Abstract
Introduction: Ventilation of cigarette filters is used to artificially reduce TNCO emissions. The scope of this work is to quantify the relationship between filter ventilation and TNCO emissions.
Methods: The data published on the internet site of the French Agency ANSES, containing the characteristics of all cigarettes notified in the French market, are used. A model correlating filter ventilation with the emissions of TNCO is constructed.
Results: Figure 1 shows the TNCO emissions versus ventilation and pressure drops (open/close vents). There is a decreased trend of TNCO emissions with filter ventilation but there is not any clear trend with close vents and open vents pressures.
After analyzing figure 1, a function relating TNCO emissions with ventilation is constructed. This fuction gives very good results, as the estimated values are very close to the measured ones (r2=0.85), with ventilation measured values over 50% (figure 2).
After several trials, no such relationship could be found for ventilation values <50%.
Conclusions: A function relating quantitively the TNCO emissions of cigarettes and filter ventilation, for ventilation values>50%, is revealed.
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2021; 58: Suppl. 65, PA3202.
This abstract was presented at the 2021 ERS International Congress, in session “Prediction of exacerbations in patients with COPD”.
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