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Questions and Answers About Cigarette Smoking and Cancer
Basic information from the National Cancer Institute about the relationship to cancer rates, health risks for nonsmokers, harmful chemicals found in cigarettes, and amount of exposure.
www.cancer.gov/

FTC Accepts Settlements of Charges that "Alternative" Cigarette Ads Are Deceptive
FTC action highlights claims made by makers of "natural" or "no additives" cigarettes.
www.quackwatch.org/

Researcher Publishes First Measurements of 'Free-base' Nicotine in Cigarette Smoke
Research measures a more highly addictive form of nicotine in cigarettes and finds that "the modern cigarette does to nicotine what crack does to cocaine".
www.eurekalert.org/

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.
www.health.org/

Smoking Kills: The Tobacco White Paper
Speech by Cliff Douglas to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, detailing the different ways cigarette product is engineered for addiction.
www.tcsg.org/

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.
tc.bmjjournals.com/

1997 Cigarette Nicotine Disclosure Report
Massachusetts Department of Public Health developed a testing method which better simulates smoking; nicotine deliveries are reported from these tests; there are no significant differences in the total nicotine content of regular, "light" or "ultra-light" cigarettes.
www.cancer.org/

The Safer Cigarette: What the Tobacco Industry Could Do..and Why It Hasn't Done it
ASH-UK paper; a survey of 25 years of patents for innovations to reduce toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in tobacco smoke.
www.ash.org.uk/

Cigarette design - additives, low-tar and 'safe' cigarettes
ASH UK Paper on development of "free nicotine" product.
www.ash.org.uk/

Cigarette Filters May Have Added to Health Risk
New study says Philip Morris knew, but didn't fix the problem.
www.drkoop.com/