Indoor fine particle (PM2.5) pollution exposure due to secondhand smoke in selected public places of Sri Lanka

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1129-1136

  Nandasena, Sumal ^a   Wickremasinghe, Ananda R ^b   Lee, Kiyoung ^c   Sathiakumar, Nalini ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Public; Secondhand smoke; Smoking; Sri Lanka; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PASSIVE SMOKING; SANITATION; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PUBLIC FACILITIES; SRI LANKA; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84868709867     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22040     Document Type: Article

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