Cigarette smoke = radiation hazard

Cigarette smoke = radiation hazard

Many people do not know that cigarette smoke is substantially radioactive. Tobacco plants are grown in soils and with high-phosphate fertilizers that are naturally contaminated with the alpha-emitting radionuclide polonium-210. Studies must be undertaken to quantify polonium-210 deposition in childr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1993-09, Vol.92 (3), p.464
1. Verfasser: Evans, G D
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Air Pollution, Radioactive - adverse effects
Child
Children & youth
Cigarettes
Humans
Parents & parenting
Pediatrics
Polonium - adverse effects
Radiation
Radiation Injuries - epidemiology
Radiation Injuries - prevention & control
Risk Factors
Smoking
Smoking Prevention
Tobacco Smoke Pollution - adverse effects
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Zusammenfassung:Many people do not know that cigarette smoke is substantially radioactive. Tobacco plants are grown in soils and with high-phosphate fertilizers that are naturally contaminated with the alpha-emitting radionuclide polonium-210. Studies must be undertaken to quantify polonium-210 deposition in children of smoking parents.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275