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Socioeconomic factors play a critical role in smoking habits, as individuals with lower socioeconomic status tend to smoke more and struggle with quitting
"In our experiments with an artificial lung medium, we were able to show that toxic substances accumulating in the lung fluid due to cigarette smoke trigger a stress reaction in bacteria, which, among other things, doubles the frequency with which resistance genes are transmitted between bacteria via plasmids," the researchers explain
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE A study involving Scottish terriers revealed many more insights into how environmental factors like cigarette smoke influence disease development The three-year study compared dogs that got bladder cancer and those that didn't, looking at different factors to see which ones increased the risk Dogs living with smokers were six times more likely to develop bladder cancer than dogs not living with smokers In households where humans smoke, dogs may be exposed to second-hand smoke from the cigarette and exhalations, as well as third-hand smoke made up of particular material that contaminates furniture, carpet and other household materials Cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, showed up in the urine of some dogs living with non-smoker owners, leading the scientists to suggest it may have been due to smoke residues on clothing It probably doesnt come as a surprise that exposure to cigarette smoke leads to cancer in dogs, much as it does in humans
They evaluated the association between secondhand nicotine vape exposure and respiratory symptoms at each stage of the study, adjusting as necessary to account for whether or not the participant themself smoked, ensuring that this would not skew the results of the study
