- Indoor air pollutants are increasingly being associated with respiratory illness in humans than outdoors.
- Among the main indoor air pollutants that are responsible for respiratory morbidity and mortality are particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, benzene, ammonia, chloroform, formaldehyde, benzopyrene and bio-pollutants.
- Indoor pollutants include combustion by-products, environmental tobacco smoke, carpets, and paints, building construction materials, transportation, incinerators, industrial exhaust and almost every manufacturing process these are leading to serious pulmonary disorders and skin problems
- There is a growing evidence indoor as well as outdoor exposures to air raising concerns about potential public health problems mainly on indoor air pollutions.
- Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is also seen as a major source of indoor air contaminants and it is composed of sidestream and mainstream smokeIinhale and exhale respectively.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/not-safe-even-at-home-indoor-air-equally-harmful/article5991295.ece
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