A professional who tests cigarettes and cellophane wrappers to ensure that products conform to company standards, according to following methods. Respnsibilities include:

• (1) Feeds sample from cigarette-making machine into hopper of weight recorder that tallies weight of each cigarette and totals number of each weight.
• Computes average weight of cigarettes in sample and compares average weight with standard to determine deviations.
• (2) Slits cigarette paper, dumps tobacco into container, and places container in electric moisture meter to obtain moisture content.
• (3) Weighs tobacco from specified number of cigarettes and places tobacco in agitator equipped with series of screens to separate shreds according to size.
• Weighs separate tobacco and determines percentage of each size of shreds in single cigarette, using conversion table.
• (4) Removes cellophane wrapper from cigarette pack and tests resistance to air by slipping wrapper over suction device of instrument that draws air through wrapper and indicates amount of airflow.
• Records test finding, date, and machine number from which samples were taken.