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A personal monitoring study to assess workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Author(s) -

David Coultas,

Jonathan M. Samet,

John F. McCarthy,

John D. Spengler

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.80.8.988

Subject(s) - cotinine , tobacco smoke , environmental health , nicotine , urine , secondhand smoke , medicine , personal protective equipment , occupational exposure , smoke , work shift , waste management , covid-19 , operations management , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering , economics

We enrolled 15 nonsmoking volunteers to evaluate the feasibility of measuring personal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) at work and to characterize workplace exposures. During one workshift, we obtained questionnaires on exposure, saliva and urine for cotinine, and personal air samples for respirable particles and nicotine. The levels of cotinine, respirable particles, and nicotine varied widely with self-reports of exposure to ETS, but on average increased with increasing exposure.

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