Center for Global Tobacco Control

Facilities and Equipment

Lab Machine

Lab facilities and equipment at the Tobacco and Human Smoking Facility include:

  • 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