Click pic to read about a mother who lets her 3yr old smoke
Another reason not to smoke, as if you needed more.
The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
“Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates of respiratory infections,” notes Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland. The presumption has been that smoking renders people vulnerable to disease by impairing lung function or immunity. And it may well do both.
“But nobody talks about cigarettes as a source of those infections,” she says. Her new data now suggest that’s distinctly possible.
If these germs are alive, something she has not yet been confirmed, just handling cigarettes or putting an unlit one to the mouth could be enough to cause an infection.
Cancer cures smoking…
Bah, humbug. /cough
Why is anyone still waisting time and money looking for more reasons why cigarettes are bad for you? We get it already.
Lets just assume that if you smoke a single cigarette in your life that you are guaranteed to die a horrible lung spitting death before you’re fifty.
From the article – “Among the large number of germs whose DNA laced these cigarettes were: Campylobacter, which can cause food poisoning and Guillain-Barre Syndrome; Clostridium, which causes food poisoning and pneumonias; Corynebacterium, also associated with pneumonias and other diseases; E. coli; Klebsiella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, all of which are associated with not only pneumonia but also urinary tract infections; and a number of Staphylococcus species that underlie the most common and serious hospital-associated infections.”
My lord! You would think that smokers across the country would be flooding the Emergency Rooms at every hospital. Apparently, that is not the case. We’ll have to chalk this one up as “BUSTED”.
Hey Kiddies:
GERMS are everywhere.
Cigarettes are somewhere.
Cigarettes have germs.
Silly.
Don’t forget about second hand smoke… those second hand germs are even worse for you!
One more reason I’m glad I quit smoking.
My 94 year old grandmother has been actively smoking for 80 years, and has no lasting adverse health effects. I am beginning to think her experience indicates the effects of smoking are more dependant on the genetics of the individual than other factors.
By the way: I hate the smell of cigarettes and smokers.
Whatever. they can kill themselves however they want just don’t make me smell it.
This story is interesting though. Smokers who drop cigarettes on the ground, pick it up from the floor or ground, brush it off, and stick it in their mouths and light it. I did this when I was a smoker and I see smokers doing this all the time. Those same people would think it was disgusting, and rightfully so, to pick up food they dropped in the same place and eat it. I didn’t think cigarettes were germy because they are on fire.
Don’t get me wrong; I think smoking is bad for you and cigarettes stink and they make your mouth feel disgusting, but I call shenanigans on this story.
I guess my idea for a certified organic line of cigarettes just ain’t gonna fly.
Ah, so with national health care issues abound, this is somehow a way to smooth things over with Native Americans and let them know that their cultural traditions are dirty?
I can’t wait until Liberals tell Hispanics and African-Americans that their cultural diets are not healthy and are prime candidates for a fat tax (when and if this country is crazy enough to push one forward).
ScienceNews, really?
You know what they do to kill bugs infecting imported plants? FUMIGATION! Funny that we practically all carry bacterial or viral DNA of crazy-named bugs, the problem is with LIVING ORGANISMS.
“If these germs are alive, something she has not yet confirmed” !!!?!?!?! where is the god d*mn bonanza !?
Worst Scientific Journalist Award Nominee : Janet Raloff
Wow. definitely an example of form over substance.
This is a perfect example of letting ideology getting in the way of science.
Seriously, if getting your lungs to be be pure black and clogged with sht doesn’t make you stop it’s never going to stop you from doing MORE stupid things.
Not pure black. Diseased lungs are grayish. Seriously, the things about cigarettes that are really bad should be enough to make people stop it. That they are filled with bacteria shouldn’t matter. I bet being on fire kills that bacteria. I am sure the being on fire kills the human smoking the cigarette eventually.
#15 “Seriously, if getting your lungs to be be pure black and clogged with sht doesn’t make you stop it’s never going to stop you from doing MORE stupid things.”
#3 – because people are still smoking?
#12 – the indians smoke actual tobacco, about as far away from a modern cigarette as anything. Real tobacco isn’t nearly as bad as today’s chemical-laced cigs.
Not to mention that Nicotine is an antiseptic
Bogus BS. Where’s that BS meter!? So what they’re saying is germs survive the combustion of the tobacco, and then the hot smoky ride through the filter. Yeah right, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego made it through the fiery furnace.
Vices serve to make more tolerable a barely tolerable existence by giving satisfaction to alleviate stress. Stress kills more than any other human ailment.