Air nicotine monitoring for second hand smoke exposure in public places in India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 98-103

  Kaur, Jagdish ^a   Prasad, Vinayak ^b  

^a GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air nicotine; passive air monitoring; second hand smoke (SHS); smoking; tobacco smoke

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052886631     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.84126     Document Type: Article

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