Cigarettes = Acinetobacter+Pseudmonas+Staphylococcus
Researchers at the University of Maryland investigated the bacterial metagenomics of four brands of cigarettes and detected 15 classes of bacteria in all cigarette samples. Holy Smoke! (couldn't resist) The research by Saplota et al, just published in the March 2010 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, found Acinetobacter, Bacillus, Burkholderia, Clostridium, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Serratia in ≥ 90% of all cigarette samples and also Campylobacter, Enterococcus, Proteus, and Staphylococcus.
h/t Mark Vander Weg
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