Cigarette tests

In 1988, the UK introduced Safety Regulations which ultimately will require that domestic upholstered furniture and mattresses will meet and resist a cigarette test and that fabrics and fillings will resist specified flaming ignition sources. 

In 1980 the Consumer Protection Act (15) required manufacturers to take reasonable steps to ensure that fabric -soft infill composites of domestic furniture resisted the cigarette test of BS5852 Part 1. These regulations did not apply to rouchings, trims to seat platforms etc. but only to the primary upholstery composites. The Consumer Protection Amendment of 1983 required specified children s furniture containing cellular materials had to resist Source 5 of BS 5852 Part 2. (16)... 

CIGARETTE RESISTANCE. Trims, rouchings, and pipings (which are frequently cellulosic) are specifically excluded from the cigarette test regulations for upholstered furniture. Because of this, it is unlikely that the cigarette test requirement can ever result in upholstered furniture which is completely cigarette resistant. 

It has been demonstrated that a fabric/foam composite which passes the cigarette test of BS 5852 Part 1 can fail if a strip of viscose Touching is placed along the junction of the vertical and horizontal parts of the test rig. 

The match test (No.l gas flame) is currently only applied to upholstered furniture but will be applied to mattress in the future by the same mechanism as the cigarette test. 

Actual upholstered composites are required to resist the cigarette source of BS 5852 Part 1 (furniture). Mattresses are also required to resist the cigarette test uncovered and covered with non- combustible insulation of BS 6807. 

National Cancer Institute (1996) The FTC cigarette test method for determining tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide yields of U.S. Cigarettes. Report of the NCI Expert Committee. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 7. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD... 

High Risk Construction Criteria SMALL OPEN FLAME COMPOSITE TEST REFINE UFAC CIGARETTE TEST... 

Pesticide-Free and Pesticide-Treated Tobaccos Two cigarettes tested in the fourth experiment were made from tobacco grown [in] Prince Edward Island (PEI) [Canada]. One of the tobaccos was pesticide-free and the other was pesticide-treated. .. There are no statistically significant differences among the [probability of survival] values at either dose level. .. Relative condensate yields from these cigarettes are presented. .. These yields confirm the [probability of survival] values, namely there is no clear cut difference between the pesticide-free and pesticide-treated tobaccos. 

Separation of the trapped radicals showed that the vapor phase of smoke from each cigarette type produced a unique set of free radicals (four to ten distinct peaks). Vapor mixtures used to model tobacco smoke consisted of NO, air, isoprene, and methanol. The model systems produced a set of free radicals that consisted of four major and several minor peaks, two of which matched peaks in tobacco smoke chromatograms. Quantities of free radicals trapped from cigarettes tested varied from 54 + 2 nmol to 66 + 9 mnol. The cigar tested produced 185 + 9 mnol of free radicals. In their experiments, oxygen competed with the nitroxide trap for MSS vapor-phase radicals. A kinetic analysis of the O2 competition shows that actual radical concentrations in the smoke were approximately 100-fold higher than measured. 

Federal Trade Commission Cigarettes Testing for tar and nicotine content Fed. Register 32 (1967) 11178 PiUsbury,... 

Rickert, W.S. and M.J. Kaiserman A comparison of yields of tar , nicotine, and CO by 115 brands of Canadian cigarettes tested under various conditions ... 

Sawyer, C.M. The reduction of nicotine content of K-4 hurley strips by ammonia-steam treatment and the effect of treated hurley on Camel cigarettes. Test Nos. 1180-A,... 

Cigarette Test Related to a Volxmtary Standard for Upholstered Furniture Children s Sleepwear Standard For Electrotechnical Products... 

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