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The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska
Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.
health.hss.state.ak.us/

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/

Designing a Cigarette for the First Time Smoker
Article in scientific journal examines how R. J. Reynolds designed a cigarette to appeal to young starters.
tc.bmjjournals.com/

What's in Tobacco
Reports on additives and ingredients, and the chemical onstituents in tobacco smoke.
www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/

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/

Tobacco Products
Testing methods and toxic constituents of tobacco products.
www.ncth.ca/

AMA Warns About Misleading Tobacco Ads
American Medical Association warns that ads for Omni cigarettes are making dangerously misleading claims, and that in fact there's no scientific data that show an Omni smokers is less likely to develop lung cancer.
www.ama-assn.org/

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/

Health Warning: Low Tar Cigarettes are a Deliberate Con
From Action on Smoking and Health in the UK. Covers emissions, smoker compensation, differences between expectations and reality for low tar cigarettes, and what the industry knew and how it behaved.
www.ash.org.uk/

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