Smoking and Third hand Smoking

As we all know smoking is bad for our health and those hours of our life is being wasted in every stick of cigar we smoke. In connection, you probably have heard of first hand smokers and second hand smokers.

First hand smokers are those who directly inhale the smoke from a stick while Second hand smokers are those who indirectly inhale particle from a lighted cigar because of exposure to first hand smokers. They say that second hand smoking is more dangerous than first hand smoking because cigars as of status quo have gas filters at one of its ends but nevertheless any type of exposure onto the chemicals inside a cigar doesn’t make any significant difference in its danger. Therefore, if you are a smoker, you should stop as early as possible and if you are a non-smoker make sure to prohibit yourself from inhaling particles from a cigar by doing some precautions. Precautions like covering your mouth and nose when someone is smoking will be helpful but it will be better no to dwell in smokers’ area or places.

Non-smokers could not just be second hand smokers but they could also be third hand smokers. Third hand smoking is a term that was just established and defined lately to me. Third hand smoking is when a person inhales a particle that was left in a place after a first hand smoker lights up a cigar. Particles from a cigar could attach and remain in a place for hours and so people might as well inhale these particles once they stay in such polluted areas and by that time they are third hand smoking. Such poisonous particles could easily attach on fabrics and so we should be very conscious in public places that must have been polluted. In addition, precautions such as putting up a defined no smoking and smoking areas would be helpful in public places such as malls so that there will be clear boundaries between places that is most likely to be polluted. Constant washing of hands is also helpful since their times that are inevitable for us not to hold onto polluted objects. But definitely, the best solution is to have each of our lives nicotine-free or smoking-free because if there are no first hand smokers there will never be second hand and third hand smokers and our world will just become cleaners and more livable.