MRIs Show Evidence of Lung Damage From Secondhand Smoke
U.S. Newswire, November, 2007
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Rachel Salis-Silverman of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1-267-426-6063, Salis@email.chop.edu
CHICAGO,Nov. 26/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Its not a smoking gun, but its smoking-related, and its there in black-and-white images: evidence of microscopic structural damage deep in the lungs, caused by secondhand cigarette smoke. For the first time, researchers have identified lung injury to nonsmokers that was long suspected, but not previously detectable with medical imaging tools.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071126/DC07965)
The researchers suggest that their findings may strengthen public health efforts to restrict secondhand smoke.
We used a special type of magnetic resonance imaging to find these...
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