Chief of the Legal Education Information Section of Xiangtan Municipal Health and Family Planning Comprehensive Supervision and Law Enforcement Bureau, and an expert in the Technical Expert Database of Xiangtan Preventive Medicine Association. Use various publicity platforms to p

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member of Xiangtan Health Science Popularization Expert Database

Member of Xiangtan Health and Family Planning Comprehensive Supervision and Law Enforcement Bureau Legal Education Information Section, and expert of Xiangtan Preventive Medicine Association Technical Expert Database.

uses various publicity platforms to popularize health science knowledge, strengthen cooperation with TV stations and radio stations to improve residents' health literacy; during the fight against the new crown epidemic, print brochures and distribute them to more than 20,000 units at all levels and units; organize and carry out publicity week activities such as AIDS prevention and control many times; actively participate in the city's health science popularization and speech competitions.

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How to stay away from Three-hand smoke

What is third-hand smoke?

Third-hand smoke refers to the residue of tobacco tobacco that remains on the surfaces of clothes, walls, carpets, furniture, and even hair and skin after smoking. Also known as involuntary smoking, it is a passive smoking method and is currently the most widely jeopardized and most serious indoor air pollution.

Hazards of third-hand smoke

The ingredients of first-hand smoke are no different from second-hand smoke, but second-hand smoke is more harmful, and third-hand smoke is even more harmful than second-hand smoke. Third-hand smoke can cause genetic mutations in human cells, causing the possibility of cancer and other diseases.

Third-hand smoke will stay on the surface of the object for a long time, and will not disappear even for several months. They will return to the air and harm the human body through three channels, including inhaling into the lungs due to breathing, contaminated channels from hand to mouth after contact with contaminated sofas, clothes and carpets, as well as contact and friction between the skin and the object and absorb it into the body.

Because infants and young children and children have low weight compared to adults, their immune systems are relatively fragile and they are more susceptible to "third-hand smoke". Although many smokers have changed their smoking habits. They either smoke in open air, or when their family members, especially their children, are not at home, to avoid their "second-hand smoke" hurting people. Although smoking outdoors is better than smoking indoors, the residue of nicotine will still adhere to the smoker's skin or clothes. After it returns indoors with the smoker, it will still spread everywhere.

After inhaling these harmful substances, the most direct consequence is to cause respiratory problems in infants and young children, such as acute bronchitis , asthma , etc. In addition, the tobacco residue in the environment can also cause considerable harm to the children's nervous system, respiratory system, circulation system, etc. Therefore, simply isolating children from the smoke generated when smoking does not really protect children. Even if you smoke outdoors, the nicotine content in the baby of a smoker's family is still 7 times higher than that of a baby of a non-smoking family.

How to stay away from third-hand smoke?

1. Clean the room thoroughly without leaving any sanitary dead corners, and clean the dust inside, because the dust contains a large amount of harmful substances of tobacco smoke.

2. Cleaning the wall, especially the ceiling, is the most effective measure to remove tobacco smoke adsorbed by the wall.

3. Strengthen ventilation. If conditions permit, it can maintain uninterrupted ventilation for 24 hours, and the ventilation effect can be strengthened by turning on the fan or exhaust fan.

4. Forbid anyone to smoke in the room, make your home a 100% smoke-free area, fundamentally solving the harm of tobacco smoke.