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There is a fairly common misconception that if you smell something that is not there (such as burnt toast) it is a sign of a stroke. This is not true. However, because a stroke can occur in any region of the brain, the sense of smell can be affected. Rather than smelling something that isn't there, though, it's more likely that the ability to smell anything will be hindered or that your response to smells is altered.
No-one can say for sure, says Dr Paul Brent, the chief scientist of Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ). No-one has ever investigated whether people who eat a lot of burnt toast have higher cancer rates. And lab rats have never been fed burnt toast to see whether it causes tumours, Brent says. But there are chemicals in burnt toast that have been linked with cancers in both animals and humans.