scope:

This Technical Report was prepared by an ad hoc Smoking Behaviour Review Team to address the following terms of reference: a) to review worldwide human smoking behaviour documentation, uptake studies and smoking methods; b) to report maximum and minimum values for puff volume, puff duration, puff frequency, ventilation blocking, butt lengths and other parameters; c) to recommend one or more sets of parameters for potential new practical machine smoking regimes in addition to the existing ISO standard (ISO 3308); d) to identify gaps in existing knowledge.