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Article: Children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: using diverse exposure metrics to document ethnic/racial differences.(Children's Health)
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- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Four metrics were used to assess exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) for a probability sample (n = 152) of elementary school-age children in two economically disadvantaged neighborhoods: a) caregiver responses to a baseline questionnaire (BQ) about smoking status and behavior; b) 48-hr time-activity (T-A) data on location and time spent by children in the presence of tobacco smoke; c) total urinary cotinine as a marker for nicotine uptake; and d) urinary NNAL [4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol] + NNAL-Gluc [4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-(O-[beta]-D-glucopyranuronosyl)butane] as a marker for uptake of the tobacco-specific lung carcinogen ...
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Transcript: TOBACCO SMOKE AND THE ENVIRONMENT:MICHAEL P. ...
Congressional Testimony;
April 1, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... environmental tobacco smoke (also known as ETS, passive smoke ... environmental tobacco smoke, yet only 37 ... been exposed to ETS either at home ... environmental tobacco smoke in the United ... alarming level of ETS exposure of children ...
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