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The tobacco Industry: General

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A single cigarette manufacturing machine can now produce 14,000 cigarettes per

minute.

Tobacco Control, Winter 1995, p. 395

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The total amount of tobacco that it takes to make a cigarette dropped from 2.6

pounds per thousand cigarettes in 1955 to 1.7 pounds in 1982. Today's cigarette is

only about 60% shredded tobacco leaves. The remainder is added "junk" to lower the

cost, including wasted stems that are colored and reflavored and dust that is swept off

the floor.

Smokescreen, p. 62

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In testimony before a congressional subcommittee, FDA Commissioner David

Kessler reported that FDA investigators had discovered that the Brown & Williamson

Tobacco Corp., a US subsidiary of London-based BAT Industries, PLC, had secretly

developed a super potent tobacco hybrid in Brazil called Y-1 that contains nearly twice

the amount of nicotine found in standard flue-cured tobacco. Kessler said that Brown

& Williamson has used the hybrid tobacco to boost the nicotine content of five

domestic US brands and now has several million pounds of the leaf stored in US

warehouses. Kessler said that Brown & Williamson had sought to conceal the

existence of Y-1 and had told FDA investigators that it had not engaged in any

breeding of tobacco to attain higher nicotine levels. The company admitted to the

project only when confronted with evidence that the FDA had gathered about its Y-1

program.

Lancet, July 2, 1994, p. 49

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