For over four decades the tobacco industry has used machine testing approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to measure tar and nicotine levels in cigarettes. But in a 4-0 vote, the FTC has now shunned the tests, known as the Cambridge Filter Method, rescinding guidance it established 42 years ago. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) found that cigarette design … [Read more...] about FTC Rescinds Guidance On Cigarette Testing
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Big Tobacco Companies Covered Up Radiation Dangers From Smoking
Tobacco companies have covered up for 40 years the fact that cigarette smoke contains a dangerous radioactive substance that exposes heavy smokers to the radiation equivalent of having 300 chest X-rays a year. Internal company records reveal that cigarette manufacturers knew that tobacco contained polonium-210 but avoided drawing public attention to the fact for fear of … [Read more...] about Big Tobacco Companies Covered Up Radiation Dangers From Smoking
How Marlboro Became Number One
How did Marlboro cigarettes, the best-selling brand in the world, ever get so popular in the first place? Was it really the Marlboro Man? Did people just like the taste? What? According to a new study in this month's American Journal of Public Health the secret may well have been "freebase nicotine." Really. For a long time, many cigarette companies used ammonia during … [Read more...] about How Marlboro Became Number One
Coldcut: The Truth About Big Tobacco Companies
This video provides a quick flash of facts about the history of Big Tobacco. Learn facts and how the truth of nicotine addiction was manipulated, twisted, and denied. For instance, in 1943 Philip Morris claimed their cigarettes cleared coughs, then in 1961 Philip Morris research identifies cancer-causing compounds in cigarettes three years before Surgeon General's … [Read more...] about Coldcut: The Truth About Big Tobacco Companies
UT takes $445,000 of Philip Morris Money for Tobacco Grower Research
Should the University of Tennessee accept money from the tobacco industry to help promote the growth of domestic tobacco production? That ethical question has yet to be debated—even nearly six months after UT quietly received a one-year $445,000 grant from Philip Morris to establish and operate a Center for Tobacco Grower Research in Morgan Hall on the Knoxville … [Read more...] about UT takes $445,000 of Philip Morris Money for Tobacco Grower Research
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