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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 19 Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity |
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| | In a study from Massachusetts, Marlboro was found to have 25.9 milligrams of tar per |
| | cigarette, compared to 16 milligrams in industry ratings. Merit Ultra Lights are rated by |
| | the Federal Trade Commission at 5 mg of tar, but the new study found that each Merit |
| | Ultra Lights delivers between 10.4 and 25.9 milligrams of tar for a smoker taking an |
| | "average" or "intense" puff, respectively. |
| | Wall Street Journal, January 30, 1997, p. B1 |
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| | Certain cigarettes advertised as having the lowest tar content actually contained the |
| | blends of tobacco richest in nicotine, suggesting that the manufacturers were |
| | compensating by using high-nicotine tobacco in the blends of their lowest tar |
| | products. One tobacco industry patent stated, "maintaining the nicotine content at a |
| | sufficiently high level to provide the desired physiological activity, taste, and odor...can |
| | thus be seen to be a significant problem in the tobacco art." |
| | NEJM, September 26, 1996, p. 989 |
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| | Tobacco smoke contains 13 billion particles per cubic centimeter, and is 10,000 |
| | times more concentrated than the aerosol resulting from automobile pollution at rush |
| | hour on a freeway. |
| | The Health Consequences of Smoking: Cancer and Chronic Lung Disease in the |
| | Workplace, 1985 Surgeon General report |
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| | Smoking produces an estimated 2.25 million metric tons of gaseous and inhalable |
| | particulate matter each year. From 66 to 90% of cigarette smoke produced is |
| | sidestream smoke. |
| | 1985 Surgeon General report |
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| | Indoor tobacco burning produces an estimated 13,000 metric tons of respirable |
| | suspended particles each year. |
| | 1985 Surgeon General report |
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