Air Monitoring for Nicotine Contamination

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Abstract
A simple method for the determination of nicotine in air is described. The sample, collected by exposing a chilled Petri plate, is taken up in methanol and analyzed by on-column injection from a fused silica needle to a fused silica column, utilizing a nitrogen selective detector. Results indicate that the segregation of smokers and non-smokers is only partially effective in reducing the exposure of nonsmokers to airborne nicotine and that nicotine residues in smoking areas continue to contaminate that air for some time following the imposition of a smoking ban.