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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/

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/

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.
www.tobacco.org/

Cigarettes are Nicotine Delivery Devices
Collection of FDA papers in PDF format, much of which concerns design and manufacture of cigarettes.
www.lawpublish.com/

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.
texts.cdlib.org/

Tobacco's Seven Deadly Secrets of Nicotine Delivery
Article from onocology newsletter summarizes methods of engineering cigarettes for addiction.
www.cancernetwork.com/

Why and How a Cigarette Maker Created a More Addictive Tobacco
Article on tobacco industry research into nicotine and addiction, and R&D efforts to engineer more addictive product.
www.rense.com/

Prying Open the Door to the Tobacco Industry's Secrets About Nicotine
Article in medical journal surveys industry documents produced in litigation, and finds the tobacco industry knew for decades that nicotine is an addictive drug, and knew ways to design cigarettes to make them more addictive.
jama.ama-assn.org/

Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine
Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.
www.pulitzer.org/

Nicotine levels posted on Internet
[CNN]
www.cnn.com/