Nicotine Contamination in Particulate Matter Sampling

Yueh-Hsiu Chiu, Jaime E. Hart, Thomas J. Smith, S. Katharine Hammond, Eric Garshick and Francine Laden
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Yueh-Hsiu Chiu: Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Jaime E. Hart: Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Thomas J. Smith: Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
S. Katharine Hammond: School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Eric Garshick: Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Francine Laden: Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA

IJERPH, 2009, vol. 6, issue 2, 1-7

Abstract: We have addressed potential contamination of PM 2.5 filter samples by nicotine from cigarette smoke. We collected two nicotine samples – one nicotine sampling filter was placed in-line after the collection of PM 2.5 and the other stood alone. The overall correlation between the two nicotine filter levels was 0.99. The nicotine collected on the “stand-alone” filter was slightly greater than that on the “in-line” filter (mean difference = 1.10 ?g/m 3 ), but the difference was statistically significant only when PM 2.5 was low (? 50 ?g/m 3 ). It is therefore important to account for personal and secondhand smoke exposure while assessing occupational and environmental PM.

Keywords: Nicotine; particulate matter; sampling filter; contamination; secondhand smoke exposure; cigarette smoke (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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