Fine particulate matter concentrations in smoking households: Just how much secondhand smoke do you breathe in if you live with a smoker who smokes indoors?

Tobacco Control

Volumn 24, Issue E3, 2015, Pages e205-e211

  Semple, Sean ^a,b   Apsley, Andrew ^a,b   Ibrahim, Tengku Azmina ^a   Turner, Stephen W ^a   Cherrie, John W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BREATHING; CHILD; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; EXPOSURE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BEIJING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATION; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84944255811     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051635     Document Type: Article

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