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A new study at Berkeley Lab shows that ozone can react with the nicotine in secondhand tobacco smoke to form ultrafine particles that may become a bigger threat to asthma sufferers than nicotine itself.

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Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs

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