Non-smokers who live with or spend time with smokers are damaging their memory, research says.
Non-smokers who live with or spend time with smokers are damaging their memory, research says.
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The findings, published in the latest online edition of the journal Addiction, is the first study to explore the relationship between exposure to other people's smoke and everyday memory problems.
Dr Tom Heffernan and Dr Terence O'Neil, both researchers at the Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol Research Group at Northumbria University, compared a group of smokers with two groups of non-smokers – those who were regularly exposed to second-hand smoke and those who were not.
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