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The fragrance facts, graded

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2 facts match “perfume”

Indoor air / Other evidence

Industry chemists note that indoor air tests for secondhand smoke also pick up cooking, cleaners, furniture polish, perfumes, hair sprays, deodorants and building materials, and one conference-room scan found non-tobacco peaks larger than the tobacco-smoke peaks.

Weak evidence: Industry authors citing an industry report; shows measurement confounding, not that ETS is harmless.

Source: Rodgman & Perfetti 2013 Industry-funded Link to this fact

Indoor air / Other evidence

Personal-use scented products (perfumes, colognes, hair treatments) release their ozone-reactive chemicals close to the breathing zone, so inhaled doses of the reaction products can be larger than room-average models predict.

Weak evidence: A single supporting chamber citation, stated as a qualitative point; no dose given here.

Source: Weschler 2006, Environmental Health Perspectives Link to this fact

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