Patent ID: 7100420

Claim:
A cigarette monitoring means capable of monitoring smoking behaviour of an individual smoker comprising: cigarette mounting means by which a cigarette can be mounted at the mouth end thereof, said mounting means comprising a mouthpiece, which mouthpiece is, when said mounting means mounts a cigarette, in fluid-flow communication with the mouth end of the cigarette; in unit with said mounting means fluid-flow pressure drop detection means and smoke density detection means; at the locations of said mounting means data transmission means operable to transmit data derived from said pressure drop detection means and said smoke density detection means; data receiving and processing means operable to receive and process data transmitted by said transmission means, the processing effected by said processing means comprising a calculation of a delivery value of particulate phase smoke components from a cigarette when mounted by said mounting means and being smoked via said mouthpiece; display means operable to display processed data from said receiving and processing means; and a second transmission means operable to transmit processed data input from data processing effected by said data receiving and processing means.