Environmental tobacco smoke : measuring exposures and assessing health effects / / Committee on Passive Smoking, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : National Academy Press, , 1986
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.7/392
• Soggetto topico: Tobacco smoke pollution - Measurement; Tobacco smoke - Toxicity testing; Passive smoking
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""MEASURES OF EXPOSURE""; ""Questionnaires""; ""Monitoring""; ""Biological Markers""; ""IN VIVO AND IN VITRO STUDIES""; ""HEALTH EFFECTS""; ""Acute, Noxious Effects""; ""Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function""; ""Lung Cancer""; ""Other Cancers""; ""Cardiovascular Disease""; ""Other Health Considerations in Children""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""DEFINITIONS""; ""TRENDS IN CIGARETTE USAGE""; ""ORGANIZATION""; ""REFERENCES"" ; ""I PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE "" ""2 The Physicochemical Nature of Sidestream Smoke and Environmental Tobacco Smoke ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SIDESTREAM SMOKE""; ""PRINCIPAL CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""RADIOACTIVITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""TOXIC AND CARCINOGENIC AGENTS IN TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""What Is Known""; ""What Scientific Information Is Missing""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 In Vivo and In Vitro Assays to Assess the Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke "" ; ""INTRODUCTION"" ""IN VIVO ASSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""Exposure Methods in Laboratory Research""; ""Animal Models in Inhalation Studies""; ""Results of Inhalation Studies""; ""In Vivo Bioassays Other Than Inhalation""; ""IN VITRO ASSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE""; ""SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""What Is Known""; ""What Scientific Information Is Missing""; ""REFERENCES""; ""II ASSESSING EXPOSURES TO ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE ""; ""4 Introduction ""; ""REFERENCE""; ""5 Assessing Exposures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke in the External Environment "" ; ""TRACERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE"" "PERSONAL MONITORING""; ""CONCENTRATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS""; ""Various Environmental Tobacco Smoke Constituents""; ""Particulate Levels and Smoking Occupancy""; ""MODELING""; ""Equilibrium Models for RSP""; ""Generation Rate""; ""Ventilation/Infiltration""; ""Removal by Surfaces""; ""Mixing""; ""Volume""; ""Predicting Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposures from Tobacco Combustion""; ""Application of Respirable Suspended Particulates Model""; ""SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""What Is Known"" ; ""What Scientific Information Is Missing"" ""REFERENCES""; ""6 Assessing Exposures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Using Questionnaires ""; ""EXPOSURE HISTORIES DERIVED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE DATA FOR STUDIES OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEALTH EFFECTS""; ""DATA QUALITY""; ""OTHER VARIABLES""; ""SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""What Is Known""; ""What Scientific Information Is Missing""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 Exposure-Dose Relationships for Environmental Tobacco Smoke ""; ""ESTIMATING DOSE""; ""PARTICLE SIZE""; ""BREATHING PATTERN""; ""DEPOSITION OF CIGARETTE SMOKE PARTICLES""
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental tobacco smoke
• ISBN: 1-282-08103-9; 9786612081033; 0-309-59184-8; 0-585-16853-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778784803321
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