Lauterbach & Associates

Middle Georgia's experts
in chemistry and toxicology

Presentations made on the
Chemistry and Toxicology of
Tobacco, Tobacco Products, and Tobacco Smoke

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ACS = American Chemical Society
MGACS = Middle Georgia Section ACS
TSRC = Tobacco Science Research Conference
CITMA = Council for Independent Tobacco Manufacturers of America
TMA = Tobacco Merchants Association
SOT = Society of Toxicology
CORESTA = Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco
WVWA = West Virginia Wholesalers Association



CORESTA Product Technology and Smoke Science, 2011


Deborah A. Grimm, John H. Lauterbach, "Can we continue to ignore chemical constituents of novel smokeless tobacco products other than the GothiaTek® analytes?" CORESTA, Graz, Austria, October 10, 2011.


65th TSRC - 2011

Deborah A. Grimm, John H. Lauterbach, "Setting the record straight - a reply to Goodpaster et al. - the real chemistry and toxicology of novel smokeless tobacco products", TSRC, Lexington, KY, September 19, 2011.


241st National ACS Meeting, 2011

Deborah A. Grimm, John H. Lauterbach, "Differences in detailed chemistries among moist snuff, snus, and novel smokeless tobacco producys (STP)", SOT, Washington, DC, March 8, 2011.

50th National SOT Meeting- March, 2011

Deborah A. Grimm, John Lauterbach, " Detailed chemical comparisons of new and old series reference smokieless tobacco products (STP)", SOT, Washington, DC, March 8, 2011.

64th TSRC - October, 2010.

Deborah A. Grimm, John Lauterbach, "Use of two GC-MS scan techniques for the characterization of wrappers and binders taken from cigar products," Hilton Head, SC, March 2010.


CORESTA Congress - September 2010

Deborah A. Grimm, John Lauterbach, "Use of two GC-MS scan techniques for the characterization of tobacco fillers used in cigar products,"  CORESTA, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 16, 2010.

240th National ACS Meeting - August 2010

Deborah A. Grimm, John Lauterbach, "Differences in detailed chemistries among cigars and cigarettes and their potential relevances to the toxicological properties of mainstream cigar smoke", National ACS Meeting, Boston, MA, August 24, 2010.

239th National ACS Meeting - March 2010


Deborah A. Grimm, John Lauterbach, "Indicators of Maillard polymer formation in commercial moist snuff products", National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, CA March 20-25, 2010.

49th National SOT Meeting - March 2010

Lauterbach, JH, Birrell, L, Cahill, PA, Jagger, C, Billinton, N, "Genotoxicity studies on reference smokeless tobacco products using the GreenScreen HC GADD45a-GFP assay", Society of Toxicology, Salt Lake City, UT March 7-11, 2010, Poster 1170.

CITMA - February 2010

Lauterbach, JH, "Consumer satisfaction and FDA regulation", CITMA FDA Update and Training Seminar, CITMA, Orlando, FL, February 4, 2010.

CITMA - November 2009

Lauterbach, JH "Good manufacturing practices:  Preparing for regulations, Impact of FDA on Small Tobacco Manufacturers and Importers and their Suppliers", CITMA, Atlanta, GA  November 17, 2009.

Lauterbach, JH, "Mislabeling, misbranding, and product adulteration.  Impact of FDA on Small Tobacco Manufactuerers and Importers and their Suppliers", CITMA, Atlanta, GA November 17, 2009.

CORESTA Smoke Science and Product Technology - October 2009

Lauterbach, JH, Grimm, DA "Use of two GC-MS scan techniques for the characterization of reference smokeless tobacco products"

63rd TSRC - September 2009

Lauterbach, JH, Grimm, DA "Characterization of reference and commercial moist snuff samples by use of two GC-MS scan techniques", TSRC Amelia Island, FL, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 63, No. 68, 2009, pp. 58-59.

Lauterbach, JH, "Estimation of gas-particle partitioning of menthol in mainstream cigarette smoke under several different smoking conditions", TSRC, Amelia Island, FL Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 63, No. 68, 2009, pp. 58-59.

238th National ACS Meeting - August 2009

Bao, M, Joza, PJ, Rickert, WS, and Lauterbach JH. "Factors affecting the amount of free-base nicotine in mainstream cigarette smoke and the determination of same by SPME."  National ACS Meeting, Washington, DC August, 2009.

Lauterbach JH, Grimm, DA, "Application of the direct silylation GC-MS scan technique for identifying potential toxicants in reference smokeless tobacco products"  National ACS Meeting, Washington, DC August 2009, Poster #TOXI 51.

Lauterbach, JH, "Understanding how products are reverse engineered",  National ACS Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2009, Paper #SCHB 4.

Lauterbach, JH, "Banned in Nashville: the presentation that would have been too hot for the 62nd Tobacco Science Research Conference",  National ACS Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2009, Poster #TOXI 52.

94th TMA - May 2009

Lauterbach, JH "Some devils that may be lurking under the details of FDA tobacco regulations", Williamsburg, VA, May 18, 2009.

MGACS - February 2009

Lauterbach, JH "The chemistry of tobacco and tobacco product regulation".  Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA, February 25, 2009, MGACS.

62nd TSRC - September 2008

Rood, BE, Lauterbach, JH, "Is there pentobarbital in tobacco", 62nd TSRC Conference, Nashville, TN Program booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 62, No. 48, September 21-24, 2008, pp. 43-44.

Lauterbach, JH, Grimm, DA, "Application of direct silylation GC-MS scan technique to reference smokeless tobacco products?", National ACS Meeting, Nashville, TN, August 20, 2008, Paper #TOXI 94.


236th National ACS Meeting - August 2008

Lauterbach, JH, "Are we focusing on the right toxicants for assessing thje toxicological properties of smokeless tobacco products?", National ACS Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 20, 2008, Paper #TOXI 94.

235th National ACS Meeting - April 2008


Lauterbach, JH, "Carbohydrate chemistry in the tobacco industry", April 8, 2008, New Orleans, LA, during the Sugar Alley Symposium.

61st TSRC - September 2007

Lauterbach, JH, "How can you have transfer without the smoke?  The story on sugar-ammonia chemistry that did not get the Pulitzer Prize", TSRC, Charlotte, NC, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 61, No. 59, September 25, 2007, p. 51.

Lauterbach, JH, "Recognizing and dealing witht he misuse of chemical data for the evluation of tobacco products", 61st TSRC, Charlotte, NC, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 61, No. 44, September 26, 2007,
pp. 42-43.

Lauterbach, JH, "What would you regulate if you were the regulator in charge of cigarettes?" TSRC, Charlotte, NC, Program Booklet and Abstracts, Vol. 61, No. 38, September 24, 2007, pp. 38-39.

234th National ACS Meeting - August 2007

Lauterbach, JH, "Problems with the use of risk-assessment approaches to estimate ehalth risks from various smoking products", National ACS Meeting Boston, MA, August 22, 2007, Paper #TOXI 129.

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