Trends in the exposure of nonsmokers in the U.S. population to secondhand smoke: 1988-2002

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 853-858

  Pirkle, James L ^a   Bernert, John T ^a   Caudill, Samuel P ^a   Sosnoff, Connie S ^a   Pechacek, Terry F ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaker; Cotinine; Environmental tobacco smoke; ETS; Health and nutrition examination survey; NHANES; Secondhand smoke; SHS; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

COTININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PASSIVE SMOKING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; UNITED STATES;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745047750     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8850     Document Type: Article

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