Re: dioxins from cigarette smoking

["Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com>]

At 07:18 AM 08/14/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>At a recent seminar on dioxins a Public Health Official, in trying to avert
>attention from the high dioxin emissions from the local sinter plant,
>stated that cigarette smoking also produced dioxins. It was claimed that 20
>cigarettes could expose a person with 4.3 pg/kg/day.
>How correct is this and is there a scientific paper to back it up ?
>Thanks for your help and I apologize if this subject has been discussed before.


This was found in PubMed, but no abstract is available.

Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig 1984;35(3):239-41 

[Presence of polychlorinated dibenzo-P-dioxins (PCDDs) and
polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in cigarette ash and
pharmaceutical charcoal].

[Article in Polish] 

Gorski T

PMID: 6438783, UI: 85065516 

It isn't surprising that PCDD/PCDF would be found in cigarette
smoke.  Inorganic chlorine (i.e. table salt) that is charged to a
zone of poor combustion will produce plenty of PCDD/PCDF.
Remember also that cigarette paper is produced in a bleached
kraft process....they make cigarette paper at a plant in South 
Carolina owned by a company called P. H. Glatfelter.


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