News tagged with third hand smoke

Study reveals new details on the dangers of third-hand smoke

Nicotine in third-hand smoke, the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, reacts with the common indoor air pollutant nitrous acid to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (20) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

Third-hand smoke: Another reason to quit smoking

Need another reason to add "Quit Smoking" to your New Year's resolutions list? How about the fact that even if you choose to smoke outside of your home or only smoke in your home when your children are not there - thinking ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (14) | comments 17




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Simulating firefighting operations on a PC

Firefighters often put their lives at risk during operations, so it is essential they have reliable tools to help them do their job. Now, a modular simulation kit is set to help develop new information and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New sensor system tracks firefighters where GPS fails

Firefighter Ray Hodgson hits the talk button on his walkie-talkie: "I have fire showing, possibility of a rescue on the third floor. Engine 35, initiate a rescue group. Also back him up with a hose line."

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The World-Changer: Steve Jobs knew what we wanted

(AP) -- In dark suit and bowtie, he is a computing-era carnival barker - eyebrows bouncing, hands gesturing, smile seductive and coy and a bit annoying. It's as if he's on his first date with an entire generation ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simulating turbulent combustion speeds design

Air and fuel mix violently during turbulent combustion. The ferocious mixing needed to ignite fuel and sustain its burning is governed by the same fluid dynamics equations that depict smoke swirling lazily ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar

(AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

FBI memo does not prove aliens crash landed in Roswell

A 1950 FBI memo is creating some recent buzz by UFO supporters who say this provides "smoking gun" evidence that the US government recovered a crashed alien ship and bodies in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Babies who sleep with smoker parents exhibit high nicotine levels

"Third-hand smoke" stuck to skin or clothing is responsible for the high nicotine levels seen in babies who share a bedroom with their smoker parents. This is the conclusion of a study carried out in Catalonia, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Fla. ruling Big Tobacco won comes back to bite it

(AP) -- A Florida Supreme Court ruling that threw out a $145 billion award against cigarette makers is biting Big Tobacco back, making it dramatically easier for thousands of smokers to sue and turning the state into the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Glory promises new view of perplexing particles

Climatologists have known for decades that airborne particles called aerosols can have a powerful impact on the climate. However, pinpointing the magnitude of the effect has proven challenging because of difficulties ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animal with the most genes? A tiny crustacean: First crustacean genome sequenced

Complexity ever in the eye of its beholders, the animal with the most genes -- about 31,000 -- is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 22 | with audio podcast


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