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Topical Report NCI/S&HP/ORNL #66 TAR, NICOTINE. CO AND C02 DELIVERIES OF ITALIAN CIGARETTES 2-17-78 R. R. Quincy, W. H. Griest and A. H. Marshall Tobacco Smoke Research Program 6iojQrganic Analysis Section Analytical Chemistry Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Interagency Agreement (ERdA-NIH/NCI) No. 40-485-74, Part I Internal (ORNL) Contract Charge Number 3390-0225 Intended for informal communication with project management only. Confidential until published or released by author.

TAR, NICOTINE, CO AND C09 DELIVERIES OF ITALIAN CIGARETTES R. D. Quincy, W. H. Griest and A. H. Marshall Introduction. This Topical Report presents the results of the analyses of 13 brands of Italian cigarette variants for tar (also TPM and water), nico- 'tine, CO and COz at the request of the NCI. Experimentai. This set of Italian cigarettes was sent to ORNL by NCI. Each brand, consisting of 200 cigarettes, was individually selected, smoked and analyzed for these constituents by standard protocol procedures. Nicotine was determined by the protocol gas chromatographic procedure. ResultsJDiscussion. This is the first set of Italian comnercial cigarettes that has been analyzed in our smoke facility. The Alfa and Esportazione two nonfilter brands were partially void of tobacco in a number of the cigarettes. However, the mean weight and resistance-to-draw of the respective selected rods smoked for the analyses were full and firm. The results for all var- iants are given in Tables 1 and 2. The Gala Doppio Filtro brand advertises on the package, "the average contents of smoke for each cigarette is 0.0006 gram nicotine and 0.0130 gram other components". At ORNL the average nicotine delivery per cigarette found was 0.44 mg with a corresponding tar delivery of 15.6 mg. The difference may be batch-to-batch variances, the small number of selected cigarettes analyzed here and/or in the butt length of the smoked cigarette. [All filter cigarettes were smoked to a butt length 3 mm before the filter (overwrap) connects to the tobacco rod, and nonfilter cigarettes were smoked to a 23 mm butt length.] Many of the Italian cigarettes listed (in Table 2) appear to deliver nicotine and tar values in the range found in the smokes of a number of American (brand) cigarettes. It has been reported that the Italian Tobacco Monopoly's pricing policy and improved quality of domestic brands recently has encouraged smokers to switch from imported to domestic brands and the trend toward increased con- sumption of domestically produced brands is expected to continue.1 'USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), "World Cigarette Production Climbs," Tobacco Reporter, December 1977, p. 25.

TABLE I Analysis of Italian Cigarettes Cigarette Characteristics Brand Cigarette Weight, R,g Cigarette RTD, mm H2 0 Puff Number Alfa 956 61.0 8.2 Esportazione 1051 60.0 9.0 Esportazione Filtro 974 88.0 9.6 Esportazione King Size Lunga Filtro 1254 120.2 14.6 Gala Doppio Filtro 1150 110.9 11.5 Lido Doppio Filtro 1129 101.5 10.6 MS Blu Doppio Filtro Speciale 1130 121.5 11.2 MS King Size Filtro 1018 112.4 9.5 Nazionali 1134 93.5 9.3 Nazionali Filtro 1122 95.4 11.2 Stop King Size 1146 63.4 10.1 Stop King Size Filtro 1064 110.4 11.0 Super (Con Filtro) 1083 92.1 11.4

TABLE 2 Analysis of Italian Cigarettes Brand TPM, mg Water, mg Analytical Nicotine, mg Results Tar, mg C0, ml CO2, ml Alfa 28.72 2.70 1.04 24.98 18.2 32.7 Esportazione 31.96 3.28 1.12 27.56 12.6 30.1 Esportazione Filtro 23.36 2.32 0.62 20.42 21.2 39.1 Esportazione King Size Lunga Filtro 25.89 2.06 0.88 22.99 20.7 49.7 Gala Doppio Filtro 17.72 1.72 0.44 15.56 12.8 37.3 Lido Doppio Filtro 25.40 1.92 1.11 22.37 17.3 36.5 MS Blu Doppio Filtro Speciale 18.78 1.65 0.73 16.40 14.8 36.4 MS King Size Filtro 26.35 2.54 1.05 22.76 18.7 37.0 Nazionali 25.82 1.25 0.70 23.87 14.6 30.8 Nazionali Filtro 25.94 2.22 0.80 22.92 18.4 39.8 Stop King Size 40.12 1.62 2.23 36.27 20.0 37.5 Stop King Size Filtro 30.52 1.88 1.17 27.47 19.2 42.1 Super (Con Filtro) 28.32 2.04 1.06 25.22 21.8 44.1