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Assessing Exposures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

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  • Brian P. Leaderer

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The combustion of tobacco indoors results in the emission of a wide range of air contaminants that are associated with a variety of acute and chronic health and comfort effects. Exposures to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) are assessed for epidemiologic studies and risk assessment and risk management applications. An individual's or population's exposure to ETS can be assessed by direct methods, which employ personal air monitoring and biomarkers, and indirect methods, which utilize various degrees of microenvironmental measurements of spaces, models, and questionnaires in combination with time–activity information. The major issues related to assessing exposures to ETS are summarized and discussed, including the physical–chemical nature of ETS air contaminants, use of proxy air contaminants to represent ETS, use of biomarkers, models for estimating ETS concentrations indoors, and the application of questionnaires.

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  • Brian P. Leaderer, 1990. "Assessing Exposures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(1), pages 19-26, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:riskan:v:10:y:1990:i:1:p:19-26
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1990.tb01016.x
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    1. Rickert, W.S. & Robinson, J.C. & Collishaw, N., 1984. "Yields of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide in the sidestream smoke from 15 brands of Canadian cigarettes," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 74(3), pages 228-231.
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    1. Mary Beth Flanders Stepans & Sara G. Fuller, 1999. "Measuring Infant Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 8(3), pages 198-221, August.
    2. James L. Repace & Jennifer Jinot & Steven Bayard & Karen Emmons & S. Katharine Hammond, 1998. "Air Nicotine and Saliva Cotinine as Indicators of Workplace Passive Smoking Exposure and Risk," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 18(1), pages 71-83, February.

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