{ "model": { "rank": 4744, "code": "thing-q7212330", "model_id": "vr.tr.tobacco-smoking", "name": "tobacco smoking", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise tobacco-smoking activity, record its pattern and context, distinguish direct participation from smoke exposure, and identify relevant constraints or requested support.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q7212330/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "schizophrenia and smoking", "pipe smoking", "water pipe smoking", "smoking in Japan", "inflight smoking", "cigar smoking", "cigarette smoking", "Smoking in Indonesia" ], "aliasCount": 8, "merged": 8, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q7212330", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7212330", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:54:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087f2-ba86-7d91-8430-8cc642947bb6\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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It specialises the broader activity of smoking through tobacco-specific products, use patterns and contexts, while linking to neighbouring models for products, dependence, health conditions and regulation.", "in_scope": [ "Tobacco-smoking episodes involving cigarettes, cigars, pipes, waterpipes or other combustible tobacco preparations.", "A person's tobacco-smoking pattern over an explicitly stated observation period.", "Tobacco content, product form and smoking apparatus as attributes of an episode.", "Smoking settings, shared participation and pathways by which smoke reaches other people.", "Reported intentions, changes in smoking activity and requests for cessation support." ], "out_of_scope": [ "The broader smoking model, which owns features shared across smoking different substances.", "Vaping, smokeless tobacco use and products operated by heating without combustion.", "Tobacco cultivation, manufacture, retail and product composition as independent subjects.", "Nicotine 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"why_it_matters": "Makes intermittent and daily patterns interpretable without relying on an undefined smoker label." }, { "name": "Product-specific consumption", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Cigarettes, cigars, pipe bowls, waterpipe sessions or grams of tobacco per stated interval; retain the original unit", "why_it_matters": "Records consumption without treating unlike products or shared sessions as equivalent quantities." }, { "name": "Smoke-drawing pattern", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Mouth draw only reported; inhalation reported; variable; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Describes participation without excluding smoking that does not involve reported inhalation." }, { "name": "Smoking setting", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to location, enclosure, people present and applicable site rules", "why_it_matters": "Connects an episode to other people's potential exposure and location-specific constraints." }, { "name": "Smoking-pattern status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Current daily; current non-daily; former; never; uncertain, each qualified by definition, reference date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents status labels from silently substituting for an explicit history or classification rule." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a reported episode as tobacco smoking, mixed-substance smoking, another activity or unresolved.", "Record product-specific episodes and summarise smoking frequency over a stated period.", "Separate smoking participation from other people's smoke exposure.", "Check a proposed smoking location against sourced, applicable rules.", "Compare reported smoking patterns across time while preserving units and uncertainty.", "Record a person's requested change and connect them to appropriate cessation-support resources." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tobacco-smoking-boundary", "name": "Tobacco-smoking boundary", "description": "Establishes what makes an episode tobacco 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"participation-and-neighbouring-activities", "name": "Participation and neighbouring activities", "description": "Separates the act of smoking from exposure and identifies activities that share an episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "participant-role-and-overlap", "name": "Participant role and overlap", "description": "Distinguish drawing smoke from being nearby, and link mixed tobacco preparations to any additional substance-use activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the person draw smoke into their mouth or respiratory tract, or were they only exposed to smoke produced by someone else?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participant-role-and-overlap-q01" }, { "text": "Did the preparation contain another substance that requires a linked activity record?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participant-role-and-overlap-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "products-and-smoking-episodes", "name": "Products and smoking episodes", "description": "Describes how combustible tobacco products are used and how 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"episode-boundaries-and-quantity", "name": "Episode boundaries and quantity", "description": "Defines counting rules for completed, interrupted, resumed and shared smoking activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-episode-count", "name": "Interpretable episode count", "description": "Keep duration, product quantity and participant share distinct, and specify how relighting or sharing affects episode counts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What marks this episode's start and end, including interruptions and later relighting?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interpretable-episode-count-q01" }, { "text": "What quantity did this person smoke, in which product-specific unit, and was the product or session shared?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-episode-count-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "smoking-pattern-and-change", "name": "Smoking pattern and change", "description": "Represents tobacco-smoking activity across time and the person's stated intentions about it.", "rationale": "One observed episode does not establish a long-term pattern, dependence diagnosis or desire to stop smoking.", "layers": [ { "id": "frequency-and-history", "name": "Frequency and history", "description": "Records smoking days, consumption and dated transitions using explicit observation windows.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-smoking-pattern", "name": "Dated smoking pattern", "description": "Derive any smoking-status label from a stated definition and history, preserving unknown periods and changes between product forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "On how many days in the stated observation window did the person smoke tobacco, and what did they consume on those days?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-smoking-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Which definition and dated evidence support any current, former or never-smoking classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-smoking-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intentions-and-support", "name": "Intentions and support", "description": "Records reported reasons, attempts to change and assistance the person actually requests.", "findings": [ { "id": "requested-smoking-change", "name": "Requested smoking change", "description": "Distinguish intentions, attempts and observed changes; link clinical assessment or treatment requests to appropriate neighbouring services.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the person stated an intention to stop, reduce or otherwise change tobacco smoking, and what outcome do they mean?", "kind": "definition", "id": "requested-smoking-change-q01" }, { "text": "What support has the person requested, and does fulfilling it require a cessation resource or clinical service?", "kind": "action", "id": "requested-smoking-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "smoking-setting-and-constraints", "name": "Smoking setting and constraints", "description": "Connects tobacco-smoking episodes to shared environments, potential smoke exposure and applicable permissions.", "rationale": "Judging a smoking situation 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"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cigarette smoking", "Cigar and cigarillo smoking", "Pipe smoking", "Waterpipe tobacco smoking", "Bidi smoking", "Kretek smoking" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of tobacco smoking this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: international treaty addressing tobacco demand, supply and exposure to tobacco smoke.", "WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 8 guidelines: guidance on protection from exposure to tobacco smoke.", "ISO 3308, issued by the International Organization for Standardization: standard conditions for routine analytical 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"provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Cigarette consumption frequency", "typical_range": "Varies from occasional use to daily consumption; no universal typical range.", "unit": "cigarettes per day" }, { "quantity": "Cumulative cigarette-smoking exposure", "typical_range": "Calculated as cigarettes per day divided by 20, multiplied by years smoked; variable consumption requires summing periods.", "unit": "pack-years" }, { "quantity": "Time to first cigarette after waking", "typical_range": "Common dependence-assessment categories: within 5, 6-30, 31-60, or more than 60 minutes.", "unit": "minutes" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of tobacco smoking this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Nicotine dependence, withdrawal and relapse after attempts to stop.", "Increased risk of cancers, including lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.", "Secondhand smoke exposure harms people who do not smoke.", "Smoking during pregnancy increases risks including impaired fetal growth and preterm birth.", "Burns and fires caused by lit smoking materials." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of tobacco smoking this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The prevalence of 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a tobacco smoking sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a tobacco smoking from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a tobacco smoking passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a tobacco smoking between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a tobacco smoking, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tobacco smoking is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a tobacco smoking proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a tobacco smoking, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a tobacco smoking and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a tobacco smoking consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a tobacco smoking takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What tobacco smoking is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of tobacco smoking are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is tobacco smoking operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of tobacco smoking and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of tobacco smoking?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as tobacco smoking?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a tobacco smoking came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a tobacco smoking and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a tobacco smoking is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tobacco smoking, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a tobacco smoking, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a tobacco smoking is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }