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What is the most preventable major cause of suffering and premature death among adults? | |
Secondhand smoke is also known as | |
Tobacco has killed how many people between 1950-2004 | |
The possibility of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, death, economic loss, or environmental damage | |
The scientific process of estimating how much harm a particular hazard can cause to human health | |
Involves deciding whether or how to reduce a particular risk to a certain level and at what cost | |
Examples are unsafe working conditions, smoking, drugs, drinking, and criminal assault | |
Examples are ionizing radiation, fires, tornados, and hurricanes | |
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Harmful chemicals in the air, soil, water, and food | |
Measures how harmful a substance is in causing injury, illness, or death to a living organism | |
The amount of a substance a person has ingested, inhaled ,or absorbed through the skin | |
When some molecules are absorbed and stored in specific organs or tissues at higher than normal levels | |
When levels of some potential toxins in the environment are magnified as they pass through food chains and webs | |
A chemical that adversely affects the health of a living human or animal by causing injury, illness, or death | |
The amount received in one dose that kills 50% of the animals in a test population | |
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