Households contaminated by environmental tobacco smoke: sources of infant exposures
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Households contaminated by environmental tobacco smoke: sources of infant exposures.
OBJECTIVES To examine (1) whether dust and surfaces in households of smokers are contaminated with environmental tobacco smoke (ETS); (2) whether smoking parents can protect their infants by smoking outside and away from the infant; and (3) whether contaminated dust, surfaces, and air contribute to ETS exposure in infants. DESIGN Quasi-experiment comparing three types of households with infan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0964-4563
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2003.003889