Does marijuana “blunt” smoking contribute to nicotine exposure?: Preliminary product testing of nicotine content in wrappers of cigars commonly used for blunt smoking

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 168, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-122

  Peters, Erica N ^a   Schauer, Gillian L ^a,b   Rosenberry, Zachary R ^a   Pickworth, Wallace B ^a  

^a BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunts; Cannabis; Marijuana; Nicotine; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; CANNABIS;

ARTICLE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CIGAR WRAPPER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPOSURE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MATERIAL STATE; NICOTINE EXPOSURE; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS; HUMAN; TOBACCO;

CANNABIS; HUMANS; MARIJUANA SMOKING; NICOTINE; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84993958699     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.09.007     Document Type: Article

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