Measurement and analysis of nicotine and other VOCs in indoor air as an indicator of passive smoking

摘要

In Finland the Tobacco Act was amended in 1994 to include workplaces. The developed method for estimating passive smoking, or environment tobacco smoke utilised the widely used measure- ment of volatile organic compound in indoor air quality surveys. The method is based on active sorbent sampling, thermal desorption and gas chromatography/mass selective detection(GC/MS) analysis and it has been tested in a chamber and in field conditions. The method can be used simultaneously to measure volatile organic compounds and exposure to tobacco smoke. We recommend nicotine, collected by active sampling, as an indicator for the evaluation of the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke spreading from smoke areas.