Tobacco arsenic

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Tobacco smoke contains a variety of air pollutants. In a survey of 80 homes ia an area where the outdoor TSP varied between 10—30 lg/m, the iadoor TSP was the same, or less, ia homes having ao smokers. la homes having oae smoker, the TSP levels were betweea 30—60 lg/m, while ia homes having two or more smokers, the levels were betweea 60—120 lg/m (64). la other studies, iadoor TSP levels exceeding 1000 lg/m have beea fouad ia homes with aumerous smokers. la additioa to TSP, burning tobacco emits CO, NO formaldehyde [50-00-0] bea2opyreaes, nicotine [54-11-5] pheaols, and some metals such as cadmium [7440-43-9] and arsenic [7440-38-2] (65). 

Other factors associated with the risk of NMSC include exposure to ionizing radiation and arsenic, which is connected with BCC. Chemical carcinogens that give rise to NMSC include industrial hydrocarbons that are found in coal tars, soot, asphalt, paraffin waxes, and tobacco.21 Exposure to the human papilloma virus (HPV-6, -11, -16, and -18) has been linked to SCC.31 Lastly, a personal history of previous melanoma is a risk factor for developing another primary melanoma. 

After mothproofing wool, the next logical step for Geigy was to invent an insecticide that killed more kinds of pests. Imported natural insecticides made from plants, including pyrethrum from tropical chrysanthemums, rotenone from a tropical vine, and nicotine from tobacco, could be quite expensive they were also not persistent and were easily destroyed by light and heat. American and European attempts to synthesize their active ingredients had failed. Arsenic compounds remained the only cheap and effective insecticides. 

Inorganic arsenic salts are also present in pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, paints, and tobacco plants. If transmitted to water, they accumulate in fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and algae (Johansen et ah, 2000). Transformed into organic salts, they reach the gastrointestinal tract via food and are delivered to liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs. Arsenic is deposited in skin, nails, and hair. 

Arsenic occurs naturally and is also used in insecticides. It is found in tobacco, shellfish, drinking water, and in the air in some locations. The standard allows for 0.05 mg of arsenic per liter of water. If persons drink water that continuously exceeds the standard by a substantial amount over a lifetime, they may suffer from fatigue and loss of energy. Extremely high levels can cause poisoning. 

Cholera is a dreadful disease. It causes diarrhea so severe that a person suffering from it can lose as much as ten liters of water in a day. If left untreated, cholera can lead to rapid dehydration and death within a few days. The disease first appeared in Europe in 1831, an import from the Indian subcontinent, where it was endemic. Over fifty-thousand Britons died within a year, sparking widespread panic. Physicians didn t know what to do. They plied their patients with arsenic and strychnine, they gave them tobacco enemas, they wrapped them in flannel soaked in turpentine, they bled them with leeches, and they blistered them with nitric acid. All, of course, to no avail. No one knew what caused the disease, but the prevailing opinion seemed to be that cholera was somehow transmitted by the bad air, or miasma, that emanated from the sick and from garbage. One London dentist actually announced that the... 

Indoor air in homes and public buildings may contain significant and sometimes dangerous levels of arsenic from coal combustion (Section 3.24.2.3, (Finkelman et al., 2002)), tobacco smoke (Fowles and Dybing, 2003 Chang et al., 2005), or dust (Clayton et al., 1999 Schieweck et al., 2005). 

Betti L, Lazzarato L, Trebbi, Brizzi M, Calzoni L, Borghini F, Nani D. 2003. Effects of homeopathic arsenic on tobacco plant resistance to tobacco mosaic virus. Theoretical suggestions about system variability, based on a large experimental data set. Homeopathy 92 195-202. 

The compounds of the particle phase are collectively called tar, or total particulate matter (TPM). Tar is the oily residue left behind when moisture evaporates from burned tobacco. It contains thousands of compounds, including cancer-causing aromatic amines, nitro-samines, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that are present in both smoking and smokeless tobacco. Other harmful constituents include radioactive lead and polonium as well as arsenic, among others. 

The RMBC assessed its regional public-health priorities and developed the following nine demonstration projects on the basis of the needs of the community possible correlation of exposure to arsenic in drinking water and type 2 diabetes, a spot blood metals-analysis feasibility study, health-clinic samples for chemical-terrorism baselines, of relationship between urine arsenic and metal concentrations and drinking-water exposure, assessment of exposure to VOCs from subsurface volatilization, cotinine concentrations associated with environmental tobacco smoke, assessment of exposure to mercury from ingestion of fish, analysis of radionuclides in urine, and biomonitoring of organophosphorus pesticides in urine (Utah Department of Health 2006). 

Arsenic, asbestos, benzo(a)pyrene, hK(chloromethyl)ether, chromium, nickel subsulfide, zinc chromate, tobacco, mustard gas, uranium, acrylonitrile, beryllium, cadmium, l,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)... 

See also Amphetamine Arsenic Batrachotoxin Biood Chemicais of Environmentai Concern Chromium Cocaine hERG (Human Ether-a-Go-Go Reiated Gene) Mercury Tetrodotoxin Tobacco Smoke. 

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