After smoking, cigarette smoke remained for 6 months

A recent study has found that smokers' homes will be contaminated with smoke at least six months after they smoke their last cigarette.

This is considered a great threat to non-smokers living in the same house as smokers.

This report was published by the Tobacco Control Organization, in which the study found that small particles of burned tobacco were also mixed in surfaces of many household items. They can lie on carpets, upholstery, pillow covers, clothes and even wallpaper and ceiling tiles. The bad thing is that they will last long even after smokers have stopped smoking for up to six months.

Cigarette smoke leaves toxic substances on household items, which can harm human bodies, especially children.

Researchers have looked at 65 smokers who quit smoking. For a period of about six months, they measured levels of nicotine and specific substances in tobacco on household surfaces, dust and urine of non-smokers living in the same home.

In just a short time, the amount of nicotine has been significantly reduced on surfaces and in the dust, then this level leveled off and stabilized but persisted until the study ended.

Even after more than six months, the amount of nicotine in urine indicates that tobacco exposure is still detected in non-smokers.

According to the author of the study - Professor of psychology Georg E. Matt at San Diego State University, usually we see smoke coming into the air and then disappear, no longer paying attention to it. However, it leaves toxins on household items, which can harm human bodies, especially children. Therefore, no level of exposure to tobacco can be considered safe.