Smoking Them Out

Parents will like this but their closet rebel kids won’t. A doctor has invented a smoking detection kit.

Parents will like this but their closet rebel kids won’t. A doctor from New York University, Srinivas N Pentyala, has invented a smoking detection kit. It guarantees to out a closet-smoker even ten days later. Called Srini’s Dip, it works like a pregnancy-test kit and detects chemicals by a change in colour of testing strips. The Dip will look for cotinine (nicotine on entering the blood breaks down to cotinine which lingers in the system for 12-10 days) in urine and saliva samples. The doctor has more good news. Should an Indian company start manufacturing the kit, it will cost a very affordable Rs 12! Pentyala, who is from the Stony Brook University Medical Centre, completed his PhD in molecular physiology from a division of Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati in 1989.

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