PMID- 27925021 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170503 LR - 20170817 IS - 1678-4464 (Electronic) IS - 0102-311X (Linking) VI - 32 IP - 11 DP - 2016 Dec 1 TI - Thirdhand smoke: when the danger is more than you can see or smell. PG - e00032216 LID - S0102-311X2016001102001 [pii] LID - 10.1590/0102-311X00032216 [doi] AB - Recent discussion has focused on another form of exposure to tobacco - thirdhand smoke (THS) - consisting of residual pollutants from cigarette smoke that remain in environments. The main concern with THS is based on the presence and persistence of many toxic compounds, some specific nitrosamines from tobacco that have carcinogenic activity. Little is known about THS, and few people are aware of its existence and potential health repercussions, thus highlighting the need to shed light on the subject and incorporate it into the public health debate, as was done with passive smoking several years ago. THS is a form of passive smoking, together with secondary or involuntary exposure to cigarette smoke. Recentemente, passou a ser discutida mais uma forma de exposicao ao tabaco - thirdhand smoke (THS) - que consiste nos poluentes residuais da fumaca de cigarro que permanecem nos ambientes. A principal preocupacao com o THS e embasada na presenca e longa persistencia de muitos compostos toxicos, algumas nitrosaminas especificas do tabaco que tem atividade carcinogenica. Alem de se saber pouco sobre o THS, poucos sabem de sua existencia e preocupante repercussao na saude. Coloca-se em destaque a necessidade de traze-lo a luz e inclui-lo nas discussoes, assim como foi feito com o tabagismo passivo alguns anos atras, ate mesmo porque o THS se caracteriza como uma forma de tabagismo passivo junto a exposicao secundaria ou involuntaria da fumaca de cigarro. FAU - Figueiro, Luciana Rizzieri AU - Figueiro LR AD - Universidade Federal de Ciencias da Saude de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brasil. FAU - Ziulkoski, Ana Luiza AU - Ziulkoski AL AD - Universidade Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Brasil. FAU - Dantas, Denise Conceicao Mesquita AU - Dantas DC AD - Universidade Federal de Ciencias da Saude de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brasil. LA - eng LA - por PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20161201 PL - Brazil TA - Cad Saude Publica JT - Cadernos de saude publica JID - 8901573 RN - 0 (Particulate Matter) RN - 0 (Smoke) SB - IM MH - Air Pollution, Indoor/adverse effects/*analysis MH - Environmental Exposure/adverse effects/*analysis MH - Humans MH - Particulate Matter/adverse effects/*analysis/toxicity MH - Smoke/*adverse effects EDAT- 2016/12/08 06:00 MHDA- 2017/05/04 06:00 CRDT- 2016/12/08 06:00 PHST- 2016/02/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/08/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/12/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/12/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/05/04 06:00 [medline] AID - S0102-311X2016001102001 [pii] AID - 10.1590/0102-311X00032216 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Cad Saude Publica. 2016 Dec 1;32(11):e00032216. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00032216.