A ‘Smoking Detector’ Arrives in Lanzhou: Will You Still Dare to Smoke at Work or While Dining Out?
Lanzhou, China, September 14 news “Everyone please look, this little thing is the nicotine passive collector! ” Lanzhou City Tobacco Control Office staff holding a transparent plastic bag containing a small instrument to the people present said. Reporters should look at the past, found that the famous nicotine passive collection instrument volume is very small, is a diameter of about four or five centimeters of the cylindrical device, the center of the cylinder is equipped with a filter membrane. Reporters in Lanzhou City, held on September 13th, nicotine passive detection of public places to start training that Lanzhou will be randomly selected in Chengguan District and Qilihe District, 50 public places to install nicotine passive collection meter. Through the detection of collected nicotine data, objectively analyze the second-hand smoke exposure in Lanzhou City dining places, government offices to further test the implementation of the "Regulations on Smoking Control in Public Places in Lanzhou City" since the implementation of the effectiveness of tobacco control, and at the same time for the assessment of the implementation of tobacco control laws and regulations in Lanzhou City, the actual effect of providing scientific data for better monitoring of the implementation of tobacco control laws to provide a scientific approach.
Tobacco control helper: small in size but big in power
“Nicotine passive collector can really be called a bit of tobacco control helper, don't look at its small head, but the skills are not small, it's ‘sense of smell’ can be sensitive, it is placed in the public places to be detected, if someone smokes, it will be able to capture the nicotine produced by the tobacco. ” City Tobacco Control Office staff introduced. The reporter noted that the nicotine passive collection instrument volume is very small, in the hands of a very light weight, it is a diameter of about four or five centimeters of the cylindrical device, the center of the cylinder is equipped with a filter membrane. The reason why it is called passive collector, because it does not need power and pumping power, as long as it is placed in a relatively hidden place indoors, its own ability to make nicotine automatically & ldquo; send & rdquo; door to door. The process of collecting nicotine in the ambient air is to utilize the free diffusion of nicotine in the air through the filter membrane on the sampler to adsorb nicotine onto the membrane.
The reporter learned that, as one of the pilot cities of the national 2016 air nicotine sampling and testing, Lanzhou will be randomly selected in Chengguan District and Qilihe District, 50 public places (10 administrative departments, 40 catering establishments) to install the nicotine passive collection instrument.
Hiding for a week to capture second-hand smoke
Yang Jie, a researcher at the Tobacco Control Office of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, said when evaluating the tobacco control work in Lanzhou, the overall tobacco control situation in Lanzhou City has gradually improved, people's concern for the safety of the living environment continues to improve, and the call for the creation of a smoke-free environment is also becoming stronger and stronger, but there is still a lack of public awareness of the tobacco control laws, and the discouragement of smoking in public places is not in place and so on. In the future, Lanzhou, as a pilot city, will work with Beijing and Shenzhen to implement passive detection of nicotine in the air.
In an interview with reporters, Yang Jie also talked about the nicotine passive detection used to evaluate the effectiveness of tobacco control. He said that the filter membrane of the nicotine collector has substances that attract nicotine. Compared to other ways of evaluating secondhand smoke, the detection of nicotine concentration in the ambient air has a higher sensitivity and specificity.
In the next test, each nicotine passive collector will be placed for a week, and then the filter membrane will be removed and sent to a specialized laboratory for testing, and the nicotine concentration in the area will be calculated from the amount of nicotine detected on the filter membrane. Get the concentration of nicotine, you can know the smoking situation in the region, so as to grasp the results of tobacco control. (Reporter Liu Xiaofang)
