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The World Health Organizations regulatory collaborators put the figure at more than six thousand chemical substances in tobacco smoke, and national regulators focus on HPHCsharmful and potentially harmful constituentswhen they measure what people are exposed to
SOURCES: Hilary Tindle, MD, MPH, professor, medicine, Vanderbilt University, and founding director, ViTAL: Vanderbilt Center for Tobacco, Addiction and Lifestyle Nashville
It is strongly associated with the development and progression of hepatic steatosis, increased oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, activation of pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic pathways, and systemic metabolic dysregulation
In testing done months after smokers moved out of homes, from 10 to 20% of the dangerous chemicals lingered behind on surfaces like furniture and walls