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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(6):502-504; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.6.502
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 6, 502-504, March 17, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Safe Cigarette Alternatives? Industry Critics Say `Not Yet'

David Holzman

Two major cigarette companies have entered the market with cigarette-like nicotine delivery devices they hope will substantially lessen the health risks of conventional cigarettes. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company released the "Eclipse" in several cities in 1996 and 1997, and Philip Morris introduced its "Accord," in what the company calls a "limited retail sales test," in Richmond, Va., in August 1998.

Critical observers of the tobacco industry, such as K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., senior research scientist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., see these as the first primitive examples of a new genre of nicotine delivery devices.



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  		Dr. K. Michael Cummings

 
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies are producing increasing numbers of smoking cessation devices. In addition to gum and the patch, quitters can now buy nicotine inhalers and a nasal spray.

Cummings predicts that the line between devices designed to make money from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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"Smoking System"

Regulatory Fears


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