CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, 2011, Graz, ST 25
Chemical, physical and thermodynamic evaluation of arsenic species and their transformation during cigarette smoking
(1) British American Tobacco, Group R&D, Southampton, UK; (2) LGC Ltd, Teddington, Middlesex, UK
Tobacco smoke contains metals such as chromium (Cr), cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As). The levels of Cr, Cd and As in mainstream cigarette smoke normally range from a few to a few tens of parts-per-million (ppm) in modern filtered cigarettes. The...