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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 2, 90-92,
January 19, 2000
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It's Time for a Change: Cigarette Smokers Deserve Meaningful Information About Their Cigarettes
Affiliations of authors: J. Wilkenfeld, Committee on Tobacco Product Change, Washington, DC; J. Henningfield, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and Pinney Associates, Bethesda, MD; J. Slade, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick; D. Burns, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; J. Pinney, Pinney Associates.
Correspondence to: Judith Wilkenfeld, J.D., Committee on Tobacco Product Change, 1707 L St., N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC (e-mail: JWilkenfeld@TobaccoFreeKids.org).
The study by Djordjevic et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal elegantly demonstrates that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) method of testing cigarettes for tar and nicotine provides tobacco companies the opportunity to mislead their customers. The study provides fresh insights as to the means by which human biology and tobacco engineering interact to cause the problem. The article reveals that smokers adjust a variety of their smoking behaviors, such as puff frequency, depth of inhalation, and ventilation hole blocking, thereby ingesting high levels of nicotine and tar irrespective of the advertised yields of the cigarettes. Moreover, the results show that cigarettes branded as "lights" can provide deliveries of tar and nicotine that are similar to those of the regular versions. It is highly unlikely that the small differences in tar and nicotine deliveries found across brands have any toxicologic significance.
A few observations about the
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