Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
INDEXCONTENTS -supplement 1,19963 Abstract 5 Introduction 6 Subjects and methods 6 Recruitment of subjects 6 Mosaic system 6 EuroMosaic 6 Sample population from Stockholm 7 Monitoring session 7 Home study - "housewife" assessment 7 Workplace study - home and work assessment 7 Final visit to the study center 7 Collection of saliva samples 7 Personal monitor 8 Analytical procedures 8 Respirable suspended particles 8 Contribution of environmental tobacco smoke to respirable suspended particles 9 Nicotine and 3-ethenylpyridine 9 Saliva cotinine 9 Limits of quantification for all the analytes 9 Subjects selected for the study 10 Age and gender distribution 10 Geodemographic distribution 10 Occupations 10 Misclassification or misreporting of smoking status 11 Rejected subjects 11 Weather conditions during the study 13 Results and discussion 13 Comparison of overall exposures between the housewives and househusbands and the working subjects 15 Comparison of exposures for the housewives and househusbands in the single monitor study 15 Differences between smoking and nonsmoking households 16 Exposure difference by age and gender 17 Comparison of exposures of the working subjects at home and at work in the dual monitor study 18 Comparison of the working subjects by age and gender distribution 19 Geodemographic comparisons of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke 19 Mosaic group 19 Income levels 19 Subjective comparisons of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke 19 Single monitor study 20 Dual monitor study 20 Comparison of other measures of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke 20 Cotinine 20 Solanesol 20 Nicotine and 3-ethenylpyridine 22 Concluding remarks 23 Acknowledgments 23 References
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