Predictive relationships for sidestream smoke cigarette yields.

Relationships have been sought for smoking machine generated sidestream smoke yields of cigarettes for particulate matter (water and nicotine free) (PMWNF) and nicotine. Comparisons have been made with the corresponding mainstream smoke yields, other readily measurable factors in machine smoking and with the physical characteristics of cigarettes. The sidestream smoke yields have been found to be related to the puff count during machine smoking multiplied by the cross-sectional area of a cigarette or to the total weight of cigarette tobacco burnt during machine smoking. For the brands retailed in the U.K. these relationships permit calculation of the sidestream smoke contributions of PMWNF and nicotine to environmental tobacco smoke. From the data used to derive these relationships, and based on 31 cigarette brands representing 71% of cigarette sales in the U.K., the sales weighted sidestream PMWNF yield is 27.1 mg/cigarette and that for nicotine is 5.12 mg/cigarette.