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title: "Tobacco smoke, environmental: exposure limits and sampling"
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Hazard search

# Tobacco smoke, environmental

CAS number

No CAS number

Also known as

Environmental tobacco smoke (nicotine & 3-ethenylpyridine)

## UK workplace exposure limits

Our data hold no UK limit for this substance.

## Sampling methods

| Method | Sampling | Medium | Analysis | Part numbers |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **ASTM D5075** / Nicotine & 3-Ethenylpyridine by GC-NPD / [Method document (opens in a new tab)](http://www.astm.org/Standards/D5075.htm) | Active (pump) | XAD-4 tube (80/40mg) |  | [226-93](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/skc-xad-sorbent-tubes/#part-226-93) |
| **ASTM D5955** / Environmental Tobacco Smoke contribution to respirable particles by HPLC / [Method document (opens in a new tab)](http://www.astm.org/Standards/D5955.htm) | Active (pump) | 37mm, 1µm PTFE filter |  | [225-3705](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/personal-modular-impactor-pmi/#part-225-3705) / [225-3LF](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-3lf) / [225-01-02](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-01-02) / [225-1](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-1) |
| **ASTM D6271** / Environmental Tobacco Smoke (based on Solanesol) by HPLC/UV / [Method document (opens in a new tab)](http://www.astm.org/Standards/D6271.htm) | Active (pump) | 37mm, 1µm PTFE filter |  | [225-3705](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/personal-modular-impactor-pmi/#part-225-3705) / [225-3LF](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-3lf) / [225-01-02](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-01-02) / [225-1](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/aluminium-respirable-dust-cyclone/#part-225-1) |
| **Non-agency 49** | Active (pump) |  | GC-NSD | [226-170](https://analyt-mtc.com/catalog/product/skc-xad-sorbent-tubes/#part-226-170) |

Methods and limits as published by their agencies and summarised by SKC; check the current method and the limit that applies to you before sampling.

Source: [SKC Ltd (UK), Hazard Search, used with SKC's permission (opens in a new tab)](https://www.skcltd.com/hazard-search.html); [SKC Inc. (USA), Sampling Guides, used with SKC's permission (opens in a new tab)](https://international.skcinc.com/sampling-guides/)