Determination of nicotine as an indicator of environmental tobacco smoke in restaurants

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 152-154

  Kuusimäki, Leea ^a   Pfäffli, Pirkko ^a   Frøshaug, May ^b   Becher, Georg ^b   Dybing, Erik ^b   Peltonen, Kimmo ^a,c  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Environmental tobacco smoke; Nicotine; Occupational health and safety; Restaurants; Work environment

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

CATERING SERVICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; SAMPLER; SMOKING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NORWAY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NICOTINE; NORWAY; RESTAURANTS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0345363267     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199909)36:1+<152::AID-AJIM54>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Conference Paper

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