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Supporters of the open spaces of bad smoke their extra arguments to support the need to protect nonsmokers from smoke snuff in the environment. However, British scientists provide just one more. Because according to new research, this second-hand smoke increases the risk of psychological stress and mental illness in healthy adults.

The relationship smoke snuff and mental condition has been ‘registered’ in previous studies in both mice and humans. It is known, in fact, that the smoke increases the risk of hyperactivity in children. In animals, for example, have been found to induce a negative mood.

To do this, we used an analysis of saliva cotinine levels established (metabolite of nicotine). “To our knowledge this is the first study to demonstrate prospectively and objectively an association between environmental smoke and mental health in a representative sample of the general population,” say the authors in their study. Read the rest of this entry »