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Over half of U.S. adults have recently been exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, and most of them were oblivious to it, new research reveals.
“There is no safe level of secondhand smoke exposure, and long-term exposure can increase the risk of many chronic conditions, such as coronary heart disease, respiratory disease, and cancers,” said Ruixuan Wang, a doctoral candidate in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at theThe UF Health researchers analyzed a nationally representative survey of more than 13,000 U.S. adults and detected the byproduct of nicotine in the blood of 51% of people.
The authors looked for the presence of cotinine in respondents’ blood, which indicates exposure to nicotine in the last few days and is the gold standard for determining exposure to tobacco products.
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