The Smoking Gun: Working to Eliminate Tobacco Smoke Exposure

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• Personal Author:
  Breysse PN ; Navas-Acien A
• Description:
  The 1972 US Surgeon General's Report on smoking reported the first systematic examination of the impact of smoking on indoor environments (US DHEW, 1972). The report noted the lack of exposure data, concluding that the contribution to human disease of tobacco smoke components (e.g., particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen) was not well known. By the early 1980s, evidence of the health consequences of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure was mounting. The literature suffered, however, from limited data characterizing the extent of SHS exposure. The recent report of the Surgeon General on the health consequences of involuntary smoking (US DHHS, 2006) relied heavily on the growing body of literature describing exposure to PM, nicotine, nitrosamines, and other tobacco compounds associated with SHS exposure. SHS exposure is most commonly assessed by measuring PM and nicotine in the air. Measuring PM for this purpose began in the early 1980s, and determining vapor-phase nicotine concentrations dates back to landmark studies in the late 1980s (Spengler et al., 1981; Repace, 1980; Mattson et al., 1989). Biomonitoring offers important insights into internal dose by integrating multiple exposure sources and can thus provide information about exposure in different environments (e.g., home, work, and transportation). Cotinine-the principal metabolite of nicotine-in biological samples (e.g., serum) is the biomarker that is used most often to assess short-term and ongoing SHS exposure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Nicotine Occupational Health Safety Smoke Tobacco Products
• Keywords:
  Biomonitoring Environmental Exposure Indoor Environments Secondhand Smoke Tobacco Smoke
• ISSN:
  1559-0631
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  397-398
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062740
• Citation:
  J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2010 Jul; 20(5):397-398
• Email:
  pbreysse@jhsph.edu
• CAS Registry Number:
  (-)-Nicotine (CAS RN 54-11-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  Johns Hopkins University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225931/cdc_225931_DS1.pdf
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