- Author
- Gairola, C. G.
- Title
- Short-Term Tests for the Evaluation of Cigarette Smoke Toxicity.
- Coporate
- Kentucky Univ., Lexington
- Sponsor
- Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC
- Report
- Volume 5, August 1993,
- Distribution
- Available from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207
- Contract
- CPSC-S-92-5474
- Keywords
- cigarettes | smoke | toxicity | evaluation | tests | toxicology
- Identifiers
- cigarette smoke toxicity; genotoxicity of smoke condensates; genotoxicity of fresh whole cigarette smoke genotoxicity; smoke exposure
- Abstract
- Several epidemiological and experimental studies have implicated cigarette smoking with the increased incidence of a variety of human diseases. Major health consequences of smoking have been discussed in Chapter A. Also the physicochemical complexity of tobacco smoke and its major toxic constituents have been described in Chapter D. The main aim of this Chapter is to describe a testing strategy for comparing the toxicity of low ignition propensity cigarette prototypes using short-term tests.