Tobacco wood smoke

Exposure to resorcinol may occur in its production, in the manufacture of adhesives, rubber, wood products, dyes and pharmaceuticals. It has been detected at low levels in groundwater and occurs in wood smoke and tobacco smoke. 

The reaction of a series of dimethylbenzaldehydes and trimethylphenols231 (constituents of wood smoke and tobacco smoke, respectively) with OH have been studied as well as with other aromatic molecules such as indene, fluorene, and 9,10-di hydroanthracene,232 and atmospheric implications determined.231... 

Tobacco, both smoked and smokeless Wood dust... 

The primary sources of exposure to PAHs for most of the U.S. population are inhalation of the compounds in tobacco smoke, wood smoke, and ambient air, and consumption of PAHs in foods. 

Cold air, fog, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, tobacco smoke, wood smoke Emotions... 

In 1992, Pryor (27A85) reviewed, compared, and contrasted the chemistry of cigarette smoke, wood smoke, and the smoke from plastics and building materials that was inhaled by persons trapped in hres. He contended that cigarette smoke produced cancer, emphysema, and other diseases after a delay of years. He discussed that acute exposure to smoke from a fire could produce a loss of lung function and lead to death after a delay of days or weeks. Tobacco smoke and the smoke inhaled in a burning building have... 

Products and Uses A gas that is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, resulting from the incomplete burning of materials. Produced by faulty gas furnaces and other gas appliances. Also present in coal, tobacco, and wood smoke. 

Smoke - Smoke constitutes fine, solid, gasbome matters that are products of incomplete combustion of organics (wood, coal, tobacco). Smoke particles are extremely small, ranging in size from less than 0.01 /im to 1 /im. 

VOCs are emitted indoors by building materials (e.g., paints, pressed wood products, adhesives, etc.), equipment (photocopying machines, printers, etc.), cleaning products, stored fuels and automotive products, hobby supplies, and combustion activities (cooking, unvented space heating, tobacco smoking, indoor vehicle use). 

Cresols are natural products that are present in many foods and in animal and human urine. They are also present in wood and tobacco smoke, crude oil, and coal tar. In addition, cresols also are man-made and used as disinfectants and deodorizers, to dissolve substances, and as starting chemicals for making other chemicals. 

Carbon monoxide is found in varying concentrations in unventilated and confined spaces resulting from partial oxidation of carbonaceous matter. Burning wood, paper, kerosene, or other organic materials in inadequate air can produce this gas. It also is found in automobile exhaust and tobacco smoke emissions. 

Isoprene occurs in the environment as emissions from vegetation, particularly from deciduous forests, and as a by-product in the production of ethylene by naphtha cracking. In the United States, the total emission rate of isoprene from deciduous forests has been estimated at 4.9 tonnes per year, with greatest emissions in the summer. The global annual emission of isoprene in 1988 was estimated to be 285 000 thousand tonnes. Isoprene is produced endogenously in humans. It has also been found in tobacco smoke, gasoline, turbine and automobile exhaust, and in emissions from wood pulping, biomass combustion and rubber abrasion (United States National Library of Medicine, 1997). 

These two pollutants can be found concentrated inside buildings due to unvented heaters, leaking chimneys, furnaces, and stoves, in addition to automobile exhaust from garages, and tobacco smoke. These are among the most common pollutants that cause deaths in underdeveloped countries during winter, when people warm themselves using wood stoves. 

In 1775, PAHs were the first group of compounds known to cause cancer in humans. Nowadays, many of these compounds are well-known carcinogens in humans and animals. PAHs are produced in the environment as the result of heating organic matter to high temperatures like tobacco smoke, soot, coal tar, creosote production, wood burning, smoked foods, roasted coffee, charbroiled meat, and fossil fuel combustion exhaust. However, the major environmental source comes from asphalt, tar, used motor oil, diesel exhaust, and coal burning. 

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