Changes in environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure over a 20-year period: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 496-503

  Jefferis, Barbara J ^a   Thomson, Andrew G ^a   Lennon, Lucy T ^a   Feyerabend, Colin ^b   Doig, Mira ^b   McMeekin, Laura ^b   Wannamethee, S Goya ^a   Cook, Derek G ^c   Whincup, Peter H ^c  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ABS Laboratories Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Cotinine; Environmental tobacco smoke; Tobacco; Trend

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COTININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC FACILITIES; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; WALES;

EID: 59849092075     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02473.x     Document Type: Article

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