CORESTA Congress, Sapporo, 2012, Smoke Science/Product Technology Groups, SSPT 01
Study on the formation mechanisms of 4-aminobiphenyl in the combustion of cigarette including isotope-labelled phenylalanine
YOSHIDA S.(1,2); KOBAYASHI K.(2)
(1) Japan Tobacco Inc., Tobacco Science Research Center, Yokohama, Japan; (2) Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
Tobacco smoke is a complex mixture of a wide variety of chemical compounds, including polycyclic aromatic amines (PAAs). In past studies, it was proposed that proteins in tobacco are major precursors of PAAs. At the 2007 CORESTA SSPT Meeting (Jeju),...