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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2007 123(1):68-73; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl033
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Radiation dose from cigarette tobacco

C. Papastefanou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Atomic and Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece

Corresponding author: papastefanou{at}physics.auth.gr

Received September 12, 2005, accepted October 24, 2005


  Abstract

The radioactivity in tobacco leaves collected from 15 different regions of Greece before cigarette production was studied in order to estimate the effective dose from cigarette tobacco due to the naturally occurring primordial radionuclides, such as 226Ra and 210Pb of the uranium series and 228Ra of the thorium series and or man-made radionuclides, such as 137Cs of Chernobyl origin. Gamma-ray spectrometry was applied using Ge planar and coaxial type detectors of high resolution and high efficiency. It was concluded that the annual effective dose due to inhalation for adults (smokers) for 226Ra varied from 42.5 to 178.6 µSv y–1 (average 79.7 µSv y–1), while for 228Ra from 19.3 to 116.0 µSv y–1 (average 67.1 µSv y–1) and for 210Pb from 47.0 to 134.9 µSv y–1 (average 104.7 µSv y–1), that is the same order of magnitude for each radionuclide. The sum of the effective doses of the three natural radionuclides varied from 151.9 to 401.3 µSv y–1 (average 251.5 µSv y–1). The annual effective dose from 137Cs of Chernobyl origin was three orders of magnitude lower as it varied from 70.4 to 410.4 nSv y–1 (average 199.3 nSv y–1).


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