Disparity and trends in secondhand smoke exposure among Japanese employees, particularly smokers vs. non-smokers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Tabuchi, Takahiro ^a   Colwell, Brian ^b  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MORTALITY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREVALENCE; SMOKING BAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKPLACE; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84963657168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152096     Document Type: Article

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