Health risk based ETS targets for design of room environments

This paper outlines the Australian Standard 1668.2: 2002 ETSHI risk methodology and extends it to give a means of calculating the numerical death risk from exposure of specific age/gender groups to defined Environmental Tobacco Smoke, (ETS) exposures.Acceptable risk exposure is discussed (with numbers) and actual mortality statistics are presented for comparison.A smoking permitted office situation is analysed and some conclusions are drawn.This paper (and the underlying research) was not funded by pro or anti tobacco interests.