Air nicotine and saliva cotinine as indicators of workplace passive smoking exposure and risk
Air nicotine and saliva cotinine as indicators of workplace passive smoking exposure and risk
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00917.x
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发表时间:
1998-02-01
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影响因子:
3.8
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Hammond, SK
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作者:
Repace, JL;Jinot, J;Hammond, SK
We model nicotine from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in office air and salivary cotinine in nonsmoking U.S. workers. We estimate that: an average salivary cotinine level of 0.4 ng/ml corresponds to an increased lifetime mortality risk of 1/1000 for lung cancer, and 1/100 for heart disease; >95% of ETS-exposed office workers exceed OSHA's significant risk level for heart disease mortality, and 60% exceed significant risk for lung cancer mortality; 4000 heart disease deaths and 400 lung cancer deaths occur annually among office workers from passive smoking in the workplace, at the current 28% prevalence of unrestricted smoking in the office workplace.