Indoor Air Quality

✍ Scribed by H. Kasuga (auth.), Prof. M. D., Ph. D. Hitoshi Kasuga (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 517
• Series: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Supplement
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a harmful influence on the health of nonsmokers has been a controversial topic since the early 1980s. The International Conference on Indoor Air Quality held in Tokyo examined in great detail the relationship between passive smoking and lung cancer as revealed by a large cohort study. The participants were all highly qualified and experienced experts of world renown in their own fields of specialty. The deleterious effect of cigarette smoking on health is considered an established fact and as such has been used as a basic weapon in anti-smoking campaigns. There are, however, some questionable areas such as confronting variables, degree of correlation, the overall consistency of the data, and the problems of ETS measurement. Reports on other indoor pollution problems such as the presence of No2, CO, and particulates in indoor air, together with the problem of indoor air pollution in the lesser-developed countries were also given. This collection of papers will contribute greatly to research into tobacco smoking epidemiology and assist in establishing a clear focus on an issue which has tended to become hopelessly obscured.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
The International Conference on Indoor Air Quality — Opening Address....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer: A Critical Assessment....Pages 5-15
Measuring Exposure and Assessing Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke....Pages 16-24
Increased Risk of Lung Cancer in Non-smokers Married to Smokers: A Result of ETS Exposure or of Bias?....Pages 25-36
An Introduction to the Study of Smoking Using Urinary Hydroxyproline....Pages 37-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
The Aging of Sidestream Tobacco Smoke Components in Ambient Environments....Pages 55-61
Indoor Air Quality: The Contribution of Environmental Tobacco Smoke....Pages 62-75
Personal Exposure to Ambient Nicotine in Different Seasons....Pages 76-81
The Measurement of ETS Through Adsorption/Desorption Procedures....Pages 82-89
Removal of Cigarette Smoke Particulates from Room Environment....Pages 90-98
Results from Surveys of Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Offices and Restaurants....Pages 99-104
Strategy for Future ETS Exposure Measurements Relative to Its Transient Nature and Other Indoor Air Pollutants....Pages 105-111
Assessment of ETS Impact on Office Air Quality....Pages 112-119
ETS in Offices and When Smoking Is Restricted to Designated But Not Separately Ventilated Areas....Pages 120-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer — Recent Aspects on Confounders and Dose Levels....Pages 133-137
Urinary Mutagenicity, Hydroxyphenanthrene, and Thioether Excretion After Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke....Pages 138-146
The Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Pulmonary Function....Pages 147-152
Are There Any Impairments of Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curves by Passive Smoking?....Pages 153-166
Effects of Light or Moderate Smoking on Birth Weight or on Serum Biochemical Components in Infants of Japanese Women....Pages 167-172
Psychophysiological Response to Environmental Tobacco Smoke in an Experimental Social Setting....Pages 173-183
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Acute Cardiovascular Responses to Experimental Passive Smoking in Young, Healthy, Adult Men....Pages 184-193
Involuntary Smoking and Urinary Cotinine....Pages 194-201
A Comparison of Plasma and Urinary Nicotine and Cotinine Levels in Smokers and Nonsmokers: Nicotine Excretion Pathways Are Possibly Differential According to the Dosage of Tobacco Smoke Uptake....Pages 202-212
The Significance of Urinary Hydroxyproline Excretion in Smokers and Passive Smokers....Pages 213-218
The Effect of Parental Smoking and Industrial Pollution on Birth Weight....Pages 219-225
Effect of Sidestream Smoke (Passive Smoke) on Cell Viability and Interferon Production....Pages 226-230
Passive Exposure to Nicotine in Daily Environment....Pages 231-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Harvard’s Indoor Air Pollution Health Study....Pages 241-248
Chest Diseases of Elderly Women Due to Domestic Cooking and Passive Smoking: The Cracow Study....Pages 249-255
Model Specification Effects in ETS/Nutrition Research....Pages 256-271
Effect of Paternal Smoking on Fetuses....Pages 272-277
Passive Smoking as a Low Level Carcinogen: Epidemiologic Risk Assessment....Pages 278-282
Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer: An American Cancer Society Study....Pages 283-289
Is There a Threshold Effect for ETS? Results of Data from Chinese Females Who Had Never Smoked....Pages 290-298
Passive Smoking and Cancer: The Association Between Husbands Smoking and Cancer in the Lung of Non-smoking Wives....Pages 299-311
Air Pollution and Lung Cancer....Pages 312-315
Meta-Analyses on Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer....Pages 316-322
Epidemiological Issues on Involuntary Smoking and Lung Cancer....Pages 323-332
Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer: A Reanalysis of Hirayama’s Data....Pages 333-340
What Is the Epidemiologic Evidence for a Passive Smoking— Lung Cancer Association?....Pages 341-347
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Comparison of Personal NO 2 Exposures Among the USA and Asian Countries....Pages 351-362
The Relationship Between Respiratory Illness in Children and Gas Cookers and Paraffin Heaters in the UK....Pages 363-363
Indoor Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution Associated with Gas Stoves and Unvented Heaters in Japan....Pages 364-370
Highly Sensitive Methods for the Evaluation of Carcinogens and Mutagens Indoor....Pages 371-382
Health Effects of 50 Selected Constituents of Environmental Tobacco Smoke....Pages 383-389
Indoor Air Pollution from Tobacco Smoke as Seen by Scientists in Governmental Administration....Pages 390-392
Source, Nature, and Symptomology of Indoor Air Pollutants....Pages 393-402
Health Aspects of Indoor Air Pollution by Organic Matter and Combustion Products....Pages 403-414
Indoor Tuberculosis Infections in Small Offices in Downtown Tokyo....Pages 415-423
Experimental Studies on the Odor of Cigarette Smoke....Pages 424-434
Lung Cancer and Indoor Air Pollution in Xuan Wei, China: Current Progress....Pages 435-441
Characterization of Indoor Pollution in Korea....Pages 442-447
Indoor Air Quality and the Pollution Transition....Pages 448-456
Domestic Smoke Pollution and Acute Respiratory Infection in a Rural Community of the Hill Region of Nepal....Pages 457-461
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
ETS Measurements, Biological Effects of ETS, and Indoor Air Pollution....Pages 465-479
Epidemiology of Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer (I)....Pages 480-496
Epidemiology of Passive Smoking and Lung Cancer (II)....Pages 497-507
Outline of the International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Tokyo, 1987....Pages 509-510

✦ Subjects

Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Oncology