Product Design
Smoke Impact
Abstract
Lays out the goals and objectives of a research study on human smoking habits. Summarizes past findings that nicotine yield "depends more on the smoker himself than on the cigarette he smokes" and speculates that within a given brand the need for nicotine "is quite different between individuals...leading to a wide spectrum of the actual parameters." Claims that smoking provides a "short-term regulated system" for nicotine delivery "settled by the smoker at each puff, more or less independently of the available quantity." Determines a need to pursue the question of whether specific products are suited to specific smokers, through investigation of smoking behavior of "a few well selected smokers". Concludes with a list of objectives to achieve the stated goal.
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- J Bourquin
- Hypothesis
- CompensationIncorporating knowledge of compensation and effects of human smoking behavior into cigarette design.
- FTC machine testing and ratingsDesign changes to achieve altered FTC smoke machine tar and nicotine ratings, with or without measured changes in human intake.
- Low-yield cigarettesModification of low yield products to assure that adequate levels of nicotine delivery are maintained, and effects of yield changes on toxicity and dependence.
- Measuring human intakeDevelopment of scientifically valid procedures for measuring tar and nicotine levels that more accurately reflect human intake.
- Measuring human smoking behaviorMeasuring the effects of changes in human smoking behavior on intake of nicotine and smoke constituents.
- Nicotine transport, transfer, and uptakeDesign changes which alter nicotine delivery or effect how the product causes and maintains dependence, including transfer of nicotine from tobacco to smoke, and uptake into the body.
- Inhalation ProfileAre cigarettes designed to cater to individual inhalation profiles?
- Elasticity and Product Control
- Keyword
- Smoker behavior (Human smoking behavior)Puff parameters, daily intake, etc.
- Psychophysiological
- Satisfaction
- Named Organization
- PME research laboratory
- Technology/Method
- Skin conductivity measurement
- Subject
- Compensation (Measures)
- Test/Consumer Preference (Testing)
- Effects—Smoking Behavior (Effects)
- Low Yield Cigarettes (Products)
- nicotine technology
- Puff Parameters (Measures)
- Test/Smoking Behavior (Testing)
- Test/Butt Analysis (Testing)
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.Introduction
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In our previous study about "human smoking habits"
(see monthly reports of June and July/Augizst, 1974),
,it has..been made evident that the nicotineyield
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i`realized by-the smokers depends moren the srnoker'
~yhimself than on the cigarette he -smokes '-I t :is` likely r, ~.,.
that among the smokers of one particular brand;'the
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!need ofhicotine`is'quitedifferent between individuaLs,
~`'this--is leading to a wide' spectrum .of the actual para-
; meters -We think that the ma j ori ty of the 'smokers' base
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the. choice of their brand on a set of ;various reasons,'';.
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and,` 'hereupon; .adapt their mode of smoking ' to the
.product they bought accordingly. Hence, the investigatis2n
of the smoking behaviour of lots of people, on a
statistical basis, says little, if even anything, about .
the way the smoker actually smokes, and about the
satisfaction he gets out of smoking.
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The pharmacological effects of nicotine, or better of
smoke, together with the psycho-physiological state of
the smoker,.form a short-term regulated system in which
the quantity of nicotine involved, is settled by the
smoker.at each puff, more or less independently of the
available quantity, as expressed by the standard yield.
Fromithis point of view, it might seem more-interesting
to limit the investigation to a few well selected smokers,
trying to determine their precise smoking behaviour and
the satisfaction they get, in correlation with the char-
acteristics of the various products -they have to smoke.
This should give an answer to the question whether there
are specific products suited to specific smokers, a
question of importance chiefly in.relation with the
problem of low delivery cigarettes.
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- To select and test one or several methods to evaluate
the satisfaction.procured to the smoker by the smoke.
Thes'e methods might be subjective (answer giveri by
the smoker) or objective (evaluation of the performance
oz zne smoxer in a aerinea 3ob).
To select and test method's to observe the smokinq be-
haviour of the smoker (collection and analysis of his
butts, eventually discreete observation while smoking)
To select and test methods to follow up the physio-
logical state of the smoker during the observation
period (e.g. skin conductivity measurement).
To select several smokers for the experiments, with
such criteria in mind as: smoke addiction, awareness
of the problem, goodwill for cooperation, aptitude to
on3ectivity, etc....
- To carry out the experiment itself, the intensity and
duration of this experiment wil:
. li.minary tests
Responsible: J. Bourquin
