Relationship of Tobacco Weight in Commercial Cigarettes to Nicotine Levels

Mariany Razali, Muhammad Taufik, Evi Dayatul Atiqah, Rid Wanto, Anny Sartika Daulay, Desi Ardilla, Endang Susilawati, Afniwati

2019

Abstract

Nicotine is a substance contained in tobacco leaves which is used for the manufacture of cigarette raw materials. Nicotine will come out of tobacco in the process of smoking or inhaling second hand smoke. In cigarettes the nicotine content should not exceed 1.5 mg. Nicotine is very dangerous for health and is addictive. This study aims to determine the effect of tobacco weight on nicotine levels and to analyse the nicotine contained in commercial cigarettes by applying the paper chromatography method and UV-Vis spectrophotometry. In this study, an experimental method was used, the experimental method was developed on electro synthetic coupling maceration with variations in sample weights of 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 0.12, and 0.15 grams. The qualitative test results obtained in the Paper Chromatography method were nicotine positive because the Rf value of the sample was close to the Rf value of the standard solution and was reddish yellow, using electro synthetic coupling maceration with qualitative tests with Cyanogen bromide, the best results were marked by abundant greenish yellow colour . Using the UV-Vis spectrophotometry method, it was obtained that in each increase of 0.3 to 1.5 grams of tobacco, the concentration would increase by 0.4 ppm. Paper Chromatography Methods and UV-Vis Spectrophotometry can be used to analyse nicotine and produce the best results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Razali M., Taufik M., Atiqah E., Wanto R., Daulay A., Ardilla D., Susilawati E. and Afniwati. (2019). Relationship of Tobacco Weight in Commercial Cigarettes to Nicotine Levels. In Proceedings of the 1st International MIPAnet Conference on Science and Mathematics - Volume 1: IMC-SciMath, ISBN 978-989-758-556-2, pages 621-625. DOI: 10.5220/0010614800002775

in Bibtex Style

@conference{imc-scimath19,
author={Mariany Razali and Muhammad Taufik and Evi Dayatul Atiqah and Rid Wanto and Anny Sartika Daulay and Desi Ardilla and Endang Susilawati and Afniwati},
title={Relationship of Tobacco Weight in Commercial Cigarettes to Nicotine Levels},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International MIPAnet Conference on Science and Mathematics - Volume 1: IMC-SciMath,},
year={2019},
pages={621-625},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010614800002775},
isbn={978-989-758-556-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International MIPAnet Conference on Science and Mathematics - Volume 1: IMC-SciMath,
TI - Relationship of Tobacco Weight in Commercial Cigarettes to Nicotine Levels
SN - 978-989-758-556-2
AU - Razali M.
AU - Taufik M.
AU - Atiqah E.
AU - Wanto R.
AU - Daulay A.
AU - Ardilla D.
AU - Susilawati E.
AU - Afniwati.
PY - 2019
SP - 621
EP - 625
DO - 10.5220/0010614800002775