Is Breathing Incense Like Smoking?
Have you ever considered the idea that burning sweet smelling incense is very similar to breathing second hand smoke? Until today, I hadn’t either. I heard it on the radio news and decided to check it out.
This study, of more than 61,000 people across 12 years, found that people who burned incense all day were 80 percent more likely than non-users to develop squamous cell carcinoma of the entire respiratory tract. While a number of people on the study did contract lung cancer, those numbers were not necessarily increased from the general population. However, the instances of nasal, oral, throat, or larynx cancer were significantly increased.
This article at Natural News.com explains that the air quality inside a poorly ventilated temple with heavy incense use was 40 times more polluted than the inside of a cigarette smokers house or similar to standing at a busy intersection filled with car exhaust.
Whether you burn incense all day or just occasionally, it seems helpful to highlight the idea that we can avoid many diseases when we breathe clean air, drink clean water, and eat natural food.
