A new trend among children and teens on social media is worrying parents and sparking the alert on doctors and specialists. In short videos, they smoke swabs. That's right, they burn the cotton, the plastic and suck the toxic smoke that comes from the junction of the two. In practice, the item has the purpose of removing ear wax, external cleaning of the ears and specific applications, such as, more recently, Covid-19 examinations. Health experts are emphatic in saying that this cannot be done and repeated in any way, since it can trigger serious respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, asthma, or more severe formals such as bissinosis, occupational disease of cotton industry workers. When b... [Read more]