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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: Indoor Air. 2020 Feb 3;30(4):711–724. doi: 10.1111/ina.12648

Table 4.

Mass of chemical emitted from a cigarette butt (this study, μg/cigarette butt, first row) compared to mass of chemicals emitted during active cigarette burning (μg/cigarette)

Reference Sampling description Styrene 2-methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one Naphthalene Triacetin Nicotine
This studya Air sampling from a 31 m3 stainless steel chamber with air change rate of 0.5 h−1 and 27 cigarette butts in the middle of the chamber at 20 °C 4.6 22 1.9 34 18
This studya Air sampling from a 31 m3 stainless steel chamber with air change rate of 0.5 h−1 and 27 cigarette butts in the middle of the chamber at 25 °C 5.1 25 1.8 67 34
This studya Air sampling from a 31 m3 stainless steel chamber with air change rate of 0.5 h−1 and 27 cigarette butts in the middle of the chamber at 30 °C 3.8 16 1.6 71 31
Poppendieck and Gong (2019) Air sampling from a 31 m3 stainless steel chamber with air change rate of 0.54 h−1 and 18 cigarette butts in the middle of the chamber at 25 °C 6.7 40 2.5 48 36
Charles et al. [37] Mainstream and sidestream smoke sampling from a smoking machine 134 b 13 241
Bi et al. [38] Environmental tobacco smoke sampling in a 75.5 m3 unoccupied office 146 323
Baek and Jenkins [39] Environmental tobacco smoke sampling in a 30 m3 stainless steel chamber 107 552
Singer, BC, AT Hodgson and WW Nazaroff [36] Environmental tobacco smoke sampling in a 45 m3 stainless steel chamber with air change rate of 2 h−1 186 39 3370
Daisey et al. [40] Environmental tobacco smoke sampling in an unventilated 20 m3 stainless steel chamber with air filtration rate of 0.03 h−1 147 919
Martin et al. [41] Environmental tobacco smoke sampling in an 18 m3 unventilated stainless steel chamber 94 1580
a

24 h emitted mass per cigarette butt calculated by integrating the emission rate at different times;

b

Dashed indicate not reported.