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    Experimental Models of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure: Structural and Functional Changes in Epithelial Cells of the Respiratory Tract

    Schlage, W. K.; Teredesai, A.
    Date published
    Jun 15, 2000
    DOI
    10.1201/9781420042245
    ISBN
    9780429124587
    Published in
    Environmental Tobacco Smoke 
    Editors
    Witten, M. L.
    Topic
    Summary

    The health effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) have been the subject of numerous literature reviews during the past decade. Most of the investigations, which concluded that exposure to ETS may increase the risk of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease, intrauterine growth retardation, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, are based on epidemiological studies (cf. References 1 to 6). In a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) concluded that ETS “may produce mucous membrane irritation, pulmonary, cardiovascular, reproductive and carcinogenic effects” and that ETS “presents a serious health risk to workers.”