Newsagents' daily personal exposures to benzo(a)pyrene in Genoa, Italy

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 603-613

  Piccardo, Maria Teresa ^a   Stella, Anna ^a   Redaelli, Anna ^a   Minoia, Claudio ^b   Valerio, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fixed monitoring stations; Passive smoke; Personal air samplings; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Seasonal variability

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CIGARETTE MANUFACTURE; SMOKE;

MONITORING STATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BENZO[A]PYRENE;

AIR SAMPLING; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; ITALY; LINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; SUMMER; WINTER;

ITALY;

EID: 0037320274     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00922-6     Document Type: Article

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