Global air monitoring study: a multi-country comparison of levels of indoor air pollution in different workplaces. Results from Romania, May 2006.
Second hand smoking is still a great challenge in every country. Every tobacco transnational companies try to destroy all the evidence of the consequences of this kind of exposure. Now in many countries there are surveillance studies looking for evidence. One of this study (organized in 20 countries) is this one where Romania was counterpart. We tested with the TSI SidePak AM510 Personal Aerosol Monitor the level of exposure in 41 pubs, restaurants and bars and the results demonstrate that there are high level of particles coming from active smoking. In the same time the authors are making a comparison of different levels form other countries where this kind of monitor was used.
Mihalţan
Florin
F
Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania. mihaltan@starnets.ro
Munteanu
Ioana
I
Higbee
Cheryl
C
Travers
Mark
M
Hyland
Andrew
A
Cummings
K Michael
KM
Dresler
Carolyn
C
D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D012147:Restaurants / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012383:Romania; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution