Passive smoking 'doubles hearing loss risk among teens'

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14183871

Investigators say the findings, from a study of over 1,500 US teens aged 12 to 19, suggest that secondhand tobacco smoke directly damages young ears.

And the greater the exposure the greater the damage.

Often it was enough to impair a teen's ability to understand speech, Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery reports.

Well, that explains a lot ..... :shocked:

[Kerry]

Taking a piss will be bad for us next. Just live life FFS

[Omah]

Taking a piss will be bad for us next. Just live life FFS

http://jackalope.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/penis-fish/

Penis Fish

A few weeks ago on the show “Grey’s Anatomy”, a patient was admitted with extremely swollen testicles and an inability to urinate. The man had recently been on a trip to South America and had been swimming in the Amazon River. He admitted in a subtle manner that he may have had sex while in the area and was afraid he might have contracted some sort of sexually transmitted disease. Many tests were performed to determine the cause of his painful condition, but an Xray discovered a small skeleton shaped like a fish in his urethra. “I don’t believe it – it’s a penis fish!” shouted one of the interns.

The man on the program had a parasite called the candiru or “toothpick fish”, one of the tiniest vertebrates on the planet. It is a small catfish that swims around at the bottom of the river stalking its prey (other fish). Humans are not usually hosts. The candiru can taste traces of urea and ammonia that are expelled from the gills of its prey.

As it turned out in the the show, the man had not only been swimming in the Amazon, he had also peed in the water. Guess what – urine is composed largely of urea and ammonia. The urine attracted the candiru and it swam to the source (his penis) and entered his urinary system, making its way to the bladder. It is a carnivorous fish so it eats its way up, gets bloated, and can’t be pulled out. It also has backwards-facing barbs that prevent the host from pulling it out without significant pain and damage to the host.

The moral of the story: do not pee while swimming in the Amazon.

:eek:

[Kerry]

Not read all that. Just the last line. I'm unlikely to piss in the Amazon

[Glenn.]

What a load of crud :rolleyes:

Haven't these scientists got anything better to do :bored:

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11758345

Hearing loss linked to passive smoking

People who are exposed to the second-hand smoke from others' cigarettes are at increased risk of hearing loss, experts believe.

Doctors already know that people who smoke can damage their hearing.

The latest study in the journal Tobacco Control, involving more than 3,000 US adults, suggests the same is true of passive smoking.

Experts believe tobacco smoke may disrupt blood flow in the small vessels of the ear.

This could starve the organ of oxygen and lead to a build up of toxic waste, causing damage.

The harm is different to that caused by noise exposure or simple ageing.

Passive smoking increased their risk of hearing loss across all sound frequencies by about a third.

Dr David Fabry, who led the research, said: "We really do not know exactly how much smoke you need to be exposed to in order to be at increased risk. But we do know that the threshold for damage is very low. Really, the safe level of exposure is no exposure."

:shocked:

[Scarlett.]

lmfao

[Omah]

lmfao

Why ?

:conf:

[arista]

Yes \
Rude Public Smokers
are Toxic Time Bombs