Effect of electric heating and ice added to the bowl on mainstream waterpipe semivolatile furan and other toxicant yields.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined mainstream total particulate matter, nicotine, cotinine, menthol, pyrene, carbon monoxide (CO) and semivolatile furan yields from a commercial waterpipe with two methods for heating the tobacco, quick-light charcoal (charcoal) and electric head (electric) and two water bowl preparations: with (ice) and without ice (water).

Methods

Emissions from a single brand of popular waterpipe tobacco (10 g) were generated using machine smoking according to a two-stage puffing regimen developed from human puffing topography. Tobacco and charcoal consumption were calculated for each machine smoking session as mass lost, expressed as a fraction of presmoking mass.

Results

The heating method had the greatest effect on toxicant yields. Electric heating resulted

SUBMITTER: Brinkman MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature