Indoor Air Quality

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