CORESTA Congress, Quebec, 2014, Smoke Science/Product Technology Groups, ST 68
Roles of activated benzene species in the formation of polycyclic aromatic compounds in cigarette mainstream smoke
(1) Japan Tobacco Inc., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; (2) Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama, Japan
At the CORESTA Congress in 2012, we reported that activated species of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (MAHs), such as benzene, toluene and styrene, formed when phenylalanine applied to tobacco was involved in the formation of 4-aminobiphenyl in...