[Lead content in blood of children living near zinc smelter plant exposure on environmental tobacco smoking (ETS)].

In this paper the results of concentration of lead in the blood of children living near and background the plant smelter are presented. 510 girls and 567 boys from schools located at Tarnowskie Góry and Miasteczko Slaskie took part in the study. Concentration of lead content in the blood of children was determined by the ASA method with the apparatus Pye Unicam SP-9.

[Analysis of participation of mercury in gallstones from smoking and non smoking people].

Mercury concentration in gallstones of 146 women (49 smoking, 97 non-smoking) and 24 men (11 smoking, 13 non-smoking) was determined employing Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES). The possibility of mercury accumulation in concretions in the gallbladder was confirmed by the study. The changes of given elements were different in comparison for smoking and non smoking women and men.

[The changes of barium and strontium content in gallstones from smoking and non-smoking women].

The problem of statistical characteristics of occurrence barium and strontium content in gallstones from smoking and non-smoking women living in southern Poland is presented in the work. The subjects of the research were gallstones, gained intraoperatively from 146 women (49 smoking, 97 non-smoking). The content of barium and strontium was determined using atomic emission spectroscopy with inductive coupled plasma (ICP-AES).

[Aluminum in hydroxyapatites of gallstones from smoking and non smoking women].

The investigation on the aluminum changes in gallstones from 149 women, including 49 smokers and 79 non-smokers women was carried out. All patients were inhabitants of Southern Poland. Aluminum concentration was determined using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) with the measurement precision of 1-3% and the detectability of 0.

[Metal content in the femur head of non-smokers and ex-smokers].

The purpose of this work was the elemental analysis of 12 heavy metals concentration in some part in femur capitulum smoking and non smoking women and men, living in Silesian Towns: Katowice, Siemianowice, Czeladź. Femoral capitulum were obtained at total hip replacement operations of 86 women and men with idiopathic osteroarthrosis which smoking in early time.