Hi @rgand!
These problems are not solved by the external terminologies, so they require an OMOP-made solution, as do many others.
Even though the documentation is not perfect, the smoking status problem was actually solved, so you can find more information here:
- [2022 US Symposium] #65 - Smoking Conventions
- Proposal for new Smoking conventions - please weigh in
- OHDSI/Vocabulary-v5.0/Upcoming-changes/smoking-hierarchy
- Release notes v20230116_major/What’s New/ OMOP Extension/Smoking hierarchy
The alcohol use problem is far from being solved. You’ll find a constellation of Standard concepts across various vocabularies, semantic flavors, and modeling approaches (pre-coordination vs post-). However, I can’t recommend using any of them. We need to plan another sprint to solve the problem.