Smokers Prepare!!

Yet another study reinforces the anti-smoking campaign. And this study hits where it hurts: your children and grandchildren.

        Many smokers have responded to the studies about second-hand smoke and no longer smoke around their children. Now the evidence about third-hand smoke means you need to make even more changes to protect your children and the nonsmokers who share your home and work place.

Third-hand smoke is the residue that remains after the visible second-hand smoke disappears. It settles into carpets and cushions in your home and car. It remains on your clothes and in your hair. Other people in an elevator smell third-hand smoke when a smoker steps in.

Would you knowingly expose your child to arsenic, lead, cyanide, carbon monoxide, or Polonium-210 (the radioactive material that killed a Russian spy in 2006)?

 So, smokers, prepare! How will you explain to your children, their grandparents, and their pediatrician if you continue to expose your children to third-hand smoke? How will you explain to your family, your friends, and your coworkers? You better start preparing your answers. The news about third-hand smoke is spreading fast.