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THURSDAY, March 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking pot through a bong doesn't protect the nonsmokers in the room from the dangers of secondhand smoke, ...

"There are a lot of similarities between secondhand tobacco smoke and secondhand cannabis smoke," she said. "We want to make sure that nonsmokers are not unfairly exposed to harmful products," Hallett said. "Bong smoking leads to extremely high and very unhealthy secondhand smoke particle concentrations above [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] standards that persist even hours after smoking ceases," she said. Hallett isn't against legalization of marijuana or smoking it, but she thinks that bystanders should be protected from its secondhand smoke. Matthew Springer, a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, said it's clear that secondhand smoke from both tobacco and cannabis can reach unhealthy levels for bystanders. "That would seem to go without saying, but as with any device perceived by the public as safer, it's useful to see real numbers indicating that, indeed, use of bongs does not prevent bystanders from being exposed to significant amounts of secondhand smoke."

The Las Vegas Ballpark is getting ready for baseball season as they declare a new policy for the facility on Thursday. The ballpark teamed up with the Las ...

The ballpark teamed up with the Las Vegas Aviators and the Southern Nevada Health District to declare the facility smoke-free starting on The Aviator's opening day on April 5. “As more Las Vegas sports teams opt for smoke-free home games, our community continues to win," said Dr. Fermin Leguen, District Health Officer for the Southern Nevada Health District. Las Vegas (KSNV) — The Las Vegas Ballpark is getting ready for baseball season as they declare a new policy for the facility on Thursday.

Short-term exposure may cause health effects such as eye, nose, throat and lung irritation, coughing, sneezing, runny nose and shortness of breath.

That may mean control and harm reduction efforts involving parents may need tweaking. “We need to wake up to that,” Hammond said, per USA Today. And not only did the fine particulate stick around, levels after bong smoking were greater than for either cigarettes or tobacco hookah (waterpipe) smoking. For two-hour smoking sessions, the mean, five-minute peak concentration remained at half strength 90 minutes after smoking had stopped. For the remaining two sessions, background levels were high and PM2.5 was more than 20-fold. According to Cedars Sinai, the endothelium is a thin membrane that lines the inside of the heart and blood vessels. Investigators report, however, that, like SHTS, one minute of “SHCS caused significant endothelial dysfunction in rats.” More than one in four young people, 27 per cent, believe SHCS exposure is safe, note investigators. Article content This exposure can cause short-term health effects such as eye, nose, throat and lung irritation, coughing, sneezing, runny nose and shortness of breath, the information notes. Article content Article content

It's no secret that secondhand tobacco smoke is a health hazard. It contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic and causes over 41000 ...

“Understand that you could be affecting others and just be aware that there is a public health concern with bong smoking,” The results showed that cannabis bong smoking increased PM2.5 from background levels by at least 100-fold. The instrument recorded PM2.5 levels before, during and after eight sessions. “There’s very little research in this area,” said Dr. Silvia Martins, professor of epidemiology and director of the Substance Use Epidemiology Unit at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. “This (study) is one of the first in a controlled environment.” PM2.5 concentrations from cannabis bong smoke were four times the amount of the air matter than from smoke produced by tobacco. During his senior year, UC Berkeley graduate and fellow Patton Nguyen conducted the study - overseen by Katharine Hammond, a professor at UC Berkeley School of Public Health continued the research and came to this conclusion: “Don’t smoke indoors,” Nguyen said.

Who: Universal Security Instruments is recalling 8,000 of its 2-in-1 photoelectric smoke & carbon monoxide alarms. · Why: The alarms can fail to alert consumers ...

Consumers should immediately contact Universal Security Instruments for a free replacement alarm if they have the affected product. The recall involves two models and two date codes of the alarms. Top Class Actions es una fuente de noticias legales que informa sobre demandas colectivas, acuerdos de demandas colectivas, demandas por lesiones de medicamentos y demandas por responsabilidad de productos. No injuries have been reported so far, according to the recall. Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas that can kill if inhaled. According to the recall, the alarms can fail to alert consumers to the presence of a hazardous level of carbon monoxide, posing a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning or death.

Secondhand cannabis smoke, especially from bongs, contains high levels of carcinogens and particulate matter, according to new research.

“After 15 minutes of smoking, mean PM2.5 was more than twice the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hazardous air quality threshold.” For tobacco smokers, their risk extends to those around them in the form of secondhand smoke, which has become increasingly linked to poor health outcomes. As expected, the levels after each session were far from safe. In their conclusion, the study authors note that “contrary to popular beliefs, bong smoking is not safe,” Like secondhand tobacco smoke (SHTS), secondhand cannabis smoke presents dangers to nonsmokers within the smoking environment. According to new research, secondhand cannabis smoke, especially from bongs, contains high levels of unhealthy carcinogens and particulate matter. Measured levels were more than twice the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hazardous air quality threshold.

Secondhand cannabis smoke from a bong is more dangerous than cigarette smoking, according to researchers.

"You recall the orange days of wildfires a year and a half ago? Cannabis bong smoking in the home generated [four] times greater PM2.5 concentrations than cigarette or tobacco hookah smoking." "In the [one] session monitored for 12 hours after smoking stopped, PM2.5 remained elevated at 50 [micrograms], more than 10 times the background concentration. This study’s findings suggest SHCS in the home is not safe and that public perceptions of SHCS safety must be addressed." Incorrect beliefs about [secondhand cannabis smoke (SHCS)] safety promote indoor cannabis smoking," they said. The group found that concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) generated in a home during social cannabis bong smoking to which a nonsmoking resident might be exposed were greatly increased compared with background levels, and that PM2.5 decayed only gradually after smoking ceased.

A fresh study examining dangers of secondhand smoke shows breathing air polluted by particles from marijuana bongs is worse than from cigarettes, ...

The Women's Tennis Association agreed to a deal with Modern Health to produce a five-part video series featuring some of the sport's top players in order to raise awareness about mental-health challenges among athletes. Agencies began clearing public spaces on March 18, giving the encampments a 24-hour notice, Adams said at a briefing Wednesday. Teams offered to connect people living in the encampments with housing options as well as medical and mental health care. Researchers from Florida Gulf Coast University and Florida Atlantic University are studying the possible human health impacts caused by airborne toxins produced by blue-green algae through a study called "Cyanotoxins in Air Study." FGCU researchers are focusing on collecting the air sampling data, and researchers from FAU's College of Nursing and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute are working on the human health side of the study. That caused a standard treatment to exacerbate symptoms in heavier animals, but adding another drug that made the immune response of the obese mice resemble those of lean animals made the treatment regimen work again. Smoking in covered bus stops and light rail stops also is prohibited. A study conducted at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and published by the journal JAMA Network Open on Wednesday declared that secondhand cannabis smoke released during bong hits contains fine particulate matter at a concentration dangerously higher than that released by secondhand tobacco smoke.

The new policy, taking effect on the Las Vegas Aviators' opening day, prohibits the use of all smoke and tobacco products, including cigarettes, chewing tobacco ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOTV)-FireKeepers Casino Hotel celebrated the Grand Reopening of its Smoke 'n Fire restaurant, showing off a complete remodel of the ...

You've heard about the dangers of secondhand cigarette smoke, but what about secondhand bong smoke?

"There are potential exposures to high concentrations of toxins and these toxins are associated with negative or adverse health effects," Nguyen said. Some studies suggest long term exposure to PM2.5 may be linked to lung and heart diseases. They found home cannabis bong smoking significantly increased PM2.5 from background levels by at least 100-fold. An aerosol monitor was placed where a nonsmoker might sit, recording PM2.5 levels before, during and after eight sessions. "There's very little research in this area," said Dr. Silvia Martins, professor of epidemiology and director of the Substance Use Epidemiology Unit at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. "This (study) is one of the first in a controlled environment." "There's negative attitudes to secondhand tobacco smoke but not really to secondhand cannabis smoke," said lead study author Patton Nguyen, an industrial hygienist and a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Public Health. "What we want this study to do is really elucidate and help people understand that there are public health concerns."

The Aviators and the Las Vegas Ballpark announced Thursday that they have partnered with the Southern Nevada Health District to declare the Ballpark a ...

The Aviators start their season April 5 at the Las Vegas Ballpark against the Reno Aces. For ticket and game information, visit https://www.milb.com/las-vegas/tickets LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Aviators and the Las Vegas Ballpark announced Thursday that they have partnered with the Southern Nevada Health District to declare the Ballpark a smoke-free facility. “Encouraging good health is everyone’s business, so we are proud to do our part by partnering with the Southern Nevada Health District to make Las Vegas Ballpark a smoke-free facility,” said Don Logan, President and COO, Las Vegas Aviators. “We want the game to be enjoyable for everyone and set a good example for fans of all ages.”

Universal Security Instruments pulled two models of its devices to detect smoke, fire and too much carbon monoxide because of a carbon monoxide alert ...

Universal is offering a free replacement. Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless, poisonous gas.” That’s why Universal Security Instruments recalled 8,000 of its 2-in-1 Photoelectric Smoke & Fire + Carbon Monoxide Alarms.

All smoke and tobacco products will be prohibited on ballpark property, including cigarettes, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes like Juuls and vapes. The team will ...

The team will also run educational messaging at games all season. In partnership with the Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas Ballpark will be a smoke-free facility, the Aviators announced Tuesday. The new policy will begin with the team’s home-opening game April 5. Las Vegas Ballpark become the second Las Vegas stadium in the past few days to become a smoke-free facility.

The system works with smoke detectors to vibrate the bed or pillow and set off a flashing light to alert those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Some units at Pangea Courts Apartments had mounts for smoke alarms but no alarms attached, while other alarms in the building were installed but not working, ...

If an alarm is going off, it is there to notify you. Two of those apartments were occupied by hearing-impaired individuals and did not have silent alarms made specifically for the hearing-impaired. That includes places like the hallways, gyms and community rooms.

Smoking a bong creates concentrations of fine particulate matter four times greater than a cigarette or hookah, the UC Berkeley study found.

Hammond said ample information exists about the composition of secondhand cannabis smoke, which contains “many of the same carcinogens and other toxic chemicals that are in secondhand tobacco smoke.” Hammond said a next step could include attempting to link secondhand cannabis smoke to the diseases and other maladies linked to secondhand tobacco smoke, although Hammond acknowledged that such studies are “difficult to do and take a long time.” According to the study, 27% of young adults believe secondhand exposure to cannabis smoke is safe, but “cannabis smoke has several hundred toxic chemicals, carcinogens, and fine particulate matter, many at higher concentrations than tobacco smoke.”

One person suffered smoke inhalation after escaping from a fire that quickly spread throughout a Richmond home and left it uninhabitable Thursday morning.

The fire is not believed to be suspicious in nature but remains under investigation by the Richmond Township Fire Protection District. The home has been deemed uninhabitable. Vucha said the fire is believed to have begun in the basement and extended to the main floor.