A Harvard University study finds that from 1998 to 2005, the amount of Nicotine in cigarettes rose an average of 11 percent, regardless of whether the cigarettes were menthol, full flavor, light or ultralight.
"It was systematic, it was pervasive, it involved all the manufacturers, and it was by design. Cigarettes are finely tuned drug delivery devices designed to perpetuate a tobacco pandemic," said Dr. Howard Koh, an associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Philip Morris USA agrees that cigarettes are addictive and harmful. Lorillard Tobacco and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco did not comment.
After 25 years of smoking cigarettes I fought this addiction and one thing that helped me stop was the following quote.Posted by dancoy at January 18, 2007 05:13 PMDavid Goerlitz, the former Winston Man, asked RJ Reynolds executives, "Don't any of you smoke?" One executive answered, "Are you kidding" We reserve that right for the poor, the young, the black, and the stupid." (As quoted in a New York Times editorial by Bob Hebert, Nov. 1993)I figured since I was not poor, young or black then I must be the stupid. Gee thanks for clearing that up for me!