- "Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely
New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993990
- "Light" Cigarettes, Heavy Damage
National Cancer Institute finds that low-tar, low-nicotine cigarettes are no safer than any other cigarettes, contrary to tobacco industry marketing messages of less risk.
http://www.drkoop.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=93&id=504946
- 'Safer' Cigarettes May Be Not Be Safer
Recent research finds that Advance, Eclipse, and Accord, which are marketed as safer, may not be safer at all, and may even lead to increased addiction.
http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/safer_cigarettes_not_safer.shtml
- A Safer Cigarette? Prove It, Say Critics
JAMA article provides scientific evaluation of claims R.J. Reynold is making about its new tobacco product.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/283/19/2507
- ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html
- Addiction and Cigarettes as Nicotine Delivery Devices
Chapter from The Cigarette Papers covers what has been learned from industry secret documents regarding what the industry knew about nicotine and when it knew it.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/book/chapter3/
- Additives Found in American Cigarettes
Ingredients added to tobacco in the manufacturing of cigarettes by the five major American cigarette manufacturing companies.
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/druginfo/additives.html
- Cigarette Filter Ventilation is a Defective Design
Scientific article finds that cigarette filters are a success for the industry and a tragedy for the customer, because the industry gets an cheap-to-make cigarette that beats the standard tar tests, reassures smokers with a lighter taste, and facilitates the taking of bigger, compensating puffs that cause more lethal cancer.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/suppl_1/i40
- Cigarettes Engineered for Addiction
BBC News article on substances added to cigarettes by the industry to increase their addictiveness.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/393075.stm
- Cigarettes: a Complex Cocktail of Chemicals
BBC Report. More than 600 substances can be legally added to cigarettes, many of which act to increase the addictive impact of nicotine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/background_briefings/smoking/281167.stm
- Free-basing Nicotine: State of the Art
1973 R. J. Reynolds discovery of why Philip Morris's Marlboro was selling so well: it was being engineered with ammonia to increase the nicoctine kick.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddfreebasingnic.html
- FTC Cigarette Testing
1997 RFC from the FTC. FTC tar and nicotine numbers are inaccurate, for reasons they outline. The smoker actually inhales substantially more tar and nicotine than the numbers state.
http://www.health.org/newsroom/rep/35.htm
- Low-Tar Cigarettes: No Benefit to Public Health
Millions of Americans smoke "low-tar," "mild," or "light" cigarettes, believing they're less hazardous. But scientific experts conclude that public health has not been served by changes in cigarette design and manufacturing over the last 50 years; this paper explains.
http://newscenter.cancer.gov/pressreleases/lowtar.html
- Manipulating Addictiveness of Tobacco
Once secret industry memos and other court-released documents address industry manipulation of tobacco's addictive properties.
http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/addictn.cfm
- Manufacturing Tobacco
Science site explains how the tobacco industry controls nicotine levels and uses ammonia to engineer the product for addiction.
http://www.lsc.org/tobacco/manufacturing/cigarettes.html
- Minnesota vs. Tobacco February 4, 1998
Trial transcript of testimony from expert witness Dr. Channing Robertson covers R&D and engineering of the cigarette product.
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/980204minnesota.html
- Public Misled Over Fire-safe Cigarettes
New Scientist article reports the tobacco industry misled the public and legislators over fire-safe cigarettes, according to internal tobacco industry documents.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993192
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