Smoking consequences

The industrial value of furfuryl alcohol is a consequence of its low viscosity, high reactivity, and the outstanding chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of its polymers, corrosion resistance, nonburning, low smoke emission, and exceUent char formation. The reactivity profile of furfuryl alcohol and resins is such that final curing can take place at ambient temperature with strong acids or at elevated temperature with latent acids. Major markets for furfuryl alcohol resins include the production of cores and molds for casting metals, corrosion-resistant fiber-reinforced plastics (FRPs), binders for refractories and corrosion-resistant cements and mortars. 

Department of Health and Human Services. (1986) The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking—A Report to the Surgeon General. 

Application of contaminant removal effectiveness indices is relatively simple for scenarios with one or a few dominant contaminants being released. That is often the case in industrial mails. Where there are many polluting substances to consider the contaminant removal efficiency should ideally be evaluated for each one. Consequently, applications for regular indoor climate— for example, in a restaurant—are limited, except when addressing specific pollutants like smoking and ctxrking hunes. 

The generation of VNA, and especially of NDMA in sidestream smoke (SS) is much higher than that in mainstream smoke (MS). Consequently, VNA levels in SS exceed those in MS up to 50 times (4,9,10 Table II). The possible significance of this observation in respect to indoor air pollution has been discussed by us earlier (12). 

X-Ray irradiation of quartz or silica particles induces an electron-trap lattice defect accompanied by a parallel increase in cytotoxicity (Davies, 1968). Aluminosilicate zeolites and clays (Laszlo, 1987) have been shown by electron spin resonance (e.s.r.) studies to involve free-radical intermediates in their catalytic activity. Generation of free radicals in solids may also occur by physical scission of chemical bonds and the consequent formation of dangling bonds , as exemplified by the freshly fractured theory of silicosis (Wright, 1950 Fubini et al., 1991). The entrapment of long-lived metastable free radicals has been shown to occur in the tar of cigarette smoke (Pryor, 1987). 

US Dept. Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking Nicotine Addiction. A Report of the Surgeon General. DHSS Publ. No. (CDC) 88-8406. Washington, DC Govt. Print. Off., 1988. 

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