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Is Third-Hand Smoke A Hazard?
Some scientists say toxins from cigarette smoke can cling to furniture and clothing after the smoke wafts away, possibly posing a danger to infants and children. Jonathan Winickoff discusses his new paper on the public's perception of the risk of third-hand smoke.
[0:00:19] ... in bars and restaurants. And that's a good thing at least from health prospective. Other cities have have been doing insane things sporadically health experts now know that secondhand smoke is bad for you. Turns out that face not -- smoke smell the residue left on your clothing. May be more then just unpleasant they may also be a health hazard itself. And lingering grew expense cigarette stick things here hair and clothes even the furniture. -- called third hand smoke and ...
[0:01:54] ... Can harm the health of infants and children. And what we count was that the majority of nonsmokers. 65%. Believed that there can't smoke can harm ...
[0:03:31] ... Hearing your study got picked up by a lot of news agencies and some of the online sites. Let people comment on on the work and I'm amazed at how met some of these people seem to be about this issues -- and actual. They they get very angry and. ...
[0:08:17] ... of the most cost effective thing we can do to improve the health -- population. ...
[0:08:36] ... on their cigarettes that's money that could be used to help the health and well being children in the but it. ...
NPR: 01-09-2009 Talk of the Nation - Hour 1
Stories: 1) Is Third-Hand Smoke A Hazard? 2) How To Make Sense Of Medical Statistics 3) New Measurements Of The Milky Way Galaxy 4) Pick Of The Week: Teeny Tiny Dreadlocks
[0:00:19] ... in bars and restaurants. And that's a good thing at least from health prospective. Other cities have have been doing insane things sporadically health experts now know that secondhand smoke is bad for you. Turns out that face not -- smoke smell the residue left on your clothing. May be more then just unpleasant they may also be a health hazard itself. And lingering grew expense cigarette stick things here hair and clothes even the furniture. -- called third hand smoke and ...
[0:01:54] ... Can harm the health of infants and children. And what we count was that the majority of nonsmokers. 65%. Believed that there can't smoke can harm ...
[0:03:31] ... Hearing your study got picked up by a lot of news agencies and some of the online sites. Let people comment on on the work and I'm amazed at how met some of these people seem to be about this issues -- and actual. They they get very angry and. ...
[0:08:17] ... of the most cost effective thing we can do to improve the health -- population. ...
[0:08:36] ... on their cigarettes that's money that could be used to help the health and well being children in the but it. ...
[0:09:31] ... it illustrates how statistics can be misleading. When it comes to understanding health risks. And my next guests have written a book to help you slice through the stats to understand what your real risks are and to help you avoid becoming panic. With every new public service announcement about something out of how to read through those statistics. Steve Walsh and -- a general internist in the Department of Veterans Affairs and white river junction Vermont. And he's also professor at Dartmouth medical school and co director of the center for medicine and media at Dartmouth institute for health policy and clinical practice. He has coauthored a book called know your chances understanding health statistics. Welcome to the program Steve. Release and Schwartz is a professor at Dartmouth medical school and a general internist at the ...
[0:10:31] ... the first thing is to ask questions. Because behind many of the health messages. They're cute things there are numbers and their science and we want you don't understand. What the numbers are behind the ...
[0:11:15] ... with numbers all the time and the kinds of numbers here and health messages and drug ads in public service announcements. A really no different than the kind of numbers -- all the time when ...
[0:12:01] ... Austin and -- Sam Schwartz about their book know your chances understanding health statistics. Tennessee through the hype and medical news and the public service announcements. -- our number 1899825518099825. Your calls stay with us ...
[0:12:34] ... that -- The title of -- new book know your chances understanding health statistics. Authored by EST -- Lisa Schwartz and H Gilbert Welch and Steven Lisa eyewitness. Studios here number's 180998255. Let's talk about ...
[0:24:59] ... And the look we're talking about is called know your chances understanding health statistics Tennessee through their height in medical news and some public service. Announcements in my guest Sarah Steve Ralston and Lisa Schwartz ...
[0:29:52] ... with. He volition and Melissa Schwartz authors of knowing your chances understanding health statistics. Are number 180998255. Splintering -- and and second life so stay with us we'll be right back. I'm -- later this is science Friday. From NPR news. Listening to science Friday I'm Ira -- we're talking this hour about understanding risk with the authors of a book knowing your chances understanding health statistics. Tennessee through the hype and medical news vans and public service announcements. I guess there -- motion and release and Schwartz. ...
[0:32:37] ... part of it is that we made change people's conception about their health because let's say they go to get colon cancer but by the sad they believe that there is a enormous. Briscoe of their having colon cancer dying from colon cancer one is that they may be unnecessarily afraid of what's going to happen during the test. And also in May start to make them feel more vulnerable which may disrupt their sense of health. So I guess the it's it's their moral question about what does it mean to be healthy and how much do we ...
[0:36:40] ... lieutenant Welsh they have coauthored a book called know your chances understanding health statistics. How to see through the hype and medical news ads and public service announcements about the need to vote here. You ...
Liberty Conspiracy - 1-9-09 The Statist-supporting Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons
During Gard's conversation with Grant Bosse on the subject of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, some of the statistics Grant mentioned were incorrect. Certain of Grant's assumptions were wrong as well, and all of these mistakes lead to the support of a statist paradigm for "cap and trade", and the loose thinking that this is somehow a 'market' solution to the so-called "tragedy of the commons". Gardner exposes these myths, and explains why it is important to establish private property solutions and private societal paradigms rather than government programs and regulations. It's heavy stuff, and important. Check it out, feel free to comment at the FORUM at www.libertyconspiracy.com
[0:17:37] ... the analogy. Politicians are now claiming that people have rights to good health. And soon under the socialized medical system that they will inevitably imposed on us. They'll manage and control our so called right to health care. It's a public good supposedly. Now on the case of them taking away our property rights when it comes to working ...
[0:18:20] ... all people had a new common right. To a general level of health. Then the politicians would sell indulgence alliances. Whereby healthy people could get them cheaper and more of them and sell them off to fatter and help your people letting them continue their unhealthy ways but of course imposing on them greater costs for it. And as some people might say mimicking the market and all this because we -- common view of health. Individual rights to control one's own body and determine one's own preferences are now all of our concern. And they would have ...
[0:27:09] ... they brought up. This carbon dioxide -- a bit of -- hearing because you can't really show when he harm in this but let's say the pollutants were something else some sulphur dioxide or ...
Here and Now for Friday, January 9, 2009
On today's podcast — the latest on alleged misuse of Federal disbursements to banks; a look at new proposals for regulating financial markets; a sound portrait of voices from the Great Depression; an argument for a world without nuclear weapons; and a look at the year ahead in entertainment.
[0:01:52] ... teacher asking the same questions a second time in the hope of hearing better answers. This panel asked these questions in mid December treasuries sent back responses. And the panel is now essentially asking the ...
[0:04:45] ... how they use it and how successful it is and restoring the health of the economy. ...
The Bob Rivers Show, January 9, 2009
Dear Flabby: My 17-Year-old Son is on Pot; Hypnotist Selena Valentine; Comedian Chris Fairbanks
[0:17:42] ... cigarette smoking which also is an illegal its decision about your own health that's indulgent and risky. You understand all that. ...
[0:17:58] ... yeah. I know and I was your age I didn't think about health at all -- I was immortal. There were I don't know I. I don't know what can. -- understood I'm sure does ...
[0:34:22] ... going allow -- can flip the switch like. Not that hearing you talk about it isn't you know mildly interest in -- watching you actually do it. Even over the phone. One into ...