Exposure to Traffic Exhaust
Book chapter, 1987

Exhaust levels are high near to traffic, inside cars in queus and inside garages. Parents can warn their children to avoid places where exhaust can be smelt. Physical activity such as cycling increases uptake of the pollutants. Keeping a distance to vehicles is then particularly important.

indoor pollutants

passengers

playgrounds

motorists

toxicity

gasoline

cyclists

Author

Göran Petersson

Department of Chemical Environmental Science

Traffic and Children´s Health; NHV 1987:2; Lennart Köhler & Hugh Jackson (eds)

117-127

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Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Environmental Sciences

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10/6/2017