Cigarettes: Chemical Effects of Sodium Nitrate Content

28 June 1968

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 160 (3835) , 1456
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.160.3835.1456

Abstract

Although addition of sodium nitrate to cigarettes is reported to reduce the components and properties of cigarette smoke that are associated with tumorigenicity, we find that the additive nevertheless significantly increases the levels of certain vapor-phase constituents of smoke that are known to inhibit ciliary movement; and also it produces other effects of questionable value.

Keywords

SODIUM NITRATE
CIGARETTE SMOKE
NITRATE CONTENT
PHASE CONSTITUENTS
CHEMICAL EFFECTS
INHIBIT CILIARY
CILIARY MOVEMENT
QUESTIONABLE VALUE

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:

Ciliastatic Components in the Gas Phase of Cigarette Smoke
Science, 1966
Experimental Tobacco Carcinogenesis
Advances in Cancer Research, 1964
Colorimetric Microdetermination of Nitrogen Dioxide in Atmosphere
Analytical Chemistry, 1954