The Tobacco Lab is located near the main HSPH campus. The facility is well-equipped to perform tests on tobacco products and a variety of research with human subjects.
Research Capacity
- Cigarette physical design analysis (physical features, ventilation, pressure drop)
- Cigarette ignition propensity (fire safe testing)
- Human smoking topography
- Collection of biomarker measures of human exposure to tobacco toxins
- Secondhand smoke measurement and characterization
- Air quality monitoring in public places
- Assessment of consumer responses to products and messaging, using:
- Cognitive interviews
- Focus groups
- Standard survey methods
- Web-based surveys
- GPS tracking for assessing location of public tobacco advertising within communities
Research Equipment
- Custom-developed air exchange and filtration system
- Cigarette conditioning chamber
- Cigarette ventilation and pressure drop equipment
- Cigarette ignition propensity testing chambers
- SidePak AM510 fine particle aerosol monitors (for secondhand smoke emissions)
- Q-TRAK Plus (for temperature, relative humidity, CO, CO2)
- Pump and filter for gravimetric measurement of fine particles (for secondhand smoke emissions)
- Smoking topography monitoring devices (Plowshare CReSSmicro and CReSS desktop)
- Carbon monoxide monitors
- Lung spirometric measurement device
