Air Pollution And Health -- Contents -- Health Effects of Gaseous Air Pollutants -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Quantification of Effect -- 3 Chronic Effects -- 4 Sulfur Dioxide -- 5 Nitrogen Dioxide -- 6 Carbon Monoxide -- 7 Ozone -- 8 Overall Conclusions -- The Mechanism of Lung Injury Caused by PM10 -- 1 Adverse Health Effects of PM10 -- 2 Target Tissues for the Adverse Health Effects of PM10 -- 3 Toxic Potency of PM10 -- 4 Ultrafine Particles -- 5 Transition Metals -- 6 Hypothetical Mechanism for the Cardiovascular Effects of PM -- 7 Activation of NF-KB in the Lungs after Inhalation of Ultrafine Particles as a Central Initiating Event -- 8 Implications of an Oxidative Stress-mediated Mechanism of Action of PM10 for Susceptibility in Patients with Airways Disease -- Chemical Carcinogens -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Benzene -- 3 1,3-Butadiene -- 4 Formaldehyde -- 5 Other Aldehydes -- 6 Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) -- 7 Conclusion -- Setting Health-based Air Quality Standards -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sources of Air Quality Standards -- 3 Setting Air Quality Standards -- 4 Understanding Exposure-Response Relationships -- 5 Determining an Acceptable Level of Effects -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- The 1997 US EPA Standards for Particulate Matter and Ozone -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Particulate Matter -- 3 Ozone -- 4 Acknowledgements -- Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollutants -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Pollutants -- 3 Other Issues -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 Acknowledgements -- Subject Index.