Mercury content of whole cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco packets using pyrolysis atomic absorption spectrometry with gold amalgamation

Panta, Yogendra M.; Qian, Shizhi; Cross, Chad L.; Cizdziel, James V.

doi:10.1016/j.jaap.2008.05.006

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“…Comparison of Hg, Cd, and Pb concentration in the cigarettes of the present study with other studies is shown in Table 2. The Hg in marketed cigarettes from some previous studies in the United States of America (Panta et al, 2008;Swani et al, 2009;Fresquez et al, 2015), Canada (Hammond and O'Connor, 2008), and Poland (Kowalski and Wiercinski, 2009) showed that the Hg concentrations in cigarettes from these studies are almost equal to those of the present study. Hg in cigarettes was primarily found at ppb (µg/g) concentration.…”

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Mercury, cadmium, and lead in cigarettes from international markets: concentrations, distributions and absorption ability of filters

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and France were investigated. The cigarettes from Vietnam and Thailand had the highest trend of Hg. Meanwhile, Cd was found higher in cigarettes from Thailand, the UK, and Belgium. Pb concentrations in cigarettes from Belgium, the UK, and Korea were higher than others. The average of these heavy metals concentrated in cigarettes was in the order of Pb > Cd > Hg. Furthermore, the contents of these heavy metals in cigarette leaves were much higher than in filter and rolling paper. There was a significant positive correlation between Hg and Cd, but no correlation between Cd and Pb and between Hg and Pb. Significant positive correlations of nicotine with Hg and Cd but not Pb in the cigarette were observed. Activated carbon filters (Ce-C) absorb Cd and Pb from cigarette leaves and rolling paper indicated a higher trapping trend than cellulose acetate filter without activated carbon (Ce). The trapping ratios of Ce-C (Cd: 5.53%, Pb:5.41%) were higher than Ce (Cd:3.09%, Pb:5.49%). On the other hand, Hg had lower absorption by both types of filters (Ce:0.15%, Ce-C:0.02%). This revealed that Hg, Cd and Pb absorption ability by both filters was relatively lower to the total concentration of these metals in tobacco leaves and rolling paper. The concern was that the higher concentrations of metals such as Hg, Cd and Pb in cigarettes might exist in mainstream smoke.

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“…Some studies reported the content levels of Hg and Pb in cigarette. Panta et al (2008) reported Hg content of whole cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco packets as follows: 20.8 ± 1.0 ng/g in the cigar, 13.0 ± 1.3 ng/g in the cigarettes, and 6.3 ± 0.6 ng/g in the chewing tobacco (on fresh weight basis); the cigarette's tobacco and filler accounted for more than 97% of the Hg found in the whole cigarette. Kowalski and Wierciński (2009) found Hg contents of examined cigarette ranged from 2.95 to 10.2 ng per cigarette.…”

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Cigarette butts abundance and association of mercury and lead along the Persian Gulf beach: an initial investigation

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et al. 2017

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The toxic metal contents of cigarette butts and distribution of cigarette butts have not been studied well in maritime environment. In the present study, cigarette butts distribution and the associations of Hg and Pb from cigarette butts were monitored along the Persian Gulf with 10 days interval sampling time. The number of cigarette butts, and Hg and Pb associations of butts were found to vary widely between 2 and 38 items per square meter, 2.5 and 86.32 ng/g cigarette butt (CB), as well as 650 and 8630 ng/g CB, respectively. Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed that there were no significant differences between the number of butts, and Hg and Pb contents of the butts at different sampling times. Considering amount of cigarette butts littered yearly, this study demonstrates that remarkable toxic metals of Hg and Pb may enter maritime environment each year and may introduce critical hazards to aquatic organisms, enter food chain, and finally human body.

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“…The health hazards associated with tobacco use are well known, especially with cigarettes, cigar and smokeless tobaccos. Much attention has focused on the toxic components of these [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] including toxic metals such as arsenic, nickel, cadmium, mercury, lead, and chromium. Interestingly, there are few studies on tobacco that is consumed through water filtration devices such as shisha, 8 jurak, 9 mada'a 10 and goza, 11 which are often mistakenly lumped together and considered as ''water pipes''.…”

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The hookah series part 1: total metal analysis in hookah tobacco (narghile, shisha) – an initial study

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Mercury content of whole cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco packets using pyrolysis atomic absorption spectrometry with gold amalgamation

Cited by 17 publications

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Mercury, cadmium, and lead in cigarettes from international markets: concentrations, distributions and absorption ability of filters

Mercury, cadmium, and lead in cigarettes from international markets: concentrations, distributions and absorption ability of filters

Cigarette butts abundance and association of mercury and lead along the Persian Gulf beach: an initial investigation

The hookah series part 1: total metal analysis in hookah tobacco (narghile, shisha) – an initial study

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