Abstract:
The models for predicting the tar, nicotine, CO yields in mainstream cigarette smoke were developed with multiple regression analysis, the key constituents in tobacco closely related to the mentioned three compounds were screened out, including total sugar, reducing sugar, total nitrogen, nicotine, volatile base, potassium, chlorine and sulfate.The tar, nicotine and CO yields in cigarette smoke of four cigarette blends were estimated with these models.The results showed that the absolute estimate errors of tar, nicotine and CO yields were in the ranges of 0.04-1.13, 0.13-0.50, and 0.11-2.95mg/cig, respectively.