| Exposure to secondhand smoke in household during participant's childhood |
Childhood Household Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure |
C89345:C41194:C2434:C17941 |
NCI Thesaurus |
A time period that begins at the beginning of the human embryonic stage and continues until the end of adolescence.: A social unit comprised of one or more individuals living together (all of whom need not be related) in the same dwelling, who aggregate and share their incomes.: Smoke that is emitted from burning tobacco, including cigarette, pipe and cigar, and from tobacco smoke exhaled by smokers. Environmental tobacco smoke consists of a huge variety of chemicals that are produced during the burning of tobacco. Among them are known or suspected toxicants, carcinogens and respiratory irritants, including nicotine, ammonia, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, phenol, nitrogen oxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, N-Nitrosamines and radionuclides. Environmental tobacco smoke has numerous adverse health effects, is mutagenic and is a known human carcinogen that is associated with an increased risk of developing lung cancer. (NCI05): The act of subjecting someone or something to an influencing experience. |
| Exposure to secondhand smoke in participant's current household |
Current Household Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure |
C25471:C41194:C2434:C17941 |
NCI Thesaurus |
Occurring in or belonging to the present time.: A social unit comprised of one or more individuals living together (all of whom need not be related) in the same dwelling, who aggregate and share their incomes.: Smoke that is emitted from burning tobacco, including cigarette, pipe and cigar, and from tobacco smoke exhaled by smokers. Environmental tobacco smoke consists of a huge variety of chemicals that are produced during the burning of tobacco. Among them are known or suspected toxicants, carcinogens and respiratory irritants, including nicotine, ammonia, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, phenol, nitrogen oxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, N-Nitrosamines and radionuclides. Environmental tobacco smoke has numerous adverse health effects, is mutagenic and is a known human carcinogen that is associated with an increased risk of developing lung cancer. (NCI05): The act of subjecting someone or something to an influencing experience. |