Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Contributors:  (Editor); Mark Witten (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: CRC
Published: September 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780849303111
Subjects: Environmental chemistry; Environmental factors; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Toxicology; Tobacco smoke; Public Health; Medical / Toxicology; Health aspects; Passive smoking; Tobacco smoke pollution
First sentence: The possibility that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) might cause the nonsmoker serious health effects first attracted major attention in 1981 when Hirayama, in Japan, and Trichopoulos, in Greece, both reported an increased risk of lung cancer related to marriage to a smoker.