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				<p> A pyrolytic method for evaluating the smoke properties of tobacco materials for their potential to produce biologically significant smoke phenols and PAH has been applied to close-grown tobacco, in comparison to conventionally grown tobacco. Analyses were performed on the lipids of tobacco samples to attempt correlations with amounts of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in pyrolyzates. Relative to a standard flue-cured tobacco, the close-grown tobacco samples contained lower nicotine, neophytadiene and hydrocarbon levels, and lower sterols, solanesol and fatty acid levels. Close-grown tobacco pyrolyzates contained equivalent PAH levels and higher levels of phenols. Based on the pyrolysis data, the close-grown tobaccos do not offer a more desirable smoking product than conventionally grown flue-cured tobaccos. However, the lower levels of nicotine and higher amounts of smoke phenols may possibly make the close-grown materials suitable for inclusion into low-nicotine tobacco sheet products. </p>
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A pyrolytic method for evaluating the smoke properties of tobacco materials for their potential to produce biologically significant smoke phenols and PAH has been applied to close-grown tobacco, in comparison to conventionally grown tobacco. Analyses were performed on the lipids of tobacco samples to attempt correlations with amounts of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in pyrolyzates. Relative to a standard flue-cured tobacco, the close-grown tobacco samples contained lower nicotine, neophytadiene and hydrocarbon levels, and lower sterols, solanesol and fatty acid levels. Close-grown tobacco pyrolyzates contained equivalent PAH levels and higher levels of phenols. Based on the pyrolysis data, the close-grown tobaccos do not offer a more desirable smoking product than conventionally grown flue-cured tobaccos. However, the lower levels of nicotine and higher amounts of smoke phenols may possibly make the close-grown materials suitable for inclusion into low-nicotine tobacco sheet products.

Pyrolytic Evaluation of Close-Grown Tobaccos

Tobacco Laboratory, Science and Education Administration / Agricultural Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.

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A pyrolytic method for evaluating the smoke properties of tobacco materials for their potential to produce biologically significant smoke phenols and PAH has...

Pyrolytic Evaluation of Close-Grown Tobaccos

Published Online: Aug 14, 2014

Page range: 65 - 72

Received: Mar 21, 1978

Accepted: May 16, 1979

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cttr-2013-0470

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