Radioactivity (Bq) in tobacco

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I just saw the following document:

http://www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/guildford/pdf/006/00000663.pdf



2000 micromicrocuries (about 80 Bq) per gram of tobacco smoke.



Questions:

1. Is this number representative?

2. What is the breakdown in various radionuclides?

3. What does this number correspond to in terms of Bq/cigarette

(one cigarette weighs about one gram - part of which could be the filter)?

(4. Where is the Bq police? It is allowed to exhale... Oops.)



Just my personal initiative and reflections,



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com





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