Surveillance of Nicotine and pH in Cigarette and Cigar Filler

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• Alternative Title:
  Tob Regul Sci
• Personal Author:
  Lawler, Tameka S. ; Stanfill, Stephen B. ; deCastro, B. Rey ; Lisko, Joseph G. ; Duncan, Bryce W. ; Richter, Patricia ; Watson, Clifford H.
• Description:
  Objective ; We examined differences between nicotine concentrations and pH in cigarette and cigar tobacco filler. ; Methods ; Nicotine and pH levels for 50 cigarette and 75 cigar brands were measured. Non-mentholated and mentholated cigarette products were included in the analysis along with several cigar types as identified by the manufacturer: large cigars, pipe tobacco cigars, cigarillos, mini cigarillos, and little cigars. ; Results ; There were significant differences found between pH and nicotine for cigarette and cigar tobacco products. Mean nicotine concentrations in cigarettes (19.2 mg/g) and large cigars (15.4 mg/g) were higher than the other cigars types, especially the pipe tobacco cigars (8.79 mg/g). The mean pH for cigarettes was pH 5.46. Large cigars had the highest mean pH value (pH 6.10) and pipe tobacco cigars had the lowest (pH 5.05). ; Conclusions ; Although cigarettes are the most common combustible tobacco product used worldwide, cigar use remains popular. Our research provides a means to investigate the possibility of distinguishing the 2 tobacco product types and offers information on nicotine and pH across a wide range of cigarette and cigar varieties that may be beneficial to help establish tobacco policies and regulations across product types.
• Subjects:
  • Administration, Inhalation
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Mouth Mucosa
  • Nicotiana
  • Nicotine
  • Nicotine / analysis
  • Plants, Toxic
  • Smoke
  • Smoke / analysis
  More +
• Source:
  Tob Regul Sci. 3(Suppl 1):101-116.
• Pubmed ID:
  28989950
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5628511
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49629/cdc_49629_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 912.67 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b73527ca0d569f0d51161ea324ce2eea27d33d4de1fc4eff9b6b615959a4db289740a9fc1b5eee646b04fba34ed4d88840797d0571f7e12a9a11bcc7db7c66f1