| Title: | Measurement and analysis of nicotine and other VOCs in indoor air as an indicator of passive smoking |
| Author(s): | Rothberg M; Heloma A; Svinhufvud J; Kahkonen E; Reijula K; |
| Address: | "Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0003-4878(97)00049-5 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0003-4878 (Print) 0003-4878 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "In Finland the Tobacco Act was amended in 1994 to include workplaces. The developed method for estimating passive smoking, or environmental tobacco smoke utilised the widely used measurement of volatile organic compounds in indoor air quality surveys. The method is based on active sorbent sampling, thermal desorption and gas chromatography/mass selective detection (GC/MS) analysis and it has been tested in a chamber and in field conditions. The method can be used simultaneously to measure volatile organic compounds and exposure to tobacco smoke. We recommend nicotine, collected by active sampling, as an indicator for the evaluation of the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke spreading from smoking areas" |
| Keywords: | "Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis Environmental Monitoring/*methods Finland Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Heterocyclic Compounds/analysis Humans Hydrocarbons, Aromatic/analysis Linear Models Nicotine/*analysis Tobacco Smoke Pollution/*analysis;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineRothberg, M Heloma, A Svinhufvud, J Kahkonen, E Reijula, K eng England 1998/04/29 Ann Occup Hyg. 1998 Feb; 42(2):129-34. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4878(97)00049-5" |
