TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kant, Nora
A1  - Müller, Ruth
A1  - Braun, Markus
A1  - Gerber, Alexander
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
T1  - Particulate matter in second-hand smoke emitted from different cigarette sizes and types of the brand vogue mainly smoked by women
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - Abstract
Indoor air pollution with harmful particulate matter (PM) is mainly caused by cigarette smoke. Super-Slim-Size-Cigarettes (SSL) are considered a less harmful alternative to King-Size-Cigarettes (KSC) due to longer filters and relatively low contents. We ask if “Combined Mainstream and Sidestream Smoke” (CMSS)-associated PM levels of SSL are lower than of KSC and thus are potentially less harmful. PM concentrations in CMSS (PM10, PM2.5, and PM1) are measured from four cigarette types of the brand Vogue, using an “automatic-environmental-tobacco-smoke-emitter” (AETSE) and laser aerosol spectrometry: SSL-BLEUE, -MENTHE, -LILAS and KSC-La Cigarette and -3R4F reference. This analysis shows that SSL MENTHE emitted the highest amount of PM, and KSC-La Cigarette the lowest. 3R4F reference emitted PM in the middle range, exceeding SSL BLEUE and falling slightly below SSL LILAS. It emerged that PM1 constituted the biggest proportion of PM emission. The outcome shows significant type-specific differences for emitted PM concentrations. Our results indicate that SSL are potentially more harmful for passive smokers than the respective KSC. However, this study cannot give precise statements about the general influence of the size of a cigarette on PM. Alarming is that PM1 is responsible for the biggest proportion of PM pollution, since smaller particles cause more harmful effects.
KW  - particulate matter
KW  - size of cigarettes
KW  - environmental tobacco smoke
KW  - menthol
KW  - automatic environmental tobacco smoke emitter
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43970
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-439707
SN  - 1661-7827
SN  - 1660-4601
N1  - © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
VL  - 13
IS  - 8, Art. 799
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -