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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 27.
Published before final editing as: Tob Control. 2022 Jan 27:tobaccocontrol-2021-056850. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056850

Table 1.

Computed nicotine flux by tobacco product category. N indicates the number of products reported, while year span indicates years of publication for the studies included. SD = standard deviation.

Flux (μg/s)
Product N Year span Mean (SD) Range
Combustible cigarettes 27 1988–2020 79(32) 29–140
ENDS 52 2015–2021 29(23) 3.7–110
Heated tobacco products 14 2018–2020 31(18) 5.8–58
Waterpipe 8 2003–2019 11(5.6) 5.8–20
Cigars/cigarillos 9 1976–2018 62(35) 12–110
Roll your own 3 1985–2014 69(28) 52–100
Bidi 2 1988–2003 60(6.8) 55–64
Kretek 3 2014 47(16) 29–60
Nicotine patch and gum products 4 2018–2019 0.4(0.48) 0.08–1.1
Very low nicotine cigarettes 1 2019 1.7(-) -