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CORESTA Congress, Berlin, 2016, Smoke Science/Product Technology Groups, STPOST 03 (also presented at TSRC 2016)

E-cigarette aerosol collection: 44 mm Cambridge filter pad capacity

MILLER J.H.; WILKINSON J.; SPICER-GLAVE S.; FLORA J.W.; GARDNER W.P.
Altria Client Services LLC, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

CORESTA has developed recommended (or standardized) methodologies to measure most of harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHCs) in cigarette smoke. CORESTA Recommended Methods (CRMs) specify the collection of cigarette smoke under standardized conditions referred to as ISO and/or Canadian Intense (CI) conditions where smoke particulate matter is trapped on 44 mm Cambridge filter pads (CFP). Many of the methodologies being developed to collect and measure constituents in e-cigarette aerosols are based on CRMs developed for cigarette smoke. However, there are fundamental differences between the processes of generating tobacco cigarette smoke compared to e-cigarette aerosol. For example, cigarettes are burned and the puff counts collected under standardized puffing regimes range from ~5 to ~14 puffs per cigarette depending upon design and puffing conditions. E-cigarettes provide far more puffs than conventional cigarettes and it is common to collect up to or more than 100 to 150 puffs per device with 5 and 3 second puff durations, respectively. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the collection capacity of 44 mm CFP relative to e-cigarette aerosol mass (AM), nicotine, and menthol. Results showed that the CFP could collect 650 mgs of AM without measurable breakthrough. When using a 5 second puff (the maximum puff duration for conventional cigarette smoking machines), a 55 cc puff volume, and a 30 second puff interval, a linear increase was observed for AM, nicotine, and menthol. This was observed when measuring 20 puff increments, using new devices per incremental collection, and collecting up to 650 mgs of AM. Similar results were observed for different puff durations (e.g. 3 seconds).