| Many countries have set up laboratories to study | | | | In another type of laboratory setting, there is less use |
| about the different aspects related to smoking at the | | | | of automated devices; but a rigorous observation of |
| macro level as well as at the micro level. In the macro | | | | cigarette smoking and associated behaviour is done. |
| level, larger aspects of smoking are taught or studied; | | | | This setting is called the residential research laboratory |
| aspects such as the effect of a small illness on the | | | | setting where people that volunteered lived in the |
| number of cigarettes smoked by a person. And, at a | | | | company of other people for a few days or even |
| micro level, things that happen during individual smoking | | | | several months. In such kind of a setting, people are |
| sessions, for instance, are studied. Test rooms have | | | | always free to smoke as they choose. But they get or |
| been developed in which volunteers smoke tobacco | | | | take each cigarette either from a cigarette dispensing |
| cigarettes while the computers and other systems | | | | machine or from one of the research staffs. Patterns |
| recorded the various behaviour and trend patterns. In | | | | related to smoking are thus observed round the clock. |
| this kind of a controlled environment or context it is | | | | Each one of these settings is exclusively arranged to |
| possible for researchers to study carefully about the | | | | measure deviations in the aspect of a smoker’s |
| behaviour of tobacco cigarette smokers so that they | | | | smoking behavior. This particular strategy that make |
| get to discover or find out what all were the factors | | | | use of several systems permits a lot of checks, |
| that controlled it. | | | | otherwise called points of validation, that need to be |
| Most of the cigarette smokers that served as | | | | made. It would also provide one with a complete |
| subjects in these experimental studies did not feel that | | | | picture of smoking patterns. |
| they smoked in a different manner from the normal | | | | Descriptive studies related to cigarette smoking pattern |
| way while they were inside the laboratories. Though, it | | | | or behaviour has been gaining credence.As a first step, |
| was important to demonstrate or prove this in order to | | | | researchers or scientists using these laboratories and |
| validate the system. To carry out this act, portable | | | | devices would measure carefully everything that |
| puff-monitoring systems and mechanisms were | | | | happens when people smoked tobacco cigarettes. |
| developed. These modern systems take the | | | | The first one recorded the number of times these |
| researcher one step away from the laboratory | | | | people smoked and found that cigarette smoking |
| settings where events are a little bit more controlled or | | | | occurred not as a random event, but rather as an |
| one step closer to the natural environment, where a | | | | orderly habit or routine. Since each of the systems |
| smoker would be in. These measures allowed a | | | | gave a similar result, it was concluded that the results |
| smoker’s smoking behaviour to be monitored by | | | | were worthy enough to be treated as true and |
| researchers as they went about going about their daily | | | | authentic findings. |
| life in their usual environments. | | | | |