Cigarette Smoke and Mold Growth Science Fair Projects

Working with Controlled Substances

If you are going to work with controleld substances like cigarettes, then you will need adult supervision. You will also want to take steps to protect yourself from harm.

Test bacteria on any surface with the Surface Microbes Science Fair Projects Kit: after hand sanitizer, hands, disinfectant.. for example. You can use antibiotics to test the bacteria too.

Anytime you want to test how many bacteria are On Top of a surface like a desk, skin, chicken, computer keyboard, bread dough, a hard piece of chocolate, cheese, inside of an animal's cheek, etc. then use the surface experimenter kit. The kit will let you calculate how many bacteria there are per unit surface area on the object. You can also test for e-coli, however, only the microbe water kit will let you distinguish e. coli from other coliforms and bacteria.

Objectives/Goals

I examined the effects of cigarette smoke exposure on the rate of mold growth on bread. My objective was to find out whether or not cigarette smoke halts natural growth processes in the body.