Levels of flavour compounds (compounds 1–22) in six tobacco products (numbers 11–16) without explicit flavour names, and three tobacco products (A, B and C) with explicit flavour names, all 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
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | A | B | C | ||
Compound | Camel ‘Mellow’ snus(µg/g) | Hype ‘Blue Mixx’ cigarillos(µg/g) | D’Ville ‘Pink’ cigars(µg/g) | Zig Zag ‘Pink’ cigars(µg/g) | Camel ‘Robust’ snus(µg/g) | Peach ‘Sweet’ Snuff’(µg/g) | Skoal ‘Citrus’ moist snuff(µg/g) | Black & Mild ‘Cream’ ‘cigars’(µg/g) | Camel Snus ‘Frost’ moist snuff(µg/g) | |
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Total: | 1830. | 1600. | 1120. | 941. | 271. | 65.4 | 18 100. | 15 000. | 9300. | |
1 | Ethyl vanillin | 1470 | 10.0 | 599 | 25.3 | 451 | 11 000 | |||
2 | Vanillin | 11.3 | 698 | 413 | 698 | 8.37 | 644 | 3380 | 582 | |
3 | Benzyl alcohol | 3.4 | 16.5 | 7.9 | 28.1 | 121 | 2980 | 6.08 | 5.4 | |
4 | Limonene | 10.7 | 13.4 | 12.0 | 9510 | 108 | ||||
5 | Menthol | 17.4 | 44.1 | 128 | 4290 | |||||
6 | Carvone | 48.0 | 4070 | |||||||
7 | Ethyl maltol | 36.4 | 2.1 | 7.6 | 7.1 | |||||
8 | Methyl anthranilate | 2.6 | 30.8 | 4.9 | ||||||
9 | Linalool | 264 | 900 | 5.2 | ||||||
10 | Piperonal | 86.0 | 6.1 | 4.3 | 17.1 | 227 | ||||
11 | Ethyl isovalerate | 13.4 | ||||||||
12 | Z-3-hexen-1-ol | 54.6 | 4.7 | 31.0 | ||||||
13 | p-Anisaldehyde | 10.1 | 7.2 | |||||||
14 | Methyl salicylate | 3.3 | 3.4 | 915 | 5.17 | |||||
15 | γ-Undecalactone | 47.8 | 56.6 | |||||||
16 | γ-Decalactone | 94.2 | 38.6 | 5.3 | 70.9 | |||||
17 | Furfuryl alcohol | 30.7 | 29.6 | 257 | ||||||
18 | Raspberry ketone | 59.4 | 13.7 | 161.0 | ||||||
19 | Ethyl hexanoate | 13.5 | ||||||||
20 | Maltol | 13.3 | 218 | 13.8 | 10.6 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 102 | 16.7 | |
21 | α-Terpineol | 582 | 26.1 | |||||||
22 | Benzaldehyde propylene glycol acetal | 34.4 | 8.9 | 174 |