Assessing secondhand smoke exposure with reported measures
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Assessing secondhand smoke exposure with reported measures
Non-smokers are exposed to tobacco smoke from the burning cigarette and the exhaled smoke from smokers. In spite of decades of development of approaches to assess secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe), there are still unresolved methodological issues. This manuscript summarises the scientific evidence on the use of SHSe reported measures and their methods, objectives, strengths and limitations; and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0964-4563,1468-3318
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050296