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. 2009 Dec;24(8):529-32.
doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.04.003. Epub 2009 Jun 21.

Smoking ban in a psychiatry department: are nonsmoking employees less exposed to environmental tobacco smoke?

F Vorspan  1 , V Bloch, E Guillem, G Dupuy, S Pirnay, N Jacob, J-P Lépine
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Smoking ban in a psychiatry department: are nonsmoking employees less exposed to environmental tobacco smoke?

F Vorspan et al. Eur Psychiatry. 2009 Dec.

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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