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Hair Biomonitoring

In recent years, methods for measuring nicotine in hair have been developed and validated with the goal of characterizing long-term tobacco exposure. Because human hair grows at roughly 1 cm per month, the cumulative exposure over a given period of time can be quantified by obtaining the appropriate length of hair from the scalp. Hair nicotine is a good measure of cumulative exposure to secondhand smoke over a period of several months. While hair samples are relatively easy to collect, sample analysis requires access to a sophisticated analytical laboratory.

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Hair Biomonitoring video

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This project is funded by the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use and the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), developed in consultation with Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University of Southern California, Institute for Global Health.