Environmental tobacco smoke exposure assessment

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6176051

Guerin, M R

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is the material released into the environment as tobacco products are smoked. Cigarettes, pipes, and cigars all produce ETS but the term has become all but synonymous with indoor air contamination by cigarette smoking. This is because cigarettes are by far the most commonly consumed tobacco product and because the principal human exposure occurs indoors. Exposure to ETS is variously termed as passive smoking, involuntary smoking, and as exposure to second-hand smoke. Considerable progress has been made toward a better understanding of ETS exposure. Strengths and limitations of various measures of exposure are better understood and much data has been generated on the quantities of many ETS-constituents in many indoor environments. The properties of ETS, methods for its measurement in indoor air, and many results of field studies have recently been reviewed by the author. The recent EPA report includes a major treatment of exposure estimation including air concentrations, questionnaires, and biomarkers. This paper discusses approaches to exposure assessment and summarizes data on indoor air concentrations of ETS-constituents.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: NCI; National Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6176051
• Report Number(s): CONF-9304160-1; ON: DE93015521
• Resource Relation: Conference: Japan Indoor Air Research Society roundtable meeting on environmental tobacco smoke, Tokyo (Japan), 2 Apr 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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