Cigarettes Harbor Many Bacteria Harmful to Human Health

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 13:49 in Health & Medicine

Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.

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