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Most people knows there is second-hand smoke, but what about third-hand smoke? Most people haven’t heard of the term "third-hand smoke". According to the medical experts, there is such a thing, and it’s particularly hazardous for children.

Third-hand smoke is defined as the residual contamination from tobacco smoke that remains after a cigarette is extinguished—toxic dust that settles onto surfaces and harmful volatile compounds that disperse in the air.

A study finds toxins from tobacco smoke can linger in the air and on hair and clothing long after a cigarette is put out, and can transfer to a baby or small child easily.

(Source: msnbc.com)

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In Germany, several of the country’s federal states are introducing smoking bans on Jan. 1, 2008.

A German restaurateur has come up with a novel solution to a new ban on smoking in restaurants: He has made three holes in the wall of his restaurant so that customers can smoke “outside.”

Proprietor Michael Windisch testing the smoking holes in his restaurant, the "Maltermeister Turm" in Germany

Windisch tests out his "smoking point."

Ahhh…

Novel? Or just plain ingenious? What’s your say?

(Via Spiegel)

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Do this trick to impress your friends! Get smoking!

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