NRE VI, International Symposium, June 5-9, 1995, Montreal, ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL, Vol. 22, Suppl. 1, pp. S375-S377,1996

NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY CONTENT OF GREEK CIGARETTES

S.Katsanevakis, N.P. Petropoulos, E.P. Hinis and S.E.Simopoulos
Nuclear Engineering Section
Mechanical Engineering Department
National Technical University of Athens
A.Louizi and C.Proukakis
Department of Medical Physics
School of Medicine
Athens University

Tobacco from Greek cigarettes was analysed for natural radioactivity; according to the results already obtained the concentrations of both Ra-226 and Th-232 are less than 13 Bq/kg, while that of K-40 is relatively high, up to 1250 Bq/kg.