A Profile of the Heat Generation Inside a Cigarette During Puffing | Masayuki Horio - Academia.edu
In another, somewhat related thread, someone brought up a comparison between high wattage vaping and smoking. The post got me thinking, so I decided to do some research. The link above is a paper published by the tobacco Science Research Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The methodology looks solid to me, and the results reasonable, so I figured I'd share with everyone.
The paper is quite technical, so I'll understand if you don't try to wade through the whole thing (parts of it are in French too haha). The results I found most useful were the plots of average heat generation over the duration of the puff. Under varying conditions, the researchers determined that the average heat generation (power output) of a cigarette varied between 20 and 30 watts, but the actual time varying estimates ranged from 0 W at the beginning of the puff to a peak value, in some cases, of almost 90 W!
Food for thought. Enjoy
In another, somewhat related thread, someone brought up a comparison between high wattage vaping and smoking. The post got me thinking, so I decided to do some research. The link above is a paper published by the tobacco Science Research Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The methodology looks solid to me, and the results reasonable, so I figured I'd share with everyone.
The paper is quite technical, so I'll understand if you don't try to wade through the whole thing (parts of it are in French too haha). The results I found most useful were the plots of average heat generation over the duration of the puff. Under varying conditions, the researchers determined that the average heat generation (power output) of a cigarette varied between 20 and 30 watts, but the actual time varying estimates ranged from 0 W at the beginning of the puff to a peak value, in some cases, of almost 90 W!
Food for thought. Enjoy
