How can third hand smoke effect you?

probably the same kind as second hand, just less of it.

it affects my nose, because those people stink

Just as pollution from car exhaust, no matter where you are in civilized world you’ll be affected by it.

Significantly less than second hand smoke, but significantly more than fourth hand smoke.

Fourth hand smoke is the smoke from your friend after he/she comes back in that sticks to you, that you pass on to someone else. I hereby claim to be the inventor of the term.

it can make me feel like puking, because the person stinks.

I’ve got to go with @tennesseejac and @eponymoushipster on this one. The odor that emanates from a smoker is unbecoming and foul smelling. It affects my nose more than anything also.

And the propaganda machine is at it again lol

i think the concept of third hand smoke is ridiculous

”An odor or odour (see spelling differences) is a volatilized chemical compound, generally at a very low concentration, that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction.” The whole reason why you can smell the smoke on a smoker is because you are inhaling the residual chemicals still clinging to them from the cigarette. If no chemicals were present, you wouldn’t be able to smell them (although the opposite is not necessarily true). It’s already well known that the majority of the chemicals in cigarette smoke are toxic, so it stands to reason that those chemicals you’re smelling/inhaling as “third hand” smoke are toxic, too.

@amanderveen pretttttty sure he didn’t specify cigarettes. So cigar 3rd hand smoke isn’t harmful?

Besides, SECOND hand smoke is at a low concentration, and still harmful. 3rd would be at such a low level, i’d be surprised if it really did THAT much harm.

No amount of smoke inhaled is very good for you but third hand smoke? Are you sh**ing me?

I don’t think “third hand smoke” is really smoke – it’s more of a chemical residue, but toxic nonetheless (and not to mention nasty smelling).

does this mean we can call the shit left in the bowl “3rd hand farts”?

@redsfan1324 – I was just using cigarette smoke as an example. Pipe or cigar smoke is basically the same thing.

I also don’t think that anyone is arguing that the concentration is extremely low, but a lot of people are starting to realize that all of the “low” concentrations of toxic chemicals in individual products or in “third hand” smoke all taken together start to amount to much larger concentration levels. Each individual encounter is minimal, but if you’re being exposed to different chemical-laden products and to smoke dozens, or possibly hundreds of times a day, day after day, year after year – those chemicals start to build up in your system.

Besides that, the report that I originally heard about third hand smoke said that exposure to young children and infants was more of an issue because they are more likely to be in direct contact with fabrics that could be holding the chemicals (crawling, clinging to smoky shirts, burying their faces in blankets/pillows/etc) and that they are more at risk from exposure because their bodies are still developing, as well.

Cigar and pipe tobacco has a much cleaner for to it. Not nearly the amount of added crap to them. so they may be bad, but not nearly as ciggy’s :D

Third hand smoke refers to the solid chemical poisons that a smoker will transfer from his person into your home (and sofa and chairs, etc.), invisibly, and there are children which can get deadly sick from these poisons. It’s not, literally, smoke but in fact, the solid chemical poisons smokers will pass around, even when they aren’t actually puffing on a cigarette.

@Mr_M. You need to convince your avatar to quit smoking. He’s setting a bad example! :o)

@Blue, (cough! cough!) I guess you’re (cough!) right!!

Anyway, here’s a link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/health/research/03smoke.html?em

The harmful chemical residue which is left behind long after a person smokes is referred to as “third hand smoke”.

The chemicals from smoke can be deposited over the clothes, sofa, carpets, and kids can ingest them while playing.

They say it is important for parents to quit smoking at least in their homes to prevent this from happening. So, ban smoking in home!

I think it has more of an effect on children. And that is the concern: parents going outside to smoke does help, but it’s in their hair and clothing – so when they go in and pick up their children or whatever there is still an effect.

I don’t even smoke, but all I’ve got to say about this is:
“Give me a fucking break!”

Poisonous “smell” gimme a goddang break now. No matter what crap you come up with in this country, you’ll find some hypochondriac somewhere who’ll believe it.