Dr Ed Stephens
Senior Research Fellow
Earth and Environmental Sciences
university of st andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
Smoke efficiently delivers to the lungs of smokers and bystanders significant quantities of environmental metals that have accumulated in the tobacco plant or adhered to its leaves.
Research Interest
transfer mechanisms and the speciation of metals in the pathway “from seedbed to sickbed”
Publications
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Yang J, Barling J, Siebert C, Fietzke J, Stephens WE, Halliday AN (2017). The molybdenum isotopic compositions of I-, S- and A-type granitic suites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 2017;205:168-86.
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Stephens, W.E. (2017a) Chemometric and trace element profiling methodologies for authenticating, crossmatching and constraining the provenance of illicit tobacco products. Tobacco Control 26: 502-508
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Stephens, W.E. (2017b) Comparing the cancer potencies of emissions from vapourised nicotine product sincluding e-cigarettes with those of tobacco smoke. Tobacco Control (on-line first) doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053808 (open access manuscript version available at http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11421)
