Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Measurement of nicotine in household dust

(Disponible en anglais seulement.)

Dust samples from self-reported non-smoking homes and smoking homes were collected in addition to ascertaining indoor air nicotine concentrations and the number of cigarettes consumed per day from an asthma cohort study. Self-reported non-smoking residences contained lower mean concentrations of nicotine in dust (11.7 ng/mg) compared with smoking residences (43.4 ng/mg).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2008.07.004

Comment: I can't recall ever seeing any studies on this topic...interesting.