Levels and risks of particulate-bound PAHs in indoor air influenced by tobacco smoke: A field measurement

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4492-4501

  Slezakova, Klara ^a,b   Castro, Dionísia ^a,b   Delerue Matos, Cristina ^b   Morais, Simone ^b   Pereira, Maria Do Carmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Indoor air; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); Risk assessment; Tobacco smoke

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MEASUREMENT METHOD; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOXICITY;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PASSIVE SMOKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84895873581     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2391-5     Document Type: Article

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