Levels of flavour-related chemicals (compounds 1–22) in 10 tobacco products (1–10) without explicit flavour names purchased in February and March of 2015 in New York City. Products ranked (decreasing order) by totals for 93 chemicals determined. Values given are means for triplicate analyses. All values in micrograms (µg) of flavour chemical per gram of product (µg/(g of product)), using a maximum of three significant figures. Only values found to be >1.0 µg/g are given
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||
Compound | Average for all 19 products(µg/g) | Show ‘Poco Loco’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Show ‘TaTa’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Bluntville ‘Piff’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Show ‘Ba Boom’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Black & Mild ‘Royale’ cigars(µg/g) | Hype ‘Sweet’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Show ‘Buzz’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Bluntville ‘Blue’ cigarillos(µg/g) | Rock n’ Roll ‘Blue’ cigars(µg/g) | Hype ‘Purple Reserve’ cigarillos(µg/g) | |
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Total: | 5460. | 12 500. | 7880. | 7810. | 5440. | 4480. | 4440. | 4170. | 3460. | 3420. | 1930. | |
1 | Ethyl vanillin | 1380 | 1830 | 1500 | 2170 | 13.5 | 535 | 2070 | 1640 | 577 | 1860 | 383 |
2 | Vanillin | 899 | 1110 | 1060 | 1340 | 1270 | 1050 | 840 | 438 | 1670 | 1490 | 385 |
3 | Benzyl alcohol | 810 | 494 | 2580 | 1310 | 1630 | 5.8 | 1000 | 133 | 288 | 4.08 | 324 |
4 | Limonene | 623 | 1330 | 643 | 192 | 20.1 | ||||||
5 | Menthol | 236 | ||||||||||
6 | Carvone | 217 | ||||||||||
7 | Ethyl maltol | 208 | 517 | 392 | 127 | 1020 | 686 | 986 | 33.8 | 149 | ||
8 | Methyl anthranilate | 157 | 2.2 | 2780 | 13.7 | 1.8 | 17.7 | 125 | ||||
9 | Linalool | 136 | 658 | 363 | 2.8 | 22.5 | 372 | 3.33 | ||||
10 | Piperonal | 75.4 | 59.1 | 33.4 | 29.0 | 713 | 2.6 | 108 | 99.0 | 48.6 | ||
11 | Ethyl isovalerate | 60.9 | 485 | 331 | 30.8 | 297 | ||||||
12 | Z-3-hexen-1-ol | 59.0 | 189 | 169 | 589. | 82.5 | ||||||
13 | p-Anisaldehyde | 52.2 | 160 | 85.0 | 9.4 | 6.8 | 483 | 4.40 | 225 | |||
14 | Methyl salicylate | 48.8 | ||||||||||
15 | γ-Undecalactone | 46.5 | 4.0 | 1.30 | 774 | |||||||
16 | γ-Decalactone | 43.7 | 235 | 128 | 192 | 65.2 | ||||||
17 | Furfuryl alcohol | 37.4 | 274 | 14.8 | 26.1 | 12.9 | 64.9 | |||||
18 | Raspberry ketone | 37.0 | 46.2 | 53.2 | 110 | 152 | 60.1 | 46.8 | ||||
19 | Ethyl hexanoate | 36.5 | 259 | 154 | 268. | |||||||
20 | Maltol | 36.4 | 19.2 | 12.4 | 11.6 | 80.5 | 6.1 | 156 | 5.8 | 5.5 | ||
21 | α-Terpineol | 35.9 | 43.6 | 22.4 | 8.1 | |||||||
22 | Benzaldehyde propylene glycol acetal | 30.4 | 97.5 | 100 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 11.4 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 30.0 | 1.9 | 106 |