Smoking ban in a psychiatry department: are nonsmoking employees less exposed to environmental tobacco smoke?
Staff members of psychiatric facilities are at high risk of secondhand smoking. Smoking exposure was assessed in 41 nonsmoking employees of a psychiatry department before and after a ban. Subjective exposure measures decreased in 76% of the subjects. Salivary cotinine decreased in the subsample of seven subjects with high pre-ban levels (32+/-8 vs 40+/-17 ng/ml, p=.045).
Vorspan
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F
Service de psychiatrie, hôpital Fernand-Widal, AP-HP, 200 rue du Faubourg-St-Denis, Paris, France. florence.vorspan@lrb.aphp.fr
Bloch
V
V
Guillem
E
E
Dupuy
G
G
Pirnay
S
S
Jacob
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N
Lépine
J-P
JP
D000328:Adult; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003367:Cotinine / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D012463:Saliva / Q000737:chemistry*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D017132:Workplace
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D003367:Cotinine