Environ. Sci. Technol. 2001, 35, 2758-2764
Indoor Chemistry: Ozone and Volatile Organic Compounds Found in Tobacco Smoke RICHARD J. SHAUGHNESSY,† T. J. MCDANIELS,‡ AND C H A R L E S J . W E S C H L E R * ,§ Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Tulsa, 600 S. College Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104, R. W. Holland Engineering, P.O. Box 472336, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74147, and Department of Environmental and Community Medicine University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 170 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
The deliberate generation of ozone in indoor settings has been promoted as a method to reduce the concentration of indoor pollutants. The present study examines the effect of ozone on a subset of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in tobacco smoke. The decays of these compounds were measured in a static room-sized chamber: (1) in the absence of ozone, (2) in the presence of moderate ozone concentrations (
