Posted on 09/16/2012 6:48:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
FRIDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) — Regular exposure to secondhand smoke has a negative effect on brain function, according to a new British study that found people who live with or spend a significant amount of time with a smoker are damaging their memories.
“According to recent reports by the World Health Organization, exposure to secondhand smoke can have serious consequences on the health of people who have never smoked themselves, but who are exposed to other people’s tobacco smoke,” Dr. Tom Heffernan, a researcher at the Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol Research Group at Northumbria University, said in a university news release. “Our findings suggest that the deficits associated with secondhand smoke exposure extend to everyday cognitive function.”
The researchers compared a group of smokers with two groups of nonsmokers. Participants in one nonsmoking group were exposed to secondhand smoke either at home or in a “smoking area” for an average of 25 hours a week for an average 4.5 years. Those in the other nonsmoking group were not routinely exposed to secondhand smoke.
Study participants from all three groups took a time-based memory test, which required them to perform a task after a set period of time. The also had to recall planned activities in an event-based memory test, which focuses on memory for future intentions.
Nonsmokers who were exposed to secondhand smoke forgot almost 20 percent more in the memory tests than the other nonsmoking group did, the study revealed.
Smokers performed the worst of all on the memory tests. They forgot 30 percent more than those who were not exposed to secondhand smoke.
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Have you considered another option? That people who implicitly believe whatever the government says are not that bright, and have a limited number of available synapses going into the game?
Thanks for the ping!
I knew it! 50 years ago, my parents who smoked had parties at the house and often it would cause a lot of thick cigarette smoke. Now I can’t find my damn car keys?
This is weird. All this time I’ve been blaming it on our public schools, colleges and universities.
Because they can, rofl. That describes 90% of male minds.
I know my hubby messes up everything I ask him to do, so that I will never ask him to do that again, which also falls into the BECAUSE THEY CAN and will.
I can’t remember any secondhand smoke.
See?
Never be too quick to get a divorce. You may need your spouse to help you finish your sentences someday.
Only smoke Pot,They will leave you the hell alone.Kinda the message for our kids.
> Secondhand Smoke Linked to Memory Problems
Bullsh!t...
Some of the finest minds that have ever graces the world worked in smoke filled offices and rooms.
Tesla smoked cigarettes and Einstein smoked a pipe.
I was going to post a snappy retort but I forgot what I was going to say.
I was going to tell you about the first time I was in a room when someone was smoking but I don’t recall Senator.
The above is as lame as the article.
maybe it was a cigar?
You made me laugh. Bill Cosby had a whole comedy routine based on how men get out of work by pretending to be incompetent. His wife is sick and tells Bill to get out of bed and make breakfast for his children, and he gives them all chocolate cake arguing how it’s nutritious because it has milk and wheat and eggs in it... she beats him severely and goes to make breakfast for the kids herself, and he goes back to bed...”which is where I wanted to be in the first place”...LOL
Spent the weekend in tobacco country. The rain shut them down today, but yesterday there were picking, hauling and hanging it in the dryers.
You think this is bad? Wait until the campaign against third hand smoke begins.
I've never heard that before!
And every time I reach into my dryer for that lost sock I only find my car keys!
Someone is playing a cruel game!
I've never heard that before!
I'm not sure whether I have or not.
Hold on a second, I need to put a ciggie out burning away in the ashtray.
Oh, yeah, no, I'm pretty sure I've never heard it before.
Steaming Pantload
“You think this is bad? Wait until the campaign against third hand smoke begins.”
My grandpa, who chews tobacco occasionally, says, “as long as they don’t ban second hand spit, he will be alright”.
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