Effectiveness of cigarette filter tips for reducing cadmium in relation to other mainstream smoke constituents
The effectiveness of filter tips for reducing cadmium, tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in cigarettes was studied. The cigarettes were made from tobacco grown on municipal sewage sludge-amended soil and were therefore high in cadmium. When machine-smoked, filter tips did not result in a significant reduction of cadmium deposited on Cambridge filters. This may indicate that a considerable fraction of cadmium is present in the vapor phase of the smoke and therefore not reduced to the same extent as the tar by certain filters. Nicotine and carbon monoxide were reduced to a lesser extent than tar. This indicates that the filter tip has influenced the combustion of the tobacco column during smoking.
- Research Organization:
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5305082
- Journal Information:
- Drug Chem. Toxicol.; (United States), Vol. 10:3-4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
CADMIUM
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
FILTRATION
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON MONOXIDE
NICOTIANA
CONTAMINATION
AIR POLLUTION
NICOTINE
SEWAGE SLUDGE
SOILS
TOBACCO SMOKES
AEROSOLS
ALKALOIDS
AMINES
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS
AZINES
AZOLES
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
COLLOIDS
DISPERSIONS
DRUGS
ELEMENTS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
METALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARASYMPATHOLYTICS
PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS
PLANTS
POLLUTION
PYRIDINES
PYRROLES
PYRROLIDINES
RESIDUES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SEWAGE
SLUDGES
SMOKES
SOLS
WASTES
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Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)
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