German environmental survey IV: Environmental tobacco smoke exposure of German children

International Journal of Environment and Health

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 397-409

  Conrad, André ^a   Seiwert, Margarete ^a   Schulz, Christine ^a   Becker, Kerstin ^a   Ullrich, Detlef ^a   Kolossa Gehring, Marike ^a  

^a Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benzene; Children; Cotinine; Environmental tobacco smoke; ETS; Exposure; Formaldehyde; Germany; Human biomonitoring; Population study

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 55149105050     PISSN: 17434955     EISSN: 17434963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJENVH.2008.020931     Document Type: Article

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