Third-hand tobacco smoke: Significant vector for PAH exposure or non-issue?

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 763-764

  Fleming, Tyler ^a   Anderson, Chris ^a   Amin, Sarang ^a   Ashley, Jeffrey ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAND; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PASSIVE SMOKING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAND; HUMANS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84874181255     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1337     Document Type: Note

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