Any religious or holy ceremony is incomplete without Incense Sticks popularly known as Agarbatti. Millions of Hindu’s, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists use Incense Sticks to please their gods or to purify and freshen up the air.
These sticks are important part of rituals as they do not only signifies spirituality but also denotes peace and prosperity. Its smell makes us feel calm from within.
But do you know side effects of these Incense Sticks? If no then be aware before lightening up any more stick of Agarbatti, especially when you hate smoking cigarette and take pride in being non-smoker.
May be after reading the above content you must be thinking that what danger could this harmless, traditional stick cause?
According to study conducted in 2015 by the scientists in South China University of Technology, they studied on two of the most common types of incense-sticks, agar wood and sandalwood and revealed that this everyday ritual of using Agarbattis causes very much harm to your health.
They said people are putting themselves as well as their loved ones at the risk of cancer, by lightening Agarbatti and by inhaling its smoke.
Know reasons why smoke of Agarbatti is harmful and may cause cancer!:
The study confirmed that incense smoke contains three kinds of toxins which can lead to cancer. These three kinds are mutagenic, genotoxic, and cytotoxic. Therefore, Agarbattis can cause a gene to mutate, which is the first pre-requisite to cancer and other lung diseases. Genetic mutation can cause a change in the DNA, which is not a good sign.
Another study done by American Cancer Society says that the long-term exposure to Agarbatti fumes put you at an increased risk of upper respiratory tract cancer.
If this wasn’t enough, smoke of Agarbatti contains hazardous particles and volatiles that pose grave health risks.
The pollutants released from these fumes cause inflammation of the bronchial tubes, which pass air to the lungs. This may result in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.
As lightening Agarbatti is considered so pure and it is a part of our rituals, question arises that whether you should light up Aggarbatii or not?
Here we tell you what should you do?
* Never burn Agarbatti or Dhoop batti when there are children around you, as smoke from these effects so bad on lungs.
* Burn Agarbatti only when it is essential and only burn this immense stick at that place which has proper ventilation.
* People who are suffering from lungs problems should stay away from smoke of Agarbatti.
So friends next time when you are going to burn Agarbatti do keep in mind that they spread lot of indoor air pollution including carbon mono-oxide which causes bad effects on our health.
