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Particle emissions of heated tobacco products
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School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Publication date: 2022-07-05
Tob. Prev. Cessation 2022;8(Supplement):A20
ABSTRACT
Tobacco industry claims that combustion does not occur
in heated tobacco products (HTPs), thus the vapors contain
only the evaporation products. However, many works report
the emission of carbon monoxide, carbonyl compounds, and
particulate matter. These are products of incomplete combustion,
indicating that combust does occur in HTPs. The first part of
this work will synthesize the previous works reporting particle
emissions from heated tobacco products. The second part will
present the results of the test curried out in four different HTPs
found in the Greek market, Glo, iQos, Lil, and Pulzze, using sticks
of 6, 9, 5, 4 different flavors, respectively. The particle emissions
were determined using a DustTrack and an Ethalometer; the first
determines PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10 and total PM; the second
determines the black carbon fraction of those particles. Different
combinations of puff duration, duration between the puffs and
device on/off between the puffs are used. The results show that
all devices/sticks emit particles. These emissions start after 3 or
more puffs, as the heat of the first puffs are used to evaporate
the humectants of the sticks. There is a great difference between
devices and sticks. The repeatability of these measurements is
not very high, probably due to the high content of humectants.
The part of black carbon is a very low percentage of the emitted
particles.
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