Measure Cigarette Smoke
Not sure if there are any pre built solutions but perhaps you could gut several optical smoke alarms for their sensors.
Measure cigarette smoke. It is an easy to use urine test. Secondary and now even third hand 2 smoke are considered hazardous to human health. Additionally cigarette smoking can incur costly cleanup bills for hotel property owners and vehicle rental companies. Measures cotinine in the saliva a metabolite of nicotine.
Detects presence of second and thirdhand tobacco smoke. Nicotest is a simple inexpensive test to determine tobacco exposure. Cigarette smoking is an ongoing health crisis in the united states and canada with almost 20 of adults in the us smoking. 1 the particulate phase can be understood technically as those smoke particles that are large enough to be captured on the filter of a smoking machine which samples mainstream smoke and is used to measure the tar nicotine and carbon monoxide yields or emissions of cigarettes.
Residual tobacco contamination or thirdhand smoke from cigarettes cigars and other tobacco products is left behind after smoking occurs and builds up on surfaces and furnishings. In its current form the sensor is slightly smaller and. Potentially you could add an extractor to your room not sure if that s desirable as i don t smoke and measure the smoke levels there. Nicotest is intended for determining if an individual has been exposed to tobacco products such as cigarettes pipes or vapor within the past 48 hours.
Secondhand smoke exposure in multi unit dwellings such as apartments and condominiums is unfortunately both a common problem and also dangerous for you and your family. Salivary cotinine is a particularly. We know it is smoke. Nicotest can test for exposure to nicotine cotinine in any form.
Exposure to secondhand smoke can lead to serious health problems including lung cancer heart disease and stroke and can make asthma worse in adults and children. Two such devices are the bosch macurco d381 air quality detector and the enercorp aqt 2000 air quality monitor which can detect various gases and fumes such as those left behind by cigarette smoke. It has long been understood as having particulate and vapour phases. We need to measure it to prove to our building that it really is smoke to get the leaks fixed and be reimbursed.
Purchase an air quality detector that specifically indicates it can detect cigarette smoke. Measuring cigarette smoke constituents. This method measures nicotine concentrations in the hair as a biomarker for personal exposure to shs. Cigarette smoke is a complex mixture of thousands of chemicals.
It can also detect and measure thirdhand smoke in the form of nicotine that off gasses from things like clothing and furniture upholstery.