Secrets of Big Tobacco News article follows the trial of industry memos that discuss how and why to manipulate cigarette chemistry. http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/092098/new_tobacco.html
Timeline: Chemical Manipulation of Tobacco Products Industry documents over time reveal the history of product engineering for addiction. http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/index.cfm?menuitem=timelines&id=31
Why Low Tar Cigarettes Don't Work and How the Tobacco Industry Has Fooled the Smoking Public Smokers could be forgiven for believing that low tar cigarettes deliver less tar to the smoker's lung. However, the actual tar exposure, and hence health risk, from smoking low tar brands may be the almost the same as for conventional cigarettes. ASH-UK report. http://www.ash.org.uk/?bigone