Legislation to reduce worksite exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
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Reviews of evidence regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
This report presents the results of systematic reviews of effectiveness, applicability, other effects, economic evaluations, and barriers to use of selected population-based interventions intended to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. The related systematic reviews are linked by a common conceptual approach. These reviews form the basis of recommendations by the Tas...
متن کاملRecommendations regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable premature death in the United States,1–3 and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a preventable cause of significant morbidity and mortality.4–6 Preventing tobacco use in children and adolescents, reducing tobacco use in adults, and reducing nonsmokers’ exposure to ETS are essential public health objectives for communities. This...
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Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a mixture of sidestream smoke (emitted to the atmosphere from the tip of a burning cigarette) and mainstream smoke (inhaled and exhaled by a smoker). ETS contains at least 50 chemicals recognised to be carcinogenic, as well as thousands of other chemicals including many known to be developmental, reproductive, mutagenic, and cardiac toxins. Tobacco smoke is ...
متن کاملTransgenerational Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Traditionally, nicotine from second hand smoke (SHS), active or passive, has been considered the most prevalent substance of abuse used during pregnancy in industrialized countries. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is associated with a variety of health effects, including lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Tobacco is also a major burden to people who do not smoke. As developi...
متن کاملAssessment of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
We present a theoretical framework for assessment of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and review current methods in order to provide guidelines for different types of studies. Exposure assessment should include both a quantitative dimension and consideration of time-specificity of exposure. The ultimate aim is to measure the concentrations of ETS encountered by an individual for d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0964-4563
DOI: 10.1136/tc.3.1.1