Chiyoji Ohkubo

Chiyoji Ohkubo is a Japanese scientist who studied the acute cardiopulmonary effects of cigarette smoke. Ohkubo worked at the Department of Physiological Hygiene, the Institute of Public Health in Tokyo, Japan. In 1987 he authored a paper describing acute cardiovascular responses of healthy young male adult nonsmokers to passive smoking caused by indoor air pollution due to secondhand tobacco smoke.