Passive smoking, would have related to dementia

The first large-scale study demonstrated the relationship between exposure to passive smoking and cognitive problems, according to researchers from the Peninsula Medical School, University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan, who have published.

Thus the results of the first large-scale study indicate that snuff second-hand smoke exposure can cause dementia and other neurological problems.

They have already identified possible links between active smoking and cognitive decline and previous findings have suggested that exposure to environmental smoke snuff is linked to poor cognitive performance in children and adolescents.

However, this is the first such study that links second-hand smoke exposure is involved in cognitive impairment in adult nonsmokers. Read the rest of this entry »