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SUBMITTER: Arjomandi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2722845 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 20090601 6
<h4>Objective</h4>To determine whether the flight attendants who were exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke in the aircraft cabin have abnormal pulmonary function.<h4>Methods</h4>We administered questionnaires and performed pulmonary function testing in 61 never-smoking female flight attendants who worked in active air crews before the smoking ban on commercial aircraft (preban).<h4>Results</h4>Although the preban flight attendants had normal FVC, FEV1, and FEV1/FVC ratio, they had significantly d ...[more]