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Tob Control 14:384-388 doi:10.1136/tc.2005.011635
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Secondhand smoke exposure and risk following the Irish smoking ban: an assessment of salivary cotinine concentrations in hotel workers and air nicotine levels in bars

Table 2

 Cotinine concentrations for hotel staff by type of work duties

Waiter (n = 11) Management (n = 10) Other (n = 11) Mixed (n = 3) Total (n = 35)
Baseline F/U Baseline F/U Baseline F/U Baseline F/U Baseline F/U
F/U, follow up.
Mean 4.59 1.46 1.19 1.24 2.6 1.1 2.88 1.43 2.86 1.29
SD 4.24 0.88 1.67 1.13 3.0 1.68 3.36 2.06 3.36 1.29
Geometric mean 2.5 0.98 0.48 0.65 1.3 0.36 0.87 0.51 1.17 0.6
Median 3.9 1.6 0.55 0.95 3.1 1.7 2.0 0.4 1.6 0.5
25th centile 1.3 0.5 0.16 0.18 0.85 0.1 0.05 0.09 0.4 0.2
75th centile 9.5 2.2 1.6 2.2 2.6 2.6. 6.6 3.8 4.2 2.2

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