Abstract
Smokers are individuals, each smoking his or her chosen product in a specific way. It follows that the delivery to the smoker’s mouth, of nicotine, carbon monoxide, tar and the thousands of other chemicals in cigarette smoke will vary considerably from one person to another. For the majority of individuals delivery will be quite different, either greater or smaller, than the yields produced by analytical smoking machines which are set to give one two second puff of 35 ml every 60 seconds. Not only will smoke delivery vary in magnitude but also in quality since smoke composition may differ according to the manner in which the cigarette is smoked. For example, the tar:nicotine ratio and the carbon monoxide:nicotine ratio have been shown to depend on puff volume (1).
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Sinclair, N.M. (1984). The Quantitation of Smoke Uptake. In: Cumming, G., Bonsignore, G. (eds) Smoking and the Lung. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2409-6_6
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