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Brief Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke Bad for Health According to New Study 

Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX) offers TobacAlert™ Urine, an easy-to-use test for second-hand smoke exposure that requires no special equipment or training and can be used for at home or at the workplace. A new study has shown that even a brief exposure to second-hand smoke may hurt human blood vessels. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that healthy nonsmokers exposed to 30 minutes of second-hand smoke showed signs of blood vessel injury and impaired repair responses that persisted up to 24 hours after exposure, in a report published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (J Am Coll Cardiol. May 6, 2008; 51:1760-71).

“Second-hand smoke is insidious and exposure to second-hand smoke has serious short term and long term health consequences for children and adults alike,” said Brian Doyle, Nymox's Senior Manager for Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “Parents who smoke may not realize the extent to which their habit is harming their children, even if their child’s exposure to second-hand smoke at home or in the car is relatively brief. Our TobacAlert™ Urine product gives concerned individuals a way of assessing the level of tobacco product use or exposure within a matter of minutes.”

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