Ahmad El-Hellani, Ayomipo Adeniji, Hanno C Erythropel, Qixin Wang, Thomas Lamb, Vladimir B Mikheev, Irfan Rahman, Irina Stepanov, Robert M Strongin, Theodore L Wagener, Marielle C Brinkman
In this narrative review, we highlight the challenges of comparing emissions from different tobacco products under controlled laboratory settings (using smoking/vaping machines). We focus on tobacco products that generate inhalable smoke or aerosol, such as cigarettes, cigars, hookah, electronic cigarettes, and heated tobacco products. We discuss challenges associated with sample generation including variability of smoking/vaping machines, lack of standardized adaptors that connect smoking/vaping machines to different tobacco products, puffing protocols that are not representative of actual use, and sample generation session length (minutes or number of puffs) that depends on product characteristics...
2024: Tobacco Induced Diseases