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This paper presents data on levels of tobacco smoke inside and outside entrances to office buildings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Real-time air quality monitors were used to simultaneously measure respirable particulate matter (PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      ; air pollutant particles with a diameter of 2.5\u2005\u03bcm or less) as a marker for tobacco smoke, outside and inside 28 entrances to office buildings in downtown Toronto, Ontario, in May and June 2008. Measurements were taken when smoking was and was not present within 9\u2005m of entrances. Background levels of PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      were also measured for each session. A mixed model analysis was used to estimate levels of PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      , taking into account repeated measurement errors.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Peak levels (10\u2005s averages) of PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      were as high as 496\u2005\u03bcg\/m\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      when smoking was present. Mixed model analysis shows that the average outdoor PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      with smoking was significantly higher than the background level (p&lt;0.0001), and significantly and positively associated with the number of lit cigarettes (p&lt;0.0001). The average level of PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      with \u22655 lit cigarettes was 2.5 times greater than the average background level.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings support smoke-free policies at entrances to buildings to protect non-smokers from exposure to tobacco smoke.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/tc.2010.041277","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,12,22]],"date-time":"2010-12-22T20:30:28Z","timestamp":1293049828000},"page":"212-218","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":46,"title":["Not just \u2018a few wisps\u2019: real-time measurement of tobacco smoke at entrances to office buildings"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Pamela","family":"Kaufman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Susan J","family":"Bondy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Neil","family":"Klepeis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Roberta","family":"Ferrence","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024051410373398000_20.3.212.1","unstructured":"Health Canada. 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