Concern about the health effects of passive smoking and exposure of a large population to environmental tobacco smoke have generated the need for a quantitative tracer of environmental tobacco smoke. Solanesol, a trisesquiterpenoid alcohol, has been shown to be present in environmental tobacco smoke. Results from the determination of particulate-phase solanesol in environmental tobacco smoke in both chamber and indoor environments show that solanesol is a suitable tracer for the particulate phase of environmental tobacco smoke.
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