ArticleToxicology reports2015
Differences in cadmium transfer from tobacco to cigarette smoke, compared to arsenic or lead.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- Non-essential heavy metal effects in cardiovascular diseases: an overview of systematic reviews.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Pooled it
- An updated systematic review on the association between Cd exposure, blood pressure and hypertension.Ecotoxicology and environmental safety · 2021Pooled it
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- A Narrative Review of Metallomic Studies: Revealing the Toxic Metal Burden in Tobacco Smokers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The association between whole-blood lead concentration and all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality in hypertensive patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Environmental Toxicants in the Hispanic Community Epigenetically Contributing to Preeclampsia.Cardiovascular toxicology · 2025Review
- Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents in E-Liquids and Aerosols from Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).Chemical research in toxicology · 2024Article
- Nutraceuticals as Alternative Approach against Cadmium-Induced Kidney Damage: A Narrative Review.Metabolites · 2023Review
- A study to characterize the lead isotopic fingerprint in PMEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2023Article
- Harmful and Potentially Harmful Constituents in the Filler and Smoke of Tobacco-Containing Tobacco Products.ACS omega · 2022Article
- Effects of tobacco smoke on indoor air quality: the use of mosses in biomonitoring.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2022Article
- The Relationship between Metal Exposure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the General US Population: NHANES 2015-2016.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Tobacco smoke is a likely source of lead and cadmium in settled house dust.Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) · 2021Article
- The influence of smoking habits on cadmium and lead blood levels in the Serbian adult people.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Analysis of waterpipe aerosol constituents in accordance with the ISO standard 22486.Toxicology reports · 2020Article
- Mainstream smoke constituents andToxicology reports · 2019Article
- Unexpected inflammation in the sympathetic ganglia in thromboangiitis obliterans: more likely sterile or infectious induced inflammation?Clinical and molecular allergy : CMA · 2019Article
- Cadmium lung adsorption, citrullination and an enhanced risk of COPD.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018Article
- Trace elements in blood samples of smoker and nonsmoker active pulmonary tuberculosis patients from Jamshoro, Pakistan.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2017Article
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Abstract
Arsenic, cadmium and lead levels in tobacco filler and cigarette smoke were determined in a 568-sample worldwide survey. Median tobacco levels for arsenic, cadmium and lead were 237, 769 and 397 ng/g respectively, comparable to those previously reported albeit somewhat lower for lead and cadmium. Median mainstream smoke yields for arsenic, cadmium and lead were <3.75, 18.2, and <12.8 ng/cig. under ISO, and <8.71, 75.1 and <45.7 ng/cig. under Health Canada Intense (HCI) smoking regime respectively. In the case of cigarettes with activated carbon, a selective retention of cadmium but not lead or arsenic was observed. This effect was more pronounced under ISO than under HCI smoking regimes. Cadmium selective retention by activated carbon was confirmed by testing specially designed prototype cigarettes and the causes for this selective filtration were investigated. The differences between cadmium, arsenic and lead in terms of their speciation in tobaccos and in cigarette smoke could be related to their distribution in the ash, butt, mainstream (in gas-phase and particulate-phase) and sidestream smoke of a smoked cigarette. The possible formation of organometallic cadmium derivatives in the smoke gas-phase is discussed, the presence of which could adequately explain the observed cadmium selective filtration.
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