National Academy of Sciences | 150 Year Anniversary

Questions? Call 800-624-6242

| Items in cart [0]

The National Academies Press

PAPERBACK
price:$90.00
add to cart

Rights & Permissions

topleft topright

Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Measuring Exposures and Assessing Health Effects (1986)
Commission on Life Sciences (CLS)

Citation Manager

. "Appendix A: Guidelines for Public and Occupational Chemical Exposures to Materials that are Also Found in Environmental Tobacco Smoke." Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Measuring Exposures and Assessing Health Effects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1986.

Please select a format:

BibTeX EndNote RefMan


Page
281
bottomleft bottomright

The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.


Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Measuring Exposures and Assessing Health Effects

Hydrazine

None

TLV—0.1 ppm

A2

0.04 mg/m3—120-min ceil.

1 ppm

Ammonia

None

TLV—25 ppm

STEL—35 ppm

50 ppm—5-min ceil.

50 ppm

West Germany—50 ppm

Sweden—25 ppm

Methylamine

None

TLV—10 ppm

None

10 ppm

Dimethylamine

None

TLV—10 ppm

None

10 ppm

Nitrogen oxide

None

TLV—25 ppm

25 ppm

25 ppm—10-h TWA

Nitrogen dioxide

0.053 ppm—annual arithmetic mean

TLV—3 ppm

STEL—5 ppm

1 ppm—15 min ceil.

5 ppm ceil.

West Germany—5 ppm

Sweden—2 ppm

N-Nitrosodimethylamine

None

A2

None

Listed as a cancer-suspect agent

Formic acid

None

TLV—5 ppm

None

5 ppm

Acetic acid

None

TLV—10 ppm

STEL—15 ppm

None

10 ppm

Participate phase

Participate matter

75 µg/m3—annual geometric mean

260 µg/m3/24-h max

Not to be exceeded more than once per year

TLV—10 mg/m3

None

15 mg/m3

Nicotine

None

TLV—0.5 mg/m3

None

0.5 mg/m3

Phenol

None

TLV—19 mg/m3

20 mg/m3—10-h TWA

60 mg/m3—15-min ceil.

19 mg/m3

West Germany—19 mg/m3

Catechol

None

TLV—5 ppm

None

None

Hydroquinone

None

TLV—2 mg/m3

2 mg/m3—15-min ceil.

2 mg/m3

Aniline

None

TLV—2 ppm

None

5 ppm

2-Toluidine

None

TLV—2 ppm

A2

None

5 ppm

West Germany—5 ppm

Page
281
Front Matter (R1-R8)
Contents (R9-R14)
Executive Summary (1-12)
1 Introduction (13-22)
Part I: Physicochemical and Toxicological Studies of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (23-24)
2 The Physicochemical Nature of Sidestream Smoke and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (25-53)
3 In Vivo and In Vitro Assays to Assess the Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (54-62)
Part II: Assessing Exosures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (63-64)
4 Introduction (65-68)
5 Assessubg /Exposures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke in the External Environment (69-100)
6 Assessing Exposures to Enviromental Tobacco Smoke Using Questionnaires (101-119)
7 Exposure-Dose Relationship for Environmental Tobacco Smoke (120-132)
8 Assessing Exposures to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Using Biological Markers (133-160)
Part III: Health Effects Possibly Associated with Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Nonsmokers (161-162)
9 Introduction (163-165)
10 Sensory Reactions To and Irritation Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (166-181)
11 Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Lung Function and Respiratory Symptoms (182-222)
12 Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer (223-249)
13 Cancers Other than Lung Cancer (250-256)
14 Cardiovascular System (257-268)
15 Other Health Considerations in Children (269-276)
Appendixes (277-278)
Appendix A: Guidelines for Public and Occupational Chemical Exposures to Materials that are Also Found in Environmental Tobacco Smoke (279-283)
Appendix B: Method of Combining Data From Studies of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Lung Cancer (284-288)
Appendix C: Adjusments to Epidemiologic Estimates of Excess Lung Cancer in Persons Exposed to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (289-293)
Appendix D: Risk Assessment- Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer (294-338)