A pilot study of the behavior of gas- and particle-phase ETS tracers in residences [electronic resource].
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- Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2002.
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- 6 pages : digital, PDF file
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Our previous study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in a three-room environmental chamber showed that smoking history significantly influenced inter-room ETS transport, particularly of gas-phase nicotine. We conducted a three-home pilot study where smoking was limited to one room. Single-smoker residences were monitored during five one-week periods while the smoker participated in a smoking cessation program. Nicotine traced ETS particles were detected reliably in the smoking rooms (SRs) and unreliably in the non-smoking rooms (NSRs). On average, the ventilation- and volume-normalized smoking rate, 0.1 Cigarette-h⁻¹ m⁻³, added about 17 and 4 {micro}g m⁻³ of ETS particles into the SR and NSR, while average nicotine concentration increases were 2 and 0.06 {micro}g m⁻³, respectively. Thus, nicotine tracers may underestimate ETS particle exposure in a NSR (e.g., a child's bedroom) by a factor of 2 to 8. In other words, ETS exposure predicted from nicotine concentrations could be almost an order of magnitude lower than actual exposure.
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- E 1.99:lbnl--49585
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02/01/2002.
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Indoor Air 2002: The 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Monterey, CA (US), 06/30/2002--07/05/2002.
Gundel, Lara; Apte, Michael; Sextro, Richard; Dod, Raymond; Chang, Gee-Min.
California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (US) - Funding Information
- AC03-76SF00098
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