title: Global air monitoring study: a multi-country comparison of levels of indoor air pollution in different workplaces. Results from Romania, May 2006.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania. mihaltan@starnets.ro
authors.forename: Florin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mihalţan
authors.forename: Ioana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Munteanu
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Higbee
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Travers
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hyland
authors.forename: K Michael
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Cummings
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dresler
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution