Urinary excretion of thioethers among low-tar and medium-tar cigarette smokers.
The urinary excretion of thioethers was studied among smokers of medium-tar cigarettes (16.3 mg/cig.) and low-tar cigarettes (5.4 mg/cig.). The test persons (26 smokers and 11 nonsmokers) were healthy young men in the military service. The smokers had an increased excretion of thioethers into the urine (P = 0.002 with Mann-Whitney U-test) when compared with the nonsmokers. No differences in the amount of urinary thioethers were detected between the low-tar and medium-tar cigarette smokers. The smokers (varying from 2.0 to 8.5 mmol/mol creatinine) had more individual variation than the nonsmokers (varying from 1.5 to 4.5 mmol/mol creatinine). Furthermore, the individual variation in the group of low-tar cigarette smokers did not markedly differ from the individual variation of medium-tar cigarette smokers.
D000328:Adult; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D012907:Smoking; D013440:Sulfides / Q000652:urine*; D013638:Tars / Q000032:analysis; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000032:analysis
D013440:Sulfides; D013638:Tars