Title: Cadmium exposure from smoking cigarettes: Variations with time and country where purchased
Abstract: Cadmium has been determined in 26 brands of cigarettes purchased in eight different countries throughout the world and in 16 different samples of cigarettes produced in Sweden between 1918 and 1968. In addition the amount of cadmium released from smoking one cigarette to the particulate phase collected from a smoking simulation machine, corresponding to the amount actually inhaled by a smoker, has been determined. The cadmium concentration in different brands of cigarettes ranged from 0.19 to 3.0 μg Cd/g dry wt, with a general tendency toward lower values in cigarettes from developing countries. No systematic change in the cadmium concentration of cigarettes with time could be revealed. The amount of cadmium inhaled from smoking one cigarette containing about 1.7 μg Cd was estimated to be 0.14 to 0.19 μg, corresponding to about 10% of the total cadmium content in the cigarette.
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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