COVER -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- AIR -- The biological effects of air pollution -- Air quality -- Transport -- Acid rain -- ELEMENTS OF AIR POLLUTION -- Cathodic ray tubes screens and video display terminals -- Chemical elements -- Biological elements -- Solar radiation -- SMOKING -- Biomolecular damage of cigarette smoke -- Tobacco smoke carcinogens and lung cancer -- The renal risk of smoking -- Nicotine -- Bladder cancer -- THE FREE RADICALS -- Oxidative stress -- PATHOBIOLOGY OF ADAPTATION -- PATHOBIOLOGY OF POLLUTION -- MICROWAVE -- ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPERSENSITIVITY (EHS) -- THE AIROPLANE CABIN ENVIRONMENT -- Exposures on aircraft -- Chemical contaminants -- Aircraft component materials -- Contaminants from aircraft systems -- Biological agents -- Bioaerosols -- Health considerations -- HOSPITAL'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION -- The environmental essentials to operating room -- ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES (OPS) -- ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS AND OESTROGENS MIMICKERS -- Cosmetology -- CONSEQUENCES OF AIR POLLUTION -- NEGATIVE ION GENERATOR -- Vitamins and minerals of the air -- ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS -- INDEX.