The harmful components in cigarette smoke gas phase and the elimination measures
Cigarette-smoking is a process of incomplete combustion for lack of oxygen under high temperature, during which process minute harmful substances, such as CO, benzene, volatile alderydes in the gas phase. The major measure to reduce them is to dilute the smoke or to add sorbent into the filter. As another kind of harmful component, free radical can be removed by applying free radical eliminator into tobacco and filter. Mean while, other substances verified harmful by toxicology or genetical toxicology can be reduced with a selective application of sorbent, additive, catalyst, or the antimutagenic etc .