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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity |
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| | Tobacco additives and their definitions. Ammonium sulfide: "a corrosive chemical, |
| | contact with which can irritate nose, throat and lungs causing difficulty breathing." |
| | Camphene: "exposure can irritate eyes, nose and throat." Eucalyptol: "a human |
| | poison by ingestion." |
| | Wall Street Journal, April 14, 1997, p. A6 |
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| | "A cigarette is like a little toxic waste dump on fire." |
| | Stanton Glantz, Ph.D. The News Hour, PBS television, December 31, 1997 |
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| | In late 1997, Liggett tobacco company for the first time listed the ingredients on |
| | cartons of its L&M cigarettes. Included along with tobacco was molasses, licorice |
| | flavor, chocolate flavor, vanilla extract, valerian root extract, oil of an East Indian mint |
| | called patchouli, cedarwood oil, menthol, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, phenylacetic |
| | acid, hexanoic acid, isovalenic acid, 3-methylpantanoic acid, glycerol, and propylene |
| | glycol. |
| | San Francisco Examiner, December 4, 1997, p. A26 |
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| | The amount of benzopyrenes in cigarettes have been reduced by half since the |
| | 1960's. However, in one unspecified American cigarette, the amount of NNK |
| | increased by 50% from 1978 to 1995. |
| | 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, 1997 (Nigel Gray) |
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| | The disclosure of cigarette ingredients is required by law in three places in the world: |
| | Canada, Thailand, and Massachusetts. |
| | Multinational Monitor, July-August 1997, p. 29 |
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