Smoking machines are used to produce the misleadingly precise tar and nicotine "yields" on cigarette packages, which may have little or no relationship to the health hazards associated with a ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, cigarette vending machines could be found in nearly ... pursuant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the agency banned tobacco vending machine ...

The machine puffs the cigarette as a human would. You can tune its puffing frequency, intensity and intervals — and then observe what happens as the smoke is fed from the machine and passed ...

The robot has an enclosed chamber where the cigarettes are lit. And the smoking machine is inside a fume hood with an external vent to prevent secondhand smoke exposure. Hoshang Unwalla sets up the ...