Incense and candle smoke can harm lungs
Study Findings:
- Church candles and incense can be dangerous to the lungs.
- Church air appears considerably higher in cancer causing polycyclic hydrocarbons than air beside busy roads and it has particulate matter levels of up to 20 times the European limits.
- With all those church candles lighting up for Christmas, December could be an especially dangerous month for the lungs.
- The researchers say priests and people working for long periods in churches are at greater risk than ordinary worshippers. Worshippers devout enough to spend several hours each day in church could also be affected.
Researcher Dr Theo de Kok said: “While we still have to assess more precisely what level of risk these people are running and how toxic the newly identified free radicals are, this discovery is very worrying.”
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