy, watermelon-fucking sons of bitches are far less likely to smoke than their colleagues with less malevolent feelings toward Big Tobacco. While this seems like the ultimate no-brainer, UCSF scientists say the data reveals a lot; this, they claim, is the first study t