Assessing exposures to environmental tobacco smoke

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990 · Risk Analysis; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1990.tb01016.x· OSTI ID:5606714

Leaderer, B P ^[1]

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1. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)

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.

• OSTI ID: 5606714
• Journal Information: Risk Analysis; (United States), Vol. 10:1; ISSN 0272-4332
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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