Effect of air pollution and environmental tobacco smoke on serum hyaluronate concentrations in school children [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2002 Objectives: To evaluate serum hyaluronate concentrations relative to air pollution, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and respiratory health in Japanese school children.Methods: Respiratory symptoms and serum IgE concentrations were examined in 1037 school children living in four communities in Japan with differing levels of air pollution.
Masayuki Shima +4 more
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Indoor air pollution and tobacco smoke exposure: impact on nasopharyngeal bacterial carriage in mothers and infants in an African birth cohort study [PDF]
ERJ Open Research, 2019 Indoor air pollution (IAP) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure may influence nasopharyngeal carriage of bacterial species and development of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).
Aneesa Vanker +7 more
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Indoor air pollution from secondhand tobacco smoke, solid fuels, and kerosene in homes with active tuberculosis disease in South Africa [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2017 ObjectivesSecondhand tobacco smoke (SHS), use of solid fuels, and kerosene may play an important role in perpetuating the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.
Jessica L. Elf +10 more
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Indoor Air Pollution by Tobacco Smoke and Study on Tobacco Use among School and College Students in India [PDF]
Universal Journal of Public Health, 2013 Burning tobacco is the main source of indoor pollution in the developed world. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals including carcinogens, irritants and toxic gases.The health impact of breathing environmental tobacco smoke is well documented. Tobacco smoke contains over 4000 chemicals in the form of particles and gases.Many potentially toxic ...
Jyotsna Lal
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Indoor Air Quality Pollution of PM2.5 and Associated Trace Elements Affected by Environmental Tobacco Smoke [PDF]
, 2014 Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) samples were collected separately in mainstream and side-stream smoke using a self-designed smoking machine, and a total 40 of PM2.5 was collected with low volume air sampler at indoor environments with and without ETS ...
Jong-Myoung Lim, Jin Hong Lee
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Reductions in tobacco smoke pollution and increases in support for smoke-free public places following the implementation of comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation in the Republic of Ireland: findings from the ITC Ireland/UK Survey [PDF]
Tobacco Control, 2006 Geoffrey T. Fong +14 more
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Policy-relevant differences between secondhand and thirdhand smoke: strengthening protections from involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke pollutants [PDF]
Tobacco Control, 2023 Starting in the 1970s, individuals, businesses and the public have increasingly benefited from policies prohibiting smoking indoors, saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars in healthcare expenditures. Smokefree policies to protect against secondhand smoke exposure, however, do not fully protect the public from the persistent and toxic ...
Georg E Matt +22 more
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Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014 Background: Childhood body mass index (BMI) and obesity prevalence have been associated with exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS), maternal smoking during pregnancy, and vehicular air pollution.
Rob McConnell +7 more
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