[57] In July 2018, an Air China aircraft made an emergency descent after a pilot's e-cigarette triggered a false smoke alarm in the air conditioning system, causing a loss of cabin pressure
This was shown in a drawing of a woman lighting a cigarette for her husband at the dinner table
And when the smoker lights up, chemical reactions in the burning leaves fill the smoke with carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and a cocktail of carcinogens the infamous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and vapour-borne volatiles like formaldehyde and benzene
The study, led by researchers from the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo, is published in the journal JAMA
According to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 42% of US adults were smokers in the mid-1960s