Exposure to tobacco smoke based on urinary cotinine levels among Israeli smoking and nonsmoking adults: A cross-sectional analysis of the first Israeli human biomonitoring study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Levine, Hagai ^a   Berman, Tamar ^b   Goldsmith, Rebecca ^b   Göen, Thomas ^c   Spungen, Judith ^b   Novack, Lena ^d   Amitai, Yona ^e   Shohat, Tamy ^b,f   Grotto, Itamar ^b,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Environmental tobacco smoke; Epidemiology; Exposure; Human Biomonitoring; Public health; Secondhand smoke; Urinary cotinine

Indexed keywords

COTININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PASSIVE SMOKING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; STATISTICS; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; COTININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891368925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1241     Document Type: Article

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