{"id":7384,"date":"2014-09-06T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T09:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sph.nus.edu.sg\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2019-12-03T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T09:28:34","slug":"incense-smoke-poses-health-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sph.nus.edu.sg\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/incense-smoke-poses-health-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Incense smoke poses health hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research study, led by<a href=\"https:\/\/sph.nus.edu.sg\/faculty-directory\/koh-woon-puay\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Associate Professor Koh Woon Puay<\/a>\u00a0and in collaboration with\u00a0Dr Pan An, concluded that inhaling smoke from burning incense daily for 20 years or more increases a person’s risk of dying from heart disease by 12 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Indoor incense burning is widespread throughout Singapore and A\/Prof Koh said,\u00a0“studies on emissions from burning of incense have identified volatile organic compounds and particulate matter similar to those found in cigarette smoke and traffic emissions.”<\/p>\n<p>However, this research study is not intended to discourage incense burning, which is often linked to religious and ritual practices. Instead, A\/Prof Koh hopes it will spur future efforts to identify the least harmful types of incense, as well as strategies to improve indoor air quality.<\/p>\n<p>Media Coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Straits Times, 6 September 2014, Saturday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research study, led by\u00a0Associate Professor Koh Woon Puay\u00a0and in collaboration with\u00a0Dr Pan An, concluded that inhaling smoke from burning incense daily for 20 years or more increases a person’s risk of dying from heart disease by 12 per cent. Indoor incense burning is widespread throughout Singapore and A\/Prof Koh said,\u00a0“studies on emissions from burning of incense have identified volatile organic compounds and particulate matter similar to those found in cigarette smoke and traffic emissions.” However, this research study is not intended to discourage incense burning, which is often linked<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/sph.nus.edu.sg\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/incense-smoke-poses-health-hazard\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Incense smoke poses health hazard - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sph.nus.edu.sg\/blog\/2014\/09\/06\/incense-smoke-poses-health-hazard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Incense smoke poses health hazard - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A research study, led by\u00a0Associate Professor Koh Woon Puay\u00a0and in collaboration with\u00a0Dr Pan An, concluded that inhaling smoke from burning incense daily for 20 years or more increases a person’s risk of dying from heart disease by 12 per cent. 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