. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 20.

Published in final edited form as: Metallomics. 2011 Jul 28;3(11):1181–1198. doi: 10.1039/c1mt00066g

Table 2.

Metal concentration ranges reported in cigarette tobacco (μg/g tobacco).

Citation	Canada²⁰³	India²⁰¹	Pakistan²⁰⁴	U.K.⁵⁸	U.S.²⁰⁵	U.S.²⁰⁶
Al			431–782		699–1200
As	0.151		0.73–0.86	0.1–0.7		0.250–0.250
Ba					40.7–56.6	68.3–75.1
Be						0.016–0.017
Cd	0.930	0.28–0.87	2.2–4.5	0.5–0.8
Co					<0.01–0.94	0.348–0.425
Cr	0.353	2.8–5.0		1.3–3.1		0.484–1.27
Cu		9.01–19.2		11.7–16.2		3.49–4.00
Fe		468–1129		293–576
Hg	0.027					0.020–0.021
Mn					155–400
Ni	0.250	7.21–10.2	1.2–2.8	1.1–2.7		1.13–1.18
Pb	0.257	0.79–5.79	1.1–1.6	0.4–0.9		0.604–0.607

Empty Spaces represent no reported analysis for the respective analyte.