Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4184966 | European Psychiatry | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
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).
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Authors
F. Vorspan, V. Bloch, E. Guillem, G. Dupuy, S. Pirnay, N. Jacob, J.-P. Lépine,