Air Nicotine and Saliva Cotinine as Indicators of Workplace Passive Smoking Exposure and Risk1
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Risk Analysis
- Vol. 18 (1) , 71-83
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00917.x
Abstract
We model nicotine from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in office air and salivary cotinine in nonsmoking U.S. workers. We estimate that: an average salivary cotinine level of 0.4 ng/ml corresponds to an increased lifetime mortality risk of 1/1000 for lung cancer, and 1/100 for heart disease; >95% of ETS‐exposed office workers exceed OSHA's significant risk level for heart disease mortality, and 60% exceed significant risk for lung cancer mortality; 4000 heart disease deaths and 400 lung cancer deaths occur annually among office workers from passive smoking in the workplace, at the current 28% prevalence of unrestricted smoking in the office workplace.Keywords
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