Attitudes of Olmsted County, Minnesota, residents about tobacco smoke in...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Minnesota, adults about environmental tobacco smoke in restaurants, bars, and nightclubs...reported exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, the most frequently reported sites...The health hazards of environmental tobacco smoke (also known as secondhand smoke) are...

Infant's Risk from All Sources of Passive Tobacco Smoke.

American Family Physician;  June 1, 2001 ;     388 words ......adverse effects of passive environmental tobacco smoke have been well documented in children...The studies investigating passive tobacco smoke exposure have concentrated on maternal...method of measuring levels of passive tobacco smoke is to use biomarkers in blood, saliva...

An Epidemiologic Study Comparing Fetal Exposure to Tobacco Smoke in Three...

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......means pregnant women face exposure to tobacco smoke that may affect the health of their...study determined fetal exposure to tobacco smoke by meconium analysis for cotinine in...Singapore City (N=61). Maternal exposure to tobacco smoke was 71.1% (1.3% active; 69.8% passive...

Risk from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke outdoors

Community Practitioner;  June 1, 2007 ;     344 words ......al. Real-Time Measurement of Outdoor Tobacco Smoke Particles, (ourntl of the AIr &...levels of contaminated air. Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS), also called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoke, is defined as...

Environmental tobacco smoke linked to behavior problems.(EH Update)(health...

Journal of Environmental Health;  December 1, 2006 ;     387 words ......shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated...To measure exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, Yolton measured levels of cotinine...marker of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Yolton found a relationship between...

RESEARCH SHOWS TOBACCO SMOKE MAY BE MORE HARMFUL TO BLACK CHILDREN

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 12, 2007 ;     560 words ......susceptible to toxins found in environmental tobacco smoke, and therefore more prone to serious...body. Many other chemicals found in tobacco smoke, however, are known to be harmful...shows African-American children handle tobacco smoke differently. "The difference could...

Tobacco smoke cuts children's school results.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  January 5, 2005 ;     318 words ...CHILDREN who are exposed to tobacco smoke in the home achieve lower scores in...look at the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on children's health, assessed the...measured exposure to environmental tobacco smoke by looking at levels of cotinine...

EPA: LABEL TOBACCO SMOKE A POLLUTANT DESIGNATION WOULD BRING WIDE RANGE OF...

Post-Tribune (IN);  March 25, 1991 ;     589 words ......And if the agency has its way, that tobacco smoke wafting through this nation's offices...list of things dangerous to inhale. Tobacco smoke would become pollution. And as pollution...information to clearly mark environmental tobacco smoke as a cancer agent. "If this were any...

Butterworth-Heinemann.("Ventilation for Environmental Tobacco Smoke" by...

Engineered Systems;  June 1, 2006 ;     37 words ...Butterworth-Heinemann, a division of Elsevier, has released Ventilation for Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Brian A. Rock, a book written to educate companies about obstructed ventilation systems due to tobacco smoke within their facilities.

Infection inhibits lung's protective response against tobacco smoke

The Hindustan Times;  August 20, 2008 ;     265 words ......natural protective response against tobacco smoke. In the study conducted using a mouse...blocked their protective response against tobacco smoke. "Although smoking is the overwhelming...researchers found that mice exposed to tobacco smoke for 16 weeks doubled the amount of...

Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning...

Call & Post;  January 13, 2005 ;     651 words ......shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated...look at the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on children's health. It is published...children from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke," says Kimberly Yolton, PhD, a ...

New Jersey Youth Mobilize Against Environmental Tobacco Smoke; REBEL...

PR Newswire;  April 20, 2002 ;     636 words ......year-long campaign to reduce environmental tobacco smoke in their communities. Environmental tobacco smoke is the third leading cause of preventable...in the fight against environmental tobacco smoke. They also began work on campaign materials...

Environmental tobacco smoke and childhood asthma. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  October 1, 1993 ;     321 words ......affected by environmental exposure to tobacco smoke. To date, these studies have relied...assessed the impact of environmental tobacco smoke on childhood asthma by measuring urine...children had been exposed to environmental tobacco smoke. Median urine cotinine levels were...

Real-time measurement of outdoor tobacco smoke particles.(TECHNICAL PAPER)

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......current lack of empirical data on outdoor tobacco smoke (OTS) levels impedes OTS exposure and...levels near smokers rivaled indoor tobacco smoke concentrations. However, OTS levels...proximity. INTRODUCTION Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS), also called environmental tobacco...

STUDY: TOBACCO SMOKE, ASTHMA CELL LINKED

United Press International;  April 23, 2004 ;     243 words ......Press International 04-23-2004 Study: Tobacco smoke, asthma cell linked PITTSBURGH, Apr...asthma-associated cell is linked to environmental tobacco smoke during infancy. The cell called dendritic...Pittsburgh. Gentile evaluated environmental tobacco smoke in 37 healthy infants by ...