CORESTA Meeting, Smoke/Technology, Innsbruck, 1999, ST09
Reduced levels of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol in smokers of cigarettes produced from nitrosamine-free tobacco
American Health Foundation, New York, USA
Model studies on lung cancer in animals have shown that adenoma and adenocarcinoma are specifically elicited by nicotine-derived tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (TSNA), such as 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). Lowering or...