Third Hand Smoking - Smoke deposit in dress, hair can cause diabetes

The study reveals that children and the elderly are at increased risk of third-hand smoke.

Health issues regarding smokers and passive smokers is old news. The new findings have shown that people who are exposed to accumulated on surfaces like clothing, hair, household and care smoke may be at risk for type 2 diabetes exposure to smoking third hand (ESO) may cause insulin resistance, a precursor of type 2 diabetes in non-smokers, especially children and the elderly, researchers have warned after a study on mice.

"If confirmed in humans, our study could greatly impact how people see exposure to environmental toxins snuff," said study lead author Manuela Martins-Green, University of California-Riverside. "Children and the elderly are especially vulnerable to smoking third hand and its impact on health. Since babies often crawl on carpets and touching exposed to exhaled smoke objects that are at high risk of exposure THS, "Martins-Green said in the study published in the journal PLoS ONE.

The researchers explained that THS is in snuff smoke toxins that remain on surfaces and in dust after snuff has smoked.

For the study, researchers first cages (used for housing mice) to secondhand smoke using a smoking machine exposed.

The researchers explained that THS is in snuff smoke toxins that remain on surfaces and in dust after snuff has smoked.

This smoke landed and accumulates in materials (which are commonly found in homes) in cages and became THS. The mice were then placed in cages. A control group of mice was exposed to any THS.

THS-exposed mice were fed a standard diet meal or a "Western diet" - modified feed a diet similar to a diet high in fat people eat.

Mice fed the Western diet exposed-THS showed increased oxidative stress, developed more severe and resistance to insulin gained less weight than the control group of mice.

While nicotine reduces appetite by affecting the brain and some hormone levels, which also results in increased oxidative stress. "Our findings have direct implications for humans due to snuff toxins are often present in human habitats," Martins-Green said. The elderly are at high risk, simply because the major organs are more susceptible to disease, Martins-Green said.