Incense Could Be Bad For Your Health

The sweet smell that comes from the burning of incense could be bad for your health. Incense is a popular meditative and medicinal aid often used by Buddhists, Hindus and Christians in their homes and places of worship, this incense exposes people to dangerous levels of smoke laden with cancer-causing chemicals. A research made by collecting air samples from inside and outside a temple and compared with a sample of air collected at a traffic intersection. It was observed that Total levels of PAHS(polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) inside the temple was 19 times higher than outside and slightly higher than at the traffic intersection.One of the compounds benzopyrene which is thought to cause lung cancer in smokers was monitored at levels that were up to 45 times higher than in homes where residents smoked tobacco, which is an evident of the serious health danger that incense can cause. it is advised that, if you must use an incense to pray, you must take care to protect your health by not inhaling it, but if possible avoid using it completely. Remember your health is much more important