{"id":330222,"date":"2010-02-17T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22438"},"modified":"2010-02-17T01:15:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T06:15:26","slug":"cigarettes-might-be-infectious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330222","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes Might Be Infectious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Cigarette-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Cigarette\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22439\" height=\"201\" width=\"300\" \/>Janet Raloff writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/55678\/title\/Cigarettes_might_be_infectious\">Science News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza \u2014 literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates of respiratory infections,\u201d notes Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland, College Park. The presumption has been that smoking renders people vulnerable to disease by impairing lung function or immunity. And it may well do both.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nobody talks about cigarettes as a source of those infections,\u201d she says. Her new data now suggest that\u2019s distinctly possible.<\/p>\n<p>If these germs are alive, something she has not yet confirmed, just handling cigarettes or&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Raloff writes in Science News: The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza \u2014 literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds. \u201cNearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}