It is well known that smoking generates harmful air pollutants. With smoking in buildings as well as in the streets prohibited, the need for smoking rooms has emerged. In this study, particle and CO contamination in a 63.6 m3 smoking room was experimentally investigated using Korean tobacco. Tobacco smoking was artificially simulated using a smoking machine. The number and size distribution of particles ranging from 10-420 nm and 0.25-32 μm were measured using a Nanoscan (TSI model 3910) and a portable aerosol spectrometer (Grimm model 1.109), respectively. CO concentration was also monitored using an IAQ monitor (Graywolf IAQ-Xtra 610). Four tobaccos were simultaneously smoked in each experiment, and the experiment was repeated four times. Maximum CO concentrations of 7-10 ppm were observed and high concentrations of particles (176,000-1,115,000 particles/cm3 for 10-420 nm, 3,700-5,200 particles/cm3 for 0.25-32 μm) were also monitored. The dominant size of tobacco particles was about 100 nm in diameter.

The ciga rette smoki ng may act direct ly on the oral mucosal membrane The effects of smoking has many harrnJul effects on the oral cavi ty ‘ s uch as oral cancer. oral Icukoplakia , erythroplakia‘ nicotine stomati tis. ha iry tongue. smoker’s melanosis. acute nec roti zing ulverative gingivitis, gingivitis/periodontitis ‘ treatment of periodontitis. implant surgery a nd den tal cari es. lf pregna nt woman smokes. the tobacco can effect on the both pregnant and embryo/fetus negati ve ly. For the cessation 0 [' smoki ng, the dentists have an important role to play in preve nti ng t he harmful efTects on smoking in the oral cav ity, Conseq uently smoking cou nseling should be as a part of the dentist's job in the de ntal pract ice,