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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 21 Low tar and nicotine cigarettes: health and safety

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"Yishou healthy cigarette was especially recommended at the 10th World Conference

on Tobacco or Health," states a brochure. "A finest selection of Chinese herbs and

natural spices serves as a substitute of tobacco and helps to give up smoking

addiction in an easy manner."

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Cigarettes made from lettuce are being marketed as an adjunct for patients who are

trying to stop smoking.

Neal Benowitz, M.D., Tenth National Conference on Nicotine Dependence,

Minneapolis, October 17, 1997

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A cigarette called Bravo made from enzyme-treated lettuce was successfully

re-introduced in 1997 after a failed marketing attempt in 1969. It is advertised as a

nicotine and tobacco-free safer alternative to standard cigarettes.

U.S. News and World Report, October 27, 1997, p. 66

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"Low tar cigarettes are a fraud."

John Slade, M.D.

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The Federal Trade Commission protocol for machine - smoking analysis of smoke

"underestimates nicotine and carcinogen doses to smokers and overestimates the

proportional benefits of low-yield cigarettes."

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, January 19, 2000, p. 106

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