| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| 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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