Research focuses on evaluation of new and so "reduced exposure" tobacco products, and involves analysis of product design and toxic smoke emissions. Products are also evaluated using human subjects, to gain measures of smoking behavior topography, and sensory and other subjective responses. Together, these data provide valuable short–term evaluation of new tobacco products and allow development of a rapid public health response.
Other work includes research on sources of secondhand smoke exposure among children, and investigation of hookah tobacco use, including hookah pipe emissions.