Smoking causes ‘poisonous clouds’

SMOKERS pump out clouds of poison which can seriously affect the breathing of those around them, new research has found.

For the first time scientists have shown that endotoxins, which are made by bacteria and occur naturally in the air, are produced by tobacco smoke in high concentrations.

The researchers, from Lund University in Sweden, used a unique method of chemical analysis to measure levels of endotoxins caused by tobacco smoke.