Analysis of Nicotine Content of Hair for Assessing Individual Cigarette-Smoking Behavior
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
- Vol. 15 (2) , 99-104
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007691-199304000-00005
Abstract
The concentration of nicotine in hair was measured by a capillary gas chromatograph with a nitrogen-phosphorus detector after hair was dissolved in 2.5 N sodium hydroxide and nicotine was extracted using diethyl ether. In hair samples obtained from 36 smokers, who had smoked ≥3 years, there was a significant positive correlation between the concentration of nicotine and the number of cigarettes consumed daily (r = 0.685; pKeywords
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