The internal dose of passive smoking at home depends on the size of the dwelling

Environmental Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-71

  Henschen, Matthias ^a   Frischer, Thomas ^b   Pracht, Thomas ^a   Spiekerkötter, Edda ^a   Karmaus, Wilfried ^c   Meinert, Rolf ^a   Lehnert, Willi ^a   Wehrle, Emil ^a   Kuehr, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c NORDIG Inst for Hlth Res and P   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0031028374     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1996.3688     Document Type: Article

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