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Professor Nazaroff's Paper on "Secondhand Smoke" is Highlighted


A paper recently published by Professor William Nazaroff and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Brett Singer has been selected as noteworthy by the journal Nature. The journal article, entitled "Inhalation of hazardous air pollutants from environmental tobacco smoke in US residences," is featured in Nature's "Nature View" highlights. Nazaroff and Singer concluded in the paper that environmental tobacco smoke or "secondhand smoke" is a dominant source of exposure to two known human carcinogens for roughly 31 million nonsmokers in the US, including 16 million juveniles.




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