Electronic cigarettes and indoor air quality: a simple approach to modeling potential bystander exposures to nicotine.

ABSTRACT: There has been rapid growth in the use of electronic cigarettes ("vaping") in Europe, North America and elsewhere. With such increased prevalence, there is currently a debate on whether the aerosol exhaled following the use of e-cigarettes has implications for the quality of air breathed by bystanders. Conducting chemical analysis of the indoor environment can be costly and resource intensive, limiting the number of studies which can be conducted. However, this can be modelled reasonably accurately based on empirical emissions data and using some basic assumptions. Here, we present a simplified model, based on physical principles, which considers aerosol propagation, dilution and extraction to determine the potential contribution of a single puff from an e-cigarette to indoor air. From thi

SUBMITTER: Colard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4306862 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature