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Effects Of Smoking Locations And Room Ventilation On Occupant Exposure To Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Chaloemchai Mukthawat, Maneerat Ongwandee, Nida Chaimoon

Applied Environmental Research

Non smoker exposure to second hand smoke is still of concern even though smoking free environments have been implemented in public places in Thailand. Thus, smokers have changed their behavior to smoke in their dwellings instead which could cause pollutant transfers from a smoking area to an adjacent non smoking area by air flows between zones. The objective of this study was to investigate relative magnitudes of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in a non smoking area that is adjacent to a smoking residential area. The study was also to demonstrate the effect of room ventilation rates on exposure levels of …