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ABSORPTION BY NON-SMOKERS OF CARBON MONOXIDE FROM ROOM AIR POLLUTED BY TOBACCO SMOKE
The Lancet, 1973Abstract Twenty volunteers spent a mean of 78 minutes seated in an unventilated smoke-filled room of approximately 43 c.m. The smoke was produced by burning or smoking eighty cigarettes and two cigars. The average ambient carbon monoxide (CO) concentration was 38 p.p.m.
Peter Cole, M. A. H. Russell, E. Brown
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1993
Abstract Inhaling the smoke from cigarettes, pipes, and cigars delivers nicotine to the brain more quickly and efficently than chewing tobacco leaf (Chapter l}. However, the practice of burning tobacco leaves indoors ex-poses other people to indoor air pollution from tobacco combustion products containing many chemicals known to be ...
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Abstract Inhaling the smoke from cigarettes, pipes, and cigars delivers nicotine to the brain more quickly and efficently than chewing tobacco leaf (Chapter l}. However, the practice of burning tobacco leaves indoors ex-poses other people to indoor air pollution from tobacco combustion products containing many chemicals known to be ...
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Indoor air pollution and tobacco smoke exposure in an African birth cohort study
7.6 Paediatric Respiratory Epidemiology, 2015Background: Childhood respiratory disease is the leading cause of under-5 mortality in the developing world. Indoor air pollution (IAP) and tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) are risk factors for lung disease, however the extent of exposure has not been well studied in an African setting. This study aimed to quantify household IAP and TSE in the Drakenstein
Heather J. Zar +5 more
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Indoor and outdoor air pollution: Tobacco smoke, moulds and diseases in infants and children
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 2007Although outdoor air pollution first brought the issue of air pollution health effects to public attention, it is now indoor air pollution that likely has the greatest impact on children's health. The World Health Organization estimates that the global burden of disease from indoor air pollution is far greater than the burden from outdoor air pollution.
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Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis, 2016
This study investigates the impacts of tobacco consumption and manufacturing on the environment. Specifically, we examine current practices and strategies, which address tobacco waste – against a global backdrop of tobacco cultivation, consumption and production. Given the junction of external practices and governmental decisions as a goal in tobacco
Patricia M. Wigfall, Dohyeong Kim
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This study investigates the impacts of tobacco consumption and manufacturing on the environment. Specifically, we examine current practices and strategies, which address tobacco waste – against a global backdrop of tobacco cultivation, consumption and production. Given the junction of external practices and governmental decisions as a goal in tobacco
Patricia M. Wigfall, Dohyeong Kim
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Tobacco Control
Background Campaigns highlighting the health harms of smoking have demonstrated success in motivating people who smoke to quit. Tobacco production and use also exert a toll on the environment, sustainable development and human rights.
Tamara Tabbakh +3 more
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Background Campaigns highlighting the health harms of smoking have demonstrated success in motivating people who smoke to quit. Tobacco production and use also exert a toll on the environment, sustainable development and human rights.
Tamara Tabbakh +3 more
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A case-control study of air pollution and tobacco smoking in lung cancer among women in Athens
Preventive Medicine, 1991A case-control study exploring the role of smoking and outdoor air pollution in the causation of lung cancer, by histologic type, in nonsmoking women, was undertaken in Athens between 1987 and 1989.One hundred one women with lung cancer and 89 comparison women with fractures or other orthopedic conditions, all permanent residents of Greater Athens ...
KATSOUYANNI, K +4 more
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Indoor Air Pollution from Tobacco Smoke as Seen by Scientists in Governmental Administration
1990The purpose of the presentation is to describe the professional situation of a scientifically educated person who advises politicians and administrators, i.e., people without a professional background in biological science. Using tobacco smoking/passive smoking as examples, I will try to illustrate the importance of being clearly aware that interests ...
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Using indoor plants as biomonitors for detection of toxic metals by tobacco smoke
Air quality, atmosphere and health, 2022Wasem Esmael Omer Ghoma +2 more
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