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Quantitative comparisons of the pulmonary toxicity of tobacco and NSM smoke
Author(s) -
Etherton J. E.,
Conning D. M.,
Purchase I. F. H.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
the journal of pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.964
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1096-9896
pISSN - 0022-3417
DOI - 10.1002/path.1711270404
Subject(s) - tobacco smoke , pulmonary toxicity , toxicity , smoke , medicine , third hand smoke , environmental health , toxicology , cigarette smoke , sidestream smoke , biology , engineering , waste management
Smoking elicits a panacinar rise in pulmonary alveolar lysosomal activity that is thought to correlate with the irritancy of the smoke. Quantitative image analysis of lung sections stained histochemically for acid phosphatase indicates that tobacco smoke is significantly more irritant than NSM smoke.