FOR THE EASTERN .DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
Civ'i1 Action'No . 96CV-5903,
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$TEVEN R . . ARCH ; WILLIAM BARNES,
CIARAN McNALLY,• CATHERINE ;POTTS,°_ )
NORMA RODWELLER, BARBARA 'SALZMAN,
EDWARD J . SLIVAK'and JOHN ;_TEAaLE, )
Plaint`iffe,
) Alan Rodgman,
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Ph .D .
THE . .AMERICAN'TOBACCO''COMPANY,
INC ., et al ;,
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TRANSCRIPT of testimony as taken by and
before LINDA RUSSELL, :a Certified Shorthand
Reporter and Notary . Public of'the State of
North Carolina, at the offices of Womble Carlyle
Sandridge & Rice, :200 West Second Street,
Winston=Salem, North`Carolina, on Monday,
1997, commencing at . 9 :28 in the
forerioon .
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SUPREME -COURT .OF THESTATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YOR K
------- --- ------- -- --•----------PHYLLX,SSMALL and DENISE~FUBINI,
individuaJ.ly, and on behalf of )
others similarly situated,
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Plaintiffs ,
LOkILLARD TOBACCOCOMPANY, INC ., ) Index No .
LORILLARD, .INC .( LOEWS CORPOR .ATION, ') .110949/96
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COUNCIL FOR TOBACCORESEARCH-USA,
INC . (S,uccessor to .Tobacco Industry ~
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Research Comma.ttee) ;, AND TOBACCO
INSTITUTE, INC .-,
Defendants .
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
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__._- ,.__....___ ..,.. .--------------MARY ._ANN HOSKINS, Executrix of the )
Estate of Edwin Paul Hoskins, )
WALTINA'BROWN and DANTE AUBAIN, )
individually, and on behalf of )
others similarly eituated,, )
Plaintiffs ,
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R .J .REYNOLDS TOBACCOCOMPANY, ) Index No .
RJR NABISCO, INC ., COUNCIL FOR ) 110951/96
TOBACCO. RESEARCH-USA,, INC .
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(Succeseorto Tobacco Industry )
Research Committee), AND TOBACCO
INSTiTUTE,` INC .,
Defendants .
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SUPREME COURT OF THE 'STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
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SHARLENE HOBERMAN and AUDREY HULSE, )
as Executrix, on behalf' ;of the )
Estate of Lewis Huise,' . .individually, )
and on behalf of othera .similarYy )
situated,
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BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO -- )
CORPORATION, B .A .T . INDUSTRIES )
P .L .C ., BATUS, INC ., BATUS HOLDINGS, )
INC .,•`COUNCIL FOR :~OBACCO'RES ;EARCH- )
USA, INC . (Successor to'Tobacco )
Industry Research Committee), AND )
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TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC .
Defendants .
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COUNTY OF NEW YORK
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ROSE FROSINA, ELIZABETH-COLAVITO and )
ANILDA ROSS, individually, and on )
behalf of others :similar3 .y situated, )
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PHILIP MORRIS, INC ., PHILIP MORRIS )
COMPANIES, INC ., COUNCIL,FOR TOBACCO )
RESEARCH-USA, .INC . (Successor to )
Tobacco Industry Research Committee) )
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AND TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC .,
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CATHERINE ZITO, PETER`HOBERMAN, )
and GEORGE ELISSEOU, individually, )
and .on behalf of othere similarly )
situated,
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AMERI:CAN,BRANDS, INC .`, COUNCIL FOR )
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Research_Committee), ANO fiOBACCO . )
INSTITUTE, INC .,
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A P P E A R A N C E S :
J . D . LEE, ESQ .
422 Gay Street
. .Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
For the Plaintiffe°in Pennsylvania case
(423) 544-0101
SHELLER, .LUDWIG & BADEY
3rd Floor
.1528 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
8Y : STEPHEN A . SHELLER, ESQ .
SHERRICE A . KNISELY, ESQ .
For the Plaintiffs in Pennsylvania case
(215)_790-7300
`CLIMACO, CLIMACO, LEFKOWITZ &
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Ninth Floor, The Halle Building
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. BY : JACK D . MAISTROS, ESQ .
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200 west Second Street
;Post Office Drawer 84
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102
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JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUE
Metropolitan .Square
1450 G Street N .W .
Waehington, D . C . 20005-2088
BY :
MCCALL DOUGHTON & BLANCATO
633 West Fourth Street
Suite 150
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101
BY : WILLIAM A . BLANCATO, .ESQ .
(910) 725-7531
For the witness Dr . Alan Rodgman
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MILLER & MARTIN
Suite 1000 Volunteer Building
832 Georgia `Avenue
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402
BY : MARCIA MEREDITH EASON, ESQ .
,,(423) 756-6600 .
For the Defendant'Lorillard Tobacco Company
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VIDEOGRAPHER : We're going on the
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record . The time is 9 :28 . This is the videotape
deposition of Alan Rodgman, Ph .D ., taken by the
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plaintiff in the matters'of William P . Perry and
Sandra Perry, Plaintiffs, versus Brown &
Williamson Tobacco Corporation, ;et al .,
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Defendants . Case number, civil action .2-473-95 .
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Also the case Phyllis Small, et al .,
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Incorpora,ted,-et :al ., .Defendants . Index number
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Plus the case of Mary Ann Hoskins,
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et al . Plaintiffs, .against RJR Tobacco Company,
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et al ., Defendants . Index number 110951/96 .
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Plus'the case of Sharlene Hoberman,
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et al ., Plaintiffs, against Brown & Williamson
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Tobacco Corporation,>et al ., Defendants . Index
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Plup the case .of Rose Frosina, et al . I
Plaintiffs, against Philip Morris, Incorporated,
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Plus the case of Catherine Zito,
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et al ., Plaintiffs, against the American Tobacco
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Company, Incorporated,,et al ., Defendants . Index
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number 110952/96 .
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Tobacco Company, Incorporated, et al ., Defendante .
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VIDEOORAPHER : Arch, et al ., versus
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the American Tobacco Company, et al . Case number
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U,S . .District Court_EDPA 93-5903-CN .
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This is Monday, August 4th, 1997 . My
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in connection with ;Waga and Spinelli, with offices
located ,at' Four . . Be .cker= Farm Road, Roseland,
New Jersey .
Counsel will now state their
appearances f or"-the record, and'the court reporter
will ewear`in the witness .
MR . MAISTROS : Jack Maistros for the
pla3.ntiff .
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plaintiffs in Arch .'
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Martis Brachtl, here for
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the plaintiffs in the New York actions Small,
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Hoekins,' Hoberman, Froeina, and .Zito .
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MS . :EASON : Marcia Eason for the
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defendant Lorillard`Tobacco Company in the
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Tennessee litigation, William and Sandra Perry
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versus Brown & Will,iamson .
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MR . HOLTON : Mark Holton for RJR .
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ALAN RODGMAN, Ph .D .,
having been first duly sworn, was examined and
did testify as follows :
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pleasurable experience .
My name is :'Jack Maistros and I
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represent the plaintiffs in an action pending in
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Pennsylvania . It's the Arch case .
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I'm going ;to ask you a series of
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questions today . If you don't understand my
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Who are you represented by .today?
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Mr . William Blancato .
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Is he your only counsel today?
Could :'you
full name for me .
My name is Alan Rodgman, A-L-A-N,
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Rodgman?
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Whatever you desire .
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You are a doctor?
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m a Ph .D . in organic chemistry .
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Organic chemistry?
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What is your date of birth?
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February the 7th, 1924 .
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2828 Birchwbod Drive, Winston-Salem,
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North Carolina .
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Not that I'know of .
Are you married?
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F.ifty years on .June the 7th, 1997 .
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Q . Do you have any children?
Yes .
Q . How many?
Three
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o any of your children work for
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of'dmployees,~loading boxcars, and so on and so
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forth,` My youngest son is'a manager in personnel .
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Mark Rodgman .
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What years?
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1954 . . But, before that, I'moved to Canada .
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A . I entered the-University of Toronto in honors
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University of Toronto?
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Bachelor of arts in honors chemistry, and
master of arts in organic chemistry, and a Ph .D .
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Reynolds?
Well, I had a peculiar circumstance that, in
1941, I obtained a summer position at the
Banting & Best Department of Medical Research .
And for t .he summers, and then during the falls and
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winters, I worked evenings and weekends, until I
got'my Ph .D .' in 1953 . Then I worked "full time at
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the'Banting &<Best,Department of Medical Research .
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f .Medical Research?
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-Toronto, Ontario, Canada .
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was involved in the study of
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carcinogenesis . ;
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was a -- did_research .
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What is "carcinogenesis?
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Carcinogenesis is the,process whereby a
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How ;were you involved?
carcinoma is formed_ .,
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Carcinoma is a tumor .
Did you do research on any specific
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types of tumors?
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materials that were used in the studies .
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Did you have a major goal or theme of
your :research during that period of time?
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The major'goal
well,-my .major goal was to
synthesize the compounds that my professor there
material that'would act as a`'vaccine against
cancer .
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certain compounds?
That'a=what I was-there-for .
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compounds did you synthe'size?
Well, they,were :peculiar compounds in which
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polycyclic hydrocarbon .`was'--linked to proteins .
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the,polycyclic to .the protein required a series of
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reactions, and then the final reaction to do the
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li:nking . And I probably did 10 or 15, I guess .
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wae being used in animal studies, I had to keep
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making them again and again, because these studies
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ran . -.f or many yeara .
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And _what- is the -- what is the purpose
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to using naturally .occurring compounds?
You couldn't find them naturally occurring .
Did you publish'any research?
Wheze was it published?
A . , :Sotrie of it was in the Journal of American -jimerican''CYiemical Societv,'and some was in the
annual report of the Ontario Treatment and
Research Association, which was =- did the funding
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of ,the work . Some of .it was published -- or
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presented before various meetings . Canadian
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Physiological Society,'I think, was one of them .
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A . Well, .my,professor, Dr . W . R . Franks, who was
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.a cancer research professor at the University of
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know?
Ontario Treatment and Research Association,
think it's called . And some of it was funded by
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the National Cancer Institute of Canada .
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that you were focused on, as opposed to just
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general or tumors in general?
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it that . It was, you know, an attempt to find
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something that would counteract the -- the effect
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of polycyclic in -- polycyclice in animals .
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Each ring is
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used ; Dr . Franks was the one that selected the
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mouse .
Q . Didyou ever use any other type of
animals ?
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what was called Rous sarcoma, which occurs in
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chickens . So they used chickens .
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Is there some product or proces s
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whereby the average person would be able to relate
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what polycyclic compounds come out of or ar e
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created by? I mean, why -- how -- why do yo u
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focus on polycyclic compounds ?
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doing a job for the professor . But, at that point
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,in .time, 1947, polycyclic hydrocarbons were quit e
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rampant in the gasoline exhaust, the foods yo u
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that they were in tobacco or tobacco smoke?
about°°the`--: 1950, after some of the
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epidemiological s.tudies resu3 .ts were published,
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there-'was an effort-to f4gure out . And then
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Dr . :Wynder had his mouse ski .n painting work, to
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find'out if there was .-,- what was in the cigarette
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smoke . And of course they concentrated on the
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po3.ycyclic hydroca,rbons right .away, starting in, I
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gueds,
'51/'52 .
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"They" ;; w o is they?
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People in . the
scientists around the world
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were -- looked at it,' an .d'`primarily because of the
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tremendous background on the polycyclic
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hydrocarbons that had :begun'in 1931 .
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hydrocarbons?
would say,- if you categorize them into
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different types, there ;;are ::probably about 75
different types of polycyclic hydrocarbons . Of
course,,one of the classifi-catione .,ia whether they
have two rings, three .ringp, four rings, five,
And
Q . Are they`all,carcinogenic?
No . In fact, some`of them are
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non=carcinogenic, and eome of them will offset the
effect of carcinogenic .hydrocarbone .
Q . Are there
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minute?
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we-can go off the record .
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talking about .polycyclic hydrocarbons . Let me ask
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you, first of all, of the 75 different types that
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you`said existed ; some are cancer-producing ; is
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that correct?
Yes . In mice -- or animals .
{~ . If I use'the phrase "carcinogenic," do
you equate that ;:with cancer-producing or not?
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Carcinoma-p'ro'ducing .
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Of
t :he 75 different types, are they
carc,inogenic or carcinbma-producing?
A . It depends on how you'adminiater them . There
are some polycyclic .hydrocarbons which are not
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tuntorigenic . There are some that, if you
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administer them one way, they will cause a
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carcinoma, by skin painting, and another one, if
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you inject them, it will cause a sarcoma . And
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some, ;if ;you feed them, they don't cause anything .
o the term tumorigenic or
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carcinogenic is dependent on about 50 factors
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have to be,t`aken into account .
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that
inlhether .it's carcinogenic, tumorigenic
or carcinoma-producing, is the end result cancer?
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neceaearily so, be-cause the tumorigenic compound
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could cause_a papilloma, which is not
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benign .tumor, which is not considered a cancer .
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is a
`Q . What is the major alleged link between
polycyclic hydrocarbone and tobacco smoke?
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BY MR .'=MAISTROS :
If you .could survey the literature
not holding you to -- from a scientific
and .-
standpoint, this opinion .
I'm asking you, out of
th,e .literature out there, the major alleged link
-bettaeen polycyclic hydro -- or polycyclic
hydrocarbons,'tobacco'amoke and disease, what is
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the alleged link?
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Object to the form .
Object to the form .
You're talking now, or
1954, or '55?
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Let
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cQllected over the last 40 years, the~aasociation
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between polycyclic h,ydrocarbons and cigarette
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smoking disease in smokers is very tenuous .
s the alleged link between polycyclic
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carcinogenic effect,
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hydrocarbons and smoking a
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tumor-producing effect? What is it?
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Q . I want to just understand, for th .e
next:`couple of days, if I use the word
"tumor-producing'
or "carcinogenic" or
"cancer-producing," we re,not missing each other
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in the night because I'm thinking one thing and
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you're thinking another . Is`there some agreed
upon format we can use that you're comfortable
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'w .ith?
Yes . If you' .re going,to use the term
or "tumorigenic" or "sarcogenic,"
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"carcinogenic"
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think you should be aware of what goes into
13
determining'that effect .
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And, for example, the effect of a
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15
compound is species-dependent . Things that happen
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in mice cannot happen in ra,ts, do not happen in
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rabbits, guinea pigs, or monkeys, dogs . And you
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may have eomething_happen in a,rat that doesn't
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happen in a mouee :
Tumorigenici :t,y a.~e also
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'may not happen in a male, and vice ;
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animal won! t
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versa . Tumorigenicity is also dependent on the
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age ;of the animal, .what happens when you've got a
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versus what happens when you've got a year-old
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mouse . You can tell -- you may get entirely
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different reactions .
The other thing is the mode of
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administration .
;Whether it's skin painting ;
varioue types of irijection, intravenous,
intraperitoneal,
Q . Those are factors that affect --
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inhalation .
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Those are factors that affect the
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.subcutaneous injection --
tumorigenicity, ;if, you :will,
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.Right .
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Q . -- the compound .
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What_ Y
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assume, .• . .1
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Well, tumorigenic is an all-encompassing
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word .
That's
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looking °for the al .l -encompassing word that I can
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use,,that you're comfortable with, that is an
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alleged adverse health risk related to polycyclic
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hydrocarbons . What's the broadest word you can
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think of today?
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even<vin that case,'you've got to take into account
the factors I was trying to tell you about and
Q . ' I , apologize`.
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-administration .makee_a,great :deal .of difference,
whether it's the substance administered neat or in
solution ; and it depends on the kind of solution,
the .+concentration, and so on .
Men are :not,mice type theory?
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Yes . You,probably read that'I had written
12
that someplace, `but I` plagiarized it . If you want
13
to find-out where it is, look in something Ernest
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Wynder wrote .
I like that quote, though .
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Well,
in that case, I'm sorry I wasn't
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the .inventor .
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Q.
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"tumorigenesis .°',And if I ask you a question in
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the future, that<you think it's not accurate
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because .•I'm not using the right phrase, I'd like
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.you to interrupt me and tell me, okay?
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doing from 147 to 153, was there a particular type
f tumorigenesis you were looking at?
We were looking . :at the -- .there ,are four
polycyclic hydrocarbons that,_ .from -- after
1932 -- well, actually 1931, that, when they were
syntheeized,or,isoi .ated .from something identified,
th-en synthesized, there'were four polycyclic
hydrocarbons'that are considered the most potent
.,
available :' Dibenz ia ; h] anthracene
Okay .
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benefit, and`partially mine, if you could do these
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long
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words
slower,
okay?
. Okay . Dibenz[a,h]anthracene, and those are
14
square parens, too . ; benzo[a]pyrene ;
15
3-methylcholanthrene ;
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7, 1,2-dimethylbenz Ta] anthracene . And the "All is in
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brackets, .
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What :do you mean by "most potent"?
Well, if you were to look at a eeries of
hydrocarbons, you get --
polycyclic hydrocarbons,
you .get some .that aren'.-t active at all, some are
22
very slightly active . In other words, you may get,(„
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o ne : t u m o r i n a t h ous ari d mi ce . B u t ,
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thee right concentration in the right beast and
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administered in the right .way, will cause a large
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used~many times as standards .
o that ; even?
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-We11, dibenz [a, hlanthracene was ' f irst found
to be`tumorigenic in 1931 . It was synthesized by
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Dr .•Fieser at Harvard and found to be tumorigenic
by Kennaway in England .
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Q . In what beast?
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Mouse .
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It'was isolated from coal tar in 1932 by
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W . Cook and his colleagues . He isolated it,
How about benzo [a] pyrene? .
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proved its-structure by-synthesis and then showed
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thatt it, was tumorigenic in mice .
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I forget the exact date'about
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-methylcholanthrene . But the interest in
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3-methylcholanthrene is that, for years, from 1935
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to 1950, people : were looking at
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-methylcholanthrene because, if you heat food
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stuffs containing cholesterol -- cholesterol is
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there-was a likelihood or a theory that you would
get 3-methylcholanthrene in your food stuffs . And
that was the reason :for the high level of cancer
f -the stomach in the United States versus places
like Japan that very`seldom had cooked meat or
things with cholestero,l in it that were cooked .
How about dimethylbenzla]anthracene?
Well, that was .-actually .the -- that was
started about the 1950s . 'it actually was thought
10
to, be just a .straight synthetic compound, until it
11
was found in .a l,ot of things, food stuffs . And,
12
of course, it is found in tobacco smoke ; but it's
13
a very small amount .
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Q . These four, what .you've described as
15
the most potent polycyclic hydrocarbons, is that
16
still true today, that those are the,four most
17
potent?
18
would sl! y yes
19
of that, becaub+e .there `have been writings that
20
maybe an individual coimpound might be more potent
21
than`those . But .those'four have been used in so
22
many experimental systems that, if you're going to
23
do an experiment in tumorigenesis and you want a
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control, you might pick, :=one of those four, because
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you've got something'like 50/60 years of
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- And'the object, during an animal
experiment, is .you always have what's`called a
positive control, which`would include maybe one of
these four, And if something went wrong with a
certain concentration and mode of administration,
and .you didn't get .the percent tumor-bearing
animals that you usually got, you knew you were
doing the experiment wrong and you better look at
10
your procedure :' Were your technicians doing the
11
skin painting properly, or was the solution right,
12
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or so on and 'so forth .
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Q . Now, when you say that they were --
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these four .were known to produce tumors back in
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the '30s,-'31/'32, is that a specific type of
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tumor? The same`for all four?
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A . Well, here,again, if you skin paint
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benzpyrene, I'm sure -- we might as well stick
19
with that, because that's the one you're going to
20
rattle on about for the next few days .
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Benxola]pyrene, if you paint it on the
22
skin, will-cause`a carcinoma of the skin . But if
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you inject it subcutaneously, it causes a sarcoma .'N
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Q . Are there percentages that have been
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attached to these different polycyclic
3
hydrocarbons, such as 80 percent of the mice that
.are, skin painted with particular ones have
developed-tumore, or 90'percent0
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Well, it depends on the concentration, sir .
could -- D
experiments in 1957 ;-_showed that you could start
with a certain concentration of benzo [a] pyrene
10
solution and paint mice`with a certain
11
coneentration, cut it in half, cut it in half, cut
12
it in half, and paint different groups with the
13
solutions, and .you got to a point where you had a
14
level of benzo[a]pyrene_in solution that didn't
15
cause any tumore : But that level was 300 times
16
what's in a normal cigarette . .
That was'out of Dr . Wynder's lab in
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precise figures in there ; it may be 280, it may be
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320
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In the tar from 300 cigarettes . He has the
but it :'was cloae .to 300 .
Q
So there's'a certain minimum level
that has been discovered of
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a threshold,limit value .
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that you were talking about had about as much
as
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you need 300 cigarettes to equal?
Benzo [a7 pyrene :
Q : Why are they referred to as "most
10
potent"? I mean, how would a,layman understand as
11
to why they're the mos`t potent? Do they all cause
12
som'p form of ;tumors at some levels?" Are they just
13
biologically more active?
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don't, .cause it at al1`levels . It is the fact
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that, if you were'to-administer a certain number
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benzoCa]anthracene,'which is a borderline
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tumorigenic, if it's`a tumorigenic at all . Then,
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Q•
Are all "four of those,polycyclic
hydrocarbons you mentioned in tobacco smoke?
As far as I know, 3-methylcholanthrene has
neve,.r been found in -- well, it's been found in
cigaret-te smoke but never confirmed . A man in
8
Germany called :Krt511er reported it, but there was
some question about the accuracy of his
10
identification . Dietrich Hoffmann and Ernest
11
Wynder disagreed with his identification .
12
Q . Do you know when the other three were
13
discovered to be in tobacco smoke?
14
A . Well, as I mentioned before, there was a big
15
controversy about whether the_polycyclics were in
16
cigarette smoke, and that controversy rattled on
17
between '51, '52, 'S3 . And even as late as 1957,
18
f.or example, for benzo[aJpyxene :, Dr . .Fieser, who
19
was :probably one'of the two great-polycyclic
20
hydrocarbon chemists,in this country, did not
21
agree wit .h the evidence indicating benzopyrene was
22
in cigarette smoke : His own staff could not find
23
it, yet they could find it in coffee .
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Q . Who's the other great polycyclic
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Melvin Newman`at`Ohio State . I believe he's
Those are -- polycyclic wizards in
almost every_country . : J . W . Cook in England, whom
I have mentioned ; Clar, in Germany, wrote several
big, huge books on polxCyclics . The French had
Lacassagne ; that's L-A-C-A-S-S-A-G-N-E ; and a
Vietnamese called Buu-Hoi, B-U-U, hyphen, H-O-I .
8
So each country had somebody who was doing
p.olycyclic hydrocarbon-~work, from 1931 to probably
10
the war time ; everything was interrupted by the
11
war .
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Q . And who was America's?
13
`Melvin Newman at Ohio State and Louis Fieser
14
at Harvard . And Louis Fieser, of course, was the
15
chemist who did ;this chapter on cigarette smoke in
16
the :1964' ;Surgeon General's report :' . .
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The three hydrocarbons that -- is it
generally accepted,they're in cigarette smoke, the
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as' I'said, after --`in '57, because
21
Fieser wouldn't accept the evidence, there
22
was -- that was in the literature, there was a big ~
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push to definitely identify them . And the -- I
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guess the culminating thing was, in 1959,
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presentation and s.aid ; Well, .here's absolute
proof that it's' .from
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it's in-cigarette smoke .
And they showed a pictu,re of some-crystals of
ben,zo [a7 pyrene, which I' m sure they found .
So
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after ;.i67/'58, everybody accepted
th'at it was there` .
8ame as everybody accepts it's
in .your toast this morning .
Q . S forgot my toast . I did get my
oatmeal, but they forgot ~ the toast .
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The .levels you mentioned, I'm sure
11
there's a minimum threehol .d you have to get to
12
before it .is tumor promoting . As you said, for
13
benzo [a] pyrene ,you need 300 cigarettes?
no .
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With cigarettes ;~he backed off on solutions of
16
pure benzo {a] pyrene ;: And when he got to an
17
equiv;alent that-wae .many"times what was in the
18
cigarette tar that he usually used, he didn't get
19
any .
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21
sure you may be aware .that Dr . Wynder,
22
Dr . Hof fmann, `-Fred .Bock :, Ben j amin Van Duuren and
23
Alvin Kosak have repeatedly written that, in the
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skin painting studies with cigarette smoke tar,
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the polycyclic hydrocarbons, as a class, can
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explain no more .than,two and :a half percent of the
And J'. W . Cook, Fieser, .everybody, has
.said, for 50 years, .you oannot explain the
observed response by the polycyclid hydrocarbons .
And if you look in the -' 79 .Surgeon General, the
'82 Surgeon General
the
all say the same thing .
To .add something to this business
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11
about the controversy : From '51, that area --
12
that :time period, I ;personally couldn't understand
13
why there was a'controversy . Because, from 1935
14
to 1950, every material that was --'had an organic
15
compound, whether,,iaas chicken` wings, or steak, or
16
isoprene,
17
every one that was he`ated at a temperature above
-'18
19
or methane, or simple organic`compounds,
500 degrees gave :a series .of polycyclics .
Q .
In
the ;'work' you were doing, which is
20
where`we started, from,'47 to ',53, were you
21'
focusing on these four polycyclic hydrocarbons?
22
Well, focusing on`thope, plus another one,
23
benzo [a] anthracene, ` which 'ie actually in smoke
24
too . It's`a borderline tumorigenic . In fact,
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there'are probably as many reports in the
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literature that it's non-tumorigenic than there
are ; that" says , it
m not at liberty to'tell you that .
This was -- you signed a
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confidentiality agreement?,_
My boss did . Well,_it was one'of those
f;riendship things .
A.
Well, as I say,- ;there seemed to be a problem
with=a --`the tar emitted from the equipment they
10
were ueing and the effect on the ekin of some of
11
the workers .
Q . Was the problem solved?
12
I have no idea . I just gave the results to
13
A .
14
my boss, and he transmitted them to liis friend,
15
and .I don't know .w.hat wa ;s done with them .
16
Q . And the reeearch you did for that
17
particular projeCt-•was to .identify the polycyclic
18
hydrocarbons
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20
Well, to see if they'were there, and it was a
.good guess that they were . And I did identify
21
some of them . There we're a_whole series, startin
22
with-naphthalene, N-A-P-H-T-H-A-L-E-N-E,
23
anthracene, benzpyrene, benzanthracene . . They were
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all : there . .
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whatever happened to that issue, or -
today?
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work?
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A . When I came .to Reynolds, I was given a
12
project to do, which I did, and which`ended . Then
13
I was asked what`I :would like to :work on ; which I
14
was-a little surprised, because usually you're
15
told,what you're'to work on . And I said : Well,
16
in view of all the stuff that's .going on in the
17
literature, I think`we should look at cigarette
18
smoke . They said" ; Go ahead ._
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20
And, of course, with all this
'controversy on polycyclic hydrocarbons and having
21
a method to determine"them or isolate and separate
22
them, we set up a smoking system that matched, as
23
near as we could, the one that Dr . Wynder
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described in his 1953 paper on the skin painting
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looked at that .diagram and built a smoking machine
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as :close to that as we could, from the diagram,
and used .the same smoking regime that'Dr . Wynder
had used, which he had said simulated the human
smoking eyetem ; ."whichy it .,really didn't . He used
three puffs per minute, which nobody used at that
7
time ; but we copied that .
And looking at the -- putting my
procedure through the`
the cigarette smoke, we
10
isolated and identified polycyclic hydrocarbons in
11
cigarette smoke .
Q . Before we'get to Reynolds, the work
12
13
you were doing from '47, .to '53 was -- the end goal
14
was to develop a vaccine for cancer-promoting or
15
cancer -- tumor-p`ro .moting-.compounds?
16 .
A . Tumor-initiated .
Q . And between '47 and '53, you weren't
17
18
doing research to see if the compounds were
19
tumor-producing,youu were doing research to figure
20
out`a solution to combat the tumor-promoting
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compounds, correct?
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vaccine for animals or_humans ?
Well, I thin k
in hope that, if there was a correlation_between
tumorigenicity in animals and .the tumorigenicit y
8
in humans,,that it would .work in humans .
Q . Did :you do
10
53 ?
11
My work
12
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was all chemistry, sir .
Did anyone .in your laboratory, eithe r
13
Franks or anyone else, do you'know if they studie d
14
any,polycyclic hydrocarbon effect on humans ?
15
16
. ' No , they da.dn' t :
Q . They did not ?
coupl e
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history, .sir .
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are subjected to polycyclie hydrocarbons and watc h
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them, over a period of °time, to see what happens ?
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th.i;nk, polycyclic-hydrocarbons are' prevalent i n
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some fuels . Has a'nyone ever done etudies to look
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if there's_any correlation with .the animal
studies?
~A . Well,"you have a problem with -- in some
instances, of compari'eon . °zf you'r,e .looking at
po],ycyclics and the 'effect on skin ;i if somebody
gets stuff on the skin,` tar or oi1 .'or whatever,
you may get somewhat the sajme` effect : But one of
the problems has been that, on inhalation, the -it's~been, I,think,
.very .rare circumstance has
10
anybody ever beon abie to produce lung tumor in
11
animals with inhalation of a polycyclic
12
hydrocarbon .
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Q . I'm just asking you if you're aware of
14
any'long-term-or short-term studies that were done
15
on humans that were eubjected to polycyclic
16
hydrocarbons in the'environment .
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No . But there was a study done in Italy,
18
before the war, 1937/'38, by Cottini,
19
C-O=T-T-I-N-z, .'and Mazzone, M-A-Z-Z-O-N-E,
20
which' they actually painted human -beings with
21
solutions of polycyclic hydrocarbons that had
22
produced tumors in animals . I .think the skin
23
painting went on for four`or`- .five months . I
24
believe it was done .with prisoners . And I believe
,.
it`was terminated when -- Labor'Day of 1939, when
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war ..was dec'lared`between Great Britain, Canada,
Germany, Italy, and'the prisoners were shipped
into the Italian Army .
Q . Was this published research?
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Q . Do you know if there were any
7
conclusions drawn as to .a,ny analogies that can be
made to the animal skin painting?
I don't think it`ran .long enough . I think it
10
11
12
only` ran three o,rr four months .
Q . When you'were doing your studies in
147 to '53, was it a11 .:-skin painting?
13
No . Well, I didn't do any of the skin
14
painting . I saw a lot of it . I would say there
15
were, :eome injection -- the vaccine thing was
16
tested on skin-painted animals, on
17
inttaperitoneally-injected animals,-on intra --
18
eubcutaneously-injected animals,
19
. .in't•ravenously- :injected animals . And, of course,
20
work going on_there did -- as I said before, there
21
wae one small .,group under Dr . Franks, .working on
22
the ;Rous sarcoma with chickens . Rous sarcoma is a
23
virus-caused tumor .
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A :-, No . If you were
there was a pretty well-set protocol . If you were
doing subcutaneous injection, there was a
defined -- fairly well defined protocol . And that
wasiprobably due to when I was running through all
9
that stuff about-the`factors that influence
10
tumorigenesis . Between "31 and 1941 --- '31 was
11
when .i'-the first polycyclic hydrocarbon tumorigenic
12
for mouse skih`was found, and then '32 was the
13
benzpyrene in coal tar .
14
15
Between that time, people were
-synthesizing polycycliO hydrocarbons in all
16
directions, different structures, ones with methyl
17
groups dangling on them and two methyl groups,
18
three methyl groups .' And they were painting them
19
on mice, and making all sorts of wild claims . And
20
a man who was a very noted cancer .research
21
specialist in polycyclic hydrocarbons and other
22
tumorigens, Dr . . Murray .Shear -- I don't know if he
23
worked for the National Cancer Institute or the
24
predecessor of the National -- but he was asked to
25
write an article to put all this mees in
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Shear and Leiterr are-the authors, in which he went
through-'and described,all the intricacies of
tumorigenesis atudies, : ;`whatl it : all meant, and so
on .and eo forth .'
7
work he had done'came the procedure, for example,
in ekin painting, that=you had various groups of
mice . `One you''called .the cage control, and all
10
you did was put them in a cage, 100 mice or 50,
11
whatever number you wanted to use, put them in six
12
to a-cage or something, and you fed them and gave
13
them water and'cleaned their cage up every day .
14
And,then you had what'was called the
15
solvent control ; you had a group of mice that
16
you -- on the shaved surface of their.a:.back, you
17
painted them with the solvent . Th,en ;you had a
18
positive control,
19
that you_wanted to<use, maybe one of the four that
20
I talked about,
21
pai.nt'ed the back with
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the benzpyrene positive control .
So it was all fairly well set out that
3
way . And of course, one of the interesting things
4
is that when you all -- everybody talks about
carcinogenicity and tumorigenicity . If you look
in"`the government documents that cataloged the
7
compounds that were tested for tumorigenicity,
8
that book was first published in 1947 and the
second edition in '51, and then .another one in
10
'57, and it keeps on going . It's now -- if you
11
had them'all-together_here, they'd be as wide as
12
this-table, all stacked side-by-side . But in the
13
first 25 years,`one of the'compounds that was used
14
as the solvent was benzine .
And in the solvent controls, the -- I
15
16
didn't look at all the books some time ago, when
there was a big fuss=about benzine . But as far as
I know, there are only three-tumors that ever
appeared in something like 11,000 animals painted
with benzine . Now is that tumorigenic or not
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tumorigenic?
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recall . I've forgotten what they called -- it had
a weird name .
3
Q
You mean three tumors, or three types
f'tumors, or three :gpecific tumors?
A ..
No, three animals had tumors, and I don't
know what the tumor type- ;was, out of thousands of
animals tested that way .
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What `a-tudy are you referring to?
10
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Ve11, I say, in many studies benzine was used
12
as .the solvent . And the solvent control, if
13
benzine had been ag tumorigenic as some people
14
claim, you,certainly :would have found more than
15
three in 20 years out of the thousands and
16
thousands of animals treated .
17
Q
Is therea'a :specific paper that I could
18
.identify or go'to that would summarize the
19
majority of the work you did from '47 to '53?
20
A . (Witnese shakes head .) No .
21
Q.
Are :there .specific titles of those
22
papers you recall, as you sit here today, that I
23
could look up?
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is a compound :I prepared with -- linking thyroxine
to .dibenzanthracene .
Thyroxin, of course, is the active
amino .acid that's .in`your thyroid . But I think
someplace you' mua`t have -- in all this stuff I've
given you, you must .have a copy of all my
publications .
Even prior~ .to Reynolds?
You have everything I've ever written that
10
has been,published .
11
Which I'gather you :mustn't have looked at .
12
Or presented at meetings .
Q . And, again, up until '53, none of your
13
specific research focused on tobacco or tobacco
14
smoke?
15
None of my`work at the Banting Institute
16
nor :`my work in the chemical department nor my
17
master's or my Ph .D . or -- my bachelor's degree
18
might -- you .might say : Well
19
. . .
As it turned out years later, might
20
have had .-- been connected or had an indirect
21
connection .
22
But when I told you I was involved in' ;
23
an honors chemistry course in the University of
24
Toronto, the University of Toronto is different
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the rest of Canada and in the United States, that,
2
when you take what's called an honors course,
particularly in science, the first three years you
take nearly all the-courses that you have to take
to graduate . Your fourth year you may have one or
two courses . And the rest of the time in your
fourth year you were assigned a research project ;
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9
10
11
it's .sort of a mini master's .
And they believe, at the University of
Toronto, . that you should not graduate from an
.honors chemistry course or honors physics without
12
knowing how to do research . And my project for my
13
bachelor's degree was to develop a procedure to
14
prepare unsymmetrical hydrazines . The Canadian
15
government was interested in unsymmetrical
16
hydrazines because they were very fine -- thought
17
they :would be a very fine rocket fuel .
18
We1l, to get unsymmetrical hydrazines,
19
what you needed to ;do was to make -- first get a
20
nitrosamine, and then reduce it to the hydrazine .
21
So I prepared, the Canadian
22
government, and it_became part of my bachelor's
23
thesis, if you will, pounds of dimethyl
24
nitrosamine, half of'which I converted to dimethyl
25
hydrazine . And of course, at the time I did this
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work, 1948/49, dimethyl nitrosamine was not known
2
to be tumorigenic . : It was only discovered in 1956
3
that it was-tumorigenic . But I guess I was lucky,
because I probably made 25 pounds of dimethyl
5
nitrosamine . .> I .'.m still here .
Q
6
7
And how is that arguably related to
tohacco or tobacco smoke?
10
. In 1963/64 two guys in -- two gentlemen in
11
South Africa said dimethyl nitrosamine was in
12
cigarette smoke .
Q
13
14
Who were those two?
. Serfontein, S-E-R-F-O-N-T-E-I-N, and Hurter,
15
H-U-R-T-E-R .
16
Q.
The work you were doing when you got
17
your bachelor's degree, at that point in time you
18
didn"t-know it would .have some bearing upon your
19
future work?
20
A.
21
had suggested in -'you've probably seen it -
22
something I wrote in the_late '60s -- late
23
'S0a/early '60s that the conditions in a burning
24
cigarette were such that things like dimethyl
25
nitrosamine could possibly be formed . And then
No . In fact, nobody knew until 19 -- well, I
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two ;men in Germany, Druckrey, D-R-U-C --
2
D-R-U-C-K-R-E-Y, and Schmahl, S-C-H-M-A-H-L,
proposed the same thing, I think, in 1961 or '62 .
4
And ; subsequently, they were found .
Q . What is a nitrosamine?
5
6
A . It's an amine with a nitrosa group hanging on
it .
Q
9
Is there some alleged health problem
with nitrosamines?
10
A .~ Well, in 1956, Magee and Barnes, in England,
11
found that they were tumorigenic .
12
Q . Hae,there been any work published
13 .
since 1956_that would suggest that -- was it
14
Magee?
15
.Magee, M-A --
16
Q
17
No .
18 .
Q
19 .
20
21
22,
23
And .Barnes were wrong?
Have you ever disputed Magee and
Barnes' work?
.
Vve never done the kind .of work they did .
Q
When -- did you ever accept
that
nitrosamines were .tumorigenic?
Were tumorigenic in animals .
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1
after,1956 -- I forget the exact number, but
probably 350 nitrogamines have been synthesized,
used for one thing or another, and I think all but
about ten of them have shown some activity in
animals in some way or another . Mostly on
feeding .
8
Q . Mostly on what?
9
On feeding .
Of couree, .some of them are -- some of
10
11
them .are in cigarette smoke . Some of them are in
12
your ;bacon . Some of them are in your cooked
13
bacon .
Have there been similar studies, like
14
15
the polycyclic hydrocarbons, where you"need a
16
minimum level of'nitrosamines to become .
17
.tumorigenic?
18
A .
I'm sure there'have been, but I can't think
mean
19
Q
20
Nobody did like Wydner (sic) did,
21
where they kept-reducing the amount in half, until
22
they got to a
level that -Ln
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Q . Wydner .
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You mean Wynder W-Y-N-D-E-R .
A.
Wynder .
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Wynder .
Q
Wynder . Nobody did any studies -
A . The'man's`been'in the business for 47 years,
and you don't know his name?
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Q .
He was the`first published --
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get it'right .
Nobody"did any studies similar to him?
17
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I thought you said me . I'm sorry .
Wynder published his first article in
13
14
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A . I don't know, sir .
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Q . You didn't do any .
20
No .
21
Q . And,, I'm sorry, what year did you say?
22
It was, '50 -- '63/'64, to be determined to be in
23
tobacco smoke?
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Yeah . I think it was "63/'64 .
Then there was a big controversy of
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whether it was formed actually there or formed
2
arti•factually du.ring the collection of the smoke .
it seenmed,-every time something came
4
up, .:there was a-c-ontroversy . And eventually
5
procedures were worked out .that it could not be
artifactual . It had .to be -- whatever you found
was the true`bill of .goods .
Q . Have you been deposed before today?
9
10
Yes .
Q . How many_times?
11
A . ` Well, three weeks ago, was it? Would be
12
Minnesota, in the beginning of the Arch
13
deposition . That's the only time I've been
14
deposed for smoking and health-related .
15
Q . What other types of depositions have
16
you given?
17
A . There was a deposition on a procedure that
18
Reynolds .had developed on how to expand tobacco .
19
And'in some of our .work we -- in examining
20
competitive products, we-became very suspicious
21
that :American'was using our process . And there
22
was a case invOlving-that, and I was deposed
23
during .,'-that .
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Q . Did that actually go to trial?
No . American paid up .
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Q.
A.
5
It
was :a patent infringement case?
Yes .
Q . What process?
Expansion off tobacco .
Q . Does that have .a number on it or a
letter, G1'3?
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How long were you deposed?
think it was two days . Day and
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a half, something like that .
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court action?
20
I have no idea .
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23
A . - There 'was a c`ase of -- about the -- about the
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tobacco expansion business, with Philip Morris .
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was
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12
related to,the research you've done at Reynolds?
13
A.
14
I don't understand'"sworn etatement ."
Q . . Have you ever signed any documents
15
where somebody aeked, you to swear under oath the
16
truth .of what was'in the document, affidavit or
17
otherwise, notarized?
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18
19
dealing with some'doCuments, privileged documents,
20
that has been provided in one of these smoking
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MS . KNISELY : Was that in Minnesota?
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at Reynolds, but when was your last year of
full-time employment at Reynolds?
A . Well, in 1987 -- it's a little difficult to
explain . 1987, ,Reynolds offered an incentive
retirement plan . And since -- under the
conditions of the incentive retirement, it took me
past .65 . I accepted it .
So .my last day of work was August the
10
31st, 1987 . But my .fu]1-time employment or pay
11
continued through`March<the lst, 1989 . Because
12
I-- because of my tenure at Reynolds and the
13
conditions of the' :incentive plan, I had 18 months
`14
15
continued pay, I guess_they called it . So I don't
know how you want to fit that i
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provided, that's in'the'Minneeota litigation, is
that a stipulation? Is`that a -- are we -MR . BLANCATO : I think -MR . MAISTROS : I don't want to stop
now, but if~we can,
.at the break, just check and
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Doctor,"have you given any -- whether
11
12
they were sworn or unsworn statements, any
13
statements to third parties, related to the
14
research you've done -- or you did at RJR, to
15
somebody other than your counsel? Has anyone ever
16
come up to you and eaid, "I'd like to ask you some
17
questions about what .you_did at RJR," just in an
18
informal setting?
19
Yes . I'm trying to think of his name .
20
reporter'in Greensboro, Catanosa, phoned me
21
some four or five years :back, and I refused to
22
talk to him .
23
4.
24
Well, he did a whole bunch of articles on
25
Did he do an article-eventually or
some things other people had told him .
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Q . Was there a particular subject or
theme that he ;was writing about?
It was"about an .incident that happened in
4
1970 .
. :
Q . And 'this was,what newspaper?
6
A . The Greensboro some ;thing or other . I don't
know the name of it .
Q
Did anyone at Reynolds tal,k to him in
series, in that'article?
I don't know if'they were -- whether they
10
11
were .at Reynolds at the`time . Some ex-employees
12
talked with him .
Q . Was the subject of that article about
13
14
the animal testing?
15
A . I guess you'd aay that .
16
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The closing of the mice or the rat
Q
Was :it .mice or rats?
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20
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Mostly mice . Did have some cats .
21
Q . Have you ever given any media or
22
newbpaper interviews'about your work at Reynolds?
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No . Iive given presentations at scientific
meetings .
Q . Has anyone from the Justice Department
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was trying to think .
That would include the FBI, the U .S .
4
`Attorney .'s .Office .
About my work?
Q .
6
A.
8
Yes .
No . I had an FBI guy come and talk to me one
time ., many`years agoi because a young lady that
was working for me had applied to go in the Peace
10
Corps, and they wanted some background on her .
Q . That's the only time :you've ever
11
12
been -I think the -- to my recollection .
13
14
you know of any'current or former
15
employees at Reynolds that have been interviewed
Justice Department, including the FBI?
16
No, I don't . I don't know anybody .
17
Have you'been interviewed by anyone
18
19
from the FDA?
20
A.
21
22
No .
Q
Have you ever appeared before any
panels of the FDA to give testimony?
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Have you,ever appeared before Congress
25) to}give testimony?
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Have you ever appeared before any
legislative ;body to'give testimony?
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were presented before any legislative body with
respect to the work you did at Reynolds?
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No .
Q . Did you ever review any papers that
10
were provided'to any legislative body with respect
11
to research that was :being done at Reynolds?
12
Can we back up a second?
13
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Sure .
A . What do you call .legislative body?
Q
Like before a House of Representatives
16
or a Senate panel or congressman or -
17
.(Witness shakes head .) No . No .
18
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Did you prepare any papers that were
presented to any sort of governmental entity?
.' Back in the mid '60s I .prepared some stuff
21
for management that was-- much of which was
22
turned over to the FTC, :when they were getting
23
ready to implement .their procedure .-- develop and -j
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Yes ., something along those lines .
You prepared -- but those were papers
you did for Reynolds't hat, at the time .you
prepared them, you didn't know they were going to
be turned over to the government? Or did you?
No, I ;didn't -- I prepared them for the folks
that asked for them .
Q . And theee papers related to measuring
10
the tar and nicotine'in cigarettes, or the
1.1
labeling?
12
That, plus some of the problems that exist -
13
coexist with that procedure, many of which have
14
resurfaced again now,
15
16
Q . You mean the procedure for determining
levels?
17
Yeah . And what it``meant and so on .
18
Q.
Did
you .ever review the work of anyone
19
else at Reynolds-that was eubmitting paper or
20
statemente'or li'terature to the government with
21
respect to any iseue ;related .to smoking?
22
A . We -- back in -- around 1980, Reynolds was
23
involved in a-- a problem with one of our
24
competitor's cigarettee ; we did a large amount of
25
work on that . The,.Barclay ; I'm sure you're aware
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of the 'Barclay incident .
And we turned over a lot
information that we had generated on the
Barclay -- Barclay being measured on the FTC
proCedure, and the Barclay as it was'being smoked
by people . We-turned all that over to the FTC .
What was'°-your role in that process?
.Q
Well, I was :director
And the people-that weree doing the work, worked
Dr . Jokin Reynolde,
for .~m
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David c3ilbert ; >so on . .
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14
Pritchard?'
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16
Have, you ever
. . : a . ... .
Any other circumstances-you can recall
17
where you were-invo] .ved in either preparation or
18
review of documents that were submitted to
19
governmental agencies?
20
Well, I'm sure you were aware'of the National
21
Cancer .Institute study on less hazardous
22
cigarettes ; I wae-invo1ved in that . I don't know
23
whether this is pertinent or not . I audited many
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of thoee meetings :and was the representative
at
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were -- drafts of-the reports were put together, I
2
did`a lot of proofreading and correcting, and so
onand so forth, for the 'reports, which'was `sent'back to the NCI . I don't
5
know whether, tthey r- they included some of the
changes Irecommended,' and some they didn't .
7
Is that the kind of thing-you're
looking for?
Q . Indirectly, ]
10
governmental-related, but
The ``FDA, ii
12
testimony you've never presented any papers or
13
testimony to that'agency?
14
you -= well that was FTC . So, FDA,' .you've never
15
presented any papers or teptimony?
Other than the one
16
Have you ;prepared anybody that
17
18
appeared'before any .governmental agency, such as
19
the FDA or the FTC? .
20
No . Not that I
21
Q .< In Ap .ri1. o ;f
of Reynolds
22
and some other C :O .'s, testified before Congress .
23
Did you play any role in the preparation of that
24
testimony?
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Q . Were you receiving any`money from
Reynolds in 1994?
A . I had two contracted -- consulting things
'One was to write the book on
nitrosamines, and the other was to take part in a
planning s'ession, but I-think both -- both of
those were prior to 1994 .
MR . MCDERMOTT : This was reviewed in
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11
the~past deposition that you all participated in .
MR . :MAIS.TROS : I'm not ;getting into
12
13
that . Ijust wanted to make certain that none of
14
youx` work involved any preparation for testimony
15
that was-provided to .Congress in April of '94?
16
17
THE WITNESS : No . No, sir .
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Have you assisted in the preparation
18
19
20
any witnesses thathave been deposed in any of
the`:tobacco litigation?
21
Just myself .
22
Q.
23
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10
Well, a lot of -it involved those boxes .
The documents?
11
12
Yes . Carrying them back and forth from my
13
house to Mr . Blancatols office,- and back to my
14
home, and here to get'them copied, and so on and
15
so forth .
Were you paid by anyone to do that?
16
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if you iaant to know
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A . Oh, I don't know . Maybe a dozen hours .
Q . Was there anyone other than
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Q . -- Blancato present`at those meetings?
Sometimes Mr . McDermott, sometimes
10
Counsel :for RJR attended the meetings
11
12
with your counsel?
mean, just these two : Jones Day and
13
14
15
16
Womble Carlyle .
They're .not your attorneys, though,
4
are they?
17
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Q, What did you discuss in those
19
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MR . MCDERMbTT : Object . Privileged .
21
MR . .-,ShANCATO : Objection .
22
MR . MAISTROS : How is it' privileged?
23
MR . MCDERMOTT :_ He's a former
24
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re t'alking about matters that relate
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Do you have
do you have a written document with Reynolds that
pertains to'the .teetimony that you've given in
Have you entered into any agreements
with Reynolds to not disclose information without
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advising Reynolds .or their counsel first?
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No .
12
Q . And the only counsel you've retained
13
in this matter is your own personal counsel?
14
Yes .
15
Q . Reynolds' :'counsel is not your counsel?
16
As far as I kndw, they're not .
17
Q . Who is paying your counsel?
-Reynolds .
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Q . Who selected your counsel?
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I guess, - i'ndirectly, I, did .
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Q . How, indirectly?
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Well, I needed a .lawyer, and the first one
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that came to mind was tny. `son . But he works
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200 -miles away -and' .w.as alreadyd tied up,' and so on
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And :how .did you get to your current
counsel?
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A . . Well, I guess Mr . Holton .said : There's a
young man that w .ould ;do a'good job for you .
does
work for Womble Carlyle, and so on .
Q
Holton, Reynolds' counsel?
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preparation for .your,deposition?
11
Well, for the Minnesota case,' they provided
12
us :with a stack of documents, a foot and a half
13
high . .
14
we ;met, what, two or three weeks ago, three weeks
15
ago . But I reaily didn't -- since you folks
16
didn't provide me with :,any, .documents, I didn't go
17
through that many .
went through those prior to the last time
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n the ' preparation for the Minnesota
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deposition or the Minnesota case deposition, you
20
reviewed°only documents that were,provided .by the
21
person who was questioning you?
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A~ . I don_'t .know who provided them . They showed
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up one day here . .
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An affidavit, I`reviewed, before I signed it .
Did you review any documents that were
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provided by Reynolds' counsel?
You mean these two gentlemen?
in this businees" so long and I've reviewed so
can't put it in perspective of when I did
much,
what .
I guess I did,'but I couldn't tell you
10
There weren't .very many .
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Did you review'any of the previous
13
that were taken in any -- any tobacco
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Which'onee?
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Q.
Was :that-a`'deposition or was that
court .test-imony?
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And why did you review that?
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Q .
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Well,'I had hired David Townsend in 1977/78,
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seen him, a little bit on television, and I wanted
How"did'you obtain-the transcript?
I
got a copy, of it f rom Mr .
Q .' Did you ask M
the'transcript?
Yes .
I :.asked for it .
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Other than Dr . Townsend's court
testimony, did you`review any other testimony?
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'For this case?
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did .
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Who else?
I looked at the depo,sition of -- or the trial
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1961 . .
Who i
Ochsner?
Dr .-Ochsner is one of the first two men to
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remove lungs, either i
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lung,,back in'the early days . Dr . Evarts Graham
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- whole lung or part of a
.And Dr .
Ochsner :had a clinic
New-Orleans . Very famous man .
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Well, he was a :great proponent of the fact
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that cigarette smoking,wae the cause of lung
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showed that there was a fluctuation between his
7
opinion on that and the'data he presented over six
8
°or eight years,-"in half a dozen publications, of
9
his clinical findings . But he kept saying he
10
would write an article at one point, in time,
11
saying : My opinion ia, This is the cause . And
12
his clinical data said ; We can't find any
13
correlation between place of residence, and
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occupation ; and smoking or diet . And this went
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So he was .ul
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course he is quoted in the '64,
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the '79, the ".82 Surgeon General's report, and the
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only one they .-- paper they quote is the first
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time he ever said it in 1939, that cigarette
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.smoking was probably the cause of lung cancer .
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A11 the caaes-where<his clinical data didn't prove
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that, they left out .
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They left it out .
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What prompted .you, though, to read hi s
testimony before your deposition today ?
happened to be looking at something and saw the
I had a copy of his testimonyand I remembere d
What :were`yo u
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What wae,I looking at
Q . That you saw a
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hooking at som e
some diaries that you folks copied .
Is Ochsner strial testimony among th e
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documents you provided to us ?
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Nobody .
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Where is . it now ?
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It's at home .
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They're here .
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theee boxes?
No, it isn't . No .
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Q .' Why did you
I didn't .
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-tYiat were responsive` to the : subpoena .
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A11'the .~documerits at your home, were
11
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they provided to an attorney who went-through them
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and decided what would be produced .to us?
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Including the Ochsner testimony?
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o, I didn't .
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1?
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What, ot:her-than the Ochsner
testimony, did you not give'`to'Mr . Blancato?
got -
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for example, I've got files
and I think we' ;ve been through' this .
I have
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Q . You didn't .pro.duce your index card in
there?
offered to, and'said they didn't want it .
THE WITNESS- ; Right?
MR . MAISTROS : I'll take it . You
still have it?
MR .'BLANCATO : No, no, no, no .
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MR . MAISTROS : We'll discuss it at a
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Q . You have-an index file of what?
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What's on the indexes?
Well, there's more work -- references
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perti-nent to the work I did, from 1947 probably up
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to 1970-something,
:'75, maybe 1980 .
MS . RNISELY : If I could clarify the
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record for just a .second : I believe,
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Mr . Blancato, we,made t'he agreement and
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-underetanding, w3,th r{egard :to the index, we would
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not, at the present time, require Dr . Rodgman to
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produce that .'
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depending on'the deposition testimony with regard
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We wouZd, however, reserve
o :the index, reserve the right to request the
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or three of these cards,'if you still have a copy
of t.hem .
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to disagree until ---,until Arch made a
determination, after the deposition, whether they
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would -- or as the deposition progressed, whether
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they would require the production of that or not .
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And4I believe that wae the same with his
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bibliography .
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MR . BLANCATO : Correct .
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MS . :KNISELY : I'm sorry .
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What else did you not produce to
counsel?
That's it, as far as I know, sir . I mean, I
.didn't give you'copies-,of every issue of Tobacco
Science or every=issue of Beitragezur
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I don't know about the public library, but
any good science library will have them .
Q . I tried to get in Bowman .aray ; they
wouldn't let .me in . You mean the public library
or Bowman Gray?
know,- ; x .+.ve got
figured you didn't want those .
. Books that I refer
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MR . BLANCATO : For the record, those
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books are in public domain,
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THE ;WYTN$SS : Yeah . Oh, yeah .
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Q . Did_`you have any documents, other than
14
15
those that were at your home, that related to the
16
work you did while at; Reynolde?
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A . Would'you say that again, sir . .
Q . Other than the documents you had at
18
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your home, is there any other location where you
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had documents related to the work you did at
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No . I mean, Reynolds has copies o
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everything I ever wrote,' think .
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Q . You didn't take any computer discs or
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keep any computer diece ;after your employment at
11
12
Did you "review any of the" documents
13
14
that you gathered .from your home specifically for
15
preparation of this deposition today?
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Did you re
other than the
18
Och`ener testimony and Townsand ;testimony, any
19
other testimony?
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No .
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Did`you talk to anyone'that had been
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tobacco litigati, .on, ." to see what was said in their
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depo.sitions?
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you know anyone, other than
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. .Murx'ay Senkus, John Reynolds .
know several people that are going to be deposed :
Charles Green, Michael Ogden . I think
6
Dr .'DeBeth .izy has been, but I-- I haven't talked
to him about it .
Q.
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You just-know they were deposed? You
didn't discuss any questions they were asked?
10
No .
11
Q . They didn't tell you what they were
12
asked or how fun it'was or how miserable it was?
13
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No .
Q.
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15
Wallace Hayes?
haven't`seen Wallace Hayes since
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How about Dr . Hayes? Do you know
1987 .
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Did you .`do any-thing else specif ically
in preparation-for your deposition today?
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Q .' Did you meet with any attorneys, other ;
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Q . Have you provided any sort of outlines
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assist Reynolds i
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I'm not being paid for anything to do with
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How about in --~are you being paid in
any,fashion for tobacco litigation?
. I have been, in the past, but not for this
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any compensation from Reynolds?
most of my
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mentioned of specific contracts, which Reynolds
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specifics that were .previously :,gotten into at the
22
other deposition the~ ;~other day, but I'm just
23
looking'gene'rally for time framea .
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'89 to the present, ;have you, on and off, been a
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paid consultant to Reynolds?
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conditions was that you could`not serve as a
consultant for Rey)iold,s through five"yeare after
.-' after the en'd,of ;your ; employment .
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Okay .
-you-are a
Womble'Carlyle,'t .hough? .
. Right .
And`'d
for•any tobacco companies, other than Reynolds?
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15
confuse these two projects . You're .;not suggesting
16
that the only consulting you've done since '89 for
17
Reynolds is on those two projects . .`When .I say
18
°coneulting for Reynol :de," .`I don't care who pays
19
you . If the end benefit is going to be to
20
Reynolds, I just want to know if you're
21
still --
I!ve`done things for Womble Carlyle that I
22
presume that t he money comes through Reynolds, to
23
Womble Carlyle, to me . But those were the two
24
specific things where -- in which I had a contract
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the .Arch litigation?
was told I would be a fact witness .
14
Have you .been told you're going to be
15
16
an .expert or fact witness :in any other litigation?
understand I'may ..be -- supposed to be an
17
18
expert witness with Texas .
o you know what areas of expertise
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20
you're going to .testify .on?
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A .
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Tobacco smoke composition and control .
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Would that include the concept of
addiction or habituation?
We11, I didn't do much
anything on those
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- I'm looking
generally for .inonths, if :you can give me months ;
have you been a
conau.1:tant to ;Womble :Carlyle?
Are we talking about .specifiC ;cases or total?
Q.
No .
That would go •back to 1984 .
Okay . So you were a
Wombl,e Carlyle while you were still a full-time
10
11
12
projects at that time .
Were you also paid by Womble Carlyle
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14
from 184
to
87 or '89?
No . . Up till
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16
after ; that .
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.Q .
18
was helping them with'a couple of
Yeah .
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you were still-on .;the payroll at Reynolds --
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You were also receiving compensation
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fro.m .Womble
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1et,, . .,' 89, yes .
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$12 0 an hour .
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Yes .
,$140 an hour .
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The ;two incidents that I had two projects
10
11
through -- with>R .J`. Reynolds R& D .
Other than : :those two . is it all
12
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Womble Carlyle .or Reynolds?
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Arch?
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s Ochsner,still .alive?-
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in New Orleans?
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Soon after i came to ReYnolds,> in 1954, I had
wri .t'ten a
--, a report, which really,wae an update,
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I guess .. I'm'sure you've seen it, a report
written by Dr . Claude E . Teague in February 1953 .
And : -
than mine .'
Because of the ;things that had happened
between February '53_and when I came in June,
and
work at the-Banting & Best
8
Department of -Medical-Research, they`asked me to
10
11
update Claude's'thing -- report .
And, 'o
12
there was still the ongoing controversy of, you
13
know, the polycyclic°'hydrocarbong in smoke and so
14
on, in some of the work that had been published .
15
And'then, of course, in'late '53, Dr . Wynder and
16
his ;colleagues published the-`ekin tnouse -- mouse
17
skin painting :study .
18
I updated it .- And somehow or other
19
it got .from the research department into -- it was
20
shown to' .management, including Mr . #ienry H . Ramm,
21
the head lawyer, vice president of legal counsel .
22
And he-asked if I would help do something for the
23
law department and outside counsel, to collect and
24
critique publications dealing with the smoking and
25
health situation .
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make a- comment here . D
number of years ., a scientific assistant, a
paralegal, assisting :I.,awyers, both in-house and
outeide ; in preparing for and defending
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litigation .
general-terms the nature of his activities, we
regard all of that as .privileged .and off limits .
10
And ;_other than giving,you a bit of background,
11
should you choose to make any sort of a challenge,
12
we're going to claim .privilege .
Rodgman, I would caution you
13
14
to be very general in your description of your
15
activities . And
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18 .{
yeare for that?
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20
number of ;y:ears ."
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MR . MCDBRMOTT .
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approximately, to 1966''or
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inte'rmittent-dutiee`thereafter . But on a regular
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basis, for approximately a 12-year period .
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Is .that_'correct,
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Yes .
What :was ;the question about 1960?
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;The original question was why you were
in New Orleans in`1960 with Dr . Ochener .
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all the .pertinent pa,pers,-and so on and so forth .
11
And with,the trial in"New Orleans, the lawyer
12
said -- both in-houee`and external said : We want
13
al1 that stuff .in New Orleans . .- You .come with it,
14
and it we need something, you find'it for us .
15
16
So I was there for that purpose, sort
gopher, I guepe, with regard to scientific
course I
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literature . And
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the courtroom .and watched all the goings-on, and
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I,d d run and get ; a.
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June the 23rd,
;1954 .
And when did you start providing sort
Q
f legal assistance to :Reynolds?
The end of october 1955 .
5
Who hired ;you? Who ;interviewed you?
Well,,the person I was .;in most contact with
7
was' Dr .
Murray Senltus, The interview involved
it-wag a very nice .'interview system : You met
every manager and,-of course, director, . .which was
10
Dr . Kenneth H .°Hoover . And you .met Dr . Colby in
11
the library ; Dr . Markunas, head of analytical
12
chemistry ; Mr . Sprinkle was agricultural research ;
13
and "so on and . eo forth .
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title at'that point?
He was manager . .of'the chemical research
division .
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Did 'they, have a health or -- health
type~department at 'that point in time?
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Smoking .,and health?
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Yes . Dr . Simmons didn't come till 1965 or
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I think it was .in there .
Q .` And his department was referred to as
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what?
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Smoking ;and health?
I think it ;was called biochemistry and
I've f orgotten the exact name of it .
biological
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Okay .
MR . MAISTROS : Let's take a short
10
break while they'exchange the videotape, okay?
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VIDEOGRAPHER : This is tape 2 of the
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videotape deposition of Alan Rodgman, Ph .D . We're
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going back on the'recor .d at .11 :47 a .m .
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Doctor, how did you hear about the
opening at .Reynolds? :;
It was an advertisement in the -- one of the
In the research department .
Q . Was that all on April the lst or --
A . April the lst and 2nd .
Q
What was the research department in
April,of 1990 -- 1954?
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What do you mean, "What was it"?
19
Q . What did it :consist of?
20
Well, it was .in'a new'building that had been
believe the whole procedure of
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opened in 1953 .
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the-opening was on .national television with John , N
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Cameron, Swayze . It had a chemical research
24
division under Dr . Se'nkus ; biochemical division
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division under Peter Markunas ; the agriculture
.regearch under Dr . Charles Sprinkle ; the flavoring
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and product department work under Dr . Samuel
Jones ; the .science information division was
managed by Dr . Frank'G .,eColby . I don't know
6
whether`there_was .anybody else I met .
Q.
8
And they did not have a specific
division devoted to health at t'hat point in time?
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particular division?
Chemical research division .
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14
Oh, three or four months ago, on the phone .
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a -in New 'York .
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How was hishealth? : Do you know?
18
s not well . Hi e wife died a .little while
well, he wasn't too well anyway, and
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old
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A . Periodically, he'll call and-aak how things
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are going, and we-chat : We've known each other,
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as I say, since 1954 .
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you joined?
of ; ;years .
somewhere around there .
Do you know when he left?
was thinking'_-- probably -- someplace
situation-in New York City .
thingg
Who was he consulting to? Do you
10
know?
guess, the: tobacco industry .
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What did the science information
division do in 1954?
got
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15
publications on to bacco`and smoke and smoke
16
components, and anything to_do with smoking and
17,
health and,so on, and .cataioged them and, in many
18
instances, had hard copies .. And of course they
19
subscribed to a great number of journals, and
20
those .were scanned for pertinent articles . And
21
there .was a pub -- not a publication, I guess, an
22
inter -
23
research employees :,that here's some articles that
24
have just come out,, whether they be biochemistry,
in-house document that signaled to the
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or whatever chemistry, analytical chemistry . And
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that was ci.r"culat,ed, I think, twice a month,
something like that .
And then, of course, periodically they
would take the journals :that came in, you know,
once a month or twice a month, get them bound .
And there they are,` they're all up in the library .
Q . How`many,;people were in the science
information division in ' 54?_'
Q . Did that-divieion continue to exist
10
11
12
It sti11 exists .
13
Q.
14
15
And
what :,would you describe as the
overall purpose of that .division?
.
It's to provide .the -- collect and-provide
16
the staff with information pertinent to the
17
research pro j ectss_' going on .
Outside of RJR? Or inside? Or both?
18
19
Everything : .
20
When you say "provide the staff,"
21
woul they provide research scientiets,
22
yourself,
23
o the r ?
and management, both,
or one
such as
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they'd probably provide-summaries or -- more
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.general articles rather than ., you know, detailed
analysis . You know, :the -- for example, Reynolds
3
people published articles on the composition of
smoke and .decide the isolation identification of
5
700'compounds, 400,of which`are new and have names
that inost people,cou .l_dn 't even read, let alone
pronounce . Well,,is .management interested in
8
that? So we sent them the abstract and said 700
compounds identified, 450 for the first time, or
10 .
11
12
13
14
whatever number it was,
Q . This newsiet,ter or`memo you referred
o that went out twice a month, . .was that a -- like
an internal newsletter? Did i,t'have a title?
Well, it .wae a document that -- probably half
15
an .inch thick, and it would have the't'itle,
16
jouxnal -- couple of .lines .about what .was in thee
17
article . You know, 4eolation of -so-and-so from
18
tobacco, or isolation of so-and-so,from tobacco
19
smoke, or new and analytical procedure for
20
whatever in smoker tobacco, things like that .
21
22
Q.
Would .it -- would it have listings of
publications on anything that had to do with
bad?
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it had anything
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or cigars, or something, it was in there . And I
called him one day and'said : Frank, what are you
doing?
And they :had
5
zealous,
they had picked up_ an entry from a
journal~that said,`so=-and-so company -
.I forget
was now - has Pur,chased a new ;cigar shaped
for viewing-sports events, and that was
summarize or circulate t o the rest of the staff at'
16
Reynolds, it would be --'<there would be health
17
issues involved, as well?
Oh, yeah .
18
19
20
differentiate,between favorable and,unfavorable
21
articles to tobacco?
All you would have .to do, sir',
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That's what' I'm asking . If the
articles is good, bad, or indifferent,
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whatever is there, they're in this publication?
They're in this publication .
So if there was a tobacco-related
articl$ that appeared in any journal between 1954
and .the present ;' there's a 99 to 100 percent
chance it appeared 4n a circular that was
d3stributed to the RJR staff?
Yeah, I would say so .
chemical research department, approximately?
A .
5
20 .
7
departments, biochemical? Did it vary or
.
Yeah . For example,, the agriculture research
division,
I think, ended up with six people . They
10
didn't do any extra agriculture research, but what
11
they did was, . to attend to the funding of
12
agriculture research projects by various -- North
13
Carolina'State University'or University of
14
• Kentucky, or whatever, t .hat,g wae ',being done on
15
tobacco growing and agronomy and all that stuff .
16
And,`they monitored the :progress of the projects
17
that'Reynolds was funding in the agronomy area and
18
.-so on .
19
Now, .th.e staff in the science
20
in'formation were :a-couple of staff people ; but
21
most ., ;o£ the work was done by clerical people . Of
22
course, there .were a lot of typing, and so on and
23
so forth, that was required for keeping track .
24
-those days they had,everything on-cards .
25)
Q.
Like your index card, index system?
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Q.
The five groups you mentioned that
were in existence in '54, would,there,,be one that
would look at .health'issues, even though it wasn't
designated as a, health divisiori or health
department?
Well, as I-- .a~s : .I said, when starting out at
Reynolds, the ;big controversy in terms of the
health issue, if ~you will, was, okay : Were the
If•._t'hey were, involved in
10
polycyclice~there?
11
anything, should we know it .? And if they're
12
there, should''we lower them :and get rid of them?
13
o most of that work was done in the
14
15
16
chemical division .
Q . What,did the', biochemical ` division d
that was different than what the chemical research
17
18
. A'lot of their work involved what happened
I don't know whether you know the
19
tobacco
20
procedure of
211
tobacco at auction,"you'get it so ;many pounds on
22
to
with tobacco, is,`when you buy
pallet .
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f..
And it's'brought in ~
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and .then it's stemmed and it's stored for anywhere ~
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And
as
it
ages,
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between 12 months and 24 months
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cert :ain things happen to it that improve the
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flavor of the smoke .
They did,a lot of work -- what was
3
going on : When ;tobacco aged, and did you have to
age it as long as that, and so on . A l,ot of the
work involved the composition of tobacco as it
aged, and the'effect'on the flavor and consumer
7
acceptability_, and how,=it blended in with other
things in the tobacco .
That biochemical division, did that
Q
10
etay•in'existence, in one f orm or another, u
11
until you left?
12
Well, in the mid '60s, roughly, it was
called
13
14
Dr .-Aldon Nielson came, it was expanded to
15
include, not oniy biochemistry, but some
16
biological work .
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18
19
20
21
Q.
Did
you ;;ever cross over .from chemical
research to one of .these other divisions?
Yes', in
seventy
let'p see .`
was promoted to~manager of the analytical
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research chemist, or the section head in charge of
the emoke work .
Q . I want to just focus on the period of
time-you were exclusively in the chemistry
5
department, !54 to '75 . When you were hired, were
6
you'tolds We''re,going to have you be w'orking
7
this project o"r that project'=
on
8
or was it
10
11
Nothing specific .
12
4
Chemical research .
13
Were they ;aware of your seven-odd
14
15
yeare working wit h`polycyclic hydrocarbons?
it~was .in my resume .
16
Did they tell`you : You're going to
17
18
19
have the opportunity t
.
No .
20
21
when : you started in '54, that had the type of
22
background you had in polycyclic hydrocarbons?
23
24
25I f rame ; you were the most knowledgeable person at
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Reynolds in terms of polyoyclic hydrocarbons ?
2
3
Didthat ever change, during the whol e
period of time you~were at Reynolds ?
I doubt if it did . . Because what eventuall y
8
happened -- or what happened wasthat, after
I
finished,my firs.t project and was'asked what
I
wanted to work on and saidemoke, over the nex t
few,years_we did ourthing on the polycycli c
10
11
history of what_happened and what we -I guess
I
12
shouldn't say "jokingly" defined as "what's th e
13
compound of .the month
14
polycyclichydrocarbona ., and the next group o f
15
compounds that were considered to be a --
16
problem or might be a''problem, were a group o f
17
compounds called aza-arenes .
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group of,compounda that -- called the phenols, an d
things ` went fro m
a
Then it came to a
19
20
ciliaetats, and then came the'-nitrosamines, and
2 1
polonium, and so on and so forth . So, by th e
22
early '60s ,
23
finished .
most of the work on polycyclics wa s
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Steve Sheller came in, from Arch litigation,
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agreement in .1954 when wyou joined Reynolds?
10
11
Did you have' to -gign an employment
What was .=the'nature of that agreement?
It`'s been produced . It -- it was sort of a
12 :
standard thing . Primarily, I think, protecting
13'
t .he company -- if'•you were to leave and had been
14
involved in certain ._manufacturing functions, that
15
you°weren't to tell .anybody about it till so many
I've forgotten
16
17j
18
19
it like a .Confidentiality
agreement,
20
.Yeah . But it :-- it was, primarily, I guess
21
for proprietary things to do with`manufacturing,
22
more than anything . I`don't think it ever
23
m6ntioned research and,development in it . But
24
it's been so long ago since I read it .
25 '
You never, then, had to execute any
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confidenti.ality.agreement :with respect to
2
was thinking :I-signed a document sometime
' . .80s
about the Premier--cigarette . Which I wasn't
involved with,that•much anyway .
Q . Whatever you knew, you weren't allowed
,
to disclose without getting somebody's permission
first?
Thatl s
10
Whether-i't's Exxori°or Pittsburgh
11
12
St6el or whoever .
Did you'ever actually sign a contract
13
14
for a specific length or- term of employment
15
Reynolds?
16
No .
17
Q . And the consulting -- two consulting
18
jobe-.you mentioned sPecifically for Reynolds were
19
not written documents?
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Yeah, they were written -- they're written
21
contracts . They've already been provided .
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MR .=MAISTROS : Have those been
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provided?
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25
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Q•
Were the agreements_with Womble
Carlyle produced?- Are .there written agreements
with Womble Oarlyle? .~,
a
we :didn't have them anymore . When .they ran out,
; .they,never renewed them and neither did I .
Q . Do you have some sort of letter
10
agreement, just confirming what your hourly rate
11
is 'or
12
13
No . Well --` yea
the f irst ' ;coupl,e,-oi' years . You' know, I do
14
15a
16
17
;_anything .
Q. .
18
19
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From 154 '' to '75
Orleans case in the '60s tli$t you assisted on .
20
How many such cases -did you assist on when you
21
were' .in the chemistry department in that 21-year
22
period?
23
There was one in-New Orleans - - one in
I 0.
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New Orleans, which .I, was there several times .
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There was 'one in St . Louis .
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I don't even remember
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who .t:hat wae,, 'Then I was asked to provide some
2
information on occasion with -- was it Green case,
which wasn' t"agains't • Reynolds, and a Pritchard
case against somebody else . It wasn't Reynolds .
And that, as far ae '1 . :know, was it .
6
have no
I
.,g . A tobacco manufacturer?
Oh, yeah . It was
3. 0
waa''American or . :who` it waa .
W ho :asked you to assist
11
12
I don' t-`know whether it
American in
that case?
Reynolda' lawyers . They wanted a summary of
13
14
something or other ; I've even forgotten_ what it
15
was .
16
17
Q . Did you attend any portion of the
trial?
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2i
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Did you
23
2
25
No : Provided the stuff to_Reynolde' lawyers,
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n the .Pritchard case, you weren't
helping Reynolds? What company were you helping?
I've forgotten . .
0
Another
were'.1ike the Lartigue .-caae, which was the case in
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
New Orleane .
a .
I
Lartigue, L-~A-12-T-I-G-U .-E, That was the case
in .:New -0rleans :
Q .
How .' .were they similar?
.
~
-They're :all smoking and lung cancer cases,
bel,ieve .
15
16
asking you .to assist=other tobacco manufacturers
17
in their lung cancer'litigat'ion?
18
A . '-No, not really . I guess z,figured they
,
19
wanted this information . I think it was pretty
20
well to do with'smoke composition and so on . I
21
had published a lot,on smoke . .
22
Did you assist in the defense of any
23
other cases'fox any other tobacco manufacturers?
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25
Do you know whether you received any
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,extra :income for assisting those other tobacco
Just my rbgu ;lar .pay ;f rom' Reynolde .
Q . Where was' the Pritchard case? Is that
Louis?
No . St . Louis was against Reynolds . I don' t
know-what it --'the name "Lowell" rings -- comes
o mind, but I'm not sure about the name of
the
4
10
11
12
. They were in the '60s, early '60s, I think .
:
13
14
want to do about lunch?
THE WITNESS : It's a good time to
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MR . MAISTROS : What do you gentlemen
quit•
MR . MCDERMOTT : I guesa .the witness
17
Why don't we accommodate
18
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him . .
20
MR : MAISTROS :
It.' .s his party .
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Q
Dr . Rodgman, what was the first
project you worked .on at Reynolds?
5
The first project I worked on was the
synthesis of a series of compounds that might have
7
potential use .as flavorants,. These were a series
of'phenols . And what they were .looking for was
10
And
-went about synthesizing, I don't
11
know, maybe 20,- .-22•of them . However, I knew, from
12
my previous work at .the literature surveying at
13
the .Banting, that some"phenols, at high
14
temperature, convert`to quinones, another class of
15
compounds . And the Japanese had done some work on
16
quinones, mouse painting experiments and so on,
17
18
~and found them to be tumorigenic .
So-putting that together with a new
19
article : that came out while 'I wae inthe midst of
20
this, that a'man called Boutwell and his
21
colleagues,, ``thatls
22
some phenols were classified as`promoters because ~
~
B~ .-0-U-T-W-E-L-'L,-reported that
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they . enhance the activity of polycyclic ~~
24
hydrocarbons that show ' some tumorigenicity .
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25
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said ; Hey, you know ;`
I,'ve nearly finished these
the grumbling~about polycyclics . Do you want to
put something that might .contribute quinones to
the "'smoke and have'another problem?
And the.y, ilooked at what I had there
They never used the
8
23 .or 22 compounda I,synthesized .,
Q.
10,
How long did that proj ect last?
A . About four months ., from June till November,
something like that ..;
12
Q.
13
being tumorigenic promoters, are there different
14
kinds of phenols?
15
V3.tamin E °
16
one of the great anti-carcinogens known .
17 .
Everybody's t'aking .it nowadays, aren't they, to
18
divert cancer :=
19
Q . Vitamin E?'
20
MR . SHELLER : I knew it .
21
THE WITNESS3
22
are phenols that are -- that are in all our food ~
23
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stuffs .- Cloves and cinnamon are loaded with m
24
various phen,ols .
a
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Q . Was there-a lot of literature, a
minimal literature?' . Describe the course or the
amount of literature there- ;was on phenols in '54 .
No, it ~- the literature on phenols escalated
when they couldn't expl .a.in~the mouse-contained
data', the number of tumors they were getting with
polycyclic hydrocarbons, either benzpyrene itself
or the'total polycyclic hydrocarbon fraction of
cigarette smoke ;-thie was Dr .- .Wynder, Hoffmann .
10
Dr . ."Wright, .who was`actually my major professor at
11
the :'University of Tdronto'did the chemistry for
12
Dr . Wynder for four or five years, until
13
Dr . Hoffmann came on the scene .
They --'when they couldn't explain the
14
15
pol'ycyclic hydrocarbon results, they said :
16
There's not enough there ; that only accounts for
17
two, three percent . Said : Oh, we've got
18
promoters .
they lit on'the phenols, because of
19
20
this article by Boutwell . And then from about
21
1960, perhaps, to .1962/'b3, everything was phenol
22
promotion, plus polycyclic hydrocarbons .
23
there was only one problem with it .
24
himself and Hoffmann ehowed, .what we had already I&
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Except ~
That Wynder ~
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it°doesn't affect-the biological activity of the
smoke . So how can°you have a promoter that
doesn't promote? E
dropped after that .
Q .:
Forever?
No, it's still around . But -- you know,
there are people who°never drop anything .
8
Q
It .was then . It i
101
man :'called,Aivin Kosak published an article
11
describing all the components in cigarette smoke
12
that ;had been,reported in ,the literaturee
13
throughout the world .
14
which about .30 were<wrong,`by :the way . And phenol
There are about 90 ; of
15
it's been known for a long time . I
16
17
think it was identified in smoke someplace in
18
probably the 1930
19
20
21
Q . Have phe,nols been blamed as anything
else other than•a promo"ter?
We11, yeah, I guess some -- there has been
Ln
H
some-of the low
22
gome work done`that phenol
23
molecular weight .phenols are cocarcinogens, rather,,,
24
than promoters .
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Do you know if Reynolds has done any
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On the biological work?
Q
5
Q
or verify or dispute whether`phenols were
promoters?` :
0 , we'didn't do any work . We did do work on
the fact that they were present ; we determined
10
their levels,'which agreed :with some of the work
11
in the .litexatur$ . And we also demonstrated that
12
the filter tip that we-used, which has a substance
13
called a plaeticizer!1n .it, took out about
141
85 percent of the phenols from the smoke . That
15'
was'subsequently confirmed by four or five groups,
16
both `pro- and -anti-tobacco`.
17
Q
Has°'there been any more recent or
18
modern .work relate.d'to .phenols and their potential
19
as,'promoters? . .
20
No . Once the -
21
Hoffmann ;showedathat if you took out the phenol
22`
2 .3
from smoke that°it didn't change the biological J
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m
:
Hey,
you
had
a
;activity of the smoke . I'd say
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promoter that-wasn't promoting .
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And they sort o J
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Now, at one time they considered
1
2
phenol as an indicator of that class of compounds
and :its .promoting effect, but they subsequently
dropped that argument .when it was proven to be
wro~'lg .
Q . What's an'indicator?
7
Yeah . It'was like a,marker, that phenol
itself gave a clue tp the series,of-low molecular
9
weight phenola, which .usual].y,is considered about
10
five or six or eight--compounds~that are present .
11
The same thing it .eai,d about benzpyrene : It's an
b t~Wynder and Hoffmann_'s own data show that's the
14
wrong,conceptg
W
it,your opinion ; as you sit here
7 7
5
16
today, that phenols then play no role in the
17
biological activity that is caused by cigarette
18
smoke?
19
20
been' ; done in animals, there has been some work
21
that ahows it' :doe's promote, there's some work that
22
shows .it doesn't promote, there's some work that ~
m
23
shows it's a cocarc .inogen, and some that shows it,,,
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24
ien't-a c?ocarcinogen : And all that work has beea OD
Ln
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Well, isn't,it true that most of the
work related to cancer,research has been done in
4
re3ied upon animal studies to make, certain
conclusions with respect to compounds involved in
smoke?
9
A.
Yes . ; And of course,,one of the things is
10
about that is ;that you may, as I do, disagree with
11
trying to extrapolate from a mouse skin painting
12
experiment to inhaling smoke as an aerosol . One,
13
you've got a eolution of a thick gummy substance,
14
the`other is an aerosol .- `You can't extrapolate
That has been .a',,-- a no-no since 1941 .
15
16
4
How'did you know that -- that phenols
17
were potentially`,promoters?
18
A . This man Boutwell had this article .in the -
19
20
Q
And` `what method did he use to
determine they were po"ntial promoters?
21
Ln
22
with a level'of polycyclice that normally wouldn't
23
give a very .`high percent tumor bearing animals .
24
And if he painted t .hem .at the same time -- or
25 .
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solution of phenol, following
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the :poiycyclic painting, then the polycyclic
seemed to behave like there was a lot more of it
3
there, or it_promoted the effect .
4
Well,'if -- and I :think your testimony
or Reynolds did not do any
6
testing on ita'own of the phenols, correct?
,Right .
Q . And if you were just reviewing
, test
10
,painting of mice, why wouldn't you tell Reynolds
11
not=to be concerned about it, because you can't
12
extrapolate`thoee results to the human experience?
13
Well, I think,`if .you read some of the things
14
wrote, that's what-I'implied in a lot of it .
15
But, then again, I also pushed, as you probablyy
16
are-aware, that I thought we should be doing some
17
biological work ourselves, because some of it was
18
actually very poorly done .
Wee had developed or, ;:if you wil.l,
19
20
acquired, a fairly good reputation`from our work
21
in chemistry of smoke ;and tobacco -- smoke
22
analysis/tobacco analyeis, and I felt-we could do
23 1
t he same thing in the biological area .
24
Q
.Why ;was the
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why were the test
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'arising from :the'moude akin painting of the
phenols,'enough : :to-Convince you to advise Reynolds
rrot, to exp3 .ore using phenols as flavorants?
,_ Well, here again,
things that happened :in-'54, or '52, '53, '54,
'56. . Benzpyr,ene,` :for example, got to be a term
that was altnost, ;ae aCary to people as the word
cancer . And I felt : Wel1, gee, we got enough
9
problem .with thia,term .' Let's not start
10
introducing something that could go to a quinone
11
and-have another problem that would be our doing .
as I eay, .I was frankly surprised,
12
13
wher;i here' s a man'that' ;s been there three or four
14
months, walks into .research management and says :
15
Hey, . .here's some,_articles ; .I don't think we should
16
use 'these . ''And they say :
17
won't use them .
18
Q.
Who
did :you specifically talk to?
19
Dr . Senkus'and Mr . Hoover, my manager and the
20
21
22
23
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Was your, -- was your opinion that
those shouldn't`be explored based upon your
your scientific belief that there were
24
health risks related to those compounds, or was it
25 .
based upon your belief :that it wasn't worth
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getting into because
2
health risks related'to .itd
3
the public thought there were
Well, I thought why stir up another mess that
we were -- like the-one,we're already into with
-the'polycyclics :
mean, I ;was convinced the
had discovered benzpyrene and saya there isn't
a'problem . The American
10
Association for Canoer_Research said the same
11
12
When?
'84 . I've
t i
13
14
15
16
What 'did 'they say?
That there'a no compound`in cigarette smoke
cause of cancer . .
17
that :can be attributed_as a
18
Something in those words .
19
same` thing, Do11- .and Hill and' -- Doll and Peto
20
said the same thing . Doll is the guru of
21
statistical standings :`
J . W . Cook said the
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and Fred Bock, and Benjamin Van- .Duuren pr o ba bl y ~~
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there cannot be a compound that is the cause of
cancer?
3
A . What they say is you cannot explain the
animal experiments on .skin painting with the
5
.composition of smoke as dictated by polycyclic
hydrocarbons or benzo[alpyrene .
That group,was not'suggesting, were
Q
they, and they did_not suggest,'that there was not
a'statisticalj.link .be;tween smoking and certain
10
forms of cancer?
11
Oh, no . Nc
12
Q . You agree that--there was definitely,
13
even by '56, a statistical link between smoking
14
and cancer?
15
A . A statistical association .
16
Q
Isn't it-,more fair to say that what
17,
that'group was, .e'aying was that"th.ere was no
18
specific compound that could be identified as the
19
specific cause of,the cancer?
20
21
22
guess you might_,say that,
after this four-month period
where you were working on phenols as a flavorant,
23
24
25
it surprised me .
was told to'drop the phenol
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pxoject, that
they said : What do you want to
work on?' And I said, well -- you know, I think
it's in something I wrQte someplace : I said :
What .we're selling is smoke . I would like to do
5
work ; on amoke_ composition .
,And
because so little was known, as
I told you,'about the :article by Alvin Kosak and
8
the 90-something compounds .
So I set upFa whole . system of
10
examining smoke ;' the'smoking machine was patterned
11
after :that of :Dr . Wynder's
12
look at tobacco .smoke,And between examining the
13
composition of tobacco .~'s°moke and finding ways to
14
modify it, it t-ook 'the'next ten years .
15
16
17
Q
And we set out t
What was your beginning goal in
'-looking at smoke composition?
Well, I've already told you that I had worked
18
out a-p ;rocedure for ;,isolating and identifying
19
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from my work at
20
the' `Banting- and Best : And I was so f irmly
21
convinced that all this controversy was a bunch
22
nonsense, that the first thing I did was go after
23
the polycyclic hydrocarbons -Were-you --
24
Q
25
-- and settle the issue once and for all, in
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my mind, that,they"were there in very low levels .
2
We actually`isolated the benzopyrene in
crystalline form . : First time that had"ever been
done .
Q . You were convinced that the
controversy ;was nonsense . Was that before or
after you began-at Reynolds?
Well, I really had nothing to do with medical
emok~e until I-got to Reynolds .
And, as I say,
10
when I started reada .ng -a little more about it and
11
suddenly realized some people were saying no, they
12
can't there and, yes ;'they can be there . And I
13
14
thought, the background of everything that had
..
been done since the mid '30s, there was no way
15
they could not be'there .
Q . I'm talking specifically about the
16
17
polycyclic
}That's what I'm talking about .
18
19
Carbo -- polycyclic hydrocarbons . Did
0
20
you, before you began at Reynolds, ever express in
21
writing that you-believed that t he polycyclic
22
carbohydron
23
nonsense?
24
A.
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Q . Did you ever express, before you began
at Reynolds, orally that you believed that the
polycyclic hydrocarbon .controversy was nonsense?
Well, in my-work at the Banting, as I said, I
did :a lot of work in polycyclic hydrocarbons, and
would have "occasiori :, .to talk with my boss there,
9
Dr . .Franks . And of'° .course he was very
1, 0
knowledgeable in''polycyclics . And there were
11
12
papers that were~appearing,in some of the chemical
.,
j ournale and talkxng _about the presence of
13
polycyclics in their .;,'-- in cigarette smoke . And
14
then,there were papere .saying, well', they couldn't
15
fa.nd it .
And in our•
16
17
We11, the curves tha't'these people have, spectral
18
curves, .really don't tell you that they claim to
19
be polycyclics, really don't show that it is, they
20
were so poor, and this was Dr .'Fieser's criticism
21
in 1957 . And between us, I said : Hell -- pardon
22
my language . Heck, there's no way they can't be
23
there, from all we knew about how-they were formed
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.controversy was . Was the controversy -2
The controversy was whether they were there
3
4
6
controversy as to whether
or not they were tumor-promoting or tumorigenic?
Well, if there was a controversy about
9
whether they were there or not there, you have to
10
prove that-they were there,to find out which ones
11
were there before you'could say : Well, if you had
12
a dozen polycyclics, which ones had ever been
13
tested?
Q . So your -- when you say this ten-year
14
15
project, you -- at the end of this ten years, were
16
you'convinced one way or-the other as to the,
17
quote, controversy,
18
A.
19
controversy in 1956 .when we isolated them .
20
unquote?
was convinced that there was no
Q . So the controversy you're referring to
21
that was resolved in your own mind -- or resolved
22
earlier but confirmed ten years later, was that
cn
23
they are there?
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I knew that in '56 . . 1 said -- I think you're
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I think I-did .
about the ten-year period . What we did,
A.
once we :were there, we .did a great deal of work on
4
how .could we diminish'them . And as -- one of the
things"that a lot of people were doing in labs all
over the place, was trying,to reduce polycyclics
7
specifically . And -l'_m sure we 'll get into the
fact that, when you .zry,that'with any class of
compounds in cigarett .e'smtike, you'run into a
10
problem .
Why were you trying to reduce them?
11
4
12
Well, here again, you had everybody saying
13
these things about polycyclics and they were
14
tumorigenic to mouse skin or on subcutaneous
15
injection, and the best way to shut up the people
16
complaining was to say, okay, let's get them out
17
of there or diminish them . They're not flavorful,
18
or at least most of them aren't . . Some of the
19
lower molecular rate :polycyclics are flavorful .
20
One of'~`them used to be ;ueed in mothballs :
21
Naphthalene .
,
,
22
Q . Was your'research to reduce the
23
polycyclic hydrocarbons related to your personal
24
Oesire•to make cigarettes-safer or to reduce the
25
controversy around polycyclic hydrocarbons?
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A .
2
Probably part .;and parcel of both . When we
started the first,study on ways to reduce
polycyclic .hydrocarbons, we -- the polycyclic
hydrocarbons have to come from something in the
5
tobacco . Now, tkiere .had been a big controversy
whether they got there by"atmospheric pollution,
'by stuff settling on .the leaves in the fields
the big contr:oversy, well, all the
polycycl .ice came'from the cigarette paper and this
10
type of thing . 'But those
11
another group that thought,the :polycyclics came
rettee with a match, the burning
12
13
14
15
of 'tY}e wood "in '`the mat-ch, or the hexane in
the
.cigarette`ligh"ter .
Well, ` it
16
well, it come from something in the tobacco . And
17
i't was determined there were things in tobacco
18
that-'would give more polycyclics than cigarette
19
paper and so on . So,`if we got rid of those, the
20
polycyclic levels'wou1d go
21
did that was .toI extract what is called precursors .
22
down .
And the way we
Well, unbeknownst to us, for some
J
same project .im
23 .
time, Dr . Wynder was'working on the
24
And ' the way I found out that waa,because, as I
25
said, my major professor did all the chemistry
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with Dr . -- for Dr . Wynder, until he got
2
Dr . Hoffmann . And .I .found out that they're
working on extraction the same as we .are .
And in ..1960
Dr . Wynder, at a meeting in Atlantic City, said :
6
We'+ve given up on extraction ; it's economically
7
and :practically unfeasible .
8
Well, we had given -- we gave it up
too, for the :same -- for part of the same reason .
10
But- .the second part of the reason was that, when
11
you take out the precursors, you end up raising
12
.the :level of the non-soluble parts of tobacco,
13
like cellulose"and lignin ; they get to be a larger
14
percentage of the filler .- And one of the main
15
source of phenols Is`lignin, which is non-soluble
16
in'the`solvents that we .used . So did you want to
17
lower polycyclics and raise the .-phenols when there
18
was still a13l thie chatter abo'ut,phenols being a
19
problem?
20
The .other
21
soluble in t he solvents used for the extraction .
22
And, as we suepected, if 'you' left the nitrates
23
there, their`ratio in the residue -- : extracted
24
residue would increase, so you'd effectively
25
increase the nitrosamines in smoke . So do you
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want to lower one thing and raise two?
So we said, "To heck with it," and
3
went on to something .else .
Q . At what point in time in your ten
4
years of your research`did you say'"to heck with
it," or was that after ten .years?
No . We did that about 1960, somewhere around
there . We looked, at .extraction for about three
years, and was actually so serious about it, we
10
had A major engineering company design a plant to
it, when we thought it was a good way to go .
12
But when we figured out that there were more -- it
13
would raise more problems than .it would solve, we
14
ended that .
Was there any -- you referred to a
15
16
ten-year period and`I just want to be clear in my
17
mind . What were you talking about,' .that ten-year
18
period?
19
Well, the ten=year period was from '54 to
20
'64', early '65, somewhere in there . . We were under
Hoover was the director
21
D
,Senkus was a manager and then he
22
of
23
was`aseistant director of, research . And we did a
24
lot~ of t-hings on_smoke-composition, polycyclics,
251 , phenols, ciliastate, nitrosamines, and we looked
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at,'different ways to ;-- ;we concentrated, mostly,
on`the polycyclic business .
3
And everything we
came,up with,~where we tried to look at -reduce things specifically, selectively, in other
5
words, only the polycyclics, only the phenols, we
ran ;into a trouble that we'-- if you lower one
thing, you were raising something else .
SO we went•to a philosophy : If you're
going-to make a safer cigarette, less hazardous
10
cigarette, lower everything as near, :in proportion
11
as you can . And the""work on, if you will, the
12
less hazardous cigarettes, everybody was looking
13
at it . And the interesting thing -- it may not be
14
interesting to you . But in 1960 D
I 15
out with an article and said the --`at this point
16
in time, the four cigarette design technologies
17
significant in making a less haza,rdous cigarette
18
are°the blend, the-'filter tip, paper porosity, and
19
reconstituted tobacco sheet .
20
. Wynder came
Now, . if you look historically at those
21
four, the first blended cigarette, called the
22
"American blend, was introduced in 1913 by R .J .
23
Reynolds Tobacco Company . And, subsequently,
24
after 1957/58,' it .was shown that a blended
251 cigarette was less -- smoke was less tumorigenic
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to mouse skin, its .benzpyrene content was less,
2
its phenols were less, .so on and so forth . The
-second, on filtration -4
Q . Less carcinogenic than what?
A . . Pardon?
Did you say .less carcinogenic?
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Less :tumorigenic to mouee skin .
The second one, filtration, the first
success
.really .succes.sful cigarette acceptable
10
o the consumer was the Wineton, 1953, introduced
11
by`R . . .J . Reynolds Tobacco Company . There had been
12
filter .cigarettes,, but'they were 1-ess than one
13
percent of the market .
When the'Winston came out, the filter
14
15
tip cigarette took off like a skyrocket .
Well, the-other thing that the Winston
16
17
cigarette had, and wnich was also'incorporated
18
into t he other Reynolds brands, was reconstituted
19
tobacco sheet . Reconstituted tobacco :,sheet had
20
been used as a wrapper for cigars . But no
21
successful one .'had e,ver_been made that was
22
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23
24
25
did'it . Dr . Samuel Jones invented it .
The third ' one was paper porosity, that
you lowered the tar'and nicotine and everything
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else by having paper that let the air flow through
it fast .
So .the ;first four things that were
ever introduced, that Wynder and Hoffmann said
5
were signif .icant, all came out of R .J . Reynolds
6
Tobacco Company .
Q . Of those four items -
7
8
A.
And they were a1l copied by everybody else,
within three years of~their introduction .
Q . Those four items that you mentioned,
10
11
12
were
they originally"developed as health ideas?
they weren't . But, you know, it is, if
13
you will, serendipity, good fortune, that they all
14
worked out to be that way .
15
Q, Have,you seen any documents in your
16
employment or consulting relationship with RJR
]. 7
that would . ;suggest that- any of those four things
18
19
e,-further developed as a potential -- let me
start over .
The .'
20
21
you said`they did not start out with the
22
concept that 'they would be health-related benefits
23
to 'smoking?
24
Well, obv .iously the blend one in 1913
25
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Q . . Did you ever see any,documents at RJR,
during your employment or during your consulting
period, that'suggested that there wouid be health
benefits to theae :four._items that ..should be
exptored?
y. ;
A ." `"Not "that- I .recall . It may have been
;merit'ioned, after•~the`-whole concept of -- when
Dr . Wynder .talked :about'lowering the tar he did
soaie''work in 1957, and at the same time he did the
10
benzpyrene work . And his conclusions were : If -it tar is the problem in smokers, then lowering
12
the tar by 40_percent would almost do away with
13
any respiratory tra'ct,problems . And that was in
14
hist testimony before the Blatnik Committee in
15
1957 .
16
17
there was a"look .at, you know,
if you increase the reconstituted
18
tob.acco sheet,
19
in agreement with what -- at least -- not i
20
agreement with, but complied with the things that
21
Dr ., Wynder was sayin.g .
22
that would lower the tar, which was
Do you )Criow of any promotional
23
campaigns that touted-either'blendg,~filter ti Pf
24
paper porosity, reconstituted tobacco°with
25
providing health benefits?
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No . As
anything .
The fact that
well, let's look at
reconstituted-tobacco .
. Now, ;ahat wae .introduce by 1953 . By
4
1958, everybody ;in the industry had copied, not
6
our .specific reconstituted tobacco sheet, but one
7
similar to it, that they either designed
themselves or`had,p.omebody`deeign for them, like
the"American Machine and Foundry .• Well, if you
10
look .at the curve of ;tar versus sales-weighted
11
average tar, it becomes obvious that that tar is
12
dropping, dropping, dropping ; and it's still
13
dropping : So, you know, if what Wynder says is
14
right, then we've done something in accord with
15
his wishes .
16
Q . Can you tell me any specific research
.
,
,
17
that you were assigned to in that ten-year period
18
that the goal was to~-.develop a'safer cigarette?
1962, one`of the people that worked for
19
20
me,' 'Dr . Fredricks:on, wrote a memo about tobacco
21
and how to, perhaps, generate a less hazardous
22
cigarette .
23
Put less tobacco in the cigarette .
24
25
And his philosophy or proposal was :
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a certain dimension, you've got a thing that's
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about the size of a pencil and it's so long, that
-you don't want toy drastically change the shape of
the,cigarette, but,how do you put less tobacco,
and'that .taking into account the filter? And he
said: Well,'make the tobacco lighter,
y
expanding it .
And in his memorandum he points out
that, not only would .this generate considerable
9
revenue, but it would also lower the tar and
10
whatever`elae you were interested in and want
11
lowered, that were -- that 'people were possibly
12
saying that was responsible for this or that .
13
And he worked on it, got the patents
14
on it . We put it in ;the cigarettes, we licensed
15
it, everybody else copied ; those that weren't
16
licensing developed one'of their own . And that's
17
one of the eight_significant technologies listed
18
by the Surgeon General as contributing to a safer
19
cigarette . That, came out of R .J . Reynolds,
20
because we had the first' patents on it .
21
22
23
Q . And it's considered safer because each
cigarette has less tobacco in it?
No . Because ,the smoke has -- the smoke
24
generated by the cigarette ; according to the -
25
you've got to go back, I think, sir, to who
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defined the safer cigarette . And it was
a
cigarette -- the cigarette with expanded tobacc o
in it,fitted the definition of those who define d
safer cigarette . . Tar was less tumorigenic to
5
mouse skin ; tar was lowered . And the ratio of
certain ingredients to tar per milligram of tar
werelowered, and that included benzopyrene and
8
phenol and whatever else you wanted .
nd, as I. .eay, all you got to do i s
9
the Surgeon :4eneral's report for 1979 ,
10
look at
11
1981, and thereit gives you a list of eigh t
12
technologies, seven of which came out o f
13
14
15
Which isthe only one that didn't ?
not the first who incorporate d
16
ventilated filter tips into a cigarette ; I thin k
17
American Tobacco Company was . But we utilized i t
18
19
20
21
22
tip, paper`porosity, reconstituted tobacco . Wha t
.are the other four ?
in ;sequence ,
2 3
24
phenols, which, by the way, also take out volatil e
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seventh was .expanded .tobacco, and the last one
introduced was venti,lated filter tipe .
Q . Is it your suggestion that RJR did
research and used these areas to develop a safer
cigarette?
A .- Well, we -- we fitted it into the same type
of_program, if you-will~` that the National -National Cancer'Inst,itute called .their less
hazardous --'~its lees .~hazardous cigarette program .
10
11
Q . Did'RJR act,ually ._have a less hazardous
cigarette program?
12
Well, we incorporated all these things -- I
13
mean,
there was :a great deal of research that went
14
into expanded tobacco, for example . We did the
15
chemistry of the smoke, very detailed chemistry .
16
We,.did the biology~ "of -the smoke on skin painting
17
study . Our .results on the biology -- biology of
18
the smoke -- ;bioa`ssay of the . smoke were checked
19
and confirmed in the NCI study . They,were also
20
checked and,confirmed in Germany by a man called
21
Dontenville . And if you look at the definition
22
that` came out in the`late '50s of what a safer
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25
Q
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cigarette"?
A . I don't have . a definition, sir .
Q . Do you believe there is a safer
cigarette?
.
We .used the definition that Dr . Wynder and
Hoffmann and Bock came-- :up with in,the '60s
early ',60s, late
50s .
Q . I'm talking about you, individually .
Do-you be3 .iede there"is a safer cigarette?
well,
10
11
cigarettes are that ;unsafe . But
Q.
12
13
14
15
- as I say, I'm not too sure
point .
Okay .~
guess that's a good starting
Do you believe cigarettes are unsafe?
, Cigarettes are .unsafe? No, I don't believe
ciga'rettes' are unsafe .
Q . : Do you believe that there are no
16
17
health risks related,to,smoking?
18
A.
19
smoking and :certain diseases .
20
21
. Well, there is t .he association between
Q.
Do
you .believe that's a valid
association?
22
MR . BLANCATO : . Object to the form .
23
THE WITNESS : I'm not that much of
24
expert, sir, on statistics . But the -- I'm
251 aseuming that the - - most of the incidences, the
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association .
BY MR . MAISTROSt
4
5
Q
The association you're referring to is
just a statistical one?
6
On the samples that were done, yes .
And the fact that you-recognize
8
there's a statistical association between smoking
and certain diseases does not convince you in
10
any way that cigarettes are unsafe or smoking is
11
unsafe?
12
I'm not sure . I won't -- I will not equate
13
association with cause and effect, if that's what
14
you're looking for .
Q . You don't think there's enough
15
16
biological, chemical, analytical research out
17
there to establish a link between smoking and
18
certain forms of cancer?
Well, you talk about biology . According to
19
.
20
the
21
Can : you induce thee aame kind of tumor by the same
22
route that you get in humans? And you can't do
23
that with inhalation of cigarette smoke . Yet you
24
can`do the .same thing_with the exposed mice, for
25
example, by inhalation to .the same level of diesel
what you should look for in bioassays
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exhaust fumes, at the same level as you do with
cigarette smoke, and you will get squamous cell
carcinoma in the mice that you don't .get with
4
cigarette smoke .
Q
When you were in Canada for those
6
seven years, you did :mice and rat and some chicken
7
studies?
8
A . Well, as I
Q
You were involved in them?
10
A . I was involved with them at -- I did the
11
chemistry of'the things they wanted to use in the
12
animal work .
13
Q
If during the course of those studies,
14
you were, I asoume,youu were doing those for some
15
purpose . In other words, if you saw .that
16
certain compound would cause cancer in a mouse,
17
MR .'MCDERMOTT :
18
19
I mean,
20
21
22
23
24
.relevant information to know that a
.compound
promotes tumors .in a mouse?
Weli, here again, tumor promotion is an
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But beyond that point is -- we already
knew ;that the compounds that we were working with
were either very potent in the way they caused
tumors, either on skin :'painting or subcutaneous
injection or intraperitoneal injection .
Q . You were doing animal testing, were
you,not, back in '47 to °'53, so that you can draw
sonte,conclusions upon the biological activity of
c,ertain compounds? .
10
A . Well, we were interested in the fact that the
11
serum' we were ge:n.erating, the vaccine we were
12
generating, would it stop the production of tumors
13
in :the animals that, we knew we were going to cause
14
tumors in .
15
.16
Q, Let's take>4t another way . Why did
you want RJR, in '54 ., to develop it's own in-house
17
animal research laboratories?
18
A . I didn't say`that in 154 .
19
20
Q.
Okay ; when'did you say that?
A . . . I don't know . Late '50s, early '60s .
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21
Q.
Why
did .you want R .J . Reynolds to
22
develop its own in-house animal testing in the
23
late 'S4s, earYy ;'60s? :
24
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. Well, one of the`reasons, as I said, was, if
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began to augment their research capability, we had
2
developed -- Reynolds had developed quite a
3
reputation in the field of tobacco composition,
tobacco and smoke a,nalysis . And then, when we got
into the smoke :composition work, where -- when I
started it in '54, by_1960, we had quite a
reputation for our skills in these .areas . And if
8
you looked at some of the stuff in the literature
9
on biology,-some of it was very poorly done . And
10
I felt : Let's do i`t, develop the expertise to do
11
it properly, and it may be more meaningful .
12
And one of the things -- you may not
13
realize this either,' that if you go to a meeting
14
and somebody's giving a talk on animal studies,
15
and!it doesn't necessarily have to be on tobacco
16
smoke, but usually we were interested in what
17
pe ople were saying in that area, and you asked a
18
question of,Dr . Wynder or Dr . Bock from Roswell
19
Park in`Buffalo, t he first thing they would look
20
and'say : Gee, there's~:Alan Rodgman from Reynolds
21
or Joe Smith from someplace else :, And they would
22
ask'the question : Was your question an outgrowth
23
ot fiomething you noticed .in your work? And of
24
course you were stuck . If you hadn't done any
25
biological work, you could .say : Well, I haven't
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done any ; and'they'd i ust ignore your question .
Q . Up to this .,_point in time, had Reynolds
contracted with .outside laboratories to do such
4
work?
5
A . -No, I-don't think,so . I was trying to think .
6
That'didn't happen,until the '60s, I guess .
7
8
Q : Which companies -~ in the '60s, when
you decided to recommend that Reynolds develop
more biological in-house research, which companies
10
were doing biological in-house research?
11
A . . Well, when I first recommended -- or
12
recommended the acquisition of a biological
13
capability through bioassays and so on, nothing
14
happened for a while . But, then, I guess it was
15
about the mid '60s, we actually formed a group,
16
you know, that did some biological work . Not
17
necessarily all on tobacco smoke either, because
18
of some other ongoing things at Reynolds .
And`in addition to some in-house work,
19
20
we had some work done at'various -- Bio-Research
21
in Chi,cago,
22
Do you know which tobacco companies
23
were ;doing in-house biological research when
24
Reynolds was not?
25
w
. At that time I didn'
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MR . MCDERMOTT :
THE WITNESSs I-guess it was late '62,
really, in May_;
6
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . And when did they develop in-house
biological research?
In '65 . They started to acquire the staff .
10
And one of the problems, you know, you say -- you
11
don't jump into doing biological work overnight,
12
sir . You've got to get the staff, you've got to
13
get .a facility . A biological facility is -- is
14
not just like putting your kitchen together . ; it's
15
quite an elaborate setup . And it took time to get
16
that all done, and get the appropriate staff, and
17
get things started .' And, as I say, all of the
18
biological work that was done, underway, was not
19
all on cigarette smoke .
Q . Who was in charge of the efforts to
20
21
put_together sophisticated biological research
Ln
22
capabilities within RJR in 1965?
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A.
24
N-I+E-L-S-O-.N ., I ;guess .it is .
A man called Dr . Eldon Nielson, E-L-D-O-N,
What role did you play in that
25
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project?
A . None . I was just glad to see they were
getting a move on .
Q . And the primary benefit you saw, at
least, was so that'you could be more knowledgeable
when'you attended these seminars?
Well, that would have been a help . But
the~-- one of our problems had been, we do all the
chemistry of ways to control smoke and lower this
10
and that, and we sort of had to rely on people
11
doing the same thing outside and then seeing what
12
they did with the animal work, their animal work,
13
because they could do both . This way, if we were
14
.doing them both in-house, we could probably speed
15
up our knowledge reserve, and so on and so forth .
16
Q . And is it your testimony, that prior
17
to the development of this biological laboratory
18
in 1965, that Reynolds did not have'any in-house
19
capabilities to either confirm or deny the
20
biological work that'was being done by third
21
parties?
22
23
MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
THE WITNESS : I don't think they did .
24
25
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When I say Reynolds, I mean either
0
in-house or by contracting it out .
m really -- I don't remember them going
outeide .
I think they may .have for some things,
but I don't'remember them going outside .
Q . When, if,you could put the year -- if
you could put a year to it ; if it's an unfair
question, tell me . When do you think Reynolds
first had the capabilities to personally examine
10
the biological activity of smoke?
Probably -- oh, ;I'11 say '60s . Let's say it
11
12
took them a year and a half to get everything
13
staffed and so on . Probably late '66 or early
14
167, somewhere in there .
15
Q . And the in-house biological research
16
that was developed in`'66/'67, did that continue
17
through the time you left RJR?
18
19
.
No . The -- some of the biological work was
terminated in 1970 .
20
Q, What "some" of it?
21
Pardon?
22
Q . What "some" of it?
23
Well, I'm sure you're referring to all the
24
fuss about the 1970 supposed closing of a Mouse
25
House . But there were several things going on in
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the biologica] . areatthat -- for example, we were
in the proc'ess of considering a liaison with a
,pharmaceutical .Gompany ; Warner Lambert, I think it
was . We also were doing biological work -- and
with that regard ; we were -- had looked at some
forget whether they came from
6
compounds
7
tobacco or smoke, ._ We were looking at the
8
biology -- bioaseay of them as
9
cho.lesterol-reducing compounds . And so there were
10
I
several people working-on that .
The`n, .there was another group who were
11
12
working on what was called the isomerase project,
13
Which actually wa`s`a bacteriological project of
14
way to convert'glucose to a mixture of glucose and
i5
fructose . And,~ nowa;days, if you look at Coke or
16
Pepsi or soft drinks or ice cream, you'll notice
17
that t hey all .contain what's called liquid sugar,
18
which is a mixture of glucose and fructose,
19
produced by a similar system . Reynolds has its
20
own
21
called Penick `& 'Ford .
22
developed'its own system for a company
Now,` Penick & Ford was also a seller
23
'starch compounds, and`some of them, of course,
24
were> used in `foods,' ,some' were used as coatings on
25
paper, so on .' So they were a group testing the
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compounds that were used -- that would have been
2
3
taken in by people .
And then . .t here were, of course, people
4
working on the effects of cigarette smoke . And
5
then there was another group -- the Council for
6
Tobacco Research was'looking for a smoking machine
to use, to expose'animals to inhalation . It's
8
called the "nose only exposure method," where the
beast gets the smoke"`right at his nose and mouth .
10
11
And `Reynolds designed one .
So there were people -- biological
12
people working on the design of that machine with
13
people from the electronic -- electrical
14
department . And'all the companies, I think, made
15
one . I think Lorillard had one, we had one -- I
16
don't know if Philip Morris had one or not . But
17
it`ended up the Council for Tobacco Research
18
didn't pick any of ours, they picked a machine
19
called the Walton smoking machine .
20
So, contrary to what has been said
21
about what went on in the -- all these articles in
22
the newspaper that the whole biological group was
23
terminated, ' it was terminated because they were ~
24
all'' .working on cigarette smoke, their notebooks
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nonsense . And if you want to take :the time, I
2
think I could go .through and demonstrate to you
3
how-much nonsense it`really was . If I haven't
already .
For example,` they said the only people
terminated were biological . There were at least
eight people who were not biologically oriented .
Some of them were analytical chemists, some of
9
them were organic chemists, working on a flavorant
And ; :the other thing abnut it was .there were about
12
12 people, including Dr . Nielson, who stayed on
13
after that, all biologi .cally oriented, except one .
14
Q . Who's that?
15
A man called Fred Wendelboe . He was doing
16
some analytical .chemistry for the biological
17
people .and went to the -- back to the
18
biological -- went back to the analytical group .
19
But the interesting thing is that some
20
f .the .people in :the biological area, they were --
21
according to people,who said everybody was gone,
22
a`re still there . In .fact, one of them is giving
23
two papers at the Tobacco Chemists Conference next
24
week .
25
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Riley Davis . Riley, R-I-L-E-Y, Davis . Fred,
Wendelboe is still there .
The-other interesting thing, the same
4
people who were saying Reynolds was so nasty in
5
getting rid of all this stuff about smoking and
health, three of,them came back : Dr . Bruce,
Dr . Colucci, and Dr . Simmons . And Dr . Simmons is
still there .
9
~things were so ;ugly? :
MR .`BLANCATO : Would this be a good
10
11
time for a break?
MR . MAI9TROS : Just a couple of
12
13
14
15
And"why would you come back if
minutes .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . What` was so"uglyo
mean, one-of those three
16
17
peo, ple said that~_th .ey destroyed his notebooks,
18
which he had to admit wasn't true' . He was the one
19
that gave the_ .interviews that said everybody in
20
21
R . Who'e that?
22
Colucci .
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BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q.
Dr,; Rodgman, in 1970, the biological
research laboratory, if you will, at RJR was
10
shut down, was it not?
11
Yes .
12
Q . Where was it located?
13
A . It was located across the street from the -
14
the main research building .
15
16
17
18
19
20
Q . What was the building called where
biological research was done?
. People called it "the Mouse House," but it
probably had a more sophisticated name .
Q.
Was there anything else in the
building, other than biological research?
21
Not that I know of .
22
Q
23
Were there any employees in the
.building, other .than biological research
24
employees?
25
A . Well, now,'it depends on when you were there .
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For example, the people that were working on the
2
design of the inhalation smoking machine would go
over there and they'd pop animals in and they
wouid adjust things in :the computer, and so on and
But I was never really that much
7
involved, so -- other than that one thing, I don't
who wae in another building .
know who
Q . Who made t he decision to close the
10
biological research laboratory referred to as the
11
"Mouse Houee
12
A . `` I have no idea
13
Q
Who .was,in charge of biological
14
research in 1970 at Reynolds?
15
A .` Dr . `Eldon,Nielson . ;
16
Q
What happened with the animals that
17
were being biologically researched at the Mouse
18
House?
19
I have no idea .
20
Q . Never heard any stories?
21
No .
22
Q•
23
24
25
Not even rumors, hearsay, cocktail
party conversation?
I don't,even remember reading it in the
articles in the Greensboro newspaper, when there
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were five articles, I think, spread over a week, a
page and a half each .
3
4
Q :,
Did you`ever see any memos that
described why the Mouse House was shut down?
5
N
6
Q
Do you`know if they did any research
in the Mouse House that would establish a link
n between cigarette smoke and any form of
9
tumors or
cancer?
10
No .
11
Q . Do you know what kind of biological
12
13
14
research they were doing in the Mouse House?
. Would you rephrase that, please?
Q . Do you know what kind of biological
15
research they were"doing in the Mouse House?
16
A . Well, as I,mentioned before, they were doing
17
some things on cholesterol reducing drugs, on
18
inability or toxicity of starch derivatives that
19
would be in food .' And of course this isomerase
20
thing, they had,to make sure that the liquid sugar
21
you ended up with was -- didn't have bacteria in
22
it, the one that was causing the isomerization .
23
And I'believe they did some work on ciliastasis,
24
cigarette smoke and ciliastasis .
25
Q . What is ciliastasis?
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Well, the cilia are small, little hair-like
things that are in your lung . And I guess the
3
best :-way to describe them is they move in the -synchronously,` like a wave, you know . On the
surface of -- the tips of these things is -- is a
layer of fluid . And if you get anything in your
lung, particles, smoke particles,
8
.dugt, these
little cilia wiggle in a rhythmic motion and move
that : fluid with,the . particles` in it up -- and you
10
end`up swallowing them . It brings them out of
11
your lung and you swallow them .
12
Well, it had been this -- after the
13
demise, if you wi11, .-,of the polycyclics, the
14
aza-arenes, the phenols, the next group were the
15
ciliastats, which were ;primarily in the vapor
16
phase of smoke, not in-the particles . And there
17
was some work .on that .
18
The exposure to these ciliastats, done
19
in vitro with clam cilia or a piece of lung tissue
20
extirpated out of a ;rabb .it, exposure to these
21
vapor phase parts of smoke slowed these down ;
22
sufficient concentration ended
23
their little waving motion . In other words, you
24
were -- the claim was that the ciliastats in smoke
25
hindered the clearance mechanism of the lung .
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And, as a result of that, one of the -- it was
2
written up a great deal in the Readers Digest and
3
so' .on, as the same time as the Lark cigarette
came
out,'which had a,carbon filter which was supposed
;o take the ciliastats out of the smoke .
Well -- I think they were doing some
work :'on that . I'm not sure of that, but I believe
they were .
Unfortunately, by 19 .-- the end of,
9
10
1968 -- well, let,me,back up a little .
1965, Lawrence Cook-and I did some
11
12
experiments that showed that the compounds that
13
are supposedly responsible for ciliastasis or this
14
impairment,never reached the lung, or-very little
15
of them .
16
17
18
They're all dissolved out of the mouth
the saliva, and then the laryngeal, and the
fluids coating the larynx .
We reported that, wrote it up ; it's in
19
some reports . But some other workers in Europe,
20
Da].hamn,' Edfords and Rylander, did it very
21
sophisticated ; very fancy equipment . Got
22
23
: essentially the same numbers that we did for the v+~
~
compounds that are considered ciliastats . And, as '0
24
a result, by the 1969,,1970, the whole carbon
25
filter cigarette'thing fell apart . It ended up
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with -- I don't know, 13 brands going down to two,
2
the Reynolds' brand and the L & M brand, Lark and
3
Tempo .
And what-they were doing over in
the -- I think one of the things they may have
been doing, we had also found, Lawrence Cook and
that if you pass the smoke through a moist
8
system, that the water would take out the
9
ciliastats . In fact, there was a commercial
10
cigarette made with :that principle, that
11
encapsulated water .was included in the filter tip,
12
and before you smoked the cigarette, you crushed
13
the filter . The water came out of the capsule,
14
and when you smoked it through -- smoked the
15
cigarette, all the ciliastats were taken out .
But thatl all fell apart when it was
16
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shown that the ciliastats, or very little of them,
18
ever got to the lung .
19
20
Q
Now,
did RJR do research to establish
that ciliastats : nevex'.' got to the" lung?
just told you .
21
Where is that published?
22
23
It's not published .
24
Q.
25
Well, shortly thereafter, Edfords and
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Rylander-came out with their publication, and
there it was .
R
3
So'is it like medically not subject to
debate that ci3iastats -don't get to the lung?
I didn't say they didn't get to the lung . I
said the level that :>gets to.the lung is very much
reduced . Only about--a querter of them get there .
Q.
How'many .cigarettes do you have to
smoke befor,e you .get`a level that gets to the lung
10
.that matters?
I have no'' idea .
11
12
13
A .
No . The thing is, the effect disappears
14
between cigarettes .
15
Q .
16
The effect disappears between cigarettes .
17
Q . Is there any health d :isease that you
Pardon
me?
18
would feel comfortable, sitting here today,
19
acknowledging as related to smoking?
20
MR . MCDSRMQTTs . "Related"?
21
MR . MAISTROS : Related .
22
THE WITNESS : I still didn't hear you?
23
24
25
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it .
s there any .adverse health
3
consequence, that you feel comfortable discussing
today, ;that is related or associated with smoking?
MR .' BLANCATO : Object to the form .
MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
8
around so much
10
11
Let me
4.
12
There are certai•n people out there
13
14
15
that you've referred to as zealots or
I never used that word .
I forget what word you used,
16
17
opponents, proponents of theories, or anti-smoking
18
people, that would suggest that there are certain
19
diseases related to emoking . Are you aware of
20
21
Well,`I've already said that there were
m
22
epidemiological-studies that indicated an
23
association .
24
Is there any health disease or adverse
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feel comfortable stating that you believe, you
personally, not RJR, you personally believe is
caused by smoking?
4
5
o, I can't -think of anything .
Q . So as far as you' .re concerned, there
6
are .no adverse health consequences-that are caused
7
by smoking?
MR . MCDE,RMOTT : Object to the form of
9
the question .
THE WITNESS : Here, you come back to
10
11
.thie business of association and cause . It's been
12
my training that you cannot prove cause and effect
13
with statistics . You can prove association, but
14
not cause and effect . .
15
16
BY MR . MAISTROS
Q.
Okay . So if I paint a million mice
17
with compounds that's contained in tobacco smoke,
18
and one million get cancer, you can draw no
19
conclusions from that, related to the human
20
experience?
21
. Only if you were to paint the human the same
22
way and get the same-response . And by the way,
23
there has been a akin painting study done with
24
humans and cigarette .smoke .
25
Q . The`prisoners you•talked about?
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no . No .' That was with benzpyrene .
1
Who did the .human skin painting study?
2
There was a mari'here in the United States, in
1956 . .,: It's in Wyndev's boo•k ; he's got it
described . He did it for three or four months,
and then they'quit, : because they didn't see
anything .
I was surprised at reading that,
because I had~never realized that reference was in
10
11
existence .
Q
Give me something that the average,
12
common :person can relate to that would establish
13
the distinction that you see'between association
14
and cause .
15
A . : Well, I think part ;of my problem, sir, is
16
that -- as I mentioned, I was collecting and
17
critiquing literature for the law department, and
18
whether it's`a fortunate`position or an
19
unfortunate position, by the time of the trial in
20
New Orleans, the Lartigue case, I had read
21
something like 20-something thousand articles on
22
all aspects, pro and con,`of smoking and health .
23
By the time I got out of that job and it was
24'
actually turned over to Dr . Frank Colby,
25
probably had read 40,000 articles .
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Now, whether I am right or wrong --
1
the average person gets his knowledge from a front
page of the newspaper, a magazine, Time magazine
or whatever . If he`reads 52 issues of Time a
ye.ar, maybe three or five of them will have
smoking articles in . So z,think it's very
. ..difficult to pin down and say : Well, the average
8
,person should know :what Alan Rodgman knows, or
9
vice ::verea . So I'm•not in a position to say what
10
the ` average person would f eel about it . I don' t
11
know if'that answers your question .
12
4•
13
The other thing`about it, if you -- to jump
14
from aesociation'to cause and effect, maybe I'm
15
being the ultimate scientist, but there are
16
inconsistencies, even in the_epidemiological
17
studies considered taboo, to even say there's
18
something wrong with them .
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I've mentioned the Ochsner case . Why
20
is not Ochsner ever mentioned in the Surgeon
21
General's report, other than his first paper that
22
says cigarette smoking is associated or caused
23
by -- is a cause of lung cancer? All his
24
contradictory clinical data is omitted . Why does
25
Dr . Doll and Hill, in their first study, say they
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can't explain why "the incidence of lung cancer
among people who said they did not inhale is
3
greater than,that in the people who say they
4
inhale .
Now, the American Cancer Society
5
6
sloughed that off and said : Well, the people
7
didn't understand the difference .between inhaling
8
and .not inhaling .
B
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on to do a study that,was a prospective study, in
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which they started out with people, 57,000 to be
11
precise, that'they were going to get their smoking
12
habits and see what happens to them . They never
13
asked the question about`inhaling .
Now, you .may say, well, people might
14
15
not understand again ; but this was 57,000
16
physicians . You can't tell me'that you got 57,000
17
physicians that do not know the difference between
18
inhaling and not .inhaling .
And, of-course, if you want to look at
19
20
the chemistry, which I'm much more familiar with,
21
if you want to take the ;time, I can give you at
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were wrong, some of`which they showed were wrong,
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4
Q . Why is your former employer agreeing
to FDA regulation of nicotine?
MR . MCDERMOTT : Objection . No
foundation .
THE WITNESSs I don't know whether is
7
or not .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
10
Q . Let's°assume that the newspaper's
11
correct and they've agreed to be regulated by the
12
FDA as a drug . Why would they do that?
MR . MCDERMOTT : Objection . No
13
14
foundation .
THE WITNESS : I'm not an expert in the
15
16
nicotine . All I would say, that I think it's a
17
mistake .
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20
Q .' Which is a mistake? You think they
should be settling these cases?
21
MR . BLANCATOs Object to the form .
22
MR . MCDERMOTT : Objection . No
23
foundation .
THE WITNESS : You want a personal
24
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You think the settlement's foolish?
5
MR . BLANCATO : Objection to form .
6
THE WITNESS : I think it' s
inappropriate .
BY MR ;MAISTROS s
Why do you think its's inappropriate ?
9
10
11
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just think it'sinappropriate .
Q . You don't think there's any reaso n
12
that the tobacco-companies should ever agree to
13
any regulation of its product by the FDA ?
14
15
16
MR . MCDERMOTT : . Objection :
foundation .
THE WITNESS : If you go.back in time,
17
at one time there was"a serious consideration of
18
the FDA handling tobacco products the way they do
19
other things, and some people had proposed that .
20
AndI don't know -- I don't think the tobacco
21
companies really had said much either way . But
22
the FDA said : We-don't want to do it . We don't
23
have the time ; we don't have the facilities ; w e
24
don''t have the knowledge .
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sometime -- look up sometime in the '70s .
Q . Do you think that t he defense that's
2
3
asserted by the tobacco company's Freedom of
Choice -- first .of all, are you aware of the
defense, Freedom of Choice?
6
A.
No . I'm not'that familiar with what's been
all this
Q
9
Do you know what the defense of the
tobacco companies is in the Arch litigation?
10
No, I do not .
11
Q . You've not served in any capacity as a
12
consultant in the Arch litigation?
13
Only by being here .
14
Q . Have you assisted Womble Carlyle in
15
the :defense of the Arch case?
16
A . . By being,here ; I don't'know if this is
17
-helping them or hindering them . I don't know what
18
the -- what's involved in the Arch case, frankly .
19
Q.
Have :you ever :written any memorandum
20
to`your managers, supervisors, higher-ups at
21
Reynolds, where you espouse the opinion that there
22
were health risks rel,ated to smoking?
23
. I have written things to them pointing out
24
that these views are held otherwise, and we should
25
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forget what other people have espoused . Have you
3
written anything where .you said I, Dr . Rodgman,
believe that the following health risks are
5
related to smoking?
6
A . Not that I remember .
7
Q . So, I just<want to understand the
playing field we're on'.
You start from the
proposition that you don't personally believe
10
there'are health risks related to smoking?
MR .-MCDERMOTTs Object to the form of
11
12
the question . You're misstating or not accurately
13
summarizing his prior testimony . It speaks for
14
itself .
MR . MAISTROS : Tell me if I'm
15
16
misstating -THE WITNESS : I think I've already
17
18
spoken to that .-
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21
Q . Do you have grandchildren?
A . Yes .
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Q . Any of them smoke?
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No .
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Q . Do you have any concerns if they
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g I randchildren smoked?
I believe that's their parents' problem, not
It wouldn't`concern you one way or
Q
another if your grandchildren .smoked?
. Well, at their :present age ; .some of them are
three years old .
10
11
Q . The ones that are old enough to smoke,
would it concern you if they started to smoke?
12
Not particularly .
13
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Did you ever do any research to
determine why people smoke?
That was outside my expertise, sir .
16
Most of my work'has been on composition of smoke,
17
control of it .
18
Q . What do you mean by "control"?
19
Just what we've'been talking about : Lowering
20
the composition delivery from'a cigarette,
21
compounds in the tar, and so on and`so forth .
22
Q . Any of the papers that you did on the
23
composition of amoke, did you turn those in to the
24
legal department for review?
25
A . Did I?
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No .
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Anyone ever .review your work before it
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Oh, there was a set routine, that you
6
prepared the manuscript, submitted it to your
7
manager, manager took it to the director of
research, and then the-director of research either
9
10
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approved-it there or, if he had some concern, he
might take it on .
Did you ever submit any documents that
0
12
were returned, edited by anyone in the legal
13
department?
14
Edited?
Yes .
15
16
17
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Q . Did you ever .have any manuscripts
18
returned, where suggestions were made that, when
19
you expressed certain views by anti-smoking
20
advocates, that you would highlight they were the
21
views of anti-smoking advocates as opposed to just
22
the views of a third person?
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BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q
7
Agreement?
8
A .
Now, have you heard of the Gentleman's
. .~Yee .
Q . What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
We talked about it at the last part of this
10
A.
11
deposition . It was .:-- I heard about it in a round
12
about way . But no in-house animal work was part
13
of it, I think .
Did Reynolds abide by the Gentleman's
14
15
Agreement?
MR . MCDERMOTTs Objection .
16
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foundation .
THE WITNESS : As far as I know .
18
19
BY MR . MAISTROS :
20
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22
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Gentleman's Agreement?
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Foundation .
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Q . Did you hear of a gentleman's
agrefement with respect to a safer cigarette?
A . I don't quite know what you mean .
Q . Was there ever a gentleman's
agreement, to your knowledge, with respect to, if
one tobacco company developed~a safer cigarette,
they'd share that-knowledge with other tobacco
companies?
.
Oh . I was ~-,trying to think if -- Dr . Colby
10
and I gave a talk . That may have been in that --
11
so,me parts Frank put'in .
12
Q . Some parts what?
13
.A . Some parts of the talk D
14
th'at 'may have, been in there .
15
Q . Talk to who?
16
Management .
I'm sorry .
Colby put in . And
What year?
17
18
19
Did` -- I
20
21
into -- back into the biological work . That's
22
when Dr' . Hayes showed,, ., up .
23
Q . You espoused more in-house biological
24
research in '62 . And then there was no biological
25
research, for whatever reason, in '70 . And then
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when did°Reynolds get'back into biological
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It was about '83 ; I guess . There again, I
Dr . Hayes was hired, and he had to acquire
got. 5
a staff, and was . set up to,do all this stuff,
Q-
Why was there no in-house biological
research from 1970 to '83?
9
A . Whenever we needed it, we contracted it .
10
Industrial :Bio-.Test, in Chicago, and
11
12
Bio-.Reeearch .'in Montreal, and I don't know where
13
else, if there was anywhere else .
Q
14
15
Did Reynolds have facilities in other
countries that did .biological research?
16
Q.
17
Did Reynolds contract with university
18
or outside hospital medical personnel to do
19
biological research,'from 170 to '83?
20
A.
21
done in Industrial Bio-Test, and then the one done
22
at Bio-Research -- well, there were several done
23
at .Bio-Research in Montreal . One was a --
24
Industrial Bio-Test was a tobacco'substitute --
25
No . The only ones I know about are the one
well, both of them were tobacco substitute . Then
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there was the . .expanded tobacco biological work .
Q . Have those reports been published and
3
provided, to your knowledge?
4
A . I don't know . I don't have them .
Q.
Industrial .Bio-Test, did they do
and 9
10
11
and it include the chemistry of the smoke of the
12
eubstitute .
Well, unfortunately, just at that
13
of
14
time, Industrial°Bio-Test got into all sorts
15
trouble with -- I don't know who it was, FDA or
16
somebody, because of something,they had done with
17
some agricultural chemicals they_had_approved or
18
not approved or should°have been'approved or
19
whatever . And most of,. the people that were
20
involved got fired, so it was never .finished .
21
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Did you .ever see any published reports
22
of Industrial"Bio-Test?
23
A, Did I ever<see'any?
24
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any testing to determine if any of the compounds
5
in cigarette smoke promoted tumors, caused cancer,
were tumorigenic?
7
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Q .
They did a lot of work on ciliastasis .
But they didn't publish any reports?
Well, they sent the reports to Reynolds .
10
Q
Do you~know where those are?
11
A . They're in the boxes I gave you . Some of
12
them . I think they"confirmed what Lawrence Cook
13
and I had found, that :ciliastats were taken out in
14
the oral cavity .
Q
15
16
Why di`d Reynolds get back into
in-house biological research in 1983?
Well, here again, it was a management
17
upper management change in R & D . First
18
change
19
one was 1980, then it was 1982/83 . And I -- so
20
D
21
presentation - said we ; .should get into
22
bio-behavioral type things about smoking, and why
23
people smoked and how they smoked, and so on and
Colby and I - I<did., actually, the
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so forth . And it was approved .
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Q . Did you ever hear any reasons or
explanations as to why_ ;Reynolds did not have
in-house biological,research from '70 to '83?
Well, not -
nobody ;came up and said : Alan,
here=-are the reason.s .
8
But what happened was, if
you thought about it,'that -- to set up a
biological system for various -- for a great
10
number of things is`very expensive .' And you could
11
contract it to a,,univergity lab or a commercial
12
lab and they have everything in place ; they have
13
staff, all expert in certain things, whatever
14
you're looking for . And it ended up being much
15
less expensive to do some things like that than to
16
set up a whole system -in your in-house, and
17
maybe use it tw-ice, and then have to go on to
18
something else .
19
So, you know, in the -- for example,
20
as I mentioned, we did,some of the tobacco
21
substitute work by a contract lab . And, by the
22
way, all of that wae confirmed in the NCI study,
23
the puffed tobacco work, and so on .
24
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not? So we're not talking about startup costs .'
A . Well, they did -- they weren't set up to
do -- if you did do mouse .skin painting, for
example, you need a tremendous amount of space .
For example, if you have, as I said, cage
controls, solvent controls, positive controls,
test things, you usually do it with 100 or so, 150
mice a piece, and you put six to a cage, and
you're talking an awful lot of space and room, and
10
so on and so forth .
Q . In all`the papers that you did in the
11
12
boxeis-over there, did you ever do a memo to anyone
13
suggesting the reason that there shouldn't be
14
in-house biological testing is the economics?
15
A.
16
No .
Q.
Did
you .ever see a memo, in those six
17
boxes sitting over there, where economics was the
18
reason there was-no`in-house biological research?
19
Well, one of the reasons, for example,
20
that -- here, X had nothing to do with that .
21
That -- the situation aroee in 1970 with the --
22
doing away with the -- if you will, the Mouse
23
House . It actually started in late 1968, when, if
24
you're aware, there was sort of an austerity
25
program ; things weren't going quite as well as
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they could have . We were told, for example, in
2
late 1968 : in your`planning for 1969 and '70, do
not budget any new staff acquisitions or
4
replacement of etaff'who are leaving because of
5
retirement or whatever :
Well that budget was prepared for '69 .
And then, of course, it was again -- started to
prepare,it in late '69 for '70 -- well, several
9
10
things happened . I had mentioned Penick & Ford in
the starch work that was biological work .
Well, Reynolds was getting rid of
11
12
Penick & Ford . The deal with Warner Lambert, the
13
company that was sort of interested in our
14
anti-cholesterol business, fell through . And so,
15
with the austerity thing and the collapse of the
16
Penick & Ford starch business -- now,
17
Penick & Ford also had some interest in our
18
isomerase business, and the agreement ended up
19~
there that Penick & Ford would have the rights to
20'
the isomerase patent in the United States and we
21
wouid-have it in the rest of the world . I don't
22
know whether they ever'did license it, but we did .!
23
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Rodgman, let me see if I can
10
expedite_today and the rest of tomorrow in some
11
fashion . Maybe ao .
There are six boxes sitting over
12
13
here with documents'`in them . Are you familiar
14
with-those documents?
15
I think so .
16
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Were all those documents produced by
17
you in'response to document requests in this
181
litigation?
19
A.
20
.' Yes .
Q . And all those documents were kept by
21
you in,the regular and .ordinary course of your
22
business at Reynolds? .
23
24
25
Well, as I remember, some of them are some
things I wrote since I left Reynolds .
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earlier, some are from before?
THE WITNESS : That's right . Some of
them are from my work in -- for example, reprints
of some of my publications, prior to coming to
Reynolds in 1954 . And then there's some work -publications that I actually published on my Ph .D .
thesis, and I actually .wrote them -- or wrote my
part of it as late, ;as 1959 when I was at Reynolds,
10
with my professor Dr . George F . Wright at the
11
University of Toronto .
12
13
BY MR . MAISTROSs
Q . Is it fair to say that . the vast
14
majority of documents 'in° those six boxes,
15
including the ones that .would be dated between
16
1954 and 1989, are related to your work at
17
Reynolds?
18
Yes .
19
Q.
And :that,the vast-majority of such
20
documents were created and kept in the ordinary
21
course of business at Reynolds?
22
23
Q . And are copies of original documents
24
that were . kept 'at Reynol `de?
25
A . Yes .
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2
any of those documents in there are other than
3
what they appear to be in terms of copies? None
4
are fabricated,
in other words?
No . Why would I do that?
6
7
Q . I wouldn't suggest you would, but
silly questions, lawyers have to ask .
You wouldn't object, then, to the
introduction of any of those six documents, (sic)
10
in terms of either being authentic copies or kept
11
in`the ordinary course of business --- six boxes of
12
documents?
13
MR . MAISTROS :
14
Can we have a
15
stipulation to that, other than hearsay and
16
relevancy?
17
MR . MCDERMOTT : We're going -- I mean,
18
I haven't looked through every document in those
19
boxes, and so .I can',t stipulate, in gross, that
20
they're all business'records or that they're --
21
that t hey're properly authenticated : But we're
22
not going to be unreasonable . We're going to --
23
we're going to take a sensible and civilized view
24
of the contents of,those boxes . If they're
25
business records, I'm sure we can work out an
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accommodation . If`you"ve got some stuff that you
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want to examine overnight and you ask me about it
3
or ask Dr . Rodgman about it specifically, that's
fine . I'm not going to stipulate that six boxes,
5
in gross, are :business records, however .
THE WITNESS : For example, along that
7
line, my -- I`believe ; someplace .in that mess, is
a copy of my application for employment at
Reynolds . Now, is that a-~ ;where .does that fit?
10
11
12
MR . MAISTROS : Historically
interesting, but probably irrelevant .
MR . MCDERMOTT : You've also got some
13
calendars that I think .are largely personal and so
14
"fort'h . Again, we're'-not going to be -- we're not
15
going'to be obstructionists, but --
16
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17
and 'the reason I' m' doing it ° on the record is to
18 :
hopefully -- it,was toaexpedite, not to prolong
19
.this . Rather than have me take the witness
20
through all those documents and say, yes, this a
21
copy that -- while I produced at Reynolds . If we
22
can,at least have the agreement, if it's sent to
23
him, :`eent by him or he,'s copied on it and it's got
24
something that says it wae Reynolds-affiliated,
25
then we won't be getting a business record
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MR .,'MCDERMOTT : Let me suggest this .
We're going -- we're going to be back tomorrow
morning ;with'this"witness . I m : not involved in
the case directly ; : .I'm not sure what .the history
6
has been between the parties at ;this point . Let's
get'Mr . Belasic'on-the phone at 4 :30, after we let
8
the witness go, and we'can take a look at the
boxes ourselves, and make, maybe, a more sensible
10
determination w,ithout wasting the witness' time or
11
the court reporter's time on this, and we can put
12
stuff on,the record in-the morning . All right?
13
14
15
MR . MAISTROS : Okay . Or possibly at
4 :30 .
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separate and apart from the consulting work you've
22
done for Womble, right?
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Was one of those in 1994?
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1954 that I can't remember from yesterday . But
one of them was a book on nitrosamines I wrote .
The .other is a-- there was a gentleman called
Dr . ;;,Dennis .Regan, who . ;wanted a planning meeting -research planning meeting, and he invited several
retirees to it : . And there was some small amount
of preparation for,the meeting and some things I
wrote for the meeting and presented at the
9
10
meeting, and I got paid for that, and so on and so
forth . So those are the two things -When was that latter meeting?
11
12
Well, both'.of them have-to have been after
I guess . Because I had that five-year
13
14
restriction on being able to do work for Reynolds
15
until the five years up was after my'retirement .
16
So -'- I mean, the information -- the contracts
17
have been provided, and how much I was paid, and
18
all this -- and the books are in there .
19
20
Q . So all the results of those two
projects are in .those six boxes?
21
Someplace, yeah .
22
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23
trial testimony from the Florida case earlier ; do
24
you remember that? .
25
A . Yeah .
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Was there anything in there that -- as
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you .were reviewing it, that you agreed with or
disagreed with, that you remember as you sit here
today?
5
Well, I agreed with a lot of what he said .
6
Q.
Was there anything that you can recall
that you disagreed with?
Not really . I didn't read it that closely,
9
Mr . ;Maistros . I just want'ed to see how -- I had
10
seen him on television . And, of course, I hired
11
Dr . Townaend . And -- he's a very brilliant young
12
13
14
15
knew ;he would do .a good job, anyway .
You were not aware he was going to
te .stity in that case, before he did so?
I knew he wae`getting ready for something,
16
but I didn't know which one it was until, all of a
17
sudden, I looked at the television and there he
is, being asked questions .
In '54 to 165 you've already testified
what you were primarily involved in . Were there
other projects you were working on, that you
22
haven't testified .about,
in that time period?
23
Well, as I<say, we were doing the smoke
24
composition -- if I may, let me run through .
25
Polycyclic,,-- discounting the phenol
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synthesis thing, it was polycyclic work ; we did
some work on the aza=arenes ; which are nitrogen
compounds that are structurally similar to the
polycyclic hydrocarbons ; then we did the phenol
work ; we did the ciliastat work ; and we started to
do some work on nitroeamines in the '63/'64 era .
And then -- and, here, I've forgotten
8
the date,
we had a shift in management .
Mr . Hoover retired ;`Dr . Senkus became director of
10
~research ; and a new man, the vice president of
11
R& D, Dr . Willard Bright became vice president of
12
R& D . And he had a bit different attitude about
13
what we should be doing and what we shouldn't be
14
doing . He was very interested in acquisitions,
15
and he was the one that triggered the
16
Penick & Ford thing and the Warner Lambert thing .
17
And he also got :us involved in a tobacco
18
substitute study'for a material called Sutton
19
20
21
22
4
-Sutton?
A .' Sutton, S-t7-T-.T-O-N .
So the tobacco work -- or tobacco
23
smoke work and our tobacco composition studies
24
were, sort of dropped in favor of some of the new
25
things he wanted done . And for the next several
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ye'ars, my group, which I wasn't familiar with, you
know, studied, not only the Button .smoking
3
material, but,a smoking material manufactured by
Celanese, and that's called Cytrel, C-Y-T-R-E-L,
5
and emoking materiai manufactured in England
called_New Smoking Material, by Imperial Chemical
and Imperial Tobacco Company .'
And we looked at these, and we had
8
9
problems with all of them . And over the next --
10
between 1965 and maybe 1970, early '70's, a young
11
man called Jack'White,•developed a smoking tobacco
12
substitute that was better than any one we could
13
buy or license or whatever . And we did all the
14
smoke work on it and so on, the animal work .
And we never used it, because there
15
16
were thirteen brands introduced in the United
17
Kingdom with NSM 3mperial smoking material and the
18
Cytrel, and within nine months every one of them
19
hadn't sold enough to make a penny . So we never
20
did`market and put it in our cigarettes .
21
R.
Do you k~ow°if ff there was nicotine in
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those materials?
Not per se, no . And, of course, nobody ever
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tobacco or 70 percent tobacco or 90 percent
tobacco .
Q . When you say "not per se," you mean
3
4
what nicotine there was, was from the natural .
5
tobacco that appeared in the product?
A.
.Right . These things are all cellulose
derivatives, mixed with a bunch of inorganic clays
and .whatnot, or salt .
Q.
Was the .primary interest of your
10
supervisor the fact that it would be a tobacco
11
substitute and reducee the cost of the product, or
12
it .would reduce the biological activity of the
13
product?
14
A . Well, actually'the cost of most of the
15
tobacco substitutes, the -- except for the one we
16
developed in-house, the cost of the'three we could
17
have bought cost more than the tobacco .
18
19
20
Q . So what was the primary goal, then, of
developing
Well the primary goal was to -- would this be
21
an`additional_way that -- to add to the eight
22
technologies that would be acceptable in the
23
generation of a less hazardous cigarette . And,
24
well, the Cytrel, for example, was tested in the
25
NCI study that ran from '68 to '78 and, despite
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their claims,'it was-worse than tobacco, in terms
of producing tumors on mice and so on .
Q.
4
Has anyone
when you say that there
were thirteen brands .that They were introduced in England .
Commercially?
Commercially .
And how "long were they .on the market?
Oh, some`of them were out there -- most of
10
them were gone within nine months . I happened to
11
when --
12
nine-month, ten month after they had been first
13
introduced, and I finally found a,pack ; but I had
14
to go into eleven-tobacco~stores in London to find
15
a pack . And the'fel,low said : Here, take it . He
16
didn't even :~harge me ., He'said : It's the last
`17
one-I've got, and it's~been sitting here for five
18
months .
19
20
21
Q . And how long did you work on a
potential tobacco substitute?
Well, I said, we worked on the Sutton one, we
22
worked on the° .NSM, we worked on the Cytrel .
23
didn t do an awful lot ;of work on the NSM ; most of
24
that work was some really fundamental .smoke work,
25
tar and nicotine -
_well, not nicotine . Tar,
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carbon monoxide and .so on .
That one we did quite a bit of work on
2
panel evaluation' . That was one of the problems
with all those three,that -- whether`they were
alone-or mixed with tobacco at various levels, the
parieaists just didn't cotton to them, smoking a
cigarette, per se . But`t he,other thing that they
8
didn't like was, if somebody was in the room, side
9
stream smoke was very obnoxious, in terms of an
10
.of flodor, that it smelt ,like, 'burning paper .
11
Nobody liked to have .that .
Now, the one we developed in-house,
12
13
and we panel-tested it,'and the people didn't
14
know, of course, that it was ours . It didn't have
15
a taete'problem, and it did all the things that we
16
had hoped it would do . And so`it would have been
17
a W
18
patented . And I' :mFaaure, if you look at the
19
patents, you'll see .what it is ; it's a puffed
y to' make money ..
_ so
20
21
And of' course we had it
0
Did :'you'personally believe that these
22
potential tobacco eubet'itutes :would result in a
23
safer cigarette?
24
~Well, we were hoping, that when we looked at
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it_ would be another way to do things that were in
the definition that had been laid out in the '60s
by W.ynder, Hoffmann, Bock and all that bunch .
Q . But you personally didn't believe, in
your heart of hearts, that it mattered anyway, did
you?
Well, what Is was looking for is, if that's
f course,
10
11
t
sales-weighted average, we kept dropping it,
the industry kept dropping that
12
13
in -- the requfrement that Dr . Wynder and others
14
had said :
15
go :"_away . Well we dropped it 40 and then they said
16
not'enough . We dropped it another 40 ; not enough .
17
You, know, where do you stop?
18
Q . Are you talking about the FTC testing
19
method or -
20
Right .
21
Q.
22
Drop it 40 percent and the effect will
When`you say that the -- you kept
23
dropping the tar content, that's -- and you've L,
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24
You!re talking about the FTC testing method?
25
Right .
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Q . Had you done, in fact, research that
1
2
would indicate that the FTC testing method was ann
inaccurate method to test tar content of
c,igarettes?
MR . MCDERMOTTs Object .t o the form of
THE WiTNESS : "it -- the way it's done,
what you get is,what you get .
BY MR . MAISTROSs
10
11
But nobody smokes that way .
A.
.Nobody smokes that way . We told them that in
12
They don't
13
And, now,
14
15
everybody's complaining that the FTC doesn't
16
the people don't smoke the way the machine smokes,
17
eo, ;therefore, there's something wrong with it .
18
And we had told ;them that in 1963, '64, '65 . And
19
they came out in`1966 and said : You will do the
20
analysis this way, period . And that was that .
21
22
Q
do -
Has there ever been any discussion at
Reynolds about whether or not Reynolds has an
23
.obligation .to advise the_public on its cigarettes,
24
or otherwiae, that the FTC yields published on the
25
ciga.rettes, don't mean a .whole lot?
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MR . BLANCATO : Object to the form .
MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
THE WITNESS :, You know, what
management wants to`do about that is their
business . You know, you usually don't tell the
FTC too much .
8 BY MR . MAISTROSs
Q . Did yo'u ever tell management that
10
perhaps RJR should consider"publishing what it
11
believed to be more realistic tar and nicotine
12
yield numbers on its cigarettes?
13
A . Well -MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the .form of
14
15
the :question . No foundation . .
16
THE`WITNESS : The number that .you get
17
is all right, except people don't smoke that way .
18
Now, there may be one person in ten that smokes
19
exactly the same as the smoking machine . But, you
20
know, if you were to,smoke a cigarette in Alaska
21
at 20 below zero
22
23
24
25
BY MR .`MAISTROS :
Q, I would hope you would be doing
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at 90 degrees and 100 percent humidity, that's
2
going to be entirely different than smoking a
3
cigarette at the FTC parameters .
And the other thing, that if you, say,
have three cigarettes, just take an example, at
20 milligrams delivery of tar, depending how those
cigarettes`were made,j those tars could be entirely
different . And`they know that ; it's all in the
NCI'report of -- on the less hazardous cigarettes .
10
Q . Again, though -- and you can say you
11
disagree if it's the case with the premise of my
12
question . But did you ever suggest to anyone at
13
RJR that the results that you determined at age --
14
not you, but that RJR determined, the tar and
15
nicotine content of cigarettes and how it differed
16
from the FTC, that those results should be
17
published?
18
Well, which smoker would you pick?
19
Q . Well, didn't you do tests that
20
indicated that the average smoker took in more tar
21
and nicotine than would be established by the FTC
22
testing method?
23
A . I don't -- I don't know about -- that might
24
have been done after'I left . I don't know .
25
Q . Did you''view or did you ever express
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2
FTC-published reductions in tar and nicotine
3
indicated that RJR was producing a safer
4
cigarette?
Well, the FTC never .said that .
6
Q
9
10
11
Is the fact that a cigarette is lower
in tar and nicotine indicative that it's a safer
ciga,rette,, An your''opinion?
Well, that's one part of the -- well, the
12
nicotine was :never mentioned in the original
13
definition . But that is one part of the overall
14
definition that,came oLtt .in the late '59 --
15
'50s/early '60s . 0ne of the parts is that the tar
16
is re'duced, the tumorigenicity -- specific
17
tumorigenicity of the,tar'is reduced and the level
18
of certain. components relative to tar are reduced .
19
Q . Do you concur in the assessment that,
20
if you have lower tars, you're going to have a
21
safer cigarette?
22 ;
I don't know . You know, you'd have to say :
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What kind of tar? And .there again -- for example
24
if,,you looked at the F-- the NCI work, which
25
involves a hundred and-something experimental
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cigarettes, you would make your choice -- for
2
example, you could have a 20-milligram cigarette,
take one of their-samples -- and here I'm just
giving you an example, and I'm sure the numbers
5
aren't going to be the same as in those four
reports .
But .you could take a 20-milligram
8
cigarette that had -- and let's just pick a
figure, ten nanograms of benzpyrene per cigarette .
10
Now,-if you had any health concerns, would you
11
pick that cigarette,_20 versus 10, versus another
12
c.igarette that, say, had 15 milligrams of tar but
13
20 .mi1 -- 20 nanograms of benzpyrene? Which would
14
you pick? Would you ;pick the -- it depends on
15
whether you're concerned about tar per se or the
16
polycyclics per se .
17
18
19
But the number you get ,from the FTC
does not tell you what the'composition of that tar
And when we tried to tell the FTC that in the
20
mid '60s, they'said all you're trying to do i
21
make your produCt tsound good . And that's the lastj
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we heard of it until'people, in the last five or ~
23
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six years,, have started to say : Well, you know, !Ln
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there's a problem here . And actually, the problem
25
came up in 1980, with the Berkley cigarette --
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Barclay cigarette .
Q
A .
4
What' prob],em?
Well, the .Barclay cigarette, when you smoked
it on the -- in the FTC method, you got a certain
tar yield . But when ;the smoker smoked it, and was
forced to smoke exactly the same as'the smoking
machine'- that can be done by appropriate
mechanics - because of the way the lips press down
on the filter tip, which had some grooves in it,
10
theJsmoker was`taking in twice as much'as the FTC
11
method :ehowed on the Phipps & Bird smoking
12
machine'. And
13
the FTC .'
14
15
things you'were doing between 1954,and '65 .
Well, as'I say, in -- well, we got to the
16
17
substitute thing, which actually ran from the late
18
'64s -- .,- I guess '65 Is when we got into the
19
substitutes .
20
There was a time there, and I'm sure,
21
if you look at some of the reports I wrote, I
know
22
there was a question- :that came up in the - - f rom
23
M
24
things we had done . Well, I think, at one time,
25
we ."'looked to perhaps fifteen different kinds of
O'Fallon about publishing/not publishing
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filters that had been proposed for their effect on
certain smoke components . And every one did not
perform like the patent said it would .
Well, there's a report on each one of
4
those, or maybe some that are combined, the
two-in-one reports, but how can you publish
something that shows -- ends up being a failure?
_ The,`journal won't take it .
Then if you look, for example -- I
10
went to a lot of meetings in conjunction with my
11
research work and in connection with my providing
12
infbrmation to the law department . I guess, over
13
the_years, I went to .a dozen AACR meetings, and
14
half a dozen American Cancer Society meetings, the
15
Heart Association meetings and so on . And these
16
are reports to management of what things I had
17
picked up there,•what people had said, and so on
18
and"so forth . Well, you don't publish those .
So when,you back off on the, oh, I
19
20
don't know, hundred or so reports I wrote, you can
21
find'out, about half of them wouldn't be
22
publishable anyway .` And the ones we did -- many
23
of the ones .we did publish, of course, are in the
24
literature or presented at meetings .
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Q.
Do you recall any titles, off the top
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3
4
hazards 're,lated to smoking?
No, I didn' t .
Q . Are there any, out of the six boxes
over there, published reports that you authored,
that indicate health ;consequences re,lated to
smok'ing?,
Not in so many words . Now, we did publish
10
some components in smoke that subsequently were
11
shoivn to have a problem .
12
Q . I'm specifically talking about papers,
13
where the topic or theme or conclusion was that
14
there was a health_risk related to amoking . Do
15
you recall publishing any such papers?'
16
No . No " I did not .
17
Q . You reviewed a lot of papers, did you
18
not,-that reported links between smoking and
19
20 .
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22
23
24
25
lot of the chemical stuff .
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Q . Any>of the -- specifically there was
research, was therenot, biological testing, that
established a purported link between cigarette
smoke and its compoundsor components and advers e
health consequences .
literature ?
Yeah . Bu t
I was in the chemistrybusiness .
Now, as I say, the people in the bio bunch, they
looked at ciliastasia, and so on . At one time -10
I mentionedthe work Lawrence Cook and I had don e
11
about the ciliastasis and finding it -- most of i t
12
wasabsorbed in the mouth, the ciliastats . Now ,
13
guess that's biological, because we did it with
14
people .
15
Q . What chemical research did you try to
16
duplicate ?
17
A . . Well, we weren't duplicating any ; we were th e
18
first to find out that the ciliastats were
19
absorbed in the mouth .
20
Q . Separate'and apart, from the
21
.ciliastats,, did you attempt to duplicate any of
22
the chemical studiesthat were done and then
23
publi.shed in the literature, that showed a link
24
between cigarette smoking or the compounds i n
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the question .
THE WITNESS : Well, it was a long
question . But,_for example, there were claims of
e'o,-much volatile nitrosamines or tobacco specific
nitrosamines in cigarette smoke .- We looked at it,
and the work published_in the collection procedure
0 avoid-artifactual formation of
8
nitrosamines during the analysis, used ascorbic
10
the collection system, which
11
was supposed to :prevent artifactual .formation of
12
the`nitrosamines ; and which it did .
13
° Well, the ;people at Reynolds -- we got
14
wondering about some of the values they were
15
getting for the nitrosamines, so they looked at
16
it . And in the .collection of cigarette smoke you
17
hav.e a epecial kind of filter that the smoke
18
impinges on and :is collected, 99 .9 .percent . And
19
the people at Reynolds decided to put ascorbic
20
acid on the pad . Well, when they did that -- the
21
levels of nitrosamines reported by everybody else,
22
prior to that, was about 25, 30 percent less,
23
depending on which one,you were looking at . And
24
what was happening, you were preventing the
25
artifactual formation right on the~pad before you
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ever took it,to the ;analysis . And that's been
2
confirmed in a lot of laborat-ories .
o, there's a great deal made of how
3
much the nitrosamines are in smoke, and -- but,
you know, is it relevant when most of the numbers
6
in the literature, except the ones published since
that`article by=Rey,nolds,,are wrong ; they're not
8'
only wrong for cigarette smoke, they're wrong for
9
bac:on and anything .else you see with nitrosamines .
10
If it .would make you feel any better, your bacon
11
has about 30 percent less than what everybody has
12
been telling you .
13
14
15
. 16
17
Q . What were your official titles between
154 and ' .65?
I was a senior research chemist from 1954
until 1965 . When Dr
back up a littI le . .
Mr . Hoover had a peculiar philosophy .
18
19
20
Bright came -- well, let me
There was director of_research, there were the
-managers, and ;there . ;were-the troops . The troops
21
were divided into eenior research chemists, or
22
biologists or`b,io-chemists, research chemists,
2
asbociate research chemists, .technicians . There
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Dr :'Bright came, and he didn't like
that . Well, also, :another thing, the place was
.getting larger, .more : ;p.eople . And he set up a
system where you had a manager, section head, a
group leader', -and then the :-troops . And when he
came, I was made a sect-ion head in charge of the
What year?
A . 1965, 1 guess, is when he came .
10
soon after he came :
Q . And how long were you section head?
11
12
He did it
.
Well, in 19 --'I got to get this straight .
the spring of 1973, my
13
14
boss, who was, at that time, the manager of the
151
chemical research, was Dr . Anders Laurene . He was
16
sent off to take a,management course at the
17
University of North Carolina over at Chapel Hill
18
for six months . And then`he was assigned to do an
19
orientation through the -- the development
20
department . And while he was gone, .I was acting
21
manager of the chemical research division .
22
23
When`he came back, I went back to
being section head . And then, the next spring and
24
75,
251 analytical divieion, which, at the time, I thought
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was an odd choice, not knowing that they already
had plans . And then, the spring of '76, I was
3
made :director of research .
Q : Director` of research for all of
Reynolds?
Tobacco .
6
And then, in 1980, when we had the
massive organization -- reorganization, our R & D
9
was split into six divisions, instead of just
10
being research and development . I got the task of
11
being director of-fundamental research .
Q . As opposed to what other type of
12
13
14
research?
. Well, there was fundamental research
15
director, applied research director, analytical
16
research director, process engineering,
17
administration -- what was t he other one? There
18
were six•
19
Q . New products?
20
Oh, yeah .. It wasn't new products, it was
.Just products . So you had fundamental,
21
products .
22
applied, and products .
23
24
25
0
A.
And you were in charge of which one?
Fundamental .
Q
Unt il when?
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2
Q
o are we`using the '87 date, then?
3
Right .
Q . From '80 to '87, was there one group
that looked at health aspects, as opposed to
6
another group?
Well, in '83, sometime in there was when we
got Dr . Hayes on board, and I set up the whole
biobehavioral/biological system there . So from
10
then till, I guess, now, that's what they're
11
doing .
12
13
Q.
looking at health issues?
assume they're related, to some -- I don't
14
15
16
'83 till now, ;biobehavioral/biological
knOw`what their projecte are, actually .
Q
What division under research was
17
biobehavioral/biological?' I mean, was that under
18
one of these six research groups?
19
. No . Actually, when they formed the
20
biobehavioral division, which was in '82, some
21
it was actually put in fundamental ; I had John
22
Reynolds and John Robinson and those people
23
wo .rking` for me .' Then, when Wally Hayes came, they ', m
24
moved it from fundamental into the more
25
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During .this period of time, were you
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Do you know what a key issue is?
What's an RJR key issue?
If they sell cigarettes .
s that one of the key issues?
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something on that, but I really can't spell it out
13
in .the language I think you're looking for .
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or .* process whereby key issues were identified by
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RJR~
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Some of the reports in those six boxes
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over there,have "key issues" written on them and
the langua,ge "varies, '' and we' re going
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to-get into them tomorrow . But I want to ask you,
22
generally, 'if you- know . :how that came about, the
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development of the key issue concept .
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A . Is this a document where the issues are what
happens in the world and how Reynolds would
respond?
Q . Yes, thatts some of them .
Okay . Well, that was -- they started, I
guess, in the early '70s, as I remember . And
everybody pitched in and gave suggestions of, you
know, what would happen -- what would Reynolds do
if something happened in another tobacco company,
10
or happened in North America, or happened in the
11
world, and so on and'so forth . How would we
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respond? And for some ;years Dr . Teague put --
13
assembled everything and put them together, and
14
they`were distributed to upper management, to get
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• their .views . And -
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17
process?
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A . _ Oh, I-~ I chipped in with some suggestions
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here .and there . . And then, .of course, when
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Dr .'Teague left R& D, I ended up, I think, doing
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the last one or two, assembling them myself . If
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that's the paper you're talking about .
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Q . For example, and we'll get into
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specific
ones tomorrow, but there's -- there's
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specific research projects that are set up, and
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the basis for that project that it relates to .
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every research project had to have a key issue
assigned to it . Are you familiar with that
6
concept at all?
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I guess I never thought about it in that
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terms, but it sounds'logical . As I remember, some
things in those key issue things were never done .
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Q.
Were you -- during the period of time
that you were at Reynolds, were you ever demoted?
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Were you ever written up for any
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incidents that you view as an infraction or a
15
demotion?
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No . I was fired .
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By Mr . Hoover .
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talk about . And when Mr . Hoover went to the
weekly meeting over at the head office, main
office, somebody said : Hey, what about so-and-so?
And he was furious .
And he came back and called me into
his office, and I didn't know what he was talking
You
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contact with anybody on the board because of your
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contact with,Mr : Ramm . Get your stuff out of
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here .
You disclosed something that happened
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in re .eearch that he thought .
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e thought you .dieclosu
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Why don't you phone Mr . Ramm and ask him the last
17
time I talked to him, and I can tell you exactly
18
when it was .
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Well, as Z say, it was this unpleasant
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incident?
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done some
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On .what`research project?
Well, it wasn't . It was -- when you buy
tobacco, we used to get a sample of all the
pallets of tobacco and_,analyze .them for tar -- for
nicotine and sugar . So that, if :nicotine was
6
high, we could remove it and if -- so we could do
the .blending . And'this fellow was -- rather than
run them, he just wrote down numbers, and it
happened to be one set of tobacco was from an area
10
in the south here where it had been very hot, very
11
little rain . And when that happens, the tobacco,
12
ina_tead of being `two 'and' a half percent nicotine
13
will
- it may jump'to six .
14
And the-person who had turned in the
15
samples to .him knew that we had a whole bunch of
16
samples, five or six or eight, I forget the
17
number, that probably were going to be around four
18
or five, and they had to be cataloged for nicotine
19
removal . And when he got the usual numbers, two,
20
two and a half percent, he put in some -- we have
21
-to have -- we happened to have some low
22
experimental tobaccos from NC State and you put in
23
some more high, and they all came back 2 .2, 2 .3 .
24
Of course he was fired, right then and there,
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but -- you don't get that very often .
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. Ramm confirmed`the :exact time I had spoken to
him, which had been three months before, and said :
A1l-right forget about"leaving .
{~ . The -- who was the gentleman that was
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tired?
Oh, he was a technician . I've forgotten his
name .
Q . Now, we''11_ ;get into this tomorrow, I'm
10
certain, but you mentioned that, if the nicotine
11
is too high, you`have to remove it . Are you
12
familiar with that`process?
13
A . Yes .
14
Q . How's the nicotine,removed?
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Exposure to steam and ammonia . And you can
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take it down to any value you want .
Q .` By adjusting the amount or the timing
f the steam and'ammonia?
Well, it's the way it rolls through the
conveyor belt, timing on the conveyor belt -Q . How long,has RJR treated its tobacco
with` "ateam and" ammonia?
I think the first report
on it is someplace
around 1958 .
Q . Were they still doing that when you
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assume so, if they -- if you had high
nicotine tobacco from a hot, dry summer or
something .
Q . The only occasion that RJR would treat
nic -- or tobacco with 'steam .and'ammonia was when
they had high nicotine•content?,
A . Well, only that'part of the`tobacco . Now,
they'did have a reconstituted tobacco sheet they
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treated with ammonia .
Q . That's a different process though,
12
correct?
13
A . Right .' It also reduces the nicotine .
14
Q . The process of applying steam and
15
ammonia to the tobacco to reduce the nicotine, you
6
said you could get the nicotine to 'whatever level
17
you wanted . -Within_what degree of error?
18
A . I really =- I'm -- you know,•I never was
19
involved in the engineering of, that . But the
20
objeot was that`, if, you'had -- here again, you
21
have to have some understanding .of how you blend
22
tobaccos . You .don't go out and buy .a year's
23
tobacco . And of cou,r.se it's,always aged for -- in
24
storage` :sheds for maybe 12 months to two years, to
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. You .don't take all that tobacco two
years .later, say, .and use it .
What you do is you combine tobaccos
from three .consecutive years and you juggle it so
that the nicotine change is a minimum . And if you
have -- well, just say you have flue-cured tobacco
from Georgia that's two and a half percent
nicotine, and flue-cured tobacco from someplace in
North Carolina where it's five, you remove the
10
nicotine f rom the five percent nicotine tobacco
11
and bring it down to the two and a half, or a
12
little less, depending on whether you, over the
13
years, want t o keep reducing it . Because,
14
usually, what happens is, as things go by, the
15
ni`cotine sort of para11e1s .the tar .
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But,the'-- I've been interested in
17
some of the things I've heard about nicotine on
18
the news and so on . And what some people should
19
find'out is that, when you bring tobacco in from
20
the market, the first thing you do is stem it .
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And when you stem 'it, you keep it at -- keep it
22
moist so it doesn't shatter . And when it goes
23
down the conveyor belt, the stems go in one
24
direction, the cut lamina go in the other . But if
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you measure the nicotine from the time you put it
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other end, you've lost two percent of your
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nicotine .
Then when you store it and age it for
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12 monthe, .two years, you've got to bring it out .
6
And to take it out of the containers so it doesn't
7
fragment, you again moisten it, warm it, run it
8
through the conveyor belt for a certain period of
9
time, and you lose another couple of percent
10
nicotine -- a percent of the percent you've got
11
there .
12
So when you puff tobacco -- all you
13
got to do is look at the'NCI study where they used
14
our puffed tobacco, Philip Morrie' puffed tobacco,
15
North Carolina State . Every state where puffed
16
tobacco was used, the nicotine is down 40 percent .
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So when you take tobacco that has been
18
losing nicotine because of the way you process it,
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they could make afortune .
Q . How° is that?
Don't put cellophane around the pack .
Because, as a cigarette dries out, the nicotine in
the smoke increases . The only reason the
cellophane'or the protective material around the
pack is to ;prevent moisture loss . As the moisture
goes'down, the nicotine in the smoke goes up .
10
Now, why would you --
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Q . What's the second way?
12
Is to leave out half the humectants . If you
13
drop the humectants`from, say, five percent to two
14
and a half percent, the nicotine in smoke will go
15
up . And glycerine is expensive . Propylene glycol
16
is expensive .
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Why .is Reynolds, then, concerned in '(n
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remove nicotine of high nicotine yield tobacco?
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22
year to year, from-quarter to quarter, fairly
23
uniform so the consumer does not all of a sudden
24
see a big'change . Now, you might say : Well, they
25
could .increase it gradually . But all .you have to
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it's obvious that from -- well, from 1954 to the
current time, the nicotine has been,dropping
gradually in every` :cigarette marketed in this
5
country .
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Q . Is there a process you're familiar
with that Reynolds employs when the-nicotine
8
content is too low in .the tobacco?
can't think-of one, but T ; ;could think
10
of a .solution .to it .
11
What's that?
s mix low'tobacco -- low nicotine tobacco
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13
with one that's'slightly above average, and
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that .
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t2 .
You're. not an expert in,the production
process?
6
Q . Do you know what methods, if any, have
8
been employed'by Reynolds to attempt to control
9
the nicotine level _in the tobacco, other than the
10
one you've testified to about the steam and
11
ammonia,
12
here again ;,I come'back to the eight
13
significant technologies . Foz .example, you can
14
control the nicotine .-in the smoke by controlling
15
the blend . You can control the nicotine in the
16
smoke by controlling'the efficiency of the filter,
17
which removes the total particulate matter which
18
contains the nicotine .
19
You can control it by increasing or
20
juggling the amount of reconstituted tobacco which
21
is ).ow in nicotine . The more you put in, the
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lower your nicotine . You can reduce it by the
23
degree of air .dilution you use, by perforated
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filters or by porous cigarette paper .
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Q . Doesn't Reynolds -- doesn't Reynolds,
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at the beginning of the process, have a specific
2
nicotine content that it's striving to achieve at
the end of the process for every particular type
4
of cigarette they're selling?
I don't really know that .
I mean, I look in the supermarket and
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see all these different brands of cigarettes,
from Reynolds, for example, and they .all have
different t-ar and nicotine yields . I assume
10
that"s not by accident-that they end up that way
11
in those particular packages .
12
would imagine :that the big thing they try
13
to do ie'control the tar, and ;the nicotine falls
14
where it may .
You know, talking about nicotine
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well, maybe I won't say that .
Q
ao'ahead . This is the end of the day ;
it~'-s~'your opportunity to say -Do you ever wonder why the FTC equation is as
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Wet TPM,equals tar, plus water, plus
nicotine?
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THE WITNESS : The FTC equation for
calculating tar is wet TPM equals tar, plus water,
plus nicotine . In other words, tar is water-free,
nicotine-free, wet TPM . And the reason it's that
wa-y is 'cause, if you read the 1964 Surgeon
aene-raY's report, nicotine essentially is given a
clean .bill of health . So the two ingredients in
wet,TPM, that was obvious to everybody at that
tinie had no concern :with health, was wa,ter and
10
.nicotine : And that equation is still the same to
11
this day .
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b.reak .until tomorrow morning . Nine o'clock?
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ALAN RODGMAN, Ph .D .,
having been previously sworn, was examined and
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testified further as follows :
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VIDEOGRAPHER : This is day two of the
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videotape deposition of Alan Rodgman, Ph .D . We're
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going on the record, Tuesday, August 5th, 1997, at
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EXAMINATION (Continued)
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . Good morning, Dr . Rodgman . How are
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A . Fine . And before we start, I'd like to
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correct one thing from yesterday .
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Okay .
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A . I had mentioned that in those boxes, wherever
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they are, there were two notebook -- or material
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from two notebooks about my publications . And
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last night I was -- remembered that there is one
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publication that is not in there . It's a paper
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that Dr . Charles Green and I prepared for last
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year's Tobacco Chemist Conference symposium . And
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the symposium papers are published in a journal
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called Recent Advances in Tobacco Science . And
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our paper is in volume 22 .
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The reason the copy isn't in there,
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this is not a very well bound book . And if you
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were to open it to copy it, the article is
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170-something pages long, you would have to do
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that for every double page to go on an
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eight-and-a-half by eleven sheet . That book will
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fall apart .
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Now, if you want a copy, you can get
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it from the North Carolina State University
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library ; they have all the back available copies
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of that journal, probably back to volume 9 or 10 .
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Before that, they run out of them .
And, of course, the authors are given
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five copies each, but I've given four of mine
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away . So I only have the one left .
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thing you want to correct from six hours .
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A . Pardon?
Q . That's pretty good if that's the only
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thing you want to correct from six hours .
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A . Well I thought somebody would say : He did
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something last year and it's not in there, and
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picky, picky, picky . So I thought I'd correct it
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right here and now .
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Let me ask you about the six boxes of
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documents . Where did they originally come from?
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Were all these at your house, originally?
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Q . How did it come to be that you had
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documents -- six boxes of documents at your house?
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A . Well, some of them, I think, if you look at
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them, were prepared since I retired, and some are
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copies of the formal reports I wrote while I was
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at Reynolds . And because of the peculiar way I
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worked, during the daytime -- or normal working
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hours -- for many years at Reynolds I was a lab
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man . I did my research at the bench from 7 :30 in
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the morning till five o'clock at night . And I did
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a lot of my writing at home in the evenings ; much
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to my wife's regret, I sometimes would write until
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two o'clock in the morning . And in order to do
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that, I would have pre -- previous reports I had
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written so I could refer to the references, and so
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on and so forth .
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And who did you turn these documents
MR . McDERMOTT : Asked and answered .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . Originally . Your attorney or RJR's
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Mr . Blancato .
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MR . McDERMOTT : I believe we went into
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MR . MAISTROS : I'm trying to
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establish -- yesterday we had some objections to
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conversations with you and attorney/client
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privilege, and I'm just trying to establish how
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there's an attorney/client privilege there . And
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I'll get to that very shortly .
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MR . McDERMOTT : Well, the providence
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of these documents was reviewed yesterday . And,
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again, if there is concern about using time
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efficiently, I suggest we get into new areas .
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MR . MAISTROS : Well
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BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . What is the attorney/client
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relationship, if any, that you have with
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Mr . McDermott? Do you have any attorney/client
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relationship with Mr . McDermott?
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A . Well he, I guess, represents Reynolds .
Q . And you are not currently an employee
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Q . So I want to know -- take me through
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MR . McDERMOTT : Objection . Counsel is
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well aware of the fact that attorneys for
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corporate entities are allowed to consult former
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employees under an umbrella privilege, in order to
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determine facts and prepare a defense . We are
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invoking privilege .
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If you've got something you want to do
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that doesn't deal with my conversations relating
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to litigation, you can pursue that . If you want
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to deal with other conversations Dr . Rodgman has,
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that's fine . But it is absolutely specious to
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suggest that I cannot communicate with Dr . Rodgman
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about events that occurred while he was an
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employee that are not covered by privilege .
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That's nonsense .
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BY MR . MAISTROS :
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private person in this litigation?
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A . I consider myself a private person, I guess .
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I'm here because I was deposed .
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Q . Do you consider yourself as working
for Reynolds in this litigation?
A . No, not really . No .
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Q . And you're not being paid in any
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fashion in the Arch litigation ?
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A . I was not paid for Minnesota ; I'm not being
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paid in Arch . In fact, I'm probably the only one
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around this table that's not getting paid .
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The documents were not provided to -
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from you to Mr . McDermott or any other RJR
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attorney, they were provided to your personal
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counsel, correct ?
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MR . BLANCATO : Well, he doesn't have
to disclose any priv -- that would be privileged .
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Do you know what he did after he go t
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the documents ?
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A . He arranged for them to be copied .
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MR . BLANCATO : Well, wait a minute .
You know -
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MR . MAISTROS : How is that privileged?
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they got from the garage to this room, do that .
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MR . MAISTROS : I don't know how that's
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privileged .
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THE WITNESS : What garage are you
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talking about?
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Q . Your house, whatever . Where did you
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store them?
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A . There --
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MR . McDERMOTT : Object . Asked and
answered .
MR . MAISTROS : Let's speed this up .
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Can you tell me how the documents got
from your possession to this room?
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MR . BLANCATO : Can I answer it?
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MR . MAISTROS : If you know .
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MR . BLANCATO : They were given to me .
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We had them photocopied . A set was made for the
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Reynolds attorneys, and the set that was here
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yesterday was Mark Holton's extra set of those
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photocopies . It should be the same -- a duplicate
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set of what was sent to Ms . Knisely .
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MS . KNISELY : Actually, I might be
able to shed some light on that, if I might .
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conversations with McDermott and Mr . Holton, as
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well as Mr . Blancato, and please correct me if I'm
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wrong, those documents -- those documents were
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originally provided to Mr . Blancato ; but I also
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understand Mr . Blancato then provided them, prior
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to the first deposition of Dr . Rodgman, to Womble
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Carlyle, and most particularly, Mr . Holton went
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through them originally to review for privilege,
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as well as work product .
The two -- possibly one to two boxes
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were provided at the last deposition . Our office
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was advised that there were three to four other
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boxes that had -- were being withheld for the
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purpose of reviewing them again for privilege by
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Reynolds' counsel . We were provided a subsequent
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list of those withheld documents, minus any
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privileged and a privilege log .
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supplemental privilege log, because I understand
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Dr . Rodgman has reviewed his documents at home and
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provided, I don't know who first, with copies of
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two additional documents . And we received last
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Fri -- Thursday or Friday, from Mr . Belasic, an
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additional supplemental privileged log for two
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Now, we were not advised of that by
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Mr . Blancato . I also understand that the copies
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of the documents were made here at Womble Carlyle .
Now, I also understand that perhaps
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Dr . Rodgman may or may not have been present
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during various review processes of the documents .
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Is that all accurate?
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MR . BLANCATO : No .
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MR . McDERMOTT : I don't know the
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extent to which it's accurate or not . But let me
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suggest, to the extent you all are concerned about
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time, this does not concern Dr . Rodgman, as such .
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The lawyers can spar among themselves over breaks
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and after Dr . Rodgman goes . If this is how you
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want to use your time with the witness in the
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chair, we can have lawyers talking all day long .
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I suggest it is not a particularly fruitful
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expenditure of time, however .
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MS . KNISELY : I believe Mr . Maistros
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was trying to go into the questioning of the chain
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of custody of the documents and Dr . Rodgman's
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knowledge of that .
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MR . McDERMOTT : And I --
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MS . KNISELY : And I think that's
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MR . MCDERMOTT : And I believe you will
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find that Dr . Rodgman doesn't know that the
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documents passed from his hands, as indicated, and
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it was Mr . Blancato who was providing further
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information . Use your time as you wish .
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offer, once again, to a stipulation that the --
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insofar as authenticity is concerned, that we have
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a stipulation on those six boxes of documents . I
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don't think we've put that in the record . You've
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declined that, just so the record is clear .
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So I will go through, and you can take
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a break if you want to do this . I want you to go
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through the six boxes today and tell me which ones
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you have problems that aren't authentic, aren't
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original -- or copies of originals, and you would
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dispute are not of business records of Reynolds .
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You can do that at lunch, you can do it tonight, I
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don't care when you do it . I'm not going to take
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the time up today . But unless we get a
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stipulation, I want you to go through those six
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MR . BLANCATO : Object to the form .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . Other than the ones that you did
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before you joined Reynolds and the ones that you
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did after you joined Reynolds?
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MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form .
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THE WITNESS : Well, I wasn't sure what
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you folks really wanted . And I think you'll find,
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for example, obituaries of my two mentors at the
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University of Toronto . You'll find an award I was
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given for -- the testimony I was -- for an award I
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was given for my participation in Little League
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programs, and things like that . I just put it all
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in there and you've got it .
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MR . McDERMOTT : And, again, we're not
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claiming any of those documents are fraudulent .
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So as to authenticity, what you said is not
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correct .
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We spoke last night, outside, after
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the deposition, about breaking the documents down
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into categories . Those documents which are
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clearly copies of Reynolds' materials and
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Reynolds' records we're not going to be picayune
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There are materials in those boxes,
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however, which are not business records of
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Reynolds . We talked about segregating them
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categories ; we can do that now or later . But to
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suggest that we are responsible for your not
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having examined the documents and been a little
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bit more systematic about how we treat these
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documents is again nonsense . I suggest that we
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use this witness' time more efficiently than we
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are doing now .
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MR . SHELLER : I just want to put
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something on the record that -- I would note that,
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when we had the conversation with the judge's law
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clerk, Judge Newcomer's law clerk, Mr . Blancato
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was agreeable to allow me to question the witness,
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rather than bother Judge Newcomer on vacation or
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have the other law clerk intervene, when
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Mr . McDermott interfered and told Mr . Blancato to
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wait for the second law clerk's call at 11 :00 a .m .
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to see what he said . I would also note that I
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watch Mr . McDermott constantly coaching
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Mr . Blancato .
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with Mr . Blancato . Otherwise, I suggest that
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Mr . Blancato, if he really is Mr . Rodgman's
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counsel, that you leave him alone and stop
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interfering with his decision processes .
MR . McDERMOTT : I will respond to this
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nonsense after Dr . Rodgman is gone . If you keep
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giving speeches, Mr . Sheller, I will not
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kindly on your petition for more time .
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you've burned that bridge already .
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Dr . Rodgman, I would like to take you
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through the manufacturing process and your
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knowledge of the same at Reynolds during the years
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you were there, okay?
You have been -- I'll show you --
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we'll mark it later . I only have one copy . It's
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a designation of yourself that was provided in the
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Texas litigation . And I'd ask you, before I have
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it marked, have you seen that document before?
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Q . Which gentleman?
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Mr . McDermott .
Q . And what was his purpose of showing
you that?
A . Well, because yesterday it was -- you had
mentioned that I was supposed to be an expert in
manu -- things about manufacturing . And I said
something to the effect that I was not an expert .
Now, this business about manufacture,
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the one that was -- the opinion list that was sent
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to Texas does not have that in there .
I did not write this . I didn't --
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Q . Are you suggesting, then, that the
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designation that's in this exhibit, which we'll
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mark Rodgman Exhibit 1 for purposes of this
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deposition, is accurate? You are going to testify
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concerning the design, construction, manufacture
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of cigarettes?
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A . Well, I think, someplace down later on in
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there, it says familiarity with manufacturing
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processes in general . And I would agree that I
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know a little bit about it, but I am not an expert
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in the manufacture of cigarettes .
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Did you know you were going to testify
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in Texas with respect to the design, construction
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and manufacture of cigarettes?
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A . As I say, this -- I saw this, this morning .
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It's different from the one that I had seen
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earlier, which is three pages long .
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counsel, this is a preliminary disclosure which
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was produced some weeks ago in accordance with the
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case management order where the final list of
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Dr . Rodgman's opinions was filed, or at least
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provided to opposing counsel last week .
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BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . Do you have knowledge concerning the
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design, construction and manufacture of cigarettes
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at Reynolds?
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A . Well, that's an all-sweeping statement, sir .
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I know -- as I say, I know a little bit about the
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manufacturing . I know a little bit more about the
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design . As you know, most of my work has been
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involved in the smoke composition, it's con -- and
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its control .
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A . Well, as I mentioned in my testimony
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yesterday, when you buy tobacco on the auction
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market, the first thing you do, you bring the
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tobacco in to the facility, stemery . You
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moistened it ; you warm it so it doesn't fragment ;
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you cut out the stems . You store the lamina
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separately from the stems, and they're stored in
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sheds for various periods of time, usually from 12
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to 15 months, up to two years . And while they're
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in the storage shed, the tobacco slowly changes in
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certain ways .
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And when it's withdrawn from the shed
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at the appropriate time for manufacture, it's
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taken out of the containers, it's moistened,
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warmed ; it's called "reordering ." And if you're
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talking flue-cured tobacco or burley, then you
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start your blending process . It's done in --
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usually in two lines : Part of the blend is done
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in one line, part in another . Because you also
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have to bring in Oriental tobacco and Maryland
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tobacco . Oriental tobacco comes from abroad and
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has to go through customs, and so on and so forth .
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And at that point, the stems, of
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That is incorporated in part of the blend . And
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part of the tobacco, the flue-cured burley part,
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is expanded . And that whole thing comes together
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and mixed, and it's cut . And there you have the
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blend for the -- what goes into the cigarettes .
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on the cigarette is called -- the cutting and
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casing operation is when the casing materials and
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flavorants are added and the cigarette blend is
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all ready to be run through the cigarette-making
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machine .
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And at that point it's put in hoppers
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to feed the cigarette-making machine . It runs
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through the cigarette-making machine ; the paper's
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wrapped around it and stuck together . The filters
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are inserted into the cigarettes in pairs .
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Cigarettes are cut -- the tobacco rod
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part is two units long and it's cut in the middle,
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and the double filter is dropped in between and
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they're attached . And at that point the thing is
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are incorporated into big cartons, and they're
shipped out the door .
Q . At what point in the manufacturing
process does Reynolds know that a certain tobacco
is going to end up in a certain brand of its
cigarettes?
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
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knowledge about the precise nature of blends and
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how they're put together .
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Do you know what's added to the
cigarettes in the manufacturing process?
MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the form of
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the question .
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Q . What compounds?
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casing material .
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Q . Is there a compound that's applied to
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the tobacco itself during the manufacturing
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process?
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A . Well, glycerin, propylene glycol, licorice,
sugar, cocoa, and then the flavor formulation .
Q .
Anything
else?
A . Well, during the expansion of the tobacco
13
there is an agent used in the expansion -- or was
14
used ; it's no longer used at Reynolds .
16
17
Q .
What's
that?
A . It's Freon 11 .
Q . And what years was Freon 11 used?
18
A . 1969 to sometime after I left Reynolds . I
19
don't know when they quit using it .
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Q . What is Freon 11?
21
A . Freon 11 is similar to the material that's in
22
your air conditioner -- car air conditioner and
23
your refrigerator . It's called a
24
chlorofluorocarbon .
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Fredrickson in the laboratory . And then two other
gentlemen developed the engineering aspects of the
process -Q . What was the original -A . -- Moser and Stewart .
Q .
I'm
sorry . What was the first one?
A . Moser, M-O-S-E-R ; and Stewart, S-T-E-W-A-R-T .
Q .
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was
--
11
A . And there were two patents issued to these
12
gentlemen ; one the theory part and one the
13
engineering part . They were issued the same day
14
and are sequential in the patent list .
Q . This process went till sometime after
15
16
1987?
17
A . I don't know when they quit using Freon 11 .
18
19
20
Q . Do you know why they quit using it?
A . Because of the ozone question .
Q .
What
was
the
ozone
question?
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22
inert substance . That's, you know, why it's N
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used -- how it became used as a refrigerant .
24
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so inert that very little happens to it until it
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gets into the stratosphere . And then it comes
4
apart on the effect of intense sunlight . And,
5
supposedly, part of the degradation products
6
combined with oxygen -- combined with ozone in the
7
stratosphere and -- convert ozone, which is a
8
trimolec -- triatomic form of oxygen, breaks it
9
down into regular oxygen . And when that layer
10
thins, the ozone layer thins, more types of
11
sunlight can get through to the earth's surface .
12
And that's supposed to cause all sorts of
13
problems .
So, some years back, I forget the
14
15
exact year, there was a move to diminish --
16
decrease the use of ozone freon -- Freon 11 and
17
Freon 12, which were the two main compounds used
18
in refrigeration .
Q . Was there -- prior to '69, was there
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expansion of tobacco at Reynolds?
21
A.
22
was . Dr . Fredrickson did the work in -- I believe
23
it was '63 that he actually did the lab work,
24
looking at a whole variety of solvents that could
25
be used in the expansion process .
No . That's -- well, experimentally there
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2
looking at -- Reynolds was looking at the
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incorporation of expanded tobacco into blends and
4
whether the consumers would accept this . And they
5
did, on test panels and market testing and so on .
6
And it was, I believe, introduced into Reynolds'
7
products -- it was either late '68 or early '69 .
8
9
Q . And do you know if there were other
expansion processes being used, other than the use
10
of Freon 11?
11
A . Well, when we came up with the expanded
12
tobacco, it was -- I don't know whether you're
13
familiar with how competitors look at each other' s
14
products, but when somebody has a -- products are
15
monitored frequently by competitors . And of
16
course it did not take long for some of
17
competitors -- what they do is you take a bunch of
18
cigarettes, and you cut the paper off, and you
19
have a pile of tobacco . And you have some
20
technicians, who are usually very skilled at it,
21
and they pick out the burley tobacco, the
22
flue-cured tobacco, the oriental tobacco, the
23
reconstituted tobacco sheet, and say : Look, you
24
know, what's Reynolds got in this blend? Or we
our
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apart the Winston in 1968 or '69, whenever it was
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issued, they got a fifth pile . You know, what's
4
this tobacco that's all fluffy? And so everybody
5
knew that we had expanded tobacco .
Now, people had been trying to expand
6
7
tobacco for years . They could succeed in
8
expanding stems, but no one had been able to
9
expand the lamina of tobacco - that's the leaf
10
part - until Dr . Fredrickson discovered how to do
11
it .
12
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And, of course, soon after that, some
13
other people -- Philip Morris came up with an
14
expansion process of its own . Prior to that, we
15
elected to -- if anybody wanted our process, we
16
would license our expansion process to anybody who
17
was willing to pay the licensing fee . And the
18
Japanese tobacco company, which is an immense
19
company, licensed it ; Lorillard licensed it, L & M
20
licensed it . Eventually our process was licensed
21
in probably 25, 30 countries around the world .
22
But Philip Morris elected not to
23
license it, our process . And that's because they
24
had been responsible, primarily, for all the
patents on expansion of stems, and I think they
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stems and unsuccessful with lamina . And I think
4
there's a bit of pride there .
So they had developed a process
5
6
their own - it involved the use of different
7
expansion agent - and used that in their own
8
c i garettes .
Q.
9
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Back to my original question ; maybe
Q .
you misunderstood it .
Did RJR use any other expansion
13
14
process,
other than Freon 11?
15
16
18
working,
McDERMOTT :
MR .
MAISTROS :
During what
time
19
is .
'69 to when you ceased
consulting or advising RJR, whatever it
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f rame ?
17
21
of
A . It was -- it was called ammonium carbonate .
11
12
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THE
WITNESS :
Well, when I left they
were still using Freon 11 .
22
BY MR . MAISTROS :
23
Q.
24
RJR
25
A . Well,
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For example -- as I say, Dr . Fredrickson looked
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at -- and I think if -- you probably have it
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someplace, his report in 1963 ; he must have looked
4
at 15 different solvents . And there was a problem
5
with them, and primarily in manufacturing, that
6
some of the solvents -- for example, ethyl alcohol
7
will work ; hexane will work ; pentane will work .
8
9
But one of the problems is, here you
have this facility to expand tobacco with pentane
10
or hexane, and I'm sure you know that they are
11
components of gasoline . And they're -- hexane --
12
gaseous hexane and air is a very explosive
13
mixture .
14
And -- but Freon 11 was designed in
15
edict by Boss Kettering at General Motors to be
16
inert, non-flammable and usable in a car engine
17
for air conditioning of the car . So it does not
18
burn ; it's not explosive ; it has very little -- in
19
fact, it was so inert it has
20
biological effect on anything . And so we -- of
21
the 15 or 20, I forget the exact number that
22
Dr . Fredrickson looked at, we ended up using
23
Freon 11 .
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25
very little
Q . Did Reynolds test the biological
effects of Freon 11 before it incorporated it in
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the manufacturing process?
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A . Well, we didn't need -- we did . But we
3
didn't really need to, because Freon 11 is the --
4
was a patented or copyright, whatever -- a product
5
owned by DuPont . And they had done so much work
6
on the biological properties of Freon 11, Freon
7
12, that acceptance of their data -- but we did do
8
some things to see how it affected tobacco smoke .
9
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Were studies done to determine
10
biological effect of taking Freon 11 through the
11
respiratory system?
12
A . Not by us . But Philip Morris -- not Philip
13
Morris, DuPont had done that .
14
In fact, the FDA had approved -- I
15
don't know whether any of you have had -- have
16
asthma, but for many years there were little
17
propellant gadgets with medication in them that
18
you placed against your nostrils and pressed the
19
button and, psst, psst, you got shots of the
20
medication plus the propellant .
21
Well the propellant, in most
22
instances, was either Freon 11 or a mixture of
23
Freon 11 and 12 . And that had all been checked
24
out by the FDA and so on . And in using those
inhalers, the amount you got on one squirt was
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3
nanograms, which was the equivalent of what was in
4
the smoke of many, many cigarettes, but less than
5
a nanogram of Freon 11 in the smoke of one
6
cigarette after we made it .
Q . Did -- to your knowledge, did DuPont
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test Freon 11 in a state after it had been burned,
9
such as in a smoking process?
10
A .
11
Triangle, there was a group that was doing work on
12
various things . And I don't know whether you
13
remember that, at one time, there was a big
14
problem with -- in Philadelphia, with what turned
15
out to be called the Legionnaire's disease . And
16
the cause of Legionnaire's disease was -- the
17
first cause was that an air conditioner or
18
refrigerator had malfunctioned and there had been
19
a fire, that the Freon 11 or 12, what was ever
20
used in the refrigerator, had decomposed or
21
something during this fire, generating phosgene,
22
which was a World War I gas used by the Germans to
23
kill Allied troops . And that was supposed to be
24
the cause of Legionnaire's disease .
25
No . But over at Triangle -- Research
Well, this group over at Research
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combustion, studied its effect on -- in cigarette
3
smoke, and the formation of cigarette smoke, and
4
so on and so forth, and found that it does not
5
generate phosgene . But -- and then, of course,
6
Legionnaire's disease was found to be an entire -
7
caused by a bacteria of some type, which -- whose
8
name escapes me .
9
Q . What year was that research done?
10
A . Over at the Triangle? Oh, early '70s, I
11
would say . I forget .
But we did in-house -- one of the
12
13
things we worried about was the effect of -- would
14
Freon 11, during the com -- smoking process, form
15
phosgene . Because, if you look at the structure
16
of phosgene, the structure of Freon 11, it's
17
obvious that, given the right circumstance, it was
18
possible .
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So we did a study, great detail ; we
20
had to develop all the analytical procedures for
21
it, to determine nanograms of phosgene, and so on
22
and so forth, in smoke . And we conducted it --
23
could find no phosgene in the smoke of a cigarette
24
made with expanded tobacco, with a lot more freon
25
than would be in a commercial product . We had
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Bio-Test . They came up -- they couldn't find it .
3
And as I say, the group over in Research Triangle
4
couldn't find anything wrong with -- at least
5
phosgene generation .
6
Then a man in Germany, because we were
7
going to license our process in Germany, he looked
8
at the question, because I had given presentation
9
to several companies in Germany on our process as
10
part of the licensing ploy . And he was intrigued
11
by it all . And -- and he was a physical chemist .
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And he took -- looked at the thing
13
from phosgene and the conditions in a burning
14
cigarette and said : You folks didn't need to do
15
the experiments . That if you just looked at the
16
thermodynamic calculation, it's impossible to
17
generate freon -- phosgene from freon in a burning
18
cigarette .
19
20
21
Q . Let me just cut you off for a second,
because I know time is a concern .
The question was that, prior to using
22
Freon 11 in the tobacco manufacturing process, Ln
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A . I just told you .
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Prior to the use of Freon 11 in the
4
manufacturing process, did RJR do any testing to
5
determine the effect of burning the freon?
6
A . Between 1963 and 1970, sir, we did the
7
phosgene work ; we did what's called a material
8
balance study .
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10
that's got so much -- a certain percentage of
11
expanded tobacco and that expanded tobacco has so
12
much freon on it - and here we're talking
13
nanograms, parts per million - that we examine
14
what happened to that freon during smoking ; where
15
did it end up? Obviously, if it didn't form
16
phosgene, it exits the smoke -- exits in the smoke
17
as Freon 11 itself . And we determined what was in
18
the mainstream smoke, the sidestream smoke, how
19
much was retained in the cigarette filter, so on
20
and so forth, and could account for everything in
21
the Freon 11 business of where it ended up in the
22
smoke . That was all done before it ever went into
23
the cigarette .
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Did you determine if there were any
other compounds that were created during the
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burning process as a result of the addition of
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Freon 11?
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A . I just finished telling you . Freon 11 is so
4
inert that -- if it won't form phosgene, it won't
5
form anything else . Now, we could account for, in
6
our material balance study, if you had -- and here
7
I'll just pick a figure, because I'm sure you have
the document that I wrote -- put together on the
9
•
10
say you had ten nanograms of Freon 11 on a
11
cigarette . You get so much in the mainstream
12
smoke, so much in the sidestream smoke, so much in
13
the -- the tobacco part of the butt, so much in
14
the filter tip . And then, in the way you
15
determine this, there was some Freon 11 on the
16
walls of the gadgetry where you collect the smoke,
17
which is a very small amount .
18
nanograms to start with, we could account for all
19
of it .
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So if you had ten
MR . McDERMOTT : Let me point out,
21
counsel, that the report Dr . Rodgman just referred
22
to is, in fact, attached as an exhibit to the
23
first part of this deposition, and a lot of this
24
was covered in detail in the initial part of the
25
deposition . But you may use your time as you
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Q . Did you do any tests to determine the
3
4
effect of Freon 11 -- or the burning of Freon 11
5
on nicotine content or yield of the tobacco?
6
A .
7
You -- you asked about freon itself . But,
8
obviously, if you have expanded tobacco in a
9
cigarette, you have less tobacco in the cigarette .
No . The -- part of the -- well, indirectly .
10
Correct? Then, when you smoke that cigarette,
11
you're going to get less
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nicotine in the smoke .
And if you look at the Surgeon
13
General -- not the Surgeon General, I'm sorry, the
14
National Cancer Institute study, they repeated and
15
confirmed the effect of our expansion process,
16
Philip Morris' expansion process, and the one
17
developed at North Carolina State, which was
18
actually a freeze-dried tobacco that was expanded .
19
All of them were significant in their
20
contribution, if you will, to a less hazardous
21
cigarette, but all of them dropped the nicotine in
22
the smoke . And that's in the data and -- by our
23
National Cancer Institute .
24
Again, though, the primary motivation
S 251 behind expanded tobacco was not to drop nicotine,
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A . Well, I think I mentioned yesterday, when we
3
talked about the technologies, if you read
4
Dr . Fredrickson's proposal --
5
Q . I'm going to cut you off because I
6
want a specific answer to this specific question .
7
Did RJR develop the expansion process to reduce
8
nicotine or did they do it so that they could --
9
A . If you let me answer the question, sir .
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There's one -- two purposes for
11
expanded tobacco . One, money . The second was to
12
design a cigarette that would have reduced total
13
particulate matter in the smoke . And if you
14
reduce the total particulate matter in the smoke,
15
you would reduce the nicotine .
16
17
Q . What was the first purpose of
expansion of tobacco? Out of the two .
MR . McDERMOTT : Objection . Asked and
18
19
20
21
answered .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . It was money, wasn't it? The primary
22
purpose was money?
23
A . Well, he had two things in his report .
24
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Q.
Wasn't the primary purpose of the
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A . No, it wasn't .
Q . It wasn't money? It was to reduce the
3
particulate matter?
4
A . No, it -- I will say that -- make -- make
5
them equal, if you want .
6
Q . I invite you on a break to go over the
7
six boxes of documents and show me one where
8
reduction of particulate matter was mentioned
9
above money .
10
MR . MCDERMOTT : Objection .
11
MR . BLANCATO : Objection to form .
12
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . The very first document that ever was
created that discussed Freon 11 and the expansion
15
of tobacco, do you know if it ever mentioned the
16
goal of reducing the particulate matter in the
17
smoke?
18
A . Well, as I say, Dr . Fredrickson's first memo
19
didn't mention any specific solvents, because he
20
didn't know which ones would work, if any .
21
Q . Didn't his first memo say that the
22
primary advantage of expansion of tobacco was to 1-n
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24
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25
A . I don't know whether he had it that -- you
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don't remember him saying it that way .
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5
tobacco?
6
A . Yes . We looked at ammonium carbonate .
Q . How did -- I'm sorry .
8
A . We looked at carbon dioxide puffing, which
9
actually other people looked at . Nitrogen was
10
used by some people . And of course -- we did not
11
spend much time looking at the process North
12
Carolina State University had, the freeze drying
13
procedure .
14
Q . The ammonia process, what's the full
15
name, do you know, that you mentioned?
16
A . Pardon?
17
Q . The ammonia process that you
18
mentioned, what's the full name?
19
A . Well, it's -- ammonium carbonate is the
20
expansion agent, mixture of ammonium carbonate and
an ex -- expansion means . I don't know whether --
5
a man called Charles D . Mays did the work on the
6
ammonium carbonate expansion . I don't know what
7
he looked at in terms of nicotine .
8
9
But the chances are that, if you -looking at the ammonium carbonate puffed tobacco
10
that was involved in the National Cancer Institute
11
study, that the nicotine level in the tobacco was
12
reduced . And I have -- I would take a guess that
13
Charles Mays found the same thing when he did --
14
checked it at Reynolds . But I -- I can't say that
15
for sure .
16
Q . Did you explore the possibility of
17
Reynolds using the ammonium carbonate method of
18
expansion?
19
A . No -- well, let me back up on that .
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At -- at -- when we were looking at
21
various expansion methods, of course we were very
22
pleased with the Freon 11 exercise .
23
Dr . Fredrickson looked at other things, and one of
24
them happened to be ammonium carbonate .
25
In fact, if you look at the patents
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3
ammonium carbonate before Philip Morris . We did
4
make a mistake, I guess you would consider it a
5
mistake, that we decided not to file a patent in
6
the United States, and Philip Morris -- I think
7
the rule is you have to file -- if you have a
8
foreign patent, you've got to do it within a year .
9
Philip Morris filed the patent in the
10
United States, so they had the patent on ammonium
11
carbonate puffing . And -- even though ours, in
12
Europe, preceded theirs .
13
But we had looked at it ; we looked at
14
many things . We looked at carbon dioxide as a
15
puffing agent and --
16
Q . And you said you looked at nitrogen?
17
A . Now, somebody else had reported nitrogen . We
18
checked to see how that would work . It's a little
19
difficult to handle, because, to get it to work,
20
you have to have liquid nitrogen, and liquid
21
nitrogen is -- requires a temperature of, I don't
22
know, minus 270-something degrees .
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Q . Do you know who was using nitrogen
24
process?
25
A . I don't know whether anybody was using it .
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Q . Did you -- are you saying that
4
Reynolds didn't seriously explore the use of
5
nitrogen to expand tobacco ?
6
A . Well, we looked at it . As I say, from
7
1970 -- '68, '69, till I left, they were still
8
using Freon 11 . And so were all the people that
9
licensed it from us .
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Q .
processes for tobacco that was sold and markete d
12
overseas?
13
A . No .
Q.
To your knowledge, then, the onl y
15
expansion process Reynolds has ever used is th e
16
Freon 11?
MR . McDERMOTT : Objection ; misstates
17
18
prior testimony .
THE WITNESS : Until I left . I think
19
20
I've said that about five times, sir .
When I left Reynolds in 1987, they
21
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11
14
22
were using Freon 11 . And if they're using
23
anything else since then, I have no idea what it
24
would be .
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Q . Do you know who was using carbon
dioxide expansion?
A . A company called Airco was the one that
pioneered the use -- or at least pushed the C02
expansion of tobacco . And that was another case
where Reynolds had actually been the first to look
at C02 expansion and decided not to proceed with
it because it took rather bulky machinery, and so
on and so forth, and was no less effective
•
10
than was -- than our process . And, of course,
11
subsequently, Airco got the patent on it, I
12
believe --
13
Q . Do you know if Reynolds ever used
14
ammonia or any compound related to ammonia in the
15
manufacturing process, other than -- let's
16
back up .
In any fashion, were you aware that
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Reynolds used ammonia in the manufacturing
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A . Well, I think I said yesterday, they used
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ammonia to denicotinize high nicotine tobaccos
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down to whatever level they wanted . And I can't
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think of the date, but at one time they were
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using -- ammoniating their reconstituted tobacco
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reconstituted tobacco sheet?
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A . Well, they were trying to -- in the Philip
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Morris products, the -- their reconstituted
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tobacco sheet is made by an ammoniate -- ammonia
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process . And when Marlboro be -- began to look
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like such a winner, we wondered, well, should we
8
do something to our sheet to -- to imitate the
9
ammoniated effect of the Philip Morris sheet, and
10
we obviously couldn't use -- without royalties and
11
so on, the procedure used by Philip Morris, which
12
involved treatment of the sheet material with an
13
ammonium salt .
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Q . Do you know why Philip Morris did
15
that?
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A . I guess they wanted a sheet of their own .
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adding ammonia salt to the reconstituted tobacco?
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A . Well, the addition of the ammonium salts to
20
the -- you're not adding them to the reconstituted
21
tobacco . What happens is that stems -- stemmed
22
material have some compounds in it that are
23
calcium salts of pectic acid, P-E-C-T-I-C . And
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you want to get that calcium away from the pectic
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acid . So if you treat it with a compound, one of
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the ammonium phosphate salts, the ammonia replaces
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the calcium as the pectic acid -- to make an
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ammonium salt of pectic acid, instead of the
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calcium salt . And the calcium combines with the
5
phosphate part of the ammonium phosphate that you
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added, and calcium phosphate is very insoluble in
7
water . So the ammonium pectate, now, can be made
8
into a sheet much easier and a much nicer sheet
9
than the calcium pectate material .
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That's what I got out of the patent
they had .
Q . Well, how did that affect the
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as I say, we did the same kind of thing that
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everybody does : We looked at their product, and
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all of a sudden they had a reconstituted tobacco
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that was different . About 1968, I guess, it was,
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'69 .
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any effect that the ammonia -- ammonia process
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that Philip Morris used had an effect on the
4
nicotine yields of the tobacco?
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A . I didn't look at that .
Q . Did Reynolds look at that?
A . I don't know what they looked at . I think
10
they were interested in the sheet, per se . And,
11
of course, the one thing about -- when you make a
12
sheet, like reconstituted tobacco, you're actually
13
starting something that's rather low in nicotine
14
anyway . Stems have much less nicotine than the -
15
the lamina .
16
Q . Do you know if Reynolds did any
17
studies to determine if Philip Morris was
18
controlling the amount of nicotine yields of its
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reconstituted tobacco?
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A . I don't know whether we did or not .
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A . There was a study, I believe it was done by
Miss Janet Wheeler, putting various additives
in a
filter tip to see the effect on -- how it would
affect the nicotine level in smoke . Like acetic
materials put in the filter tip, would that -nicotine is a basic compound . And'my vague
recollection is that, when you use some of these
10
additives, you got to -- have a problem with
11
acceptability on test panels . But it's been years
12
since I even thought about that .
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Q . Do you know if Philip Morris did any
14
research to determine the effect that its
15
additives had on the nicotine yields of these
16
cigarettes and the end product nicotine yields?
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question was Philip Morris?
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again, sir .
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determine the effect that any of its additives had
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did a study on use of humectants, glycerol and
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propylene glycol, part of the casing material for
cigarettes . And of course'your main concern with
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the humectants is that they help the cigarette
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retain its moisture level at manufacturing . And
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of course, being here in the south, when you
9
manufacture cigarettes in Winston-Salem and then
10
11
problem sometimes that there they're locked in a
12
truck and they're driving through areas that are a
13
hundred degrees Fahrenheit . So you -- you don't
14
want to lose moisture from your product .
15
So we were looking at the advisability
16
of raising or lowering, or doing whatever, with
17
the humectants . And, of course, one of the things
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level, and more of humectant gets into the
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and the humectant turns out as part of
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you weigh as total particulate matter and ends up
22
as being in the calculation, the FTC tar -- part
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of the FTC tar number, then what happens is, as
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you increase the humectants from, say, three to
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four to five to six percent, the nicotine level in
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humectants . It was not to lower the nicotine, but
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it was primarily to make sure our products retain
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their moisture for a longer period of time .
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Because what happens, if you lose moisture from
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the cigarette and the moisture loss is -- gets --
11
gets over a percent or two, that is it drops, say,
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from 12 to 11 to 10, the tar level goes up and the
13
nicotine level in smoke goes up . And it gets to a
14
point where the smoke is very irritating .
15
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Did RJR do studies to determine
16
whether or not the tar levels could be reduced,
17
independent of reduction of the nicotine levels?
18
A . Well, here -- let me go back, 1980 . In 1980
19
there was a conference on less hazardous
20
cigarettes, called the Banbury Conference, and
21
Dr . Russell from England gave a presentation
22
there . And one of his theses, which he had
23
proposed sometime in the '70s, I forget the exact
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date -- M .A .H . Russell is his name . He, in
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England, and a man called, I believe, Jarvik,
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safer cigarette should encompass lowering the tar
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and leaving the nicotine alone, or lowering the
4
tar and raising the nicotine . And we looked at
5
that, and there was problems with it about -- when
6
you got an imbalance in the tar to nicotine ratio,
7
the cigarette became very harsh and the consumer
8
said no, no, no .
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Q.
Dr . Rodgman, so I'm clear on this,
22
when you were talking about Philip Morris'
23
addition of ammonia to the reconstituted tobacco
24
sheet, was it your understanding, or is it your
25
understanding, that the only purpose in doing that
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Q . Did you ever have any information that
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5
the tobacco?
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A . I didn't .
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Q . Did anyone at Reynolds?
A . Not that I know of .
9
Q . And when you left, was Reynolds adding
10
tobacco to its sheets -- I'm sorry, adding ammonia
11
to its reconstituted tobacco sheets?
12
A . Not all of it . They had two variations of
13
reconstituted tobacco sheet, and I'm sure you've
14
heard of them . One's G7, the one that was
15
invented in nineteen fifty -- first used in '54 ;
16
and G7A, which was the ammoniated one . And I
17
don't know how much they used of either .
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Q . Do you know what years G7A was used?
A . No, I don't .
Q . And do you know what the purpose of
21
Reynolds adding ammonia to the reconstituted
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tobacco process was?
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seeing, I guess, if they could match it .
That's a speculation on my part .
Q . You don't know of any research that
was done to determine if the ammonia being added
to the reconstituted tobacco sheet affected the
amount of nicotine yield of the tobacco?
A.
No . The only thing I know, sir, is that --
and, here, I'm not an expert on nicotine ; I think
10
you're quite aware of that .
With every case I've seen that --
11
12
where you add ammonia or ammonium salt or ammonia
13
solution to a tobacco, you end up with less
14
nicotine in that tobacco than you started with .
Q . How about free nicotine? Do you know
15
16
what the concept of free nicotine is?
17
A . Yes . And I think, if you read the deposition
18
that went on here two weeks ago, three weeks ago,
19
you'll get a good idea of my view on free
20
nicotine .
Q . Does anyone share your view in the
21
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chemical world?
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Yes .
Q.
Who?
A . That the free nicotine is a calculated
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Q . Okay, we can start there . Who shares
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your view that the free nicotine is a calculated
4
number?
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A . I think everybody realizes it's a calculated
6
number . As far as I know, there's no chemist that
7
has ever isolated -- identified free nicotine in
8
mainstream cigarette smoke .
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Q . Was the -- to your knowledge, the
10
primary purpose Reynolds added ammonia to the
11
reconstituted tobacco was to attempt to duplicate
12
Marlboro?
13
A . That was my understanding .
14
Q . Is it your understanding that the
15
only -- only manner in which ammonia is added in
16
the manufacturing process is in this reconstituted
17
tobacco process?
18
A . I have no idea if it's added any other way .
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And you've got to remember, too, up until 1980,
20
the R & D part of Reynolds was R & D . And there
21
were a lot of things went on in development
22
that -- where I was in research, that I had very
23
peripheral knowledge of . I was aware of some
24
things going on, but had no basis of knowledge of
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research and development was split into six parts,
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and the process engineering and applied work was
5
entirely separate from my work in fundamental .
6
And I had enough to do with fund -- directing
7
fundamental research, that -- to be worried about
8
what other people were doing . And --
Q.
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Between 1953 and 1980, did R -- R & D
10
do any research on nicotine?
11
A . I wasn't there in '53 .
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sorry . What year did you join?
1954 .
Q . Between 1954 and 1980, did R & D do
any research in nicotine?
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Q . What research?
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A . In the late 'SOs, two men at Reynolds -- well
22
one was actually a manager, the other was a lab
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developed a -- an improved analysis of nicotine in',P .
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took several years' research to develop that
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process .
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In fact, it was one of the reasons
5
that his development of a variety of analytical
6
methods for tobacco and tobacco smoke, which
7
included nicotine, nornicotine, and so on, that
8
Mr . Cundiff was awarded the -- a very prestigious
9
prize for his work in analytical chemistry .
Q . What other research?
heating . And he said that they were, the three of
19
them .
20
However, we looked at the pyrolysis of
21
nicotine and couldn't find these three compounds .
22
And subsequent to 1960, from 1963 to 1992,
23
seven -- eight different studies had been
24
conducted and published, including some by
25
Dietrich Hoffmann and some from the U .S .
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Government . But nobody can reproduce those
2
findings of Benjamin Van Duuren, either with
3
respect to those compounds in smoke or the
4
pyrolysis of nicotine .
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And the reason I mention it is these
compounds are listed by EPA and Wynder and
Hoffmann as being three significant tumorigens in
8
cigarette smoke ; and for '63 to '92, in eight
9
different studies, in three different countries,
10
nobody can find them .
11
Q . And what -- what work were you doing
12
that would have piqued your interest to look,
13
after '87, at whether nicotine promotes tumors?
14
A . After '87? I wasn't there in '87 .
Q . What -- why are you still researching
15
16
what reports are out there on nicotine and its
17
potential tumor causing effects between '87 and
18
'92? Just as a --
19
A .
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22
Who?
Q .
You .
A . I was reading the literature, see .
Q . After '87, when you left Reynolds, you
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still kept up on the scientific literature of
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tobacco?
25
A . Tobacco smoke .
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Were there any cases, litigation or
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legal matters that you were consulting on, between
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'87 and the present, that you haven't testified
4
about?
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A . Not that I -- not that I know of .
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And going back to my original
7
question . Were you aware that Reynolds was doing
8
studies subsequent to Van Buren's (sic) study to
9
determine --
10
A . Van Duuren .
Q . Van Duuren's study, to determine if
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his results could be duplicated?
13
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pyrolysis, we went on to other things .
No . When we couldn't find it in the nicotine
15
Q . Did, to your knowledge, Reynolds ever
16
do any research to determine if nicotine promoted
17
tumors, caused tumors, was tumorigenic?
18
A.
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No .
Q . Are you aware of any other research
20
that was done at -- in R & D between '54 and '87
21
with respect to nicotine?
22
A . Well, I'm not really aware of any research .
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When I came to Reynolds in 1954, I was shown a
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facility that was not too far from here - it's w
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gone now - where Reynolds recovered nicotine from
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scrap tobacco and stems, and this was before the
days when -- in the manufacture -- preparation of
reconstituted tobacco sheet, Reynolds didn't use
all its stems . And they used part of the stems in
this facility ; they would treat it with alkali and
distill off the nicotine and sell the nicotine to
the company that made -- I'm thinking Black Leaf
40, which people use it on their rose bushes .
Q . A bug killer?
10
11
A . Bug killer .
Q . Do you know during what period of time
12
Reynolds continued to sell nicotine to that
13
company?
14
A . I -- I don't know when it quit or -- or it
15
was probably before -- maybe 1960 they quit . It
16
was probably earlier . Because, as their increased
17
use of the stems occurred, there was less and less
18
stems to process .
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Q . If R & D wasn't doing nicotine
20
research, what entity within Reynolds would have
21
been?
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first use of the radial-labeled nicotine to see
what happened to nicotine in a mammalian body .
I'm not too familiar with the work,
but it was done by a man called Dr . Wolff,
W-O-L-F-F . And the results were presented at
several of the earlier Tobacco Chemists
Conference, and which the first one, I believe,
10
was 1947 . And he presented several papers over
11
the years, between '47 and early '50s . I've seen
12
abstracts, but I didn't hear the papers .
13
Q . What is the largest particulate
14
compound that's contained in the cigarette smoke?
15
A . Largest particulate?
Q .
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A . How do you mean "large"?
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Yes .
Q . Greatest quantity .
A.
Water .
Q . And what about after water?
A . Nicotine .
Q . And between 1954 and 1987, is it your
23
testimony that there were no studies, other than
24
those you've testified about, with respect to how
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biological facilities, you know, '65, '66, '67, in
5
there . So as far as I know, no .
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Q . And Reynolds, to your knowledge, other
8
than the Bowman Gray study you just mentioned, did
9
not contract with any outside agencies to
10
determine how nicotine interacted with the human
11
body?
MR . McDERMOTT : Objection ; no
12
13
foundation .
THE WITNESS : I don't know .
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Q . Are you aware of any work that
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17
Reynolds did to determine if nicotine had an
18
effect on the central nervous system of humans?
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A .
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No .
Q . Did you prepare any literature,
21
reports, memorandum, that addressed the role
22
nicotine plays in tobacco smoke?
23
A . Not specifically on nicotine . I may have
24
mentioned nicotine . But not a report devoted to
25
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Q . As you sit here today, do you know
what role nicotine plays on the smoking process?
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the question . Vague .
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THE WITNESS : Say that again, sir .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . Do you know what effect or what role
nicotine plays on the smoking process?
10
MR . McDERMOTT : Same objection .
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THE WITNESS : On the smoking process?
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BY MR . MAISTROS :
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14
smoke, smoking process ; so I use "the smoking
15
process" as a catchall phrase .
16
A . Well, the smoking process is the process
17
whereby tobacco is converted to smoke and
18
nicotine -- some nicotine is transferred to --
19
from the cigarette to the mainstream smoke, and
20
some is transferred to the sidestream smoke, and
21
some is decomposed . That's the role of nicotine
22
in the smoking process .
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Q . Do you know what role nicotine plays
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25
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human body . You're way outside my area of
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expertise, sir .
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Q . Who was the most knowledgeable person
5
at Reynolds between '54 and '87, with respect to
6
the role nicotine plays in the smoking process?
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A.
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John
H . Robinson .
Q . Was he within research and
development?
10
A . He came to research and development -- the
11
research department about 1978, '77, somewhere in
12
there .
13
Q . And you eventually were director of
14
research and development?
15
A . I hired John Robinson . I was director of
16
research, sir . I heard somebody saying something
17
on the phone that I was the grand guru of
18
R & D, and I wish you'd get it straight .
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20
you were John Robinson's supervisor?
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A . I was -- well, I was director of research,
22
and John Robinson's manager was John Reynolds, who
23
reported to me .
24
Q . And were you copied on the reports
25
that Robinson was preparing, insofar as he was
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of years he was there, he wasn't particularly
4
working on nicotine per se . The -- one of the
5
large projects he was working on was the Barclay
6
problem, which lasted for a year and a half .
7
Someplace in 1981 it was all finished ; they turned
8
over the information to the Federal Trade
9
Commission .
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Q . Did you review Dr . Robinson's work on
11
nicotine?
12
A . I can't remember whether he did very much
13
nicotine work while I was director of research .
14
Q.
Did
Dr . Robinson have to obtain your
15
approval before commencing any research projects,
16
when you were director of research?
17
A . Well, it was usually done through the
18
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20
memorandums, research reports that address the
21
contentions made by some people out there that
22
Reynolds and other tobacco companies manipulate or
23
control the level of nicotine?
24
MS . EASON : Object to the form .
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4
floating out there that tobacco companies,
5
including Reynolds, manipulates and controls the
6
level of nicotine in its tobacco products?
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A . I'm aware there -- that's been said .
Q . Have you ever written any papers,
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documents, memorandum that address that issue?
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came up after I retired .
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In terms of the compounds that are in
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tobacco smoke, the Cambridge filter system, which
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is used by the Federal Trade Commission to measure
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particulate matter in tobacco, you're familiar
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with that?
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A . Yes, I am .
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Q .
Okay . And that -- what does that
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measure in terms of tobacco smoke? Just
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particulate matter?
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A . It -- the Cambridge filter pad was designed
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that, when smoke impinges on it, it takes out
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99 .9-something percent of the particulate matter
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that strikes at the vapor phase gas components go
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through .
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Q . Now, you say, the vapor phase gas
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components . Can you explain what the vapor phase
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gas components are in generality? What -- what is
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that, as distinguished from particulate?
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aerosol . It's little liquid droplets, balls,
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little liquid balls, spheres, whatever you want to
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call them, suspended in a vapor . And when you
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pull smoke through the cigarette, it goes through
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the cigarette, tobacco rod, and the filter . And
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then, if you're collecting the smoke on a
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Cambridge filter pad, like in the FTC procedure,
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the particulate matter impinges on the Cambridge
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filter pad and it stays there . The vapor phase
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components continue on through and are expelled,
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unless you're specifically studying those .
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phase of cigarette smoke versus vapor phase, what
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happens is, obviously, when you're smoking -- take
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a puff on the cigarette, you're pulling air
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through the lit end . So what goes through the
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Cambridge filter pad, the vapor phase components
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of course is : The nitrogen that was in the air,
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it doesn't burn, or very little of it does ; the
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unconsumed oxygen ; plus carbon monoxide, carbon
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dioxide, helium that was in the air, acetaldehyde,
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formaldehyde .
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versus the particulate phase, in a normal
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cigarette, with nine-tenths of a gram of tobacco
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or so, the vapor phase -- well, the total smoke,
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counting what impinges on the -- stays on the
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Cambridge filter pad and what goes through it, is
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roughly 500 milligrams . And if the particulate
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matter is a 20-milligram -- well, say,
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20-milligram TPM cigarette --
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Q . Tar per -A . Four hundred -- 480 is gas phase, of which
probably -- nearly 400 milligrams is unused air .
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Okay . So -- let -- let me understand .
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The -- there's 500 milligrams --
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Q . -- approximately, that goes through
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the Cambridge filter .
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A . Well, no . The total smoke generated from a
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cigarette in ten puffs or eight puffs, whatever it
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takes, would be about 500 milligrams . Twenty
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milligrams of total particulate matter,
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480 milligrams of vapor phase components, of which
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A . Yeah . Well, if you have a TPM of 20, you
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could take a rough guess that your carbon monoxide
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will be 20, plus or minus one milligram .
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Q.
Okay . But let -- let me kind of get
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these numbers straight . And I was not good in
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chemistry . I want you to understand that .
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Q . That's a tar per milligram .
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No .
Q . What does TPM stand for?
A . Total particulate matter .
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Matter . Total particulate matter .
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And -- and then, if you're speaking
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about the non-air components that go through the
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filter pad, like acetaldehyde, and so on and so
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probably -- that number, plus or minus one or two
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milligrams, so you're looking 18 to 22 . The
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carbon dioxide, as a rule of thumb, will be about
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twice that, two and a half times that . And those
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are the most plentiful components in the vapor
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phase .
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And of course you have acetaldehyde,
and so on and so forth . And then you --
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Q .
Okay . Let me -- let me -- so the
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vapor phase consists of -- let me get this
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straight . You've got 500 --
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Right .
Q . TSM I'm going to call that .
A . Okay .
Q . Then of that 520 -A . Say -- let's say 20 .
Q . Approximately 20 .
A . Twenty would be TPM .
Q . That's what gets onto the filter?
A . The Cambridge filter, right .
Q . Then there's 480 left .
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and all those other things that --
A . Yeah, they're way down there, in micrograms
and nanograms, and so on and so forth .
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Okay . Now --
A . And in that 80, it -- rough -- roughly 80
that we said were non-air components, there are
about four or 500 compounds -- 400 compounds that
have been identified .
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to reduce the tar per milligram at that 20 that's
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collected on the Cambridge pad --
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Q . -- could I vaporize some of those
things and get them out of there?
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Q . How would I do that? Could I vaporize
it, could I do something to it to -- to do that?
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A . Well the best way is to have the cigarette
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burn differently .
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Okay .
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And if you -- there's a mathematical correlation
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between percentage air dilution as imposed by
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filter tip ventilation and the particulate matter .
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Because, what you're doing is -- normally, with a
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normal cigarette, you would pull 35 milliliters of
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air into it, according to the FTC procedure . If
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you air dilute it ten percent through the little
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holes in the filter, then ten percent of the air,
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which would be three and a half milliliters of
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air, would come through the little holes ; and then
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the remainder, 31 and a half milligrams, would
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come through the cigarette . Which means that you
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What?
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generate it .
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Okay . Now, is there any way to
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generate it, but turn it into vapor?
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vapor?
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Q . I'm -- I'm -- I'm designing a
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cigarette that I want'to know -- you're -- you're
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a cigarette engineer, right? Design --
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Q . An organic chemist . All right .
So you -- well, I'm asking you, as an
organic chemist -- and I did take organic
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you want to learn about what's on the Cambridge
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What's on the Cambridge filter pad are
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things that are relatively non-volatile when they
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hit that Cambridge filter pad .
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air, components, nitrog -- they are gaseous or
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vaporous ; they go through .
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Now, because the particles, these
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little balls, are whizzing down the cigarette,
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they hit the Cambridge filter pad, and the
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Cambridge filter pad is designed to stop
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everything above a certain size . Well, above a
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certain size is almost everything that is-not
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little molecules like the air . So they hit the
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Cambridge filter pad and are impinged there .
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cannot -- there's no way you can vaporize
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benzpyrene, for example, or -- to get it to go
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through as a vapor at 30, 40 degrees . So it's
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going to impinge .
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pad is less . And you can do that by what you put
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it -- how you design your filter tip, how you
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design the -- use expanded tobacco or
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reconstituted sheet . And -- and, of course, if
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you look at the FTC -- well not FTC, the
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sales-weighted average for tar, from 1955 to the
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present time, it's been dropping .
Q . Well, I understand that . But what I'm
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trying to understand is -- let's -- let's talk
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about benzpyrene, for example . Is that in the
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TPM?
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Q . That -- that never gets vaporized .
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Q . 350 degrees ?
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point . And it melts --
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350 degrees ?
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cigarette, out of the fire cone, is 850 degrees
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centigrade .
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Q . 850 . Well, wouldn't some of that
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benzpyrene then be vaporized ?
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temperature . It's formed back in the cigarette,
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where the temperature is lower . And the thing is,
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the benzpyrene, because of its nature, gets into
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at the end of my cigarette butt and it's -- the
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burn is down at the bottom near the filter . Are
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you -- you telling me that none of that benzpyrene
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is vaporized?
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formation -- during its formation . Benzpyrene
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isn't in tobacco .
Q . I know, during the formation . And
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you're saying none of that benzpyrene is going to
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get through that filter, according to you?
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Q .
Okay .
And you're saying, you don't know
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any way to vaporize that tar per milligram, that
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20 that the pad gets, that -- now, I
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a cigarette that I want -- what -- what's in that
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tar per milligram? You got benzpyrene --
want to make
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is a series of about 80 compounds, but they act as
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Okay . Now, let me ask you something .
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Q . And how much is nicotine?
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Yes .
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Q . And then humectants?
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tobacco, because those are in tobacco .
Q.
Uh-huh . What are humectants?
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help the cigarette retain its moisture
14
transport from manufacture to the consumer, and
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across the country, and so on .
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during its
Q . What's the usual amount, approximate?
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Q . All right .
Now, is there any way, that you know
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of, that nicotine can get vaporized so it doesn't
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get counted on that pad?
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Right . But does ammonia free the
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nicotine you were talking about in the prior
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deposition in Ju -- I think it was in July or
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June? What is that? Is that an amount that
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people calculate as in the vapor?
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calculation . It's based on the pH of the smoke .
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free nicotine that went through that filter --
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Cambridge filter pad .
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No . They -- as I say, it's a funny
Q . But they -- but they calculate that --
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that there is some amount going through there,
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right, because of the ammonia ; isn't that true?
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none goes through, sir .
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Cambridge filter pad .
Q . I understand .
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Q . Are you saying that the Cambridge
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filter pad picks up all the nicotine that's in the
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smoke?
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Yes .
Q.
Okay . And you're positive of that?
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reported nicotine, per se, in the vapor phase of
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the mainstream smoke .
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Q . But people believe that nicotine is in
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the vapor phase because of ammonia, don't they?
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Many scientists .
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Q . They don't . Where do they believe it
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Uh-huh . Right .
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Right .
A . But none does, so it can't be in the -- can't
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Q . So you're saying, if nicotine is free,
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it will be in the --
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Q . -- vapor phase and not counted in the
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filter . But you're saying, to your knowledge,
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none is in that vapor phase, right?
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believe that a substantial amount of nicotine is
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in the vapor phase . You disagree with that view .
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able to measure it .
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because no one has measured it, you're saying it's
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Q . Now, has Reynolds ever tried to
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Q . And did you ever see a report from
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Patrick Cooper, saying : I tried to measure the
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nicotine and -- to see if it's in the vapor phase,
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Q . Now, you do use ammonia to free the
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collectible air which is then -- what -- how does
it get back into a fluid or a salt?
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Now, if that -- and you've never done
any -- to your knowledge, no one's ever tried to
heat that water to see if it vaporizes?
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Hmmm?
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in the cigarettes the vapor that -- the nicotine
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tobacco .
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see . So the ammonia does nothing to
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the nicotine . It doesn't free it in the tobacco
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in the cigarette, but it will free it in the
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tobacco that you're going to sell for bug killer .
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nicotine that you freed with the ammonia?
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Q . Why did you burn it?
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like a large liquor still, where you cook the
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stems with the alkali and the nicotine distilled
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over, and you caught it in suitable vessels . But
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this is being done in a huge belt . Nic -- tobacco
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is going along a belt . And you're dealing with
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great volumes of air and ammonia and nicotine .
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there, up to, what, 1987, did they always burn all
that nicotine?
A . Sir, I saw it done once on an orientation
tour, back in the early '60s, and that's the only
time I ever saw them do it .
Q . So you really don't know what happens
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to that free nicotine --
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knowledge of what happened .
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after that one time I saw it ; I didn't know what
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ammoniated every pound of tobacco we bought .
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I didn't say that .
Q .
A . We only ammoniated the tobaccos -- we removed
the nicotine from tobaccos when the nicotine was
very high . Which, in some years, if the normal
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crop or the crop that was going to be used were in
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the range that we normally used, there was no
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denicotinization . It was only those crops that
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arose out of a situation where it was very hot,
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very dry, and you ended up with a tobacco that was
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six percent nicotine and you didn't want that .
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Right . There were two times ammonia
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was used ; I think you already pointed that out .
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the cigarette, and then the other is the
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denicotinization process you talked about .
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I'm talking about, is there anything
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any other product in this tobacco?
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compounds similar to nicotine, and there --
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What
are
they?
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Q . Does it free that?
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
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trying to trap me into this "free" business . it
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will, if you're denicotinizing tobacco with
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ammonia to reduce the nicotine, it will also
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in the tar itself, what -- the main thing in the
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tar, you said, is water, 80 percent . Let's take
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the saturated, what do you call them, alo --
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them?
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the filter?
A . Yes -- well, I shouldn't say "all" of them .
There are saturated aliphatic -- aliphatic
hydrocarbons that are very low molecular weight,
like methane or ethane, and they go through in the
vapor phase . It's only when you get up to about
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eight or ten carbons that they stick on the
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filter . And it's a matter of molecular weight and
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size .
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cigarette to reduce the amount of particulate
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matter that gets on that filter and yet get the
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smoker to take it in -- the smoke, get
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smoke -- is that it, milligrams?
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Q . I want to get around that filter .
Get what around the filter?
Q . I don't want the Cambridge filter
counting everything that I got in my cigarette .
How would I do it? You don't know how to do that?
MS . EASON : Objection to the form .
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
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for you .
If I turned ammonia into my cigarettes
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matter, but I was able to vaporize it, still get
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it in -- in the body of a human being, and reduce
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that 6 to 7 percent to 2 percent, wouldn't that
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fool the .Cambridge filter? I'm being very clear
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with you, not hiding anything, throwing it right
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to you . Wouldn't it fool the Cambridge filter?
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you talking about, sir?
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You said 3 to 4 percent is this other
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8 percent is water . And then -- and isn't it true
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that, if I'm able to vaporize a good portion of
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that nicotine into -- it's not going to get on
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that filter, right?
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Right . But I say --
Q . Well, you're saying that you never
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counted it .
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THE WITNESS : No . I said that nobody
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has been able to measure it .
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Q.
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see . Is there anything else that
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can vaporize things that nobody's been able to
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measure that was in that tar -- that particulate
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matter?
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Nornicotine . How about anything else?
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MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
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anything .
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can't tell me anything that you could do to that
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particulate matter that could vaporize -A . I've told you -- I've told you how you
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now -MR . BLANCATO : Objection .
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going to trick that filter .
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hear from you .
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Q . I know you would . That's been
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Alan . I wanted to respond very briefly to two
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charges which were leveled at the beginning of the
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deposition today . See if I can get my notes here
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to make sure I copied them down .
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Mr . Blancato . I believe that was a reference to
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lawyer to protect and preserve attorney/client
privilege . And to do otherwise is to bring the
profession into disrepute, which, I regret to say,
it, more and more, seems to deserve, in the
public's eye . I do not regard that as
interfering .
Which brings me to the second charge
that was hurled, and that is that I was somehow
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transcript at his leisure and come up with any
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instances in which I was interfering with this
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deposition . As to the proposition that I was
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interfering with the progress of the case in some
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fashion by indicating my preference to
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Mr . Blancato with respect to review by another law
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clerk, we are parties to the proceeding, and
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anything like interference . I regard the
statements on the record, with the witness
present, as specious, frivolous interference and a
waste of time . I hope we can avoid this in the
future . I don't think it's necessary, the conduct
of this deposition, or to the practice of law in
general .
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What's the smallest particle that the
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Cambridge filter system will pick up? If you
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know .
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Q . When was that written -- or published?
I'm sorry .
A . Oh, about eight or ten years ago .
Q . So somebody at Reynolds, Bradley -A . Ingredthsen .
Q . -- actually measured or knows how
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to --
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work on the aerosol nature of cigarette smoke .
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Q . Where is that published?
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forgotten the-year . I don't know whether it's in
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here or not .
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Q . Now, Reynolds, when they ammoniate
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tobacco, there's a couple of processes, one is
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process gaseous and the other -- another is
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aqueous? You've heard about that?
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on various ways to ammoniate tobacco .
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You've never said in a memorandum that
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In 1994, did you believe they were
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was there, with various ammonia salts, ammonia
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gas, ammonia solutions, and so on . But
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All right, Doctor, at this point I'm
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procedure had come up, about what did the FTC tar
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number mean and so on . And there were criticisms
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of the FTC tar number, that it wasn' t
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representative -- representative of what many
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smokers would take in, because all smokers smoke
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differently and the machine smokes rigidly .
And I got intrigued by this because I
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the newspaper and then some of the Time magazine
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and all this stuff about the validity and whatnot
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of -- or what the meaning was in terms of the
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smoker . And I thought, well, these people are
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complaining about things that we told the FTC in
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1964, 1965, and they just said we don't want to
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Q . So this has never been distributed or
disseminated anywhere?
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going to participate in a -- some meeting on the
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FTC thing . And I said to him : Do you want to
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look at this? And he did . And I gave him a copy .
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I found
Dr . Townsend?
A . That's Dr . Townsend .
Q . Did you give him this to use for his
13
preparation as an expert witness in the Connors
14
case in Jacksonville, Florida?
15
A . I didn't know he was ever involved -- well, I
16
do know that he was involved in Florida ; I
17
wouldn't know it was the Connors case .
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No . This was actually because there
19
was a meeting in -- outside Washington,
20
Gaithersburg or someplace .
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22
Q . Who was participating in this meeting?
Did he tell you?
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A . Well, it was a -- an NCI or FTC meeting .
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was open to the public . I don't know who went .
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it . Whether he did or not, I'm not sure .
Q . So he may or may not have used this
paper for his presentation?
A . I don't know whether he gave a presentation .
I just finished telling you that, sir .
Q.
I see .
Did anybody at Reynolds pay you for --
10
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13
this?
Q.
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12
For
--
for the time you
spent doing this
paper?
A .
No .
Q.
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So this was not part of your hourly --
15
A.
16
that, 30 years after all of this stuff came out
17
and we had told them, item after item after item,
18
all of these things became : Gee, we've never
19
heard of this before . And the FTC knew all about
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it, back in 1964, '65 .
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No .
Q.
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numeral page, it's --
I'm referring you to . You
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analysis of the "tar" and
nicotine yields in the
mainstream smoke from
cigarettes marketed in the
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accomplish the following :
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To permit the catalog --
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12
cataloging of sequential
13
listing of the cigarettes for
14
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15
of these two smoke entities
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some dates] generated under
18
standard and reproducible
19
conditions . Subsequently a
20
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21
added to the FTC listing
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be a quote -- quote mark .
Q .
I
see . (Reading)
MS tar --
A . If you use a typewriter, the quote mark is
10
right next to the "1" .
Q.
11
I
see . (Reading)
-- and/or nicotine yield
12
13
was compatible with his/her
14
concerns about the effects of
15
cigarette smoking on his/her
16
health .
17
It was never anticipated
18
by the FTC or by the
19
cigarette manufacturers that
20
the FTC lists could serve as
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a means to catalog or rate
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cigarette smokers .
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"Smokers"?
A . "Smokers," right .
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Q . So those were the two basic purposes,
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Right . Where did the FTC say that
6
were the two purposes? Is that in -- you quote
7
from a notification from the FTC that appears on
8
page 9 . Is that where you believe that
9
information is reproduced? Referring to the
10
March 25th, 1966 --
11
A . Yeah . That's it . Mr . O'Shea's letter?
12
13
(Discussion off the record)
BY MR . SHELLER :
14
Doctor, your -- your testimony, and
15
Dr . Townsend's, I believe, at the Connors case,
16
was that the FTC, in 1966, required the cigarette
17
manufacturers to list the FTC Cambridge filter
18
figures for tar and nicotine ; is that correct? Is
19
that your understanding?
20
A.
21
analysis was to be done according to the way they
22
said it should be done . I don't know whether the
23
cigarette -- as a matter of fact, I think the FTC
24
does the listing, doesn't it?
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No . I think the FTC rule was that the
Q . Well, so -- is the -- did the FTC,
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manufacturers, in 1966, to anywheres list the tar
and nicotine levels according to the Cambridge
filter system on anything?
A . I think it -MR . McDERMOTT : Objection . No
foundation .
THE WITNESS : I think it ended up on
some packs .
10
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11
Did the FTC require that it appear on
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12
the packs of cigarettes?
13
A . I don't know what the FTC required or didn't
14
require, sir . All I know is that the analytical
15
method was to be thus and so . No argument .
16
17
Q . Did they require that?
A .
What?
18
19
20
MR . McDERMOTT : What?
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . That it had to be by that analytical
21
method .
22
A . That's what the letter says, doesn't it?
23
Q .
I
And is there anywheres in the letter
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25
see . I see .
where they -- well, in looking at your page 9 .
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promulgated by the
Commission -MR . McDERMOTT : Excuse me . Let me
raise a point of order . There looks like may be
an elliptical period . I don't know whether that
indicates some matter has been omitted or not .
10
Maybe, before you read this in and represent it
11
be the entire letter, we can clarify that .
12
MR . SHELLER : What, the three dots?
13
MR . McDERMOTT : Yeah .
14
MS . KNISELY : Actually, the three
15
dots -- the elliptical is in the actual letter
16
itself .
17
18
19
to
MR . McDERMOTT : Okay . Thank you .
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Q.
Okay . (Reading)
20
The Cigarette
21
Advertising Guides
22
promulgated by the Commission
23
in September 1955 provided
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that no representation should
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be made that [in quotes] "any
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has not been established by
competent scientific proof
applicable at the time of
dissemination that the claim
is true, and if true, that
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11
On the basis of the facts now
12
available to it, the
13
Commission has determined
14
that a factual statement of
15
the tar and nicotine content
16
(expressed in milligrams) of
17
the mainstream smoke from a
18
cigarette would not be in
19
violation of such Guides, or
20
of any of the provisions of
21
law administered by the
22
Commission, so long as they
23
-- in -- (1) [according to
24
your page nine] no collateral
25
representations (other than
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cigarettes offered for sale
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to the public) are made, and
5
(2) the statement of tar and
6
nicotine content is supported
7
by adequate records of tests
8
conducted with the Cambridge
9
Filter Method, as described
10
in an article entitled
11
"Determination of Particulate
12
Matter and Alkaloids (as
13
nicotine) in Cigarette
14
Smoke," by C .L . Ogg, which
15
appeared in the Journal of
16
the Association of Official
17
Agricultural Chemists, 47,
18
No . 2, 1964 . It is the
19
Commission's position that it
20
is in the public interest to
21
promote the dissemination of
22
truthful information
23
concerning cigarettes which
24
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25
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Did that letter require -- is that
what you base your view, that this letter, issued
by the FTC in 1966, was the commission directing
the tobacco industry that the only way they could
list tar and nicotine levels was by the Cambridge
method?
A . Yes, that's right . That's the way it was . I
mean, this is an edict from the FTC .
Q .
I
see .
10
A . And you kept saying "you have written" . I
11
haven't done -- I didn't write that --
12
Q . No, no, I'm reading it .
Now, this letter doesn't require you
13
14
to list anything on your packs does it?
15
16
17
18
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question . Dr . Rodgman .
BY MR . SHELLER :
MR . McDERMOTT : Objection to the form
of the question .
7
8
THE WITNESS : No, I didn't say that .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . I thought you said they did object to
9
10
that .
11
A.
12
the rest of the article, that we pointed out to
13
the FTC that the method they were offering did do
14
what they asked about ranking cigarettes, but it
15
was very incomplete in what else it --
No . I said they objected -- and if you read
Q.
16
Well,
Dr . Rodgman, I believe you had
17
written a memo, and it was entitled -- it appears
18
as appendix B in your FT -- in your article here
19
that you gave to Mr . -- Dr . Townsend . And you
20
say -- it's entitled "A Short Explanation and
21
Analysis of Methods for Measuring Tar and Nicotine
22
in Cigarette Smoke," right?
23
A .
24
Yes .
You're familiar with that one?
251 A . Yes, I'm familiar with that .
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1965, in January . And who did you give that to at
that time?
A . 1965? Where did you get that date?
Q . It says January/February 1965 . You
say
.
MS . BRACHTL : Where are you in the
document?
MS . KNISELY : Page 37 .
10
11
MS . BRACHTL : Thank you .
BY MR . SHELLER :
12
Page 37, Doctor . In fact, I'll give
13
you a draft of the agreement and the original that
14
was produced for us in your boxes . The draft will
15
be 4, and the actual article 5 .
16
MR . McDERMOTT : What's 3?
17
MR . SHELLER : Oh, we don't have 3? We
18
didn't mark that yet . It's 3 and 4 .
19
20
(Plaintiff's Exhibit Numbers 3 and 4
were marked for identification)
21
MS . EASON : Just for clarification,
22
could you please read into the record the Bates
23
numbers that are stamped .
24
MR . SHELLER : There is a Bates number
251 on it .
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MS . KNISELY : On one of them, I
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MR . SHELLER : No, on both of them .
4
The draft is 501013245 . And the -- I assume the
5
final, because it's undated, 501013225 .
6
7
(Discussion off the record)
BY MR . SHELLER :
8
9
Q . Now, Documents 3 and 4, Exhibits 3 and
4, those are your documents .
You prepared them,
10
right? They were given to us in the boxes that
11
you produced a few weeks ago .
12
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
13
the question .
14
BY MR . SHELLER :
15
16
17
18
Q . Did you prepare those?
A .
Yeah . Yes, I did .
Q . Now, who did you give these
documents -- this document to at Reynolds?
19
20
21
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MR . BLANCATO : Which one?
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Exhibit 4, or 3, whichever you gave .
22
Did you give one or both? One is listed as a
23
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24
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THE WITNESS : I don't know whether I
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4
5
gave them to Dr . Senkus or Mr . Ramm,
861
Henry Ramm .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Do you know if those documents were
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6
ever given to anybody at the Federal Trade
7
Commission?
8
A . I don't know whether they were given in
9
exactly this form, but I -- my understanding was
10
that some of the information in them were provided
11
to the FTC .
12
13
14
Q . Do you know which information?
A . No, I don't, sir .
Q .
I
see . Well on page -- how do you
15
know what was given -- something was given to the
16
Federal Trade Commission?
17
A . There were some documents about the
18
collaborative submission to the Federal Trade
19
Commission that had some of this stuff in it .
20
And -- which, you know, you don't ask the vice
21
president of legal counsel : Did you submit what I
22
gave you?
23
MR . SHELLER : Have the documents that
24
were submitted to the Federal Trade Commission
25
been produced in the -- any discovery materials?
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no idea .
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4
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MR . SHELLER : Could you find out?
Because we've searched and we cannot find them .
5
MR . McDERMOTT : All right . Well, why
6
don't you put the inquiry in writing to Mark
7
Belasic, since I'm -- because I'm not continuously
8
involved in this case .
9
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q.
10
Dr . Rodgman, in page 3 of the --
11
MR . McDERMOTT : Let me also suggest,
12
however, that the information, I'm sure, is
13
available through the records of the FTC, as well,
14
as another way of obtaining this information .
15
16
17
18
MR . SHELLER : They may be . They may
be .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . On page 3 of the documents, do you
19
know which one you gave to Mr . -- Dr . Senkus? Was
20
it that -- was it the draft or the one that has no
21
date on it?
22
MR . MCDERMOTT : Object to the form of
23
the question .
24
BY MR . SHELLER :
25
Q . They both say the same thing ; there's
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A . Yeah . I assume that the one had no -- not
3
the draft on it . In fact, I didn't think they
4
were the same .
5
Q . Well, if there is a difference, I
6
didn't pick it up . You can tell --
7
A . Well, if you didn't pick it up, you missed
8
11 -- 8 pages of it .
9
Q . Oh, I'm sorry . Oh, you're talking
10
about the appendix . No, I wasn't --
11
A . Well, that's part of the memorandum, isn't
12
it?
13
Q . No, you're right . I meant the body of
14
the document itself, not the appendix .
15
A . Well, that's part of the body of the
16
document .
17
18
Q.
Yeah, you're right . You're right .
You got me .
19
20
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Now, Doctor, on page 3, you say :
(Reading)
21
The conclusion is
22
therefore inescapable, that
23
labeling the amount of "tar
24
and nicotine" on a cigarette
25
package cannot give to the
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as to the amount or
3
composition of the total
4
solids and nicotine he
5
receives from the cigarettes
6
he smokes . He is more likely
7
to be misled than informed .
8
That was your opinion then, Doctor?
9
10
A . Yeah . Not mine -- not only mine, but it's -but expressed by other people since then .
Q . And your opinion today is the same ; is
11
12
that correct?
13
A . That's right .
Q . And it hasn't changed through all
14
15
these years?
16
A .
17
smokers who smoke in a different way to what's
18
smoked in a machine .- In fact, the machine does
19
not inhale -- exhale, I'm sorry . But people do .
20
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No . It -- you cannot compare three different
Q .
Now,
Doctor
21
A . I might recommend that, if you want more
22
information on this, you read the report of the
23
Froggatt Committee, which is in -- sometime in the
24
1980s, when Dr . Froggatt says exactly the same
25
thing as we said in 1965 .
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view also since you've been there?
3
A . Well, I haven't heard anybody come out and
4
say that they went along with doing the analysis
5
the way we were told to do it .
6
7
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Q . Now, did Reynolds ever -- now, you say
that the -- this letter of March of 1966 from the
FTC required you to do it -- the -- the tar and
9
milligram system the way you des -- the Cambridge
10
system, correct?
11
A . That's what the FTC said to do .
12
Q.
Right .
Did Reynolds ever submit another
13
14
procedure recommendation as to how to get
15
information on tar and nicotine levels? Did they
16
make a recommendation of any type?
17
A . Well, we had provided some information before
18
that letter came out . And I don't know whether
19
anybody did after that . I -- you know, you're
20
fighting the FTC . We had a little bit of a
21
problem that -- for example, if you read Ogg's
22
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24
Q .
That
was
1964?
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market, our competitors or experimental cigarettes
3
or cigarettes designed in-house, that was a very
4
slow procedure . And as you know, the FTC equation
5
is wet TPM is tar, plus water, plus nicotine .
6
And people like analytical chemists at
7
Reynolds and other places determined that you
8
could get as accurate nicotine values and water
9
values by doing it with -- it's called gas
10
chromatography . And the beauty of a gas
11
chromatography system is that you can do it
12
automatically . You can do -- load up a carousel
13
with 50/60 things to be measured and just turn it
14
on and let it run .
Q . Did the FTC ever tell you, you
15
16
couldn't use that method?
17
A.
18
using it .
19
20
Q .
A .
They
did .
Yeah .
Q . So when did -- is that what you now
21
22
No . We persuaded them, and they ended up
use
to
label
your
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3
Q . When you were there?
4
A . Well, I was there -- excuse me . I can't put
5
a year on it . It was probably -- well, let me
6
look . I might be able to get it for you . Let's
7
see here .
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(Witness reviews document)
9
Okay . Well, I thought it was in here
10
on the -- on page 21 . Oh, okay . Okay . Okay . C .
11
Page 24, there's a footnote "Gas Chromatographic
12
Method ." And if we run back in time, I believe
13
you'll see that the 1973, under "Nicotine
14
Determination," a man called Randolph, that is
15
1973/1974, has a little "C," which indicates that
16
was a gas chromatographic method that was
17
described -- well, in fact -- well, there's
18
actually some before that . Put i believe that was
19
the one that may have been presented, written up
20
and --
21
Q . So that was of a -- known about since
22
1973?
23
A . I think so . I may be wrong about that .
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Q . Give or take a little bit .
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2
went to gas chromatographic method . If you've
3
ever done a water and smoke by the old fashioned
4
method, I won't say it -- I guess I wouldn't say
5
it the way I would think it . It's very difficult .
6
Q . And that's more accurate than the
7
Cambridge method, right?
8
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
9
the question . Misstates prior testimony .
10
THE WITNESS : It's not -- the
11
determination of the water, sir, has nothing to do
12
with the Cambridge method .
13
14
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q .
I
see .
15
A . The Cambridge method is the collection . And
16
when you get -- the old days, you took the
17
Cambridge pad, you got rid of the particulate
18
matter from the Cambridge pad, and you used one
19
part of it to determine the nicotine by the
20
Griffith/Still method and you did the water in the
21
other part by what's called the Karl Fischer
22
titration .
23
The way we did it with the modified
24
method, you took the stuff off the Cambridge
25
filter pad, the same way, and you put it in the -
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and did it by gas chromatography and calculate the
2
water and nicotine .
3
In fact, the old method really didn't
4
do nicotine . It expressed alkaloids as a lump .
5
And, of course, nicotine was 90 percent of the
6
alkaloids, so they just assumed it -- or called it
7
nicotine . But the new method gave it -- the
8
nicotine its value, and actually you could get the
9
nornicotine value, if you wanted it .
10
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Did the new method also take into
11
account the variations among smokers?
12
A . Sir, the new method involved the same smoking
13
procedure outlined by the FTC method, which says
14
you will collect the cigarettes, you will
15
condition them at such-and-such temperature for
16
such-and-such a humidity, you will smoke them on
17
the machine in the laboratory designed . It had
18
nothing to do with the -- relating them to the
19
smoking ; it was just as wrong then as it was
20
before .
21
Q . Well, can you tell me, if the FTC was
22
so wrong, why were they asked to give you
23
permission to use that method?
24
25
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3
A . What letter?
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5
6
7
Isn't that what that letter does?
MS . EASON : Objection to the form .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . That March 1966 letter . Isn't that
giving the tobacco industry the right to use that
method if they want to use it?
9
MR . BLANCATO : Object to the form .
10
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form .
11
MR . SHELLER : You want to read it?
12
THE WITNESS : The letter says you will
13
14
15
16
use it that way .
BY MR . SHELLER :
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The letter doesn't say you will use
it . Where does the letter say -- point --
17
MR . McDERMOTT : The letter requires
18
every public statement, with respect to tar and
19
nicotine, to employ that method, and it encourages
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the use of the method and the information . But
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the record and the letter speak for itself . Let's
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move on .
MR . SHELLER : No . Your representation
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of the letter is not correct . Would you -- does
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the witness -- we're going to mark a copy of the
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MR . McDERMOTT : You've already read
it MR . SHELLER : Exhibit 5 . No, the
letter is a little different .
MS . EASON : You have a representation
that the letter was identical .
MS . KNISELY : No, no . I said that the
stars -- Mr . McDermott had raised the issue of
10
whether that star pattern was in the original or
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whether it was an ellipsis that they had removed
12
words .
MR . McDERMOTT : Well, let's use the
13
14
letter, then . Do we have copies?
MS . KNISELY : There were copies made,
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and I assumed everybody took their copy .
MR . SHELLER : Where are the copies for
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the witness, please? Here's one for you .
(Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 5 was
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marked for identification)
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Q . Now, Doctor, would you tell me -- and
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you read me the words that the Commission used in
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its letter that said you must use the Cambridge
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cigarettes . Would you read the words that say
that?
A . Well, I think it's implicit in the way that
they said this is the method .
Q . Implicit? Can you point to me any
words in the letter that say you have to use this
method, and you must list the tar and nicotine
levels on the cigarettes?
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Q . Well, that's what this is all about,
isn't it, false advertising, sir?
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MR . McDERMOTT : Let the witness finish
his answer, please .
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MR . SHELLER : I'm letting him finish
his answer .
THE WITNESS : I'm not in the
advertising business .
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Q . The tobacco industry had -- isn't
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it -- do you remember that history about there
21
being a -- a tar and nicotine derby in the '50s
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and '60s? And the FTC was getting concerned about
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false advertising, right?
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5
remember that?
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A.
7
Yes .
Q . And didn't the FTC say they were going
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to look into false advertising?
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A . They did, in 1957 .
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Q.
Right . And didn't the tobacco
11
industry want to have the ability to put tar and
12
nicotine levels on cigarettes and not be
13
threatened with false advertising claims?
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A . I don't know that, air .
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MR . McDERMOTT : Objection ; no
16
foundation .
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Q . Didn't the tobacco industry seek
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permission from the FTC to do it this way, with
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the Cambridge system?
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A . Not that I know of .
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Q . You don't remember . You don't know or
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you don't remember?
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A . I don't know .
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Q . You don't know .
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number -- the letter . And you quote in the middle
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of the body of the letter "no collateral
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representations" . And would you read that from
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your page 9 . it says number one . Just that one
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number one part .
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A . Yeah, I've read it .
Q . Could you read it for the camera, out
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loud .
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again .
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A . Why in --
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Q . I'll tell you why .
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No collateral
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representations (other than
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factual statements of tar and
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nicotine contents of
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cigarettes offered for sale
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to the public) are made .
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Q . Now, would you read Exhibit 5, which
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is the actual copy of the letter . To the camera,
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please .
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nicotine contents of
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are made, expressly or by
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implication, as to reduction
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or elimination of health
hazards .
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left out a couple of words .
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No collateral
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representation, other than
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factual statements of tar and
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nicotine contents of
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cigarettes offered for sale
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to the public, are made,
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expressly or by implication,
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as to reduction or
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elimination of health
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hazards .
Q . Why did you leave out --
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Q . -- "expressly or by implication, as to
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reduction or elimination of health hazards"? Why
was that left out?
MR . McDERMOTT : I object to the form
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of the question . You're misstating prior
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testimony .
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MR . SHELLER : I'm not misstating
anything . You can answer it .
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Q .
Why was that not in your
A . I probably just goofed, sir .
Q . You goofed .
A . Umm .
Q . Well, isn't it true that the FTC
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didn't want any representations, expressly or by
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implication, as to the reduction of elimination of
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health hazards by reason of the -- this late
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A . That's what they said in the letter .
Q . That's what they said .
Now, would you look back at page 1 of
your article .
A . Uh-huh .
And the second point that you made at
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(Reading)
To permit the consumer
who wished to continue
10
smoking to select a cigarette
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whose MS tar [mainstream tar]
12
and/or nicotine yield was
13
compatible with his/her
14
concerns about the effects of
15
cigarette smoking on his/her
16
health .
That wasn't what the FTC was saying could
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18
be done, isn't that correct, according to this
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letter? There could be no implication of that
20
drawn permitted .
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A . Well not in the advertising .
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the question .
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for .
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Q . So the implication then, from the
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tobacco industry's point, was that -- that's why
5
the list was put together?
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MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
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MR . BLANCATO : Object to the form .
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MR . McDERMOTT : No foundation .
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THE WITNESS : You've lost me with your
question .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Well, wasn't the intent of Reynolds to
14
have the public draw the implication that there
15
was, by lowering tar and nicotine levels, a
16
reduction or elimination of health hazards?
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MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question . No foundation .
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MS . EASON : Object to the form of the
question .
THE WITNESS : If you look back at why
this was done, why the FTC got into the act, it
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started in 1957 with Dr . Wynder, who said, from
24
his animal work, that if you kept backing off on
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is translatable to the smoker, if -- then,
4
reduction of the tar from cigarettes by 40 percent
5
would significantly lessen the possibility of
6
respiratory tract cancer .
7
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q .
9
I
see .
A . And that was the reason the FTC got into the
10
business of : All right, if you lower it, and if
11
people are concerned one way or another --
12
Q . Well do you know why the FTC got into
13
it? Were you there at a meeting?
14
A . Well, I read what they were talking about,
15
back then . it was all over .
16
Q . Weren't they talking about false
17
advertising from the tar and nicotine derby that
18
was going on --
19
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
20
the question .
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Now, isn't it true that in 1964 the
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Surgeon General, for the first time, came out with
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a report that said cigarettes cause cancer?
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Was that the first report?
7
A . Well, t hat was the first Surgeon General's
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report . And that really spurred the FTC to get
into the act, putting -- in fact, the government
10
agency had said this, and with the work of
11
Dr . Wynder, they put it altogether and said :
12
Let's have a list .
Q . So -- and the tobacco industry would
13
14
benefit from that list because the public, who
15
might have stopped smoking, was led to believe
16
that, because the tar and nicotine levels were
17
being lowered, the cigarettes were now safe or
18
safer?
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20
MR . McDERMOTT : Objection to the form
of the question . No foundation .
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MR . BLANCATO : Objection .
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MS . EASON : Objection to the form of
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the question .
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Q . Isn't that what the tobacco industry
contended?
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the question .
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MS . EASON : Object to the form of the
question .
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MR . BLANCATO : Objection to the form .
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THE WITNESS : Not that I know of .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q•
Isn't it true that the tobacco
13
industry wanted to keep the public smoking, and
14
not stopping as a result of the Surgeon General's
15
report about cancer?
16
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
17
the question .
18
BY MR . SHELLER :
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Q . Isn't that correct?
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MR . McDERMOTT : No foundation .
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THE WITNESS : I don't know that, sir .
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BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . You didn't know that, the tobacco
industry didn't want to do that?
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form --
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MR . McDERMOTT : Dr . Rodgman -BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . You were a bench chemist . How about
in 1970?
MR . McDERMOTT : Excuse me . Just a
8
minute . Gentleman, Dr . Rodgman, when I interpose
9
an objection, please wait until I finish my
10
objection . It will be easier on everybody here,
11
including the court reporter . And please give me
12
a chance to object, because your questions are
13
getting outrageous .
14
MR . SHELLER : My questions are not
15
outrageous ; they are very true . You know, you
16
always object when things start sticking you in
17
the chest . Why don't you just say "objection" and
18
allow the witness to testify . I understand your
19
problem and I would be troubled too, if I was
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Reynolds' counsel . Don't laugh, it's true .
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Q . Now, Doctor, if you look at your
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report, Dr . Townsend, on page 27 --
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Q . Well, the one you gave Dr . Townsend .
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report, "Table 9" you call it?
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A . Uh-huh .
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Q . And in Table 9 -- and we're going to
mark this table at a separate exhibit .
MR . SHELLER : Call it -- what number
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9
am I up to?
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COURT REPORTER : Six .
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MR . SHELLER : Six .
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BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . In Exhibit 6, Table 9, you define it
as : (Reading)
85-millimeter Winston
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16
and Marlboro : Comparison of
17
FTC carbon monoxide,
18
nicotine, and 'tar' yields at
19
standard and more 'realistic'
20
smoking parameters .
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What were the "more realistic smoking
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parameters" that you figured out to use here?
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Reynolds, I believe .
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Q . What are realistic smoking conditions?
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the question .
THE WITNESS : Sir, this was just a
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5
table that, when you change the smoking regime,
6
you got the higher numbers .
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9
10
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BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Well, is this a report by a Dr . Rix
that you're referring to, at Reynolds?
A . It may be .
Q . You cite that in the body of your
12
report?
13
A . Right .
14
Q . And what does he describe as more
15
realistic smoking conditions?
16
A . It has those -- the parameters are listed
17
there .
18
Q .
What
are
they?
19
A . Sixty-five-milliliter puff, two-second puff,
20
one puff every 45 seconds .
21
Q . And what was the FTC standard?
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see .
And now you took that material
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A . I've forgotten . It may be -- probably
taken -- he may have had it in a little different
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5
format .
Q . And what he did is he -- or you -- I'm
6
not sure who did the table, now . But the table
7
you used from Reynolds says "FTC smoking
8
conditions for Winston and Marlboro comparisons,"
9
right? That's -- Marlboro is made by Philip
10
Morris ?
11
A . That's right .
12
13
14
Q.
And Winston by Reynolds, right ?
A . Right .
S2 Q .
And the -- and according to the FT C
15
tar levels from the FTC standard, the Winston was
16
20 .6 tar, and there's a parenthesis there, 20 .9 in
17
parenthesis, and it refers to a note A . Do you
18
know what that refers to ?
19
A . It was the percent difference between the
2 0
Winston and Marlboro .
2 1
Q.
And the Marlboro was at 16 .3 . And th e
22
FTC nicotine level for Winston was 1 .43 milligrams
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and for Marlboro it was 1 .08 . And the carbon Ln
24
monoxide for the Winston was 19 .1 and for Marlboro m
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16 .2 ; is that correct ?
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Q . But when it was done according to
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realistic conditions, smoking conditions -- and
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that's the title in the chart, right?
5
A . Right .
Q . The Winston was actually
6
7
35 .7 milligrams in tar and 2 .35 milligrams
8
nicotine ; is that correct?
9
A.
Yes .
Q . Can I ask you a question? Is that
10
11
exactly pretty much the same as the 1955
12
16 milligrams of tar and nicotine for the
13
cigarettes in those days?
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
14
15
the question .
THE WITNESS : Well -- no . The --
16
17
well, they're comparable, but done under
18
different -- under --
19
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Pretty close, though?
20
MR . BLANCATO : Objection . Let him
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finish his answer, please .
MR . McDERMOTT : Let him complete his
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answer .
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WITNESS : In 1955, of course, the
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5
mean? The 35 .
6
A . Close to that .
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8
Q . The realistic ones, right?
A . Right .
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MR . McDERMOTT : No, no, no, no . Just
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14
Q . As I understand it, in 1955 the
15
Winstons were approximately 35 milligrams of tar,
16
weren't they?
17
A . Yeah . But they were determined by a
18
35-milliliter puff .
19
Q . They were?
20
(Witness nods head .) Yeah .
21
Q .
I
see .
22
A . I mean, if you look back historically at the
23
smoking parameters, which were set in 1936 by some
24
people at American Tobacco and everybody used it
25
worldwide, more or less, it was 35-milliliter
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puff, one puff a minute, two-second duration . And
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the numbers -- say, Winston, Camel, whatever
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cigarette you're talking about in '55, were
4
determined with that .
5
Q . How do you know that? Is that -- the
6
1955 numbers that Reynolds had was based on a
7
35-milliliter puff?
8
A . Yes . There was some slight difference in the
analytical procedure for nicotine .
10
Q . What was the difference?
11
A . Well, I had just gotten at Reynolds at that
12
time . But I believe they were using a
13
modification of the Griffith/Still thing that
14
Mr . Cundiff had incorporated . After all, there
15
was no really set method by that -- at that time .
16
17
18
Q . So, then -A . And --
Q . -- your -- your point that the --
19
you're responding to Dr . Wynder and Dr . Hoffmann .
20
If you use realistic figures, are you able to tell
21
the jury that there -- that you can actually
22
conclude that there's a lowering of tar and
23
nicotine in the realistic conditions of smoking
24
today?
25
A . Well, what -- you don't compare apples and
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let's be fair . If you're going to say these are
3
the conditions we will use in the smoking machine,
4
let's compare the '55 cigarette done the
5
6
same way .
Q . But you're not doing that .
A . Pardon?
Q . You said it wasn't -- you don't know
8
how it was -MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
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10
the question .
11
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12
Q . It wasn't -- if you're going to
13
compare, how do you know what the realistic
14
conditions would have shown in 1955?
15
A . Well, if you use these numbers, if you use
16
those numbers on a'55 cigarette, presumably you
17
would have got higher numbers than are in the
18
graph .
19
Q . Presumably . I thought you don't use
20
calculated, you like to be realistic, you want to
21
know what they are . Remember, we went through
22
this with nicotine? You don't like using
23
calculated numbers?
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MR . McDERMOTT : You're asking the
3
4
witness to apply a different regimen, to
5
hypothesize an answer, and then you're criticizing
6
him for trying to respond to your question?
MR . SHELLER : Well, he's the one who
7
8
criticizes the people who wanted to figure out the
9
nicotine levels by calculating them .
MR . McDERMOTT : This is nonsense .
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11
Let's MR . SHELLER : Well, I understand . I
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15
understand nonsense to you, maybe .
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Q . Now, Doctor, so what you're really
16
saying today, that if you use realistic conditions
17
for determining tar and nicotine levels, you have
18
to make an estimate of what those conditions would
19
have been in 1955 to determine whether or not the
20
tar and nicotine levels were actually lower
21
today --
22
A . Well, you'd use -- you'd use the same
23
conditions . Wouldn't you?
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25
Q . Well, you would ; but you didn't .
You're saying you don't know what the realistic
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1955 .
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MR . BLANCATO : Objection . Are you
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5
talking about the values they got here for tar and
6
nicotine --
7
MR . SHELLER : Uh-huh .
8
MR . BLANCATO : -- or are you talking
9
about 35-milliliter puffs? Or --
10
MR . SHELLER : I'm only trying to
11
figure out what realistic conditions existed for
12
smoking in 1955 .
13
THE WITNESS : Well, I said, if you're
14
going to make a comparison, you would use these
15
realistic conditions that are listed here by
16
Dr . Rix for the 1955 cigarette .
17
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18
Q . Why would you assume those are the
19
realistic conditions for smoking a cigarette in
20
1955?
21
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22
quotation marks .
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Right .
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5
question .
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
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7
the question .
8
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Q . You don't know the answer to that, do
9
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you?
11
A . Well, as I have said repeatedly, sir,
12
everybody smokes differently .
Q .
13
Right . And you don't -- do you know
14
what the realistic smoking conditions were, as
15
you -- in 1955?
16
A.
17
No . And I don't know what they are now .
Q.
Well, apparently Dr . Rix and you
18
reached the conclusion in this 1994 article as to
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Dr . Rodgman, if Reynolds disagreed
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the Federal Trade Commission about it?
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about what the tobacco industry has done, that's
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fine ; but it has nothing to do with Dr . Rodgman or
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the information in his possession . You're wasting
doing . And they didn't .
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a copy of it? I believe copies were made .
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number on this?
MR . SHELLER : This will be 7 .
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the FDA or some comments about the FDA, did I have
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any thoughts of what they had written and anything
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At Reynolds?
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So this was prepared for Reynolds . So
you were doing work for Reynolds in 1995, then ; is
that correct?
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MR . SHELLER : It doesn't matter .
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high-nicotine tobaccos)
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knew what system RJR was using?
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ammonia and steam .
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see .
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reports that you now disagree with or think is
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incorrect?
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them . As I say, they were sort of pulling things
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together that might be of use in responding to the
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FDA . And I'd have to read them . As you notice,
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processed tobacco than in the
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tobaccos .
Right . Well, how did you measure
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you -- you'd have to calculate a value for that,
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right?
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reduce the nicotine, this is your -- you're
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reducing levels of nicotine, right, so you're
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saying?
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morning, the -- we looked at some very clever
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chemists, both in our company and others, tried to
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determine free nicotine, if that's what you're
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trying to get, or nicotine, per se, in the vapor
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phase that passes through the Cambridge filter
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pad, and nobody has been able to find it .
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you feel better about it . If you have a reservoir
14
or a flask with nicotine in it that leads to a
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Cambridge filter pad holder with a Cambridge
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filter pad in it, and you vaporize the nicotine
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and let it go along, so that when it hits the
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Cambridge filter pad that it's about the same
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temperature as the Cambridge filter pad in the FTC
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procedure, you collect a lot of the nicotine on
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the -- Cambridge filter pad . If you then check
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what can go through the filter pad - because
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the filter pad?
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Uh-huh .
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see .
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that I can think of .
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as free nicotine, the way I'm referring to it, in
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this smoke that's not collected in the filter .
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Cambridge filter pad . And if it goes through the
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Cambridge filter pad, it has to be nicotine by
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itself . No salt .
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No
salt . And you're saying, to your
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A . Well, I -- I know that -- I happened to have
some people that looked at that for about a year
and a half and tried all sorts of very fancy
methods .
The reason we did it is the -- some
people at Tennessee Eastman found out a way to
measure free ammonia in smoke, and we thought it
was adaptable to free nicotine . But it doesn't
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work . They couldn't get it to work . Hoffmann
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Reynolds, like Dr . Robinson or -- who actually can
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measure increased levels of nicotine -- I forget
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what they're called -- indicators in the urine?
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Cotinine levels, is that --
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has done on nicotine metabolism and so on were
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don't know how he measures .
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don't
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sorry, I can't -- I won't make up an answer for
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you .
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Doctor?
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Right .
MR . MCDERMOTT : We were all young .
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one is handwritten, if you want to mark the next
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MR . SHELLER : Right . And 11 -- 12 .
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distributed . I also might
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17
available to members of our
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you, he -- Hoover rejected it too . Did Hoover
tell you why?
A . He called me in -- actually, they were all
typed and of course had been assigned a number -you might as well hear the whole story .
And in those days we didn't have Xerox
10
copiers . We had an original and five or six
11
carbons . And he had the typed version on his desk
12
and a couple of copies of my -- if you notice,
13
this typing on the ones we just finished, it's
14
pretty terrible . And I have to -- I was never
15
much of a typist . I did these at home .
And he said, "Alan, I'm not going to
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issue these ." And he didn't say why . And I
18
noticed the copies on his desk . I didn't know if
19
there were two copies or three copies there with
20
the "voided KHH" on it . And I just reached over
21
and I said, "Okay, if you're not, then these are
22
mine," and walked out .
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Doctor, I'm going to give you a report
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that you wrote in 1964 that wasn't voided by
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Hoover, apparently . It's an analysis of cigarette
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MS . KNISELY : Yes, you do .
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MR . HOLTON : We don't have that one
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copied, do we?
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MS . KNISELY : Yes, you do .
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Q . Doctor, would you please refer to --
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this is RDR number 1964, Plaintiff's Exhibit 13 .
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25
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Q . And I'm referring you now to page 56,
entitled "Discussion" .
You start a rather lengthy discussion,
and you say : (Reading)
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composition of smoke . For a
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consistent picture to be
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painted of the tobacco
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smoke-disease problem, the
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evidence from each discipline
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must agree with that from the
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other three . With respect to
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the composition of tobacco
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smoke, are our chemical
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inconsistent with the
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statistical finding that
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associated with lung disease,
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heart disease, et cetera .
The next paragraph, you go on and you
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disease, et cetera .
You then say in the next paragraph :
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that metaplasia and
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hyperplasia are produced in
9
the respiratory tract by
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cigarette smoke, or that
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ciliastatic -- ciliastasis is
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15
tobacco smoke is no t
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inconsistent with the
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biological findings, that
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cigarette smoke is
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carcinogenic, cocarcinogenic,
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and ciliastatic .
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It is often argued that
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12
compounds plus the amount of
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arsenious oxide plus the
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amounts of the cocarcinogenic
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phenols and fatty acids are
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sufficient to account for the
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observed biological results .
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Calculation has indicated
19
that the known carcinogens
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and cocarcinogens in tobacco
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smoke -- in cigarette smoke
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can account for about
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90 percent of the observed
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safety insofar as health is
9
concerned, chemical analysis
10
of cigarette smoke, while
11
highly suggestive, is
12
physiologically meaningless .
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14
You then -- I take you to page 62 . You
say on page 62, number 7 : (Reading)
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19
data acquired in our study or
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in studies conducted
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4
smoke should be tested
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biologically for their
6
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7
host .
Was that ever done by Reynolds?
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9
A .
Q . Your recommendations .
10
11
The additive thing?
A . Well, the additive thing was eventually done .
Q . All additives were tested on a
12
13
biological host?
14
A . They were tested in the Ames test .
Q . All of them?
15
16
A . As far as I know .
Q . As far as you know .
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Dr . Chin Lee was the --
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Oh . Okay . And how about your other
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recommendations about -- that it's ridiculous if
21
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A . Well, that's an interesting exercise, because
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at one time I thought that would be really the way
25
to look at it . And in looking at some
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cancer field, I thought, well, if we have this
3
number of polycyclics that are tumorigenic to
4
mouse skin, and if we had this number of this
5
compound and these compounds, what kind of an
6
experiment would you have to do?
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Well, I plotted it all out and I was a
8
little stunned to find, to do the experiment
that
9
I thought would be the ultimate in solving the
10
question or showing the effect would require three
11
times the number of available mice at all the
12
laboratory supply companies in the United States,
13
because of the extent .
14
And then it goes over the cost . In
15
those days, it doesn't sound like much, but I
16
think I figured it out : It cost about
17
$12 million . And I just -- you know, nobody's
18
going to do that .
19
And, of course, some of the things I
20
suggested there -- although, I -- I have a little
21
problem . I don't know where I got that
22
90 percent . But that's all right .
23
Q . So it was never done, because it cost
24
too much ; is correct?
25
A . Well, nobody ever did it .
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A . And --
Q . Except it's done on humans .
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MR . BLANCATO : Object to the form .
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MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form .
6
MS . EASON : Objection .
7
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Isn't that correct, Doctor?
8
9
A.
What?
Q . It's done on humans . Every human who
10
11
smokes is a human guinea pig .
12
A . I wouldn't say that, sir .
Q .
13
14
A.
No?
No .
15
MS . EASON : Object to the form .
16
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form .
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18
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . So you'd, rather than run the test and
19
spend the money, which was $12 million in 1964 --
20
A . Well, I never proposed that to anybody, sir .
21
Q . -- because it was too expensive .
22
MR . McDERMOTT : Object . You're
23
mischaracterizing his testimony . He said it would
24
take three times the number of animals that
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existed in the United States, laboratory animals .
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Q . Laboratory . How many animals would it
3
take, Doctor?
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A . Well, I forget the -- in here I used 100 mice
5
per group . And it was in the hundred thousands of
6
animals . Well, you can phone some of the animal
7
supply place and say, "Well, you know, if I were
8
to need so many animals by such-and-such a date,"
9
they were nowhere close to what you need .
10
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BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . How did you determine that? Did you
11
contact anybody who had knowledge to do this
12
testing, to give you an estimate on how many
13
animals they need and what the cost would be?
14
A . Well, as I say, the way I looked at it -- and
15
it was very simplistic ; I was just curious . That
16
if you had compound A, B, C, D, E, whatever - they
17
listed them - what was their effect singularly?
18
What were their effect in pairs? What were their
19
effect in triplets? And you can see, it just
20
snowballs .
21
Q . How about sticking to just triplets?
22
A . Well, I say, I was doing -- I mean, you're
23
asking me something I did 33 years ago and say
24
"Why didn't you do so-and-so?" I didn't do it .
25
Q . And Reynolds never did it . And to
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3
to anybody .
No . I never even turned that calculation in
Q . And to your knowledge, no one in the
4
5
tobacco industry --
6
A . Nobody in any place has ever done it .
Q.
7
Now, Doctor -- you say Dr . Chin did
8
9
10
11
Right .
Ames testing?
A .
Dr . Chin Lee .
Q . Chin Lee, on additives that are in
12
tobacco?
13
A . He -- he looked at all the components of
14
flavor formulations, I understand .
15
Q . Well, which ones? Do you know?
16
A . I don't know that much about all the -- the
17
flavorants by name . I know a few of them .
18
Q . You don't know whether Dr . Chin Lee
19
actually looked at all of the additives in
20
tobacco, do you?
21
A . Well, I used to see some of the things he
22
wrote that he did . And of course, in those days,
23
a lot of the flavorants and the flavor formulation
24
were coded, for obvious reasons . And there were
25
75, 100 of them, and he had run them all and found
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3
A . Something like that .
Q . Additives .
4
Now, how many additives are there in
5
6
tobacco?
7
A . Additives in tobacco?
Q.
8
9
A . Tobacco per se?
Q . In cigarettes .
10
11
Uh-huh . Do you know?
A . Well, I just told you .
Q . You said there was only 75 or 100?
12
No . There may be 75 or 80, whatever the
13
A.
14
number of compounds used in flavor formulation .
15
But'each blend -- brand, I should say, not blend,
16
has its own flavor formulation, and there may be
17
40 in this brand and 50 in this, and 30 in this .
18
And -- but they'll be different ones .
19
Q.
I
see . Well, are you able to tell the
20
jury today whether Reynolds tested all the
21
additives for Ames testing, that's mutagenicity on
22
animals
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meaningful, I guess, if you will, in terms of
product .
Q . What was that?
A . Well, this will take a little explanation .
And we did it with five products . But let's just
concentrate on one product .
Q . When you say "a product," you mean a
cigarette brand?
A .
10
Yeah . Like Winston or -- I'm sure you've
seen this someplace . It's all written up .
Q . Is that the one where you found --
11
12
when you tested one of your products,
13
half percent of the mice got skin cancer?
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form --
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15
BY MR . SHELLER :
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16
MR . McDERMOTT : -- of the question .
17
18
You're interrupting Dr . Rodgman's answer .
19
Dr . Rodgman, complete your answer .
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No . This is -- this was a mutagenicity test,
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23
Ames test, done by a contract laboratory, with
24
unimpeachable reputation . And what we did was
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marketed, which has a certain amount of what we
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call casing materials and a flavor formulation .
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Then we had the Winston cigarette with the casing
5
materials, no flavorants . Then we had some
6
Winstons made with no casing material, and the
7
flavorant formulation the same as on the marketed
8
product . Then we had the Winston cigarette with
9
no casing, no flavorings .
10
And the Ames test showed that, when
11
you took out the flavorants of the -- the casing
12
material, the mutagenicity went up . And the
13
minute I saw the results, I -- I won't say I
14
panicked, but I was a little thunderstruck . Until
15
it hit me . We already knew why it went up,
16
because six -- it just went up a little bit .
17
Six or seven percent of this tar,
18
which is used in the -- or TPM, which is used in
19
the Ames test, is humectants, glycerol and
20
propylene glycol, and they are non-mutagenic . So
21
we -- you weren't getting those in the smoke, you
22
didn't have -- their dilution effect . So the
23
mutagenicity went up a few percent .
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25
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Q . Doctor, you did this with Winston .
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What other products?
3
A . Winston, Vantage, Now, Camel and something
4
else ; there were five brands .
5
Q . Did you do it with any of the other
6
brands?
7
A . Well, if you did it five times and you get
8
the same answer --
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Q . But in all instances there was
10
mutagenicity, right?
11
A . Well, cigarette smoke itself is mutagenicity .
12
Q .
I
see . I see .
Did you do any other test --
13
14
biological testing, other than the Ames test, on
15
any of your products? The biological testing
16
A . Well, we did the biological testing on puffed
17
tobacco, we did it on one of our tobacco
18
substitutes .
19
20
Q . On your product line .
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I was trying to think if one of our
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Q . There's a whole lot of biological
2
tests that one can do, right, on a product?
3
A . Right . And of course the one that is part
4
and parcel of the definition is mouse skin
5
painting .
6
Q . And that wasn't done on your products,
7
other than -- which one did you did do -- which
8
product did you do the mouse skin painting?
9
A . Well, we did it on the tobacco substitutes .
10
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Q . On the substitute .
In a prior exhibit, it's already been
11
12
marked, Plaintiff's Exhibit 1056 . I'll have to
13
show you the one that I have, 'cause it's the only
14
copy I have handy .
15
You -- you had said that you didn't
16
recommend testing the mixtures of the different
17
parts of the tobacco smoke . I'd like you to look
18
at page 2 . And this is a -- April 16th, 1982,
19
from you, is it Dr . Giles, Dr . Colby and
20
Dr . Nystrom are "Misters" there?
21
A . Giles is a Mister .
22
Q.
To
Dr . DiMarco . And who's
23
Dr . DiMarco?
24
A . He was vice president of R & D . He had just
25
come to Reynolds about that time, early '82,
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Q .
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say : (Reading)
3
Project Area 3 . In
4
spite of its high complexity,
5
most of the chemical
6
carcinogenesis literature
7
deals with experiments
8
involving one - or at most
9
two - 'carcinogens' (plus
10
cocarcingoens, promoters,
11
et cetera) ; the real-life
12
situation is obviously much
13
more complex than this .
14
Therefore, we propose
15
standardized animal
16
carcinogenesis tests
17
involving varying proportions
18
of first, three chemical
19
carcinogens and, later, four
20
chemical carcinogens,
21
et cetera, to,determine
22
interrelationships more
23
closely related to real-life
24
situations .
25
970
First, who was Dr . Giles -- or was it
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Doctor?
3
A . Yeah, he was at one time -- he was manager of
4
analytical research at one time .
5
6
Q .
I
see . Is he a doctor?
A . Mister .
7
Q .
Mister . And who is Dr . Colby?
8
A . He was head of the science information
9
division at that time .
Q .
10
At
1982?
11
A . Right . And -- and Dr . Nystrom worked under
12
him at the library and eventually became manager
13
of the science information division .
Q . And what was your com -- position at
14
15
the time?
16
A . Director of fundamental research .
Q . Did Reynolds ever do what you
17
18
recommended?
19
A .
No .
Q . They give you a reason why not?
20
No . You got to re -- well, this was written
21
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22
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24
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2
biological work again .
Q . But he didn't do this, did he?
3
4
A . I'm sure they didn't do this, no . They had
5
other things they wanted to do, I guess .
Q . Do you know if any -- anybody has ever
6
elsewhere .
7
done that? In the tobacco industry or
8
A . I don't think it's ever been done anyplace .
9
MS . KNISELY : Do you have the copies
10
of the RDR's index -- '54 to '91? I think they're
11
out on the table .
12
(Discussion off the record)
13
(Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 14 was
14
15
marked for identification)
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Q . Doctor, while we're waiting for one
16
17
more exhibit, I would like you to look at what I
18
am now marking exhibit, whatever, 14? And it's
19
entitled "R & D Long-Range Planning, Smoking and
20
Health : Product and Smoke Components, Dr . Alan
21
Rodgman, October 8, 1976 ." Is that a report that
22
you prepared?
23
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25
this?
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2
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4
MR . HOLTON : Shall we go make some
copies?
MR . SHELLER : We didn't know we were
5
6
going to get to it . That's the problem .
MR . HOLTON : Shall we go make some
7
8
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copies?
THE WITNESS : I'm only going to refer
9
10
to one sentence . It's not going to be a big deal .
11
MR . McDERMOTT : Okay . What's the date
12
13
14
15
on that?
THE WITNESS : October the 8th, 1976 .
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Doctor, look at page 43 . Now, is this
16
a document you've prepared? Has your name on it?
17
I mean, the whole document .
18
A . I assume so . I mean, it's got my name in the
19
front and my signature . Sometimes you get
20
something like that and it may be a combination of
21
different people working on it .
22
23
Q . Would you look at the top of page 43 .
It says (Reading)
I .A ., Product .
24
25
Condemnation of nicotine as a
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2
smoking-health proponents
3
increased demand for
4
low-nicotine tobaccos,
5
probability of occurrence
6
70 percent .
And then you say "Qualitative" over in
7
8
the right . (Reading)
Lowered "tar" and
9
10
nicotine on established
11
brands ; if lowering of "tar"
12
and nicotine progresses too
13
far, customers weaned from
14
smoking with subsequent sales
15
decline .
Is that your statement?
16
17
18
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A . Yes, sir .
Q . Why would lowering tar and nicotine on
19
established brands too far wean smoke -- wean
20
customers from smoking with subsequent sales
21
decline?
22
A . Well, it has been shown that, in many
23
instances where people have come out with a very
24
low tar cig -- very low nicotine cigarette or a
25
zero nicotine cigarette, that they just don't
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Q . Why did you use the word "wean" them
3
from smoking, rather than "stop" them from -- they
4
just won't buy it? What did you mean by that as
5
this -- you don't say "they won't buy the
6
cigarette," you say it will "wean" them from
7
smoking .
8
A . Well, it may be a--
9
10
11
Q . That's your word, right?
. Right . That's my word .
Q . You could have used different
12
language, couldn't you have?
13
A . Oh, certainly .
14
Q . What did you -- do you mean by "wean"?
15
A . Well, I think you know the meaning of "wean,"
16
don't you?
17
18
19
(Discussion off the record)
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . Now, Doctor, I'm giving you a list of
20
RDRs, that's research reports, from 1954 to 1991
21
of Reynolds' research department reports . I'm
22
only -- because -- yeah, mark the whole thing,
23
because we'll refer to others . But I'm only, for
24
now, because I know time is short --
25
I want to refer you to page -- there's
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2
you make that list, Doctor?
3
A .
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5
6
No .
Q . Who made that list?
A . The library .
Q . So this is a list from the Reynolds
7
library . And they gave you a copy of it? How did
8
you have, in your possession, a copy?
9
A . Well, if you look back, about 1976, '75 --
10
let's see, where are we? 1970, '71, '72 . The
11
typewritten part . When I took over as director of
12
research, there was a folder -- Dr . Senkus had
13
been my predecessor, and before him, of course,
14
was Mr . Hoover .
15
And if you notice -- I'm sure you've
16
looked at some of the RDR's/RDM's . And at the
17
bottom of the last page there's a distribution
18
list, and usually it's to the authors, the
19
manager, the director of research, and a couple of
20
copies to the library . And if it's a report that
21
has patentability things in it, it may go to the
22
patent lawyer .
23
Well, periodically Mr . Hoover, and
24
then subsequently Dr . Senkus, they got all these
25
copies and -- and had them on file . But,
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and there were two copies up in the library, so
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periodically they would tell their secretary "get
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rid of so -- so many years of this stuff" .
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And -- and I'm sure you've noticed in
6
several places it says -- for example, on -- you
7
flip the page, "1954, destroyed 4/9/57" . And that
8
means they took those copies from Mr . Hoover's
9
files and destroyed them .
10
Well, they kept the list of all these .
11
And when I took over from Dr . Senkus, I happened
12
to get this folder, and here's this list of -- of
13
the RDR's, and there was a similar list for RDM's .
14
And I thought, gee, this is a handy thing to have
15
to check things .
16
So, after that, I went up to the
17
library and they had a ledger book that, as new
18
RDR's were phoned in, the secretary or the
19
clerical person up there would say, "Give me the
20
title," and they would write down the date and
21
assign it a number and write it down . That's why
22
it's all handwritten .
23
And then I'm sure you'll probably come
24
across places where you may see something crossed
25
out . Well what would happen is somebody would
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suddenly have reservations or a problem with what
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they were going to write, phone up and say, "Hey,
4
void that one ; I'm going to redo it," or give it a
5
new title or something . And then you'll notice,
6
sometime later on, there may be something with a
7
very similar title . You know, sometimes an
8
experiment goes wrong and you get it screwed up .
Q . I understand .
9
Look at the year 1970 in this list, in
10
11
the typewritten part .
12
A . Uh-huh .
Q . And from 1970 it says "Smoking
14
exposure studies, not in file . E .R . Fluck ."
15
There's a checkmark next to that one . Whose
16
checkmark is that?
17
A . I don't know .
18
MS . EASON : For the record, could you
19
please read the Bates number that appears on that
20
page .
21
MR . SHELLER : There is none .
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MR . McDERMOTT : Yes, there is
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MS . EASON : Yes, there is .
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hand .
MR . SHELLER : Oh . Okay . Sometimes
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5
these help .
6
MS . BRACHTL : Repeat that .
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MR . SHELLER : 501524764 .
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MS . BRACHTL : Thank you .
9
BY MR . SHELLER :
Q . So you don't know who put that
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11
checkmark there?
12
A .
No .
Q . And what does it mean, "not in file"?
13
14
Is that your writing?
15
A.
No . I don't know whose writing that is .
Q . Then you -- there's a checkmark at
16
17
number 4 . An attempt to establish a simple
18
procedure for determination of a drug's addicting
19
properties . And that says, "not in file," and<
20
there's a checkmark .
21
A . I have no idea what it --
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Sedative Hypnotic Activity ."
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"Not in file" .
7
You don't know why, on the entire page,
8
those three have the words "not in file" written
9
next to them and checkmarks next to them?
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No . I notice, over the next page, number 25
10
A.
11
has a checkmark beside it but "not in file" is not
12
written on it . So I don't see any connection .
13
Q . Well that's "90-day Toxicity Study on
14
Glucose Fructose Syrups"?
15
A . Well, I think that's a good example of
16
showing the people were wrong . I said the only
17
thing the bio division was doing was smoke
18
studies .
19
Q.
20
21
Right . But that's in the file, huh?
A . Well, 319 is not a smoke study either .
Q . Would you mind telling me why -- who
22
are Thompkins and Thornloe? Do you know, who are
23
the authors?
24
A . They were some -- they were some of the
25
people that were let go in the '70 incident .
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number 15 .
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Now, do you know why Reynolds is
7
researching an attempt to establish a simple
procedure for determination of a drug's addicting
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properties?
A . I have no idea, sir .
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Q . Do you know why smoking's exposure
12
studies from E .R . Fluck -- where's Fluck these
13
days? Do you know? E . R . Fluck?
14
A . He left -- he actually wasn't in the group
15
that left in 1970 ; he had already left . He had
16
done some work on ciliastasis, but I don't know
17
whether that's what it refers to or not .
18
Q . Where is he now?
19
A . I have no idea . I mean, you're talking 27
20
years ago, sir .
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Q . Well I -- I just was -- so you have no
22
idea why those three studies are not in the file .
23
A . Well, I don't know what you call by "in the
24
file" and in whose file or --
25
Q . Who would know where those studies
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Reynolds' library .
4
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see . And where are the -- you think
5
the originals would be in the library?
6
A . I would assume so .
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Q . They'd still be there, right?
A . They should be .
MR . SHELLER : Could I have them
produced, please?
MR . McDERMOTT : Document production
has long since ended .
MR . SHELLER : We only found these
14
boxes six weeks ago, and we had to go -- and only
15
had them delivered a couple of weeks ago . And we
16
need to -- we can't get production of things we
17
don't know about . We didn't know this witness had
18
this material .
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20
nothing to do with the underlying studies, which
21
have been available . Document production has
22
concluded . If you want to make a request to
23
Mr . Belasic -- I'm not the regular attorney in
24
this case . Put it in writing and give it to him,
25
and we'll respond .
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MR . SHELLER :
Okay .
MR . McDERMOTT : But we don't engage in
document production exercises in a third-party
witness deposition .
MR . SHELLER : All right . At this
point I'm going to let Mr . Maistros go forward,
and I will press the issue with Mr . Belasic and
see if we have to -MR . McDERMOTT : All right . Let me
10
raise a question, and you have me at a bit of
11
disadvantage here .
MR . SHELLER : I know, you wanted to
12
13
leave at 4 :30 .
MR . McDERMOTT : No . That's -- that's
14
15
not a problem . I'm not going to raise my schedule
16
as a barrier to your going forward .
Ordinarily, when two attorneys
17
18
question, one questions and completes his
19
questioning and the other begins, and that ends
20
it, and you don't do tag-team, switching back and
21
forth .
MR . SHELLER : Oh . I'm finished with
22
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Dr . Rodgman .
MR . McDERMOTT : Has that practice not
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4
to be questioning again .
MR . McDERMOTT : That doesn't precisely
5
6
respond to my question . Mr . Maistros, having had
7
his turn at bat, does he get another turn at bat?
MR . SHELLER : No . He's not going to
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MR . McDERMOTT : That is not my
10
11
question either . Does he get a second opportunity
12
to question under the protocol that you all been
13
following --
14
MR . SHELLER : It's not a second
15
opportunity . Don't play games now, Mr . McDermott .
16
We -- to let me question because I wanted to get a
17
few hours - and I said it to the judge's law
18
clerk - and that Mr . Maistros would then continue .
19
And I said it to the judge's law clerk . And I
20
told that to you, that I only wanted a few hours .
21
MR . McDERMOTT : Are you representing
22
to me, on the record, that has been the practice
23
in this case, that the attorney first questioning
24
is then followed by the second attorney, the
25
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management order, and then the first attorney gets
2
to return and ask additional questions?
MR . SHELLER : It depends on the
3
4
situation . We've already done this before, by the
5
way .
6
MR . MAISTROS : We have done this on
7
numerous occasions . I don't know why it was
8
agreed to and I wasn't a party to it, but it's
9
happened at, I would guess, more than half the
10
11
depositions that I attended .
THE WITNESS : I thought there were
12
only supposed to be two, if I may stick in my ore .
13
Now you're the third .
14
MR . McDERMOTT : On the strength of
15
your representation that this sort of
16
switching-off has taken place before, I will
17
permit you to continue, but without prejudice
18
the ability of my partner, who is not here and who
19
is not reachable, Mr . Belasic, to raise objection
20
to this procedure and deem the deposition closed
21
as of this point . But I will not -- I will not
22
stop things, for the moment .
23
to
MR . BLANCATO : I would like to go
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ahead, while you're moving, Mr . Sheller, and put
25
something on the record about the discussion
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objection that I raised this morning and that
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Mr . McDermott raised this morning based on
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pretrial order number one, joint case
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management --
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COURT REPORTER : I'm sorry, I can't
hear you . Based on what?
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MS . BRACHTL : Rustling the paper is
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10
pretrial order number one, joint case management
11
plan entered in the Arch case, particularly
12
paragraph roman numeral VI-D-1, which said that :
13
(Reading)
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15
designate not more than two
16
attorneys to take the lead in
17
conducting the examination of
18
the deponent .
19
It's my position and, I believe,
20
Mr . McDermott's position that Mr . J . D . Lee was
21
the first attorney to be designated to take the
22
lead in questioning this case, and that
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Mr . Maistros was the second, and that Mr . Sheller
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We've made a telephone call to the
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judge's chambers, learned that the judge is on
4
vacation, and spoke with his law clerks, who
5
recommended that Mr . Sheller be allowed to go
6
forward . We agreed to abide that recommendation
7
and not disturb the judge on his vacation . But I
8
want to make it clear that, by agreeing to that
9
recommendation or allowing -- following that
10
recommendation by the law clerk, I don't waive any
11
objection to the procedure you followed here
12
today . And it's my position that your questioning
13
was improper under the orders governing this case .
14
MS . BRACHTL : This is Martis Brachtl,
15
for the record . I need to make a statement while
16
we are at this transition point .
17
We cross-noticed this deposition in
18
the New York action . It's 4 :30 . It's my
19
understanding that the Arch deposition will not
20
finish today, and we, in New York, have not been
21
able to ask any questions, and we will do so when
22
you let us know the date to resume the deposition .
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MS . BRACHTL : So you're saying that
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Perry should go before --
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COURT REPORTER : I can't hear you .
5
MS . EASON : Mr . Lee had designated the
6
Perry case for his case before your intervention .
7
I think that, even though he's not present, you
8
probably need to discuss with him if he has any
9
questions and if he would like to reconvene for
10
Perry .
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As far as I'm concerned, the Arch
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deposition is going to conclude today . And I will
15
leave it to negotiations with my partner,
16
Mr . Belasic, if he wishes to permit a
17
continuation . And, of course, I can't speak for
18
Dr . Rodgman or his counsel .
Plaintiffs in Arch have had more than
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ample opportunity to explore any relevant issues
21
they wished, and they've spent some time doing
22
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attorney has completed his examination, and we're
5
now going back to number two . This is highly
6
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8
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today or doesn't finish today, it's clear that
10
New York won't get to go today . So we'll talk to
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mean, I've been here for four days, listening to
14
all this stuff . Do I have a say in this ?
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MR . McDERMOTT : Would you like to
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MR . BLANCATO : Let's take a break .
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Dr . Rodgman, how are you?
A . I'm tired .
5
Q . I'll try not to be duplicative of
6
either my previous questions or Mr . Sheller's
7
questions . I'm sure I'11 be reminded, if I am .
I'd like to mention a couple of
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9
topics, first of all,
and ask you if -- what your
10
knowledge is of these topics, okay?
11
A . Yes, sir .
Q . You ever hear of a project called
12
13
Project RAN, R-A-N?
14
A .
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Yes .
Q . What was Project RAN?
A . Reduced Ames numbers .
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18
A . Well, in the test for mutagenicity, they --
19
what is used is the test that was developed in
20
1973 by Dr . Bruce Ames, and it was used to test
21
the mutagenicity of compounds . And, for a while,
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it was thought to be a -- an alternative to
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tumorigenicity . But it's a way to get a result on
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something very quickly ; it takes a week or less
3
than -- I never ran it ; Dr . Chin Lee did all that
4
work in-house .
5
And there was a project to develop a
6
cigarette whose smoke condensate showed reduced
7
Ames numbers . And the Ames numbers are usually
8
proportional to some of the components in the
9
tobacco smoke .
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Q . What was that project?
A . Pardon?
Q . What was the project that you
12
13
mentioned? You said there was a project to
14
develop a cigarette .
15
A .
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Q . No, you said there was a project to
17
develop a cigarette with reduced --
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A . R-A-N was the project .
19
Q . That was to develop a cigarette
20
with -- with reduced --
21
A . Well, it was a -- the -- yes . It was to
22
develop a cigarette with reduced Ames numbers, and ;
23
it was called Project RAN .
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Q . What was the name of the actual
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A . I don't think there was one developed . If
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there was -- if anything was developed, it was
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probably incorporated in something I know nothing
4
about .
Most of that work - I don't know what
5
6
date you have on that - was started just about the
7
time I was leaving . It may have started in '86 .
8
It was not done in fundamental R & D -- in
9
fundamental research . And I believe a fellow
10
called Dr . William Rice was in charge of it .
Q.
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12
A . If I have, I don't -- I don't know it by
13
those initials . I mean, I don't know exactly what
14
it does or what it's supposed to do . I may have
15
heard of a project -- I don't know of an XDU .
16
Q.
Have you heard of Project R-E-S-T?
17
A . I have a feeling I should -- I've heard the
18
name someplace recently, but I couldn't tell you
19
what it does .
20
Q.
Reestablishment of solubles ; does that
21
ring a bell at all?
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A . No, it doesn't ring a bell .
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No .
Q . What was the Chemosol study?
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A . Oh, the Chemosol study . The Chemosol study
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was based on a patent -- issued to a man called
3
Bindig, B-I-N-D-I-G, a German . He obtained
4
patents in Germany, Canada, and the United States .
5
And sometime in the late '60s, this patent was
6
issued in the United States, and some noted
7
government officials found out about this patent .
8
And what it involved, sir, was the
addition to tobacco of citric acid, which is
10
already in tobacco, dissolved in water containing
11
some deuterium oxide and -- heavy water .
12
Well, we had looked at the patent and
13
figured well, this is not going to do anything .
14
Because the amount of citric acid -- that's a very
15
plentiful component of tobacco ; it's about two and
16
a half/three percent of tobacco is citric acid .
17
And Bindig recommended adding enough citric acid
18
to the .tobacco to, say -- and here I'm just
19
picking a figure . Say it was 3 .00 percent citric
20
acid, that when you put what he recommended, it
21
would be 3 .002 . And the amount of deuterium oxide
22
he recommended adding was like doubling the water
23
that comes out of your tap at home . And this
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Chemosol additive was supposed to reduce the
25
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mice, and the benz -- polycyclic hydrocarbon
content of the smoke .
We -- I looked at it, from my
background, and said to management : It isn't
going to do a darn thing . Philip Morris' people
looked at it, they told their management it isn't
going to do a darn thing . American's people
looked at it, Lorillard, and so on . But these
three very powerful individuals in the government
10
said : You will do it .
And at a cost of three years' time and
11
12
several million dollars, Reynolds made the
13
cigarettes with Chemosol people standing there,
14
watching how the cigarettes were made .
The animal work was done, which takes
15
16
about two years . The chemistry was done on the
17
smoke with regard to polycyclic hydrocarbons,
18
principally benzo[alpyrene .
And, here, I've
19
forgotten the exact numbers,
but there was one
20
mouse difference between the control and the
21
Chemosol-treated cigarette,
22
experimental error, because you could have a
23
difference of three and not make a difference .
which is within
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which is an experimental error .
Now, this is all written up by James
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Gargis in a reputable journal . He did all the
4
work .
5
And the, of course, the high-powered
6
officials, as soon as they learned this -- their
7
aim was, if it had worked, they would buy the
8
patent from Bindig and charge the tobacco industry
9
royalties . And of course, when it didn't work,
10
11
the whole thing dropped .
And if you're wondering who one of the
12
major proponents of it is, it was Hubert H .
13
Humphrey . The father of the man pushing Minnesota
14
all over the place, from the tobacco company .
15
And you may say : Well how does Alan
16
Rodgman know this? In 1968 or '69, when this
17
started, the monitoring of this whole experiment
18
was done by Dr . Eldon Nielson . And when he left
19
in -- Reynolds, late in 1970, I was assigned to
20
take his place on the monitoring committee, which
21
included Dr . Robert Carpenter from Philip Morris
22
and Dr . Preston Leake from American Tobacco
23
Company, and myself replacing Dr . Nielson .
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And after Gargis published his work,
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they stood there and watched every step of the
3
preparation . And the Reynolds factory is just up
4
the street from here . And agreed that everything
5
was done properly .
Q . Let me show you what's been marked as
6
7
Exhibit 16 .
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9
MR . MAISTROS : I don't know if there's
a quick way to pull that or not .
10
MR . HOLTON : This is -- this is not in
11
those boxes . This was produced by Reynolds . So
12
we need to make copies .
13
MR . MAISTROS : Well, while you're
14
doing it, then, please make this one as well . I
15
have two of this, if that's enough . You want
16
more?
17
18
19
20
21
MR . McDERMOTT : Yeah, let's make a
couple of copies .
MR . MAISTROS : Let me put a sticker on
it, first, Mark .
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Q . While they're making those copies, if
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you wouldn't mind browsing -- let me see if -- if
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The document I've marked as Exhibit
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16, is it not?
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A.
Yes .
7
8
Q . It's dated January 4th, 1978?
A .
Right .
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Q .
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to
you?
Yes .
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It's
Q . And it's from a D . H . Piehl?
A .
Dr . Donald Piehl .
Q . Who was Dr . Piehl?
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14
A . He was manager of the chemical research
15
division .
16
Q . What was your title on January 4th of
17
1978?
18
A . Director of research .
19
Q . And take a minute to look at this
20
document . Do you recall receiving this document
21
on or about January 4th of 1978?
22
A . Yes, I -- yes, I did, sir .
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Q . And is this a document that appears to
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Q . And was this document kept by you in
3
4
the ordinary course of business as an employee of
5
Reynolds?
6
A . I don't know whether I kept it in my file or
7
not . I really don't know . I've forgotten if I
8
did .
Q . What do you mean by your file? You
10
mean in those six boxes over there?
11
A . Yeah -- no . I don't think it was in those
12
boxes . It may have been, but I don't think it
13
was .
14
Q . But, you do recall receiving this
15
document on or about January 4th of '78?
16
A . Yes . I mean, I wouldn't swear to the date,
17
but I remember seeing this before .
18
Q .
What is the objective that Dr . Piehl
19
advises you that he had in '77/'78?
20
A . This is the taste of nicotine, the tar and
21
nicotine ratios . Those ones, you mean?
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Q . What is the stated objective,
23
underneath "Objective"?
24
A . (Reading)
The ultimate goal of
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"tar" cigarettes .
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Q . And then the four specific objectives
7
8
that he lists below there . First one is :
9
(Reading)
Determine the taste
10
11
characteristics of nicotine
12
in factors that affect its
perception .
What's the second objective of head of
15
chemical research at RJR in 1978?
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
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17
the question .
THE WITNESS : I didn't understand you,
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19
sir .
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Well, I'm reading below the heading
m Specific '77/'78 objectives," correct?
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that says
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A . Right .
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Q . What's the second listed '77/'78
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A . (Reading)
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Determine the means to
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alter and control "tar" and
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nicotine ratio and increase
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nicotine transfer efficiency .
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nicotine transfer efficiency"?
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A . Well -- I'd have to read this again . I
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don't
.
Q . It's on the second page .
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13
A . I assume that's what he meant, is what he
14
wrote there . On page 2, item 2 .
Q . On the second page, Dr . Piehl goes
15
16
into some detail explaining what he means by
17
nicotine transfer efficiency?
18
A .
19
meant because that's what he wrote .
20
Yes . I assume -- I assume that's what he
Q . What's the first paragraph, second
21
sentence say underneath that?
22
A . First paragraph?
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What did Dr . Piehl mean by "increase
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Q . If you could just read slower for the
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nicotine or other additives
7
have been less expedient .
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9
department -- or the chemical department doing in
'77/'78, that related to adding of nicotine?
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A . I think they're shown on page 3 . And the
. .
Q . Why was RJR doing research in '77/'78
13
with respect to adding nicotine to tobacco?
14
A . Well, a lot of this was experimental . I
15
don't know whether -- I'm pretty sure it was never
16
included in a product . But I guess he wanted to
17
see how it behaved under different circumstances .
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Q . Do you know what the "Reynolds' number
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one cigarette" is? It's referred to on the third
20
page, second paragraph .
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A . Which paragraph, sir?
22
Q . Third page, second paragraph . Last
23
line refers to "Reynolds' number one cigarette"
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A . No, I don't know what that is .
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Q . Are you suggesting that, in 1978, the
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A . As far as I know .
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This was about the same time as the
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5
thing I mentioned yesterday to you, was when
6
people like Dr . Russell in England and Dr . Jarvik
7
here - maybe it was this morning I mentioned it were recommending leaving the nicotine alone and
9
reducing the tar, or reducing the tar and
10
increasing the nicotine . And that was discussed
11
by him at the Banbury Conference in 1979, which
12
was published in 1980 .
And, subsequently, there were problems
13
14
with consumer acceptance or test paneling of such
15
prototypes . And as far as I know, we dropped
16
them .
17
Q . And the third objective listed on the
18
first page says what?
19
A . (Reading)
Define the optimum
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nicotine level in cigarette
22
smoke required to maximize
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smoker satisfaction .
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Determine the existence of a
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objective to get your approval or just to advise
5
you of what he was doing?
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A . He was just telling me what -- some of the
7
things they were looking at that would run from
8
'77 into '78, possibly .
Q . And do you know if Dr . Piehl carried
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10
these studies forward, that is, to determine the
11
minimum or threshold value of nicotine required
12
for satisfaction?
13
A . I really don't remember it . But, you know --
14
but, you know, if he did, I'm sure there's a
15
report on it .
16
Q . On the fourth page of this document,
17
do you see where he is listing the -- it's under
18
the heading "Optimum and Threshold Nicotine
19
Values" . The heading is on the previous page .
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you?
22
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heading "Optimum and Threshold Nicotine Values," m
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but it caries over to page 4 on the second
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4
above apparently reveal an
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.12 milligrams per puff .
7
These results should be
8
regarded as unconfirmed at
9
this point . However, it is
10
of interest to speculate,
11
since the value for Winston
12
has usually been over
13
.15 milligrams puff and the
14
value for Marlboro
15
.13 milligrams puff or less .
16
Were you aware in 1977/'78 that Dr . Piehl
17
was doing that research?
18
A . I'm sure I was . I notice, on the preceding
19
page, they were talking about the consumer study,
20
and I was trying to think of where that was
21
conducted . It wasn't in Winston . It was
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someplace else .
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Q . Do you know if consumer studies were
24
done, subsequent to this period of time, to
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determine the minimum nicotine values that were
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I think that's one of the things that
4
everything -- this is '78, of course ; a couple of
5
years went by, we were into 1980, and the whole
6
R & D thing got changed around and things were
7
dropped . Don Piehl became a director . And I
8
really don't remember some of this work, if it was
9
done .
Q . When you would do -- did you do,
10
11
yourself, consumer tests with test cigarettes?
12
A.
13
most of my work was in the chemical end . I was
14
trying to think .
15
No . I -- when I was involved experimentally,
You might say it was sort of test
16
paneling, consumer testing, is when we were
17
looking at the substitutes, the Sutton smoking
18
material, as I mentioned before and the -- we had
19
a problem with some of our test panels who are --
20
people who had become very perceptive to tobacco
21
smoke . And they really couldn't tell us much on
22
tobacco substitutes, particularly when the
23
cigarette was a hundred percent . They didn't know
24
what to look for .
25
And so we had some small groups that
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5
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That's really the only one I was
involved with in the Sutton smoking material .
We had supposedly bought a finished
6
product, but we really ended up having a year-long
7
research exercise to improve it and get the right
8
formulation for the Sutton thing . And so we had
9
to keep testing it and changing the manufacturing
10
process . And I had about six or eight people that
11
did all that . That was -- but they were all
12
in-house people, not external .
13
14
Q . Could you look at page 4, at the
bottom . Dr . Piehl states : (Reading)
It has also usually been
15
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16
assumed that smoke pH
17
determined "free nicotine"
18
content of the smoke, and it
19
is calculated on that basis .
20
However, recent evidence
21
suggests that "free nicotine"
22
in the mouth is determined by
23
the pH of the smoker's
24
saliva .
25
Do you know if any work was done,
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A . I think -- and this -- we went through this
4
with Mr . O'Fallon . That there's a report by
5
Dr . Rix on this subject -- at least it's also in
6
the report by Dr . Rix, that it was done with some
7
experiments in which human saliva was tested with
8
nicotine salts . And the saliva -- the pH of the
9
saliva is the controlling factor, not the pH in
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the smoke or anything like that .
Q . In this same period of time, wasn't
12
Reynolds doing other testing to determine how to
13
increase the ability of the nicotine to transfer
14
into the human respiratory system?
15
A . If it was, I don't remember it .
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Q . Do you know what I mean by -- do you
17
have a specific understanding of what Dr . Piehl
18
meant by "nicotine transfer efficiency," separate
19
and apart from this memo you just read?
20
A . Yes . It's -- tobacco has a, you know,
21
certain level of nicotine in it and -- for
22
example, in -- just taking a one-gram tobacco
23
cigarette, if it's got two and a half percent
24
nicotine in it, that means you've got
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25 milligrams of nicotine in the tobacco . And,
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normally, maybe 1 .5 milligrams of that would end
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up in the mainstream smoke and maybe twice that in
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sidestream smoke, and the rest of it's destroyed .
And so the transfer is, say -- one and
4
5
a half milligrams from 25 is the transfer rate of
6
nicotine from -- to tobacco to the mainstream
7
smoke .
Now, one of the things that could
8
9
possibly be involved in some of these things that
10
we were doing that, when you puff tobacco, the
11
nicotine level goes down in the puffed tobacco ;
12
which, at some -- at one point, was 15/16 percent
13
of the blend . So, actually, your total nicotine
14
in the tobacco blend is down .
Then, when you increase the level of
15
16
reconstituted tobacco sheet, the total nicotine in
17
the overall blend goes down . And to -- if you had
18
been making a cigarette, for example, that
19
delivered 1 .3 or 1 .5, whatever number you were
20
looking for, and you ended up having, say -- in
21
one case had 25 milligrams of nicotine in the
22
tobacco, and the other you had 20, well, if you Ln~
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Okay . Let's start, first, the
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A . It does .
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5
6
Q . Before it's burned, correct?
A . Before it's burned .
Q . And Reynolds had to develop a means to
7
compensate for that reduction of nicotine, did
8
they not?
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MR . MaDERMOTT : Object to the form .
BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . In the reconstituted tobacco .
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question .
THE WITNESSs Are you suggesting they
added nicotine to the -BY MR . MAISTROS :
Q . Well, I don't want to limit it to
18
adding nicotine, because no one's going to admit
19
that, I'm sure .
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that was lost during the expansion process could
23
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A . Not that I know of . As I say, I think I just
25
explained it, that -- by increasing the transfer
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4
Q . That -- that's much more accurately
worded than I attempted .
You have less nicotine in the tobacco ;
5
6
but, because you increase the transfer rate, the
7
exact same amount of nicotine enters the human
8
system, correct?
9
A . Yeah -- pretty well . I mean, you could --
10
you could arrange it that way . I don't recall
11
that it was actually
12
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ever done that way, but
.
Q . When the tobacco is expanded, and
13
before the tobacco is burned, there's less
14
nicotine, correct?
15
A . Right .
16
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Q . After the tobacco is burned, expanded
17
tobacco, didn't Reynolds have to devise a method
18
whereby the end product in the human system
19
remained some sort of constant to the pre-expanded
20
tobacco?
21
A . Well, you've got to remember one thing, that
22
expanded tobacco was not the whole blend . You had
23
unexpanded tobacco in the blend . So you're not
24
looking at a great difference of the total --
25
total nicotine in the tobacco -- as I say, it
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juggling it and so on .
(Ms . Eason leaves deposition)
MR . MAISTROS : Let me show you what
I've marked as Exhibit 17 .
(Plaintiff's Exhibit Number 17 was
marked for identification)
MR . McDERMOTT : Let me ask a question
here . I see that counsel for Lorillard in another
10
case has just left . This is marked as
11
confidential under the Arch protective order . Is
12
the -- is the practice to type up this portion of
13
the transcript separately and not circulate it to
14
counsel for other defendants, or what? I'm not
15
sure how you all have been treating confidential
16
documents .
MR . MAISTROS : Let me keep this short ;
17
18
we're running out of time . Protocol has been :
19
You decide what you want to do, run it by Belasic,
20
he calls us and we sign off on it . Whatever
21
the -- the defendant's desire has been .
22
MR . McDERMOTT : All right .
23
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notes, the transcript, anything till that's
4
resolved .
MR . McDERMOTT : All right, we'll take
5
6
it up with Mark, so we don't waste time here .
7
He'll get back in contact with you .
8
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Q . Exhibit 17, which I've showed you, is
9
10
dated January 30th, 1978?
11
A . Uh-huh .
12
Q . It's Bates stamped on the right
13
508880315 through 508880316, correct? And there
14
is a -- in between, a 3158 that somebody wrote on
15
in handwriting . Do you see that?
16
A .
17
Yeah .
Q . Now, it appears as though, on my copy
18
at least, the way it was produced, that pages 1, 2
19
and then a page in the middle was just reversed ;
20
it should be at the end .
21
A . Yes .
22
Q . Would you agree, though, that this
23
appears to be a complete three-page document of
24
report authored by Thomas Perfetti and Lawrence
25
Hayes, and --
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Q . And do you recall receiving this
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A . I really don't . But if my name was on there
7
I probably did .
Q . And again, at this point in time you
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10
and Hayes, correct?
11
A . Right .
Q . Is there any relationship between
12
13
Lawrence Hayes and Wallace Hayes?
14
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15
No .
Q.
What does the summary of this report,
16
which you were copied on state, on the first page?
17
A .
(Reading)
Chemically-bonded
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19
ammonia as the pectate amide
20
and nicotine as the pectate
21
salt into ammoniated
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reconstituted sheet should
23
improve the nicotine transfer
24
and flavor of RJR tobacco
25
products .
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Q . Were you aware, that on or about this
date, that Perfetti and Hayes were working on
improving the nicotine transfer and flavor of RJR
tobacco products through the use of ammoniated
reconstituted tobacco?
A . I knew they were working on it . This was the
time we were -- I believe, around the time we were
working on the ammoniation of our reconstituted
tobacco sheet and -- in an attempt to see if we
10
could figure out why Marlboro was doing so good --
11
so well .
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Q . Did you agree that -- and I'll read
on the first
13
from -- I'm reading from the document
14
page, underneath "Memorandum" . Fourth line :
15
(Reading)
It is known that ammonia
16
17
is used to break down the
18
pectin in tobacco .
Is that a generally known principle in
19
20
January of '78?
21
A . Well, that was the -- the basis -- somewhat
22
the basis for the Philip Morris patent, except Ln
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they use ammonium phosphate not ammonium gas or m
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aqueous ammonia .
So
it
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4
pectin chemically binds the
5
ammonia and available
6
nicotine as the amide and
7
nicotinic salt -- I'm
8
sorry -- amide and pectin
9
chemically binds the ammonia
10
and available nicotine as the
11
amide and nicotinic salt,
12
respectively?
13
A . Well, that was a theory . I don't know
14
whether you know what a CIM is .
15
Q .
What's
a
CIM?
16
A . It's a conception of invention memorandum .
17
And what it is, is a -- an idea that Lawrence
18
Hayes and Tom Perfetti had to -- as sort of an
19
outline of a possible invention .
And if you notice, there's a lot of
20
and "it is believed" and so on in this .
21
°mays,"
22
What they're saying is : Is this possible and
23
should we look at it?
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Q . Why was Reynolds interested, in '78,
in creating an invention or a patent related to
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A . Well, it may -- it may have been -- these are
3
individual concepts, sir, that, whether Reynolds
4
was interested in this or not, had no bearing on
5
the fact that Thomas Perfetti and Lawrence Hayes
6
made this proposal . Whether we were seeking a
7
method of this or not, I don't know .
8
9
But there were a lot of times -- if
you look at the conception of invention
10
memorandum, there were a lot of things that were
11
proposed over the years, and some of them Reynolds
12
had never expected (sic) an interest in . I think,
13
if you look through the list -- in fact, somebody,
14
one time, suggested : Hey, we should have colored
15
cigarettes, orange and pink and so on, to match
16
the ladies wardrobe . Well, Reynolds never
17
expressed an interest in that . Somebody just
18
thought it might be a good idea and proposed it .
19
Q . And was the underlying premise of such
20
an invention, or a potential invention, that,
21
because of the process used to make reconstituted
22
tobacco, you lost some of the nicotine?
23
24
25
MR . McDERMOTT : Object to the form of
the question . No foundation .
THE WITNESS : Well -- say that again,
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was the premise behind the desire to figure out a
5
method to increase nicotine transfer . Would --
6
A . Well, as I say -- as far as I know, any time
7
you ammoniate the tobacco, whether it be sheet
8
or -- or tobacco itself, like burley or
9
flue-cured, you lose ammonia -- lose nicotine .
10
And I say again that, if you do that, you get an
11
acceptable reconstituted tobacco sheet that's
12
ammoniated . If you -- that has lost nicotine
13
if -- there's a possibility the ammonia will help
14
in increasing the transfer of nicotine and
15
maintain it at what it had been before you lost
16
the nicotine .
Q . Earlier, I got into this in some
18
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Subject: 5.okin9-itealth Research ProOrIR
' Dete : April 16 . 1982
Alem RodpKan
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in response to your request, this .eoorandua outlines opportunities
for a substantial research proOrem related to the tookin and health
controversy . In the ekta, these are tn eddition to outs~de tndnstrrsporsored research (see Appendix A) end do not necessarily coestder
past 1lrftations .
Concerning the outside Industry- and RJR•sponsored reseerch the
following reco .meadattoas are ottered :
o, RJJtT ALO oersonael be more Intimately inrolved In decisions
VAapt, discussions end monitoring ef thtpr oQress of this
~Y!lbardh . tn the post, these activities Aave been ltatted
~ to R 1e9e1 personnel sad/or upper w ne9e .ent with 1t«tted
''••tlu~to devote to tbe saokinp•Meelth controversy .
Rf0 aersoanel be involved in the conteaplated euJor RJR
to fund iundiaental research on diseases alleged to be
ted to saokinq without, however, necesserily involvinQ
tn' as such .
Rt0 personnet be sore involved in the existing RJRirted pro0rAe on basic research adetnistration by Kessrs .
eier and tecon .
,_.._ _ . elopAent ot detailed reco~anendettons= t .e ., prol ect proposels/
wlthiri+iRMeElrort ttee tri .e is essentially impossibte because of the
bresdt/iq;,p*doinp bfoe~edtcel research which t•pects on the se~oktn9 and
hea)th~l[troYersy . The attached tables of contents froa the lest coeprehensiYfT~ir eon lienerai's Report (1979) illustrate this breadth .
of aress have beea identified which constitute gaps or
weekain the present state of knowled e . Eecb Is addressed below
with a<~;d~ stete~Kat ot background and t~e, pyerill thrust of research
~eor~t~. It~1s clear that soeu of this research could be eonducted tn-house,
ire facilities not presently on h :nd . Other areas will be
best addressed by tuadia9 competent outside researchers aad, providing
RJA tohnicel support as appropriate .
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PROJECT AREA I1 :
The literature contains ewvr studies on animal (rouse skin, tnstil•
lation, Inhalation, etc .) tests of Individual s+noke components and/or
smoke lroctions, shacing positive or negative results with reference to
the so•called Initiation and/or pro.otion of earclnogenesls . 1fe propose
to test all knorm s .oke eoweonents (present above a certain Qusntitative
level~ for entl•earttao?enle ectivlty In one or sort general eerclnogenes s testing systems s
a) Initiation phase
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lbst of the titerature on chemical carctnogenests isqltcttly or
explictt suaes that results of experiments with a high level ef a
cheRlc~~r dsinp relatively few antalt, can be extrapolated to a
reei•1 e situttion . There is also to date unresolved controversy
r+bethe eAeral toxteolo4tul prtnctple that there is a threshold
level substance's biological action, does or does not apply to
carcinogenes s . therefore we propose standardized enial circtnoeeacsis
tests, tftereAt species, iRvolving different strength proups of
ehee~k tno9enf wet~ es 'strong' earelnogen~ s, "aediua• arciaoQens,
•n0 ret eas tetttnp e~xle~u . tolereted dou9es involving a
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pi~rrea underwn~r tl~rou~h see,e Oovern .ent tunded researct:.) Ye
ther st to exaanQ these projects to test the validity of the
~ aifo th• hypothesis of chemical earcinolenesis .
"" PRQJECT' /1 :
tn'ttde of its bi9h complexity, =st of the c,heoical carclno-•
9eneststtt+erature deals with experiments involving one • or at srost
~ two •`n=" (p1us co•carcinotens . prOpotSrf, ete .)s the real~ life songls ObvloNsly «ucb ebre complex then this . Therefere
We pro~andardited eniewl earclnopeneslt tests Involving
=w+vP varying proportiont of first, three chemical carcinogens and leter,
four cIM~MRI earcinoQens etci, to deteraine lnterretationships more
closely related to reat•1{fe stwttons .
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' One of the chief antagonists of smoking, tn the past, has published
rouse skin tests, elaiMing to show that 'tar' frorn c!~arettes to whi~,h
nitrate has been added, proved_less carcinog+nic_tn these tests . Hore
recently_, that seae tea~e has elUiaed thet high nitrate tobaccos yield
ille9ed toainer+tise ea Cinogenieity . ~lherittore .wa roposetto teste
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high nitrate versus low nitrate tobiccos 1n a suitable, to be developed .
aniwl imalation sodel which wt11 assay simultaneously the so•called
'putfculate aed gas phasa' of cigarette uroke .
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relitlirely 1loitea nuaber of studiei~bii sbownthit ir~antait
experiaents the results are very contradictory and roy not depend on the
chemical and/or other factors which an experiAentsr wiy ennt to tett*
but on the design protocol of the study, and, most specifically, oa the
rethode by whlch the anixul : are 'hendled" . Thsrefore we propose to
deterrine effects of vurinp handling procedures such as caging, feedin9,
foAdiinp, itrefs, etC ., on the outco .oe of animal models ettperiaeats
related to diseases alleged to be associated with s .okin4 .
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TMire'~are some li .ited epfdeafelo0tCa1 data iR the litsrature
Mhich ~{odi te that prepupt women have a~eReral cencer Incidence
way be oir~ xpected' levels . Therefore we suggest to determine
plVrsf 1 parametert of prepnency which euy have a eancer preventing
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'weak lunp' hypothesis . It has been postulated that
ia of lcmp eancer, other respiratory system eaaesrs,
hrente breeehiti : . atc. . are essentfallr oeoale who in
__ s Mould lwve betA affected by pulaoniry tbbeiYUlosfs,
ci--- lwre an fa-bor+a 'weak tunp• . Therefore we propose to
Iete tber or aot en :yrwatie or other piraaoters can be tdeatftied
W ch terNfne that an individuel has a'penetiully' determined
sus ty to lung diseases in 9eneral,
PROJEcu.0A
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A'ili"*ity of scientists working on non•wwliQnent chronic
respi .• diseases believe 1n a hypothesis that~~ eo is due
to a 1atbalance in poi .onery eniy.es in that smoking, through an
oxidative effect, either proaotes depradatfon of the protein laycr of
elastic 1ong tissue framework, end/or inhibits lung constituents,
which prevent such destruction . Therefora we suggest to Investigate
which saokscoa1 onent or coeponents or fraction •if any'eould
exert the so-ulled 'oxidetiw' effect postulated by the 'elastese'
egplt4se.x1~pothtsis . This project could possibly be done in•tiovse,
If proper aefwl facilities were available .
PRAJECT AREA IQ :
C1aiMs that carbon monoxide an0 ntcotine eey be responsibte for the
association between saohinp and urdiovesculer disase ere ottee made .
These clai .o are given support by oxperiments conducted with either
carbon sonoxide or nieotine separately .
ihere is some evidence In the literature wl :ich suggests that nicotine
ewy actually counteract soNe of the physiological effects of carbon
etonoxide . It is suggested that tM synergtsm andJor anteWisNS between
carbon monoxide sad nicotine be tested In snieel eadels using a battery
of epecitic cardtovaculer parameters .
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Certain Individuals may be oore suscepttibte to s .okinp sssociated
resptr and other diseases . The suscepttblllty may be reflected in
the 0gtui~ties of these individuals . It /s, theretore .
prsPo d~, et the tesMinoZO01N1 protilet of se~okers and aon-sMOktrs
harir~ihete dtstases be tmrestlpated and Eo.pered to Mealtl~y non•saokcrs .
as wel~aeet healthy sNOker : .
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v. ••r " MW*sous one million + men Anericen tancer Socie~r (Ita :onond) stqQy
Is 61 ted as the a~or evidence of the association bet+teen lun4
~cancse~oicfn9 . Noa+ever, the study has beeR criticized and is knarn
"'°to ~ butlt•iA b/eses, inconststeectes In the data, support for
~the ttonel 1{tpotbes/s, ttc . (You will recall that the consti~+sau tutt 1 tMstsproposes that the hiOher 1evels of the diseases
Itr,v,t ess with saokip ts due to the fact ttat sookers are different
« . kir:ds ple than non•s+rokers, i .e ., they ara eare vnlnerable
eons 1 types .) It 1s proposed this an en•de th study of the
. : raw to carried out In ordcr to expose these veeCne :ses etc .,
and r+llablt study of similar or larger scope be desi9ned to
Much evidence exists india tin9 thatQe nettc susceptibility fs an
leportant factor In chronle diseases assoeieted with sMokiaq . It Is,
i therefore, proposeA that as epide+aioloQtcal study be conducttd of the
; causes ot deat * in tirst and seeond back 9eneration biood repitives of
smkers and non•sokers having sote allepedly ukoking associated dtsease, o ~
such as lwy cancer, other respiratory cancert, chronic bronchttis, ~
emphysea, etc .
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Evtdence iw= been presented sup4est1n9 that sihokin9 my affect the
R+etaboilsa of cheRicals In mn . These effects eoy be desirable or
undesirable and tuy be quite different In certain indtviduils . tt ts,
therefore, proposed that the e~etabolisw or a coor+Otnated, ltatted number
of cher1ci11y different non-toxtc substances be determined in groups of
smokers, as well as In groups of non•taokers .
PROJECT AREA 114 :
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A major thrust against the tobacco industr hit been claims of
alleged effects of slde :trem s.oke . These iac~ude both Naltw claims,
as will as those due to ennoyance or ct~~rette s .oke in the at .osphere .
This problem could be alleviated by techniques which would remove the
anaoyence etrects of cigarette s+.oke . it is proposed that we spopsor
electrtcal/eaecAsntcal research oo tnexpensive, energy efficient and
uaobtrmtve equipeent for removing cigarette s .oke and cigarette saoke'
odors fpfthe Indoor indestrtal, public, and home environments .
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rentti requ raeents for smoking and non•smoktng, areas tn Industrial
butldt The raqutreN eat : tA arees whert snottap ts pemtttea 9reatly
qacree apital investment and subsetuent operattn9 costs tor the
:ainildt ~ltneertn9 and other studies should be undertaken to test
~adt,e ve ty ot these requirewrentt end new e~etAodt of dea11w9 with these
'8 ~eQui t Moula be reseerched .
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WR7tEKT MUNC-NEA1T11 RESEARCN VENICLES
Two tyDes of projects are twwed by the Council for Tobacco Research .
There ere also Plens vnder consideratlon by R,MT to cowatt svbstantial
fuRds to fundaoe, :tal research ion diseases alleged to be associated with
s.*kinR .
The e+ost t .portent effort by the Meriun Industry ts eide through
the Council for Tobacco Research-USA 1n New York . This orRaRi :ation
handles generally t•ro types of projects :
a) Cener.l projects eDO+''ored by an independent peer
~~i9rouD of scientists, the •Scientific Advisory
,.•, .
b) Specill projects ~enerally inltiatel, discussed and
. approved p~r tndvitry counsel and/or outside litigating
w,a,, attorneys lror firfss such as dacob, /~elinper i iinne'ant
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Dr. Rodgman was, formerly employed In the Research and Development Department
at R.J. Rqnolds Tobacco Company ("Reynolds") . He is a fact witness who may also offer
expert testimony . Dr. Itodgrnan has a A .A . in chemistry and qs, M .A, and Ph.D in organic
~ chemistry from the Unlversity, of Toronto . He vka$ employed„iii scarlous capacities at .
' Reynolds from 1954 undl •1987.
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Dr. Rodgman is expected to testlfy or opine concerning the development over time
of scientific knowledge relacing to smoking and healrh. Dr. Rodgrnan is ('Itrther expected mw
testify cottcernitig historical activities of the Research and Development bepatbrae~nt at
Reynolds, includfng research conductad by or for Reynolds, in the areas of smoking sad
health, including the subject of the constituents of cigarette staoka,
Dr. Rodgman fs further expected to testify concerning the design, aoasttvstion atyd
manufacture of cigarems, incluoiag tbe state-of-the-art in c,igarette design, and goveromattal
regutatioA/pazticipation with respect thereto . Dr. Rodgtnan ts expected to tes} ify dtat, In the
design of cigarettes . Reynolds speciticaUy. and rhe manufacturers of cigarettes generally,
have responded both to the scientific criticisms of cigarettes and .the demands of smokers.
Indeed, the tobacco irbdustry, ineludina Reynolds, were leaders in inventing or developing
such cigarette designs .
Finally, Dr. Rodgman may be asked to comment upon the opinions expressed by
other witncsses, as well as the evidence upon which they rely, to the extent that such
opinions and evidence related to his areas of expertise .
Dr . Rodgman will base his testirnony on his education . training and experience, his
review of scientific information and literature concerning the subject matter described above
that are reasonably relied upon by members of his profession, his review of documents from
Reynolds concerning the subject matter described above made in connection with the expert
opinions he itatends to offer in this case during the tenure of his em131oyinent at Reynolds
and, as appropriate, documents either produced by other defendants in this fawsuit
concerning cigarette design or relied upon by plaintiffs experts oA these subjects, and his
review of testimony atld . evidence in this case .
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HEALTH ASPECTS OF POORLY DEFINED "TARS"
OBTAINED FROM TOBACCO BY A VARIETY
OF METHODS
APPENDIX B :
INFORMATION PROVIDED RJRT MANAGEMENT
IN THE MID-1960s FOR COMMUNICATION TO
THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION re ITS
CIGARETTE MS "TAR" AND NICOTINE
LABELING PROPOSAL
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FTC SMOKING METHOD USED FOR "TAR" AND NICOTINE DATA
SUMMARY
In the mid-1960s, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its intention to have cigarette packs
labeled with the "tar" and nicotine yields from the packaged cigarettes because of the reports issued between 1950
and 1964 on the following :
• The dose-response relationship reported in retrospective and prospective studies on the association
between smoking and lung cancer
• The production of epidermal carcinoma in laboratory animals skin-painted with cigarette smoke
condensate (CSC)
• Reports that nearly all the tumorigenicity of tobacco smoke resides in the CSC
• The demonstration of a dose-response relationship between the amount of CSC applied to the animals'
skin and the number of tumor-bearing animals (TBA)
• The demonstration of the presence in CSC of extremely small quantities of several polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) and aza-arenes reported to be tumorigenic to the skin of laboratory animals
• The publication in 1964 of the Advisory Committee's Report to the Surgeon General Report in which,
on the basis of the evidence noted above, cigarette smoke - particularly its particulate phase - was
classified as a health hazard of sufficient importance to warrant appropriate remedial action
To rank cigarettes marketed in the U.S . according to their MS "tar" and nicotine yields so the consumer
could select, from the labeling data, the cigarette that spoke to his/her individual smoking-health concerns, the FTC
proposed the development of a precisely defined protocol which would permit the reproducible determination of
yields of cigarette mainstream smoke total particulate matter (MS TPM), MS TPM nicotine, and MS TPM water,
and "tar," the latter entity to be calculated from the equation
MS TPM - MS "tar" + nicotine + water .
Both the FTC and the cigarette manufacturers recognized from the very beginning that the FTC's publication of
cigarette "tar" and nicotine yields was to serve solely as a ranking of the cigarettes . ?he values determined had
nothing to do with ranking the smokers and were never intended to do so.
The details of the analytical procedure specified by the FTC in its protocol and how some of them differ from
human smoking parameters are shown below :
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FTC SMOKIlKG PARAMETERS vs HUMAN SMOKIIVG PARAMETERS
Param¢ler or Condition
FTC Soecification
Smoker
• conditioning ojthe cigarette prior to smoking and analysis
• time of conditioning, hr • 24
• temperature of conditioning area, °C
• 23 .9 (75•F)
• relative humidity (RH) of
conditioning area, %
0
• nature oJthe smoking machine
• 20-port
• variable ; depends on individual
smoker
• variable ; depends on environment
encountered by Individual smoker
• variable; depends on environment
encountered by individual smoker
• NA
• major smoking parameters=
• variable ; dependent on individual
smoker
• variable; dependent on individual
amoker
• variable ; dependent on individual
smoker
• puff volume, nd
• puff duration, aec
• puff frequency, no ./min
• other smoking parameters
• depth of Insertion of cigarette in
holder, mm
• 11
• temperature of smoking laboratory,
eL.
• RH of smoking laboratory, %
• number of cigarettes to be smoked
• butt length of a non8ltered cigarette
to be smoked, mm
• butt length of a filtered cigarette to
be smoked, nun
• method of trapping q f TPAf
• 23
• overwrap length + 3
• Cambridge filter pad
• variable ; dependent on individual
smoker
• variable ; dependent on
environment encountered by
Individual smoker
• variable ; dependent on
environment encountered by
individual smoker
• NA
• variable ; dependent on individual
smoker
• variable ; dependent on individual
smoker
• oral cavity and respiratory tract
• analytical procedurea jor determination oJTPM, TPM nicotine, and TPM water jor calculation of cigarette "tar" yield
• TPM, mg/cigt
• nicotine in TPM, tttg/cigt
• gravimetric
• originally the Griffith still
procedure ; later a OC
procedure
• NA
• NA
• water in TPM, mg/cigt
• originally, Karl Fischer
titration; later a CiC
procedure
• NA
• 100
• 0
• 50-90
• 10-s0
• 7PM behavior
• TPM retained by trap, %
• TPM emitted from tap, %
' Theae are essentially the values described In a publication issued almost 30 years before (Bradford et al ., 1936) and used in
USDA studies in the early 1960s (Ogg et al ., 1962 ; Ogg, 1964).
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The FTC was adamant about the details of its smoking procedure . Its analytical protocol was written almost
on "tablets of stone" despite the fact that personnel from the individual cigarette manufacturers informed FTC
personnel that the consumer may be more misled than informed by the "tar" listing for a variety of scientifically
valid reasons . Each of the reasons was communicated to the FTC by representatives of one or more members of
the Industry . Information communicated from the Industry to the FTC included the following :
• The smoking parameters defined in the FTC protocol are not those of either an average smoker or of most
individual smokers (see preceding Table) .
• The FTC "tar" yield determined for, a specific cigarette brand is not the "tar" yield to which the
individual smoker is exposed because each individual consumer does not :
condition his cigarettes prior to smoking as is specified in the FTC protocol for cigarettes to be
analyzed ; the moisture content of the consumer's cigarettes is dependent on moisture content at time
of manufacture, transportation conditions, shelf time, time between opening of the pack and
consumption of the last cigarette ; ambient conditions while smoking the cigarettes successively,
smoke a cigarette in a regimented fashion ; thus, the number of puffs, the pressure drop across the
cigarette, its burning temperature will vary from smoker to smoker and with individual smokers from
cigarette to cigarette,
smoke each cigarette under conditions identical with those in the FTC procedure,
retain the total intake of MS TPM as does the smoking machine .
• The "tars" from two different cigarette brands that yield the same amounts of "tar" are not
compositionally the same .
• Specific "tar" components from a cigarette brand that yields say 30 mg of "tar" are not present at twice
their level in the "tar" from a brand that yields 15 mg of "tar". The cigarette design technologies used
to control "tar" yield also markedly influence the MS composition, including that of the "tar ."
Since the implementation of the FTC procedure in 1967, cigarette have changed markedly because of the
introduction of new design technologies . Also, consumers' smoking regimen has changed since the mid-1960s and
is substantially different from the 35-m1 volume, one 2-sec puff per minute specified by the FTC .
The FTC protocol is no longer appropriate for analysis of many current cigarettes, particularly those with
low- and ultralow "tar" yields . Despite the fact that these inadequacies in he FTC procedure were pointed out by
the Surgeon General in his 1979, 1981, and 1982 reports, the FTC has made no effort to modify the major smoking
parameters (puff volume, duration, frequency) prescribed in its procedure for "tar" and nicotine determination to
counteract these criticisms . However, the FTC has made several other changes in the FTC procedure : It has
incorporated carbon monoxide (CO) determination into its procedure and CO values are now reported in the FTC
reports on "tar" and nicotine yields of cigarettes marketed in the U .S . The FTC also approved the use of automated
gas chromatographic procedures for the determination of the nicotine and water in the MS TPM . These latter
modifications were demonstrated to be significant improvements (less time consuming, less expensive, more
accurate) over those originally dictated in the FTC protocol . These improved analytical procedures were proposed
by Industry R&D personnel, not by FTC personnel .
Detailed studies involving 1979 85-mm Winstons and Marlboros, 1984 100-mm Winstons, and 1984 120mm Dawn cigarettes of the effect on MS "tar" and nicotine yields of changing the three major smoking parameters
revealed the following :
• Variation in puff duration has little effect on the "tar" and nicotine yields of the 85-mm Winston or
Marlboro . -
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• Variation in puff volume or puff frequency has a significant effect on the two yields . Increasing either or
both increases the "tar" and nicotine yields .
• The "tar" and nicotine yields for the 85-mm Winston were greater than those for the 85-mm Marlboro .
• For a given increase in puff volume or frequency the "tar" and nicotine yields increase for both the 85mm Marlboro and the 85-mm Winston but the % difference between the Marlboro and Winston "tar" and
nicotine yields decreases .
Thus, if the FTC does modify the three major smoking parameters, particularly increasing the puff volume and puff
frequency, the "tar" and nicotine yields for marketed cigarettes will increase over the values obtained currently .
To reiterate several points mentioned previously : the following aspects of the protocol for the so-called FTC
procedure for the determination of cigarette MS nicotine and "tar" yields (and subsequently carbon monoxide yield)
should be remembered :
• The final protocol was a product of the FTC which dictated every detail of the protocol .
• Its implementation was ordered by the FTC .
• Its purpose from the very beginning was to rank marketed cigarettes according to "tar" or nicotine yield
to permit the consumer to choose a cigarette whose deliveries satisfied his/her concerns about the effect
of cigarette smoke on the smoker .
• The "tar" and nicotine yield data obtained by use of the FTC smoking and analytical procedures were
never considered by either the FTC or the cigarette manufacturers as a means to somehow rank smokers .
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FTC SMOKING METHOD USED FOR "TAR" AND NICOTINE DATA'
I. INTENDED USE OF SMOKING METHOD RESULTS
A. Statement of Purpose
The results from the FTC analyses of the "tar" and nicotine yields in the mainstream
smoke (MS) from cigarettes marketed in the U.S. were intended to accomplish the following :
To permit the cataloging or sequential listing of the cigarettes for their MS yields of
these two smoke entities (c, f. FTC, 1967b, 1978) generated under standard and
reproducible conditions. Subsequently, a third MS entity, CO, was added to the FTC
listing (FTC, 1981) .
• To permit the consumer who wished to continue smoking to select a cigarette whose
MS lltar" and/or nicotine yield was compatible with his/her concerns about the
effect(s) of cigarette smoking on his/her health .
It was never anticipated by the FTC or by the cigarette manufacturers that the FTC lists could .
serve as a means to catalog or rate cigarette smokers .
The following factors were known or suspected from the very beginning of discussions
among the FTC and the representatives of the cigarette manufactureres on a standard,
reproducible procedure for the determination of cigarette MS "tar" and nicotine yields :
• Individual smokers do not smoke a cigarette under the precise smoking regime
dictated in the FTC procedure .
• Unlike the smoking machine used in the FTC procedure, individual smokers may
miss one or more puffs during the smoking of a cigarette because of involvement with
other activities (writing, telephoning, discussing, etc .).
• Unlike the smoking machine used in the FTC procedure, the individual smoker does
not smoke his/her cigarette to the butt length dictated in the FTC procedure for
untipped and filter-tipped cigarettes .
• Unlike the smoking machine used in the FTC procedure, the individual smoker
exhales a portion of the MS .
• It is highly probable that the per milligram compositions= of the MS "tars" from two
~'I1ro original FTC procedure for smoking cigarettes to determine "tar," nicotine, and water deliveries in mainatream .moke (MS) (values
first reported in 1967 ?PTC, 1967), was subsequently modified for the simultaneous determination of MS carbon monoxide (cf . FTC, 1981)
2 In addition to the differences between the compositions of the particulate phases, the compoaidons of the vapor phases will differ .
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different brands of cigarettes whose "tar" yields are 20 mg are entirely different .
• It is highly probable that the per milligram compositions' of the MS "tars" from two
different brands of cigarettes whose "tar" yields are 20 and 2 mg, respectively, are
entirely different .
B. Other Analyses Similar to FTC Smoke Analysis
In the U.S. there are numerous analyses of consumer products similar to the FTC
analysis for "tar" and nicotine in cigarette mainstream smoke (MS) :
• Composition of vitamin pills in terms of weight or units of Vitamin A, vitamin C,
thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin D, vitamin B,,, etc .
Even though the analysis for the levels per pill of various vitamins appears on
the label, the consumers absorption of the each vitamin will depend on the
individual consumer's metabolism . The label listing only indicates how much of
each vitamin is ingested when the consumer swallows the pill, not how much is
actually effective in and beneficial to the consumer .
• The urban and highway mileage per gallon of gasoline expected for an automobile
model tested under certain driving regimes representing the average driving habits of
and conditions encountered by the American driver, e .g., 20 mpg under urban
conditions, 28 mpg under highway conditions . These two mileages are listed annually
for each new automobile model and are listed in numerous publications as information
to enable a potential automobile buyer select the automobile of his/her choice .
Depending on his/her driving skills, individual drivers may get more or less mpg
than the reported 20 mpg in city driving and more or less mpg than the reported
28 mpg on the highway.
• The mileage rating of automobile tires, e .g., 40,000-mile tires, 50,000-mile tires .
These ratings are determined by testing the tires under specified driving conditions
and ensuring that they are periodically and properly maintained during testing .
Here again, how many miles are obtained with a given set of tires depends on
the driving skills and habits of the owner, the terrain over which the tires are
driven, and whether or not the tires were maintained at proper inflation and
rotated according to prescribed schedule .
• The content of fat in dairy products expressed as % butterfat .
• The levels of various components in foodstuffs are determined by approved analytical
procedures and the results listed on the marketed packages, e .g., on the package of
•
3 In addition to the differences between the compositions of the particulate phases, the compositions of the vapor phases will differ .
2
a popular cereal are listed the amounts per serving of protein, fat (saturated, fat
(unsaturated), carbohydrate, cholesterol, sodium, potassium, iron, zinc, magnesium,
calcium, copper, phosphorus .
It is known that the nutritional effect of each of these components is not the
same for each consumer but depends on the individual consumer's metabolic
processes.
II.
CHRONOLOGY
A. Introduction
While the concern about the particulate phase of cigarette mainstream smoke (MS)
received particular emphasis in the early 1950s, numerous investigators between the late 19th
century and the early 1950s had commented on its possible effect on the health of the smoker
(see Appendix A) .
Six major events in the 1950s and early 1960s escalated the concern about the MS
particulate phase' and triggered the FTC's proposal to have the U .S. cigarette manufacturers
report the "tar" and nicotine deliveries of individual cigarette brands :
• The epidemiological data from both retrospective and prospective cigarette smoking
studies that indicated a dose response relationship between the number of cigarettess
smoked per day and specific disease entities, particularly cancer of the lung (see
summary of the epidemiology studies in the Advisory Committee's report to the 1964
Surgeon General (USPHS, 1964)] .
• The first reported production of skin carcinoma in susceptible strains of laboratory
animals painted periodically with massive doses of mainstream smoke cigarette smoke
condensate (MS CSC) prepared under conditions more or less simulating the human
cigarette smoking regime' (Wynder et al ., 1953a, 1953b, 1955, 1956 ; Wynder and
Wright, 1957) .
• Reports that nearly all the tumorigenicity (mouse-skin painting) of tobacco smoke
4 Even though they differ in composition, MS total particulate matter (rpM), cigarette smoke condensate (CSC), and "tar" (water- and
nicotinafree TPM as detined by in the FTC procedure) became almost equivalent when referred to In d'ucuuiona of the effects of cigarette
MS particulate phase on the health of the conaumer .
s Fewer than two dozen cigarette brands were marketed In the U .S . in the 1950s and their per cigarette deliveries of "tar" and nicotine were
t hese values showed
remarkably uniform, ranging from 33 to 40 mg "tar" and 2 .7 to 3 .0 mg of nicotine . In the late 1950. and early 1960s t
progressive decreases .
6 To collect large amounta of cigarette smoke condensate for the akin-painting studies, the puff frequency used was three puffs per minute
rather than one puff per minute, the frequency closer to that used by smokers . The MS was trapped in Dry lce-chilled vessels .
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resided in the MS CSC' . The MS vapor phase was subsequently shown to possess
very little tumorigenicity .
• Reports that the MS CSC contained several polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
and aza-arenes' previously demonstrated to be tumorigenic to mouse skin and several
phenols, nontumorigenic per se, previously reported to enhance or "promote" the
tumorigenicity of tumorigenic PAHs applied to laboratory animals at subtumorigenic
levels (see summary in Wynder and Hoffmann, 1967) .
• Reports from several laboratories (Wynder et al ., 1957a, 1957b ; Bock et al ., 1962)
that carcinoma production showed a dose response in laboratory animals skin-painted
with various levels of cigarette smoke condensate and that no carcinomas were
generated below a certain dose level .
The publication of the Advisory Committee's report to the 1964 Surgeon General
(USPHS, 1964) in which it was stated that "Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of
sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action ."
The latter event provided the FTC with an official statement of the government's position
on tobacco smoking, particularly cigarette smoking, and a virtual mandate to require the
reporting of the "tar" yields from all U .S . cigarette brands .
In response to these reports, the U .S. cigarette manufacturers subsequently marketed
newly designed cigarette brands which provided a range of "tar" (and nicotine) yields, thus
enabling the consumer to choose a brand whose "tar" yield satisfied his/her concern about
smoking and health .
It should be noted that at the time of publication of the 1964 Report of the Advisory
Committee to the U .S. Surgeon General, nicotine in cigarette MS was not considered to be a
significant health hazard . It was stated (USPHS, 1964) :
Nicotine is rapidly changed in the body to relatively inactive substances with low toxicity . The
chronic toxicity of small doses of nicotine is low in experimental animals. These two facts, when
taken in coqjunction with the low mortality ratios of pipe and cigar smokers, indicate that the
chronic toxicity of nicotine in quantities absorbed from smoking and other methods of tobacco use
is low and probably does not represent an important health hazard .
7 MS CSC, closely related compusitionaily to the nnaterial subsequently defined as "tar," was reported to contain numerous tumorigenic
(mouse skin) polycyclic aroroatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) such as benzo(a1PYrend (Bap), tumorigenie au-arenes, and tobaeeo-speeifie IK
nitrosamines (rSNAs) such as N-nitrownornicotine (NNN) and 4-(*methyWunsamita)-t-(3-pyridinyi)-1-butanone (NMq . It is claimed
that the PAHs are responsible for the tumorigenicity of CSC to mouse skin, but their concentntions in CSC account for less than 296 of
the observed response . The renuinder of the observed tumorigenicity In such studies has not been accounted for . The /Knitrosamines are
organ specific tumorigene and play little, if any, role in the tumorigenicity of CSC to mouse skin .
~ Of all the groups itrve Wgating the aza-arenes in tobacco nnoke, none has been unable to duplicate the findings of Van Duuren et al . (1960a,
1960b) who reported the presence of dibenz[a,hjact4dine, dibenz(a,JJacddine, and 7R-dibenzo(c,glcarbazoie (see Rodgman, 1991, 1994) .
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Subsequently, however, nicotine was alleged not only to be involved in coronary and
circulatory problems but also it was defined as the precursor of several tumorigenic tobacco and
MS components, the so-called tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (TSNAs) such as N'nitrosonornicotine (NNN) and 4-(N-methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridinyl)-1-butanone (NNK)
(Hoffmann et al ., 1984, 1985, 1991a, 1991b ; Hoffmann, 1989) .
Soon after the publication of the 1964 Surgeon General's report (USPHS, 1964), the
following events occurred :
• The FTC began its activities to implement a labeling system for "tar" and nicotine
yields from cigarettes marketed in the U .S. As communications between the FTC and
the cigarette manufacturers proceeded, RJRT R&D personnel provided management
with pertinent information on the status of the analysis of MS for 'tar" and nicotine
(see Appendix B) . This information was used in attempts - obviously all
unsuccessful - to dissuade the FTC from pursuing its plan of implementing cigarette
pack labeling .
• The FTC alerted the U .S . cigarette manufacturers of its intentions (FTC, 1966),
vigorously pursued the implementation of an appropriate analytical method for the
determination of MS TPM, defined MS "tar" in terms of MS TPM, water, and
nicotine (Equation 1), promulgated the protocol of FTC procedure for the
determination of MS "tar" and nicotine yields (FTC, 1967a ; Pillsbury et al ., 1969),
and published the first FTC list of the MS "tar" and nicotine yields from 59 cigarette
brands marketed in the U .S. (FTC, 1967b) .
TPM = "tar" + nicotine + water Equation 1
The FTC procedure originally incorporated the best aspects of various methodologies
developed during the preceding three decades and subsequently was modified slightly
to include new and improved analytical techniques such as the determination of TPM
water and nicotine by gas chromatography . E.g ., the FTC procedure included the
smoking parameters (puff volume, duration, and interval) of Bradford et al. (1936),
collection of TPM on the Cambridge filter (Wartman et al ., 1959), pertinent aspects
of TPM nicotine analysis of Pfyl et al ., (1927), Pfyl (1933a, 1933b), Willits et al .
(1950), Griffith (1957), Ogg et al . (1962), Ogg (1964) and TPM water analysis of
Holmes and Cridlin (1960), Crowell et al. (1961), Jarrell and Wickham (1961, 1962),
Sloan and Sublett (1964, 1965), Schultz and Spears (1966) .
Because many of the analytical procedures to define the yields of cigarette MS TPM,
nicotine, water, and "tar" had been used for some years in the laboratories of
Tobacco Industry members in their product development studies, R&D representatives
from five of them° collaborated on a publication (Bates et al ., 1967, 1968) in which
9 L&M, Inc ; BdtW Tobacco Corp . ; American Tobacco Co . ; RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. ; Philip Morria, Inc .
5
appropriate and Industry acceptable procedures for the determination and reporting
of MS TPM, TPM water, and TPM nicotine were described . The procedures were
essentially identical with those presented in the FTC protocol (Pillsbury et al ., 1969) .
• At the 1967 World Conference on Smoking and Health, a workshop involving some
30 presentations was devoted to the subject "Toward a Less Harmful Cigarette"
(Wynder and Hoffmann, 1968) . About two-thirds of the presentations dealt with the
composition and alleged adverse effects of "tar" in experimental situations .
• Under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute Smoking and Health Program, a
study, "Toward a Less Hazardous Cigarette," was implemented in 1968 and
continued for more than a decade . The summary report on the study was issued in
1980 (NCI, 1980) . R&D personnel from several of the major U .S. cigarette
manufacturers10 served on the NCI Tobacco Working Group as private citizens
knowledgeable in cigarette design and tobacco and tobacco smoke analysis,
composition, and properties .
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984
Numerous technologies
introduced sequentially from the
mid-1950s to the late 1960s were
incorporated into cigarette design
to control MS delivery and
composition. All are considered
to contribute to what some have
characterized as a "less
hazardous" cigarette when
included in cigarette design
(USPHS, 1979 ; NCI, 1980 ; Gori
and Bock, 1980 ; USPHS, 1981) .
These technologies include :
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• tobacco blend and 0 1956
. 1960
L 1964
L L
1968 L
1972L
1976
L1980
AI
1984 0
weight
• tobacco rod length and Figure 1 . "Tar" and Nicotine Deliveries, Sales Weighted Average
Basis
circumference
filter tips (material type
and additives)
• processed tobaccos (reconstituted tobacco sheet, expanded tobacco)
• paper (type and additives)
air dilution (increased paper porosity, filter tip perforations) .
The chronology of introduction of these technologies and their effects on sales weight average
10 LdtM, Inc . ; B&W Tobacco Cocp . ; P. Lodllard Co., Inc . ; RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co . ; Philip Morsis, Inc .
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nicotine and "tar" yields are shown in Figure 1 . Over the years, the introduction and use of
these technologies in concert and to various degrees in cigarette design have provided the
consumer with a great variety of products whose number has increased from about a dozen in
the early 1950s to nearly 200 presently . The cigarette is a system : All the technologies used
in cigarette design are interactive . Le., inclusion of or change in the level of use of any
particular technology may require other adjustments in the cigarette design to maintain certain
attributes acceptable to the consumer . In contrast, by current technology, SS delivery is
controlled almost totally by tobacco blend and weight . The SS is not subjected to filtration, the
effect of filter-tip additives which specifically remove certain MS components from MS (phenols,
volatile N-nitrosamines), or air dilution effects .
In a continuation of their earlier reported mouse skin-painting studies, Wynder et al .
(1957a, 1957b) examined the effect of application of lower and lower total annual doses of MS
CSC on tumor production in skin-painted mice . They reported that skin painting of mice with
a total annual dose of 10 g/mouse produced papilloma in about 60% of the mice ; at a total
annual dose of 7 .5 g/mouse the percentage of papilloma-bearing animals was reduced to about
35 % . Only a small percentage (< 10%) of papilloma-bearing animals (but no carcinomabearing) animals was observed when the total annual amount of MS CSC applied was less than
5 g/mouse; further reduction of the annual dose to 3 g/mouse resulted in no papilloma- or
carcinoma-bearing mice . These data are presented graphically in Flgure 2 . Thus, in this study,
reduction of the total annual dose from 10 g/mouse to 3 g/mouse reduced the percentage of
tumor-bearing animals from 60% to 0% . This represents a 3 .3-fold reduction in the dose of the
applied material, CSC .
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These data from the doseresponse study (and the threshold
limit value for MS CSC) were
subsequently reported several 30
times by Wynder and Hoffmann ~
(1962, 1963, 1964, 1967) who ~ 40 stated in 1964 and again in 1967
: ,~ „
It is apparent that a V
reduction of
tumorig enic t0
components can be
most readily
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accomplished by arams of Cisaratta smotce/llouae/Year
reducing the total Figure 2 . Relationship of Tumor Yield and Dose (Wynder et al .,
amount of smoke con- 1957b)
densate. . . to which one
is exposed . This has
been clearly shown
experimentally by doseresponse studies
[Wynder et al:, 1957a, Wynder and Hoffmann, 1962a, 1962b ; Bock et al., 1962] .
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Wynder and Hoffmann (1965) determined the effect of MS CSC dose on tumor yield by
conducting lifetime sldn-painting studies in mice (50 mice per dilution) with various dilutions
of CSC-acetone suspensions. The results are shown in FIgure 3 . Skin painting with a fixed
volume of successive dilutions of a 50% CSC-acetone suspension reduced the percent tumorbearing animals from 45% with a 5096 suspension to 34 % with a 33% suspension, to 2036 with
a 25 % suspension, to 8% with a 10% suspension, and to 2% (one tumor-bearing mouse) with
a 5% suspension, i.e., a 10-fold dilution of the CSC-acetone suspension produced a 25-fold
diminution in % tumor-bearing animals . From their results, Wynder and Hoffmann (1965)
noted:
It is apparent. . .from
laboratory studies . . .that so
exposure to tobacco
smoke condensate and
tumor yield are
quantitatively
correlated .
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A few years earlier,
Wynder (1961) had commented on
the effect of dose reduction on
tumor yield in laboratory animals
painted with CSC . Because he
used much more reasonable doses
of CSC in his slcin painting,
Passey in England was unable to
confirm the findings of Wynder et
al. (1953a,, 1953b) . Wynder's
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explanation was as follows :
Figure 3 . Tumor Response to Different Doses of Cigarette Smoke
What reAlly happened
Condensate in Acetone (Wynder & Hoffmann, 1965) .
was that y applied
too weak a coneentration of to smoke
condensate to his
animals. Of course,
since tobacco ke is
only a weak carc ogen
to begin with, if u
dilute its concentra too markedly, it is no wonder that you do not obtain any cancer . It would
be just like a human , ing smoking one or two cigarettes a day without inhaling it . His risk of
developing lung cancer`would certainly also not be greater than that of a non-smoker . . .
[From] a study which we have done on the dose response of different amounts of smoke condensate to the
production of skin cancer in mice . . . (y]ou will note that, if we applied to the mouse 5 g or less per year
of tobacco smoke condensate we were not able to produce any cancers . This of course explains the failure
of Dr. Passey_to repeat our work . But it clearly shows that tobacco smoke condensate is not a very strong
carcinogen .
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The importance of dose (exposure) was reiterated in tlie same language by Wynder and
Hoffmann in their lengthy 1964 review article (Wynder and Hoffmann, 1964) and 1967 book
(Wynder and Hoffmann, 1967) on tobacco :and tobacco smoke:
Since 1953, when the first large-scale prod4ction of epidermoid cancer was reported, many
investigators have verified these findings . Some ri~ativeftndings (Shotadze, 1953 ; Gwynn, 1954 ;
Passey et al., 1954; Kakhiani, 1955 ; Hamer and Wbpdhouse, 1956 ; Gwynn and Salaman, 1956)
are largely, if not exelusively, a result of tnadequate~dQse . (Emphasis addedr AR)
.,
Wynder and Hoffmann (1964, 1967) also noted that Gritsiute and Mironova (1960)
reported only 3 (1 .7%) tumor-bearing animals (TBA) out of 174 animals treated with between
1 .4 and 2 .6 g of CSC over a 10-month period whereas their own studies gave 44% TBA in
animals treated with 11 .7 g of CSC over a 15-month period . When the difference in treatment
time is disregarded, a dose reduction ranging from 4 .5 to 8 reduced the % TBA by a factor of ~
26!
Because of the dose-response relationships reported in the human epidemiological studies
and the dose-response relationships in the biological studies conducted with CSC-painted
laboratory animals, the FTC proposed that the consumer should know the "tar" deliveries of
marketed cigarettes in order to make an informed choice of his/her brand, depending on his/her
degree of concern about the reported relationship between smoking and certain disease entities .
In the period 1964-1966, numerous memoranda were prepared in which reasons for the
FTC not to continue with its efforts to label cigarette packages were outlined . The salient points
advanced by RJRT R&D personnel to dissuade the FTC are summarized in Appendix B . These
arguments and similar ones advanced by other Industry members were unsuccessful .
On 25 March 1966, the FTC (FTC, 1966) announced it had sent identical letters to each
of the major U .S . cigarette manufacturers in regard to factual statements of "tar" and nicotine
content on labels and in advertising of cigarettes :
Gentlemen :
. The Cigarette Advertising Guides promulgated by the Commission in September 1955
provided that no representation should be made that "any brand of cigarette or the smoke
therefrom is low in nicotine or tars * * * when it has not been established by competent scientific
proof applicable at the time of dissemination that the claim is true, and if true, that such difference
or differences are significant ." On the basis of the facts now available to it, the Commission has
determined that a factual statement of the tar and nicotine content (expressed in milligrams) of the
mainstream smoke from a cigarette would not be in violation of such Guides, or of any of the
provisions of law administered by the Commission so long as (1) no collateral representations
(other than factual statements of tar and nicotine contents of cigarettes offered for sale to the
public) are made, and (2) the statement of tar and nicotine content is supported by adequate
records of tests conducted with the Cambridge Filter Method, as described in an article entitled
"Determination of Particulate Matter and Alkaloids (as Nicotine) in Cigarette Smoke," by C .L .
Ogg, which appeared in the Journal of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, Vol . 47,
No. 2, 1964- It is the Commission's position that it is in the public interest to promote the
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dissemination of truthful information concerning cigarettes which may be materia) and desired by
the consuming public .
By direction of the Commission. Joseph W . Shea, Secretary .
During discussions between U .S . cigarette manufacturers and the FTC in the mid-1960s,
it was pointed out by industry representatives that labeling cigarette packs with the amounts of
MS "tar" and nicotine delivered by the cigarette smoked under standard laboratory conditions
would not inform the smoker of the precise amount or composition of the "tar" received during
his/her smoking of the cigarette (see Appendix B) .
The reporting of nicotine as a separate MS component derived from the fact that it and
water are the two most plentiful components in MS TPM . In the early 1960s when the FTC
began its efforts to require "tar" and nicotine reporting, extensive studies were underway to
define MS composition . The number of identified MS components had increased from about 80
in 1954 (Kosak, 1954) to about 800 in 1965 . Currently, the number of identified components
in MS exceeds 4,500 . Thus in the early 1960s, MS "tar," except for nicotine and water, was
a poorly defined material .
B. Origins of Smoking Parameters (Puff Volume, Puff Duration, Puff Frequency, etc .)
As noted previously, the FTC's desire to catalog cigarettes by their "tar" and nicotine
delivery stemmed from the various claims in the scientific and medical literature that certain
health problems arose in cigarette smokers as a result of their inhalation of the components
constituting MS "tar" and the dose response relationships reported in epidemiological studies
with smokers and biological studies with laboratory animals . The following relationship has been
used for over three decades to calculate the value of the "tar" delivered in cigarette MS :
total particulate matter = "tar" + nicotine + water
The values for the major smoking parameters (puff volume, duration, and frequency) can
be traced to the publication of Bradford et al. (1936) who selected a puff volume of 35 ml, a
puff duartion of 2 sec, and a puff frequency of 1 puff/60 sec . Actually, only the puff duration
of 2 sec 'was similar to that observed with cigarette smokers . The other two values were less
than the observed average puff volume and frequency . The values for these three cigarette
smoking parameters persisted for the next three decades .
For a given cigarette brand, the FTC numbers for "tar," nicotine, and more recently
carbon monoxide are obtained via a precisely defined smoking regime and analytical methods
[preconditioning of cigarettes (23 .9°C; relative humidity, 60% ; conditioning time, 24 hr) ;
smoking parameters - 35-ml puff volume, 2-sec puff duration, 1 puff/min ; 23.9°C, 60%
relative humidity, cigarette smoked to a defined butt length].
In contrast to the rigorously defined FTC smoking and analytical procedures for the
determination of cigarette MS "tar," nicotine, and more recently carbon monoxide :
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• Few smokers, if any, in the smoking of a cigarette take in the TPM amount found
in the FTC determination .
• Few smokers smoke their cigarettes to as short a butt length as in the FTC procedure .
• Because of involvement in other tasks, the smokers often place their cigarette in an
ash tray for a brief time, thus missing one or more puffs on the cigarette . Few
smokers take the number of puffs obtained for a given cigarette brand in the FTC
procedure. The smoking machine used in the FTC method is relentless ; it never
misses a puff on the cigarette under test!
• Whereas the smoking parameters (35-ml puff, 2-sec duration, 1 puff/min) in the FTC
procedure are those originally proposed by Bradford et al . (1936), proposed again by
Ogg (1964), accepted by the tobacco industry (Bates et al ., 1967, 1968) and the FTC
(FTC, 1966 ; Pillsbury et al., 1969), individual smokers varied considerably from the
FTC-dictated values, e .g., puff volumes ranged from 32 .8 to 53 .4 ml, puff durations
ranged from 1 .53 to 2 .77 sec at 1 .8 puffs/min in a study conducted close to the time
of the FTC activities (Adams, 1966) .
• In contrast to human smokers, the smoking machine used in the FTC procedure does
not "exhale. " It has been reported in numerous studies that individual cigarette
smokers vary considerably . They were found to exhale between 10 and 75 % of the
TPM inspired during the puffs taken to consume the cigarette, thus retaining between
25% and 90% of the inspired TPM" (cf., Piehl, 1970) .
Another problem, long recognized by tobacco scientists but ignored by the FTC, is the
fact that the MS "tars" from two different cigarette brands delivering the same weight of "tar,"
e.g., 25 mg, may be quite different compositionally because entirely different technologies were
incorporated in the design of the two brands to achieve the 25-mg "tar" delivery. Examples of
this are found in the reports of the National Cancer Institute on its 10-year study on "less
hazardous" cigarettes . Various cigarette design technologies were investigated to determine their
effect on MS yield, MS chemical composition, and MS CSC biological activity (mouse-skin
painting) (Gori, 1976a, 1976b, 1977, 1980 ; NCI, 1980) . Overall, the relationships among
tobacco blend compositions, MS compositions, and biological activities of the CSCs from nearly
100 test and some 30 standard and reference cigarettes were studied . Nine of the cigarette
samples showed "tar" yields ranging from 27 .0 to 27 .4 mg. As shown in Table IA, despite the
uniformity in "tar" deliveries from these cigarettes, their MSs - both the particulate phases and
vapor phases - were quite disparate compositionally as shown by the data, normalized to "tar"
yield, and the ranges listed for the normalized data .
t~ % retentiona of MS TPM much lower then the 90% described in the literature were reported by Whisnant and Stevenson (1969c) at RJRT .
In a detailed in-houae studies at RJRT R&D, .rooken were found to retain between SO and 65 % of the TPM inspired .
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Table 1
Variations In Mainstream Smoke Composition for Cigarettes Delivering 27 .2 f 0 .2 mg of "Tar"
AnalyldCigt. No. Id,'
1-23°
II-42'
1I-44'
1II-74a
III-81'
IV-26'
IV-31a
IV-67°
Range
27.4
1 .007
1 .39
19.7
27.3
1 .004
1 .93
14.1
27.4
1 .007
1 .80
15 .2
27 .4
1 .007
1.80
15.2
27.3
1 .004
1 .91
14.4
27.0
0 .993
3 .25
8.3
27.1
0 .996
0 .89
30.4
27.2
1 .000
1 .84
14.8
27.0-27. 4
Per Cigarette Dedvery
`Yar" i mg
'tar"P'taq.d"
nicatinei mg
'Yar"/nioot6ne
Tschnology Investigated; other notes :
' I!i contained double the nitrate level of control blend SRH-I (1).
° Higb deosity reooos<itutad tobacco (RTS), slurry process (1 b
` Dupllcate aatnplea ofoonttol blend SE&I1(2}
° Cantrol blend SEB-III (aoatained 3 .2 Bti glyoaol) (3).
' Olycerol omitted from control blend SEB-1II (3).
Full redum of cut rolled burley rtmn (4).
a Niontine in SFR-IV blend adjuRed iuâ–º that dgarette delivered MS nicotine at 1 .0 mg/ciQl. (4).
" SEB-IV blend with 1 .3l5 of m additive to reduoe MS iartstion.
' MS "ur' and nicotine deiamined by the FTC prooedure .
BaP - benno[a]pynaw t BaA - benz[a]anthraome
~ Subeaquaot HCN malyua for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th series involved an improved and more accurate analytical prooedura
° Becauae of analytical problem . HCN data from SEB-1 samples were omitted from ranga
In the original e epocts, nrtrogien oiddea were expnxsed as NO= . Sinoe it has been demwstrated that more than 95 %
of the nitrogen oxides in tobacco smoke is nitric oxide (NO) (5), the nitrogen oxddes data were recalculated accordingly .
Table 2
Variations in Mainstream Smoke Composition for Cigarettes Delivering 25 .5 f 0 .4 mg of "Tar"
tlaaavtolCiai Nu. jx
' Cigarotte faFxioetad with SRR-1 Mend and medium panMity, citrrtetrcated parer (1).
° Cigaralte fabricated with Iow-0loat6te flue aued tobacco grown with nonnal nitrogea feftifuatian (2) .
' Contr+ol SE&III blend (3).
° SEB-III blend with added cocoa (1 .0 %) (3).
' Tobaoco subatituta (Cytrelm):SEB-III blard - 30:70 (3).
~ Datioatiaized SEBd1I blend (3) .
' SEB-IV control blend (4) .
h MS "tar" and niootitta detecmined by the FTC prooedure .
' BaP - beivo[a]pyrene ~ BaA - benz[a)anthraane
k Subsequent HCN analysea for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th series involved an improved and more aoourate analytial
p~a
' Hecaux of analytical problem, HCN result from SEB-1 sample 1-2 was omitted from range .
'" In the origina/ repocts, nhrog,ea o)ddes were expressed as NO3 . Sinx it has been demaostnnad that more tban
95% of Ihn nilrulgnn uxides 6n tubauw wrxukn ia nilriu oxide (NO) (S), the nilnVe oxidex data were reuslwlatexl
aooordingly.
~ . Gori, G .B. (Editor) Report No . 1. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes. The FJrst Set of Experimental
Cigarettes. DHEW Publ. No . (NIH) 1976, 76-905 .
2. Gori, G .B. (Editor) Report No. 2. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes. The Second Set of
Experimental Cigarettes. DHEWPubI. No. (NIH) 1976, 76-1111 .
3. Gori, G.B. (Editor) Report No. 3. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes The Third Set of Experimental
Cigarettes. DHEW Publ. No. (NIH) 77-1280.
4. Gori, G.B . (Editor) Report No. 4. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes. The Fourth Set of Experimental
Cigarettes. DHEW PubG (NIH) March (1980) .
s. Cooper P.J. ; and Hege, R.B. The Oxidation of NO to NO= in Cigarette Smoke . 32nd Tob . Chem. Res.
Conf., Montreal PQ, Canada, 1978 : Paper No . 34 .
Ln
N
~
N
CO
m
-j
Table 3
Component:"Tar" Ratios of Deliveries of Selected Components in Fresh Mainstream Smoke
from Commercial Cigarettes Designed to Yield Different "Tar" Levels'
AnalytelCigt . Type
' Dats from Adanu et aL (g .
"NF - nao6haed dgarene; F - 6ha4ipped aguatta
PF - perfaated 6halippad dgaette
~ . Gorl, G.B . (Editor) Report No . 1 . Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes. The F7rst Set of Experimental
Cigarettes. DHEW Publ. No. (NIH) 1976, 76-905.
2. Gori, G.B. (Editor) Report No. 2. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes . The Second Set of
Experimental Cigarettes. DHEW PubL No. (NIH) 1976, 76-1111 .
3. Gori, G .B . (Editor) Report No. 3. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes. The Third Set of Experimental
Cigarettes. DHEW PubL No. (NIH) 77-1280.
,. Gori, G .B. (Editor) Report No. 4. Toward Less Hazardous Cigarettes. The Fourth Set of Experimental
Cigarettes. DHEW Publ. (NIIQ March (1980) .
s. Cooper P.J. ; Hege, RB. The Oxidation of NO to NOZ in Cigarette Smoke . 32nd Tob. Chem . Res.
Conf., Montreal PQ, Canada, 1978 : Paper No. 34.
6. Adams, J .D. ; O'Mara-Adams, K.J. ; Hoffmann, D . To)dc and carcinogenic agents in undiluted
mainstrcam smokc and sidcstrcam smoke of different typcs of cigarittcs . Carctnogenesis 1987, 8,
729-731
TABLE 1A : VARIATIONS IN MS COb1FOSITION FOR CIGARETTES
DELIVERING 27.2 ± 0.2 mg OF "TAR"
AxWYtc/Sjai .Ns,
L-o:
L-=
I-C
II-W
IDZ4°.
ID w
1.:3e
w-31'
27 .4
27.4
27 .3
27 .4
27 .4
27.3
27 .0
27 .1
e
Am
Per Qgareae Dellrery
"ur"' cog/ci8t
27.2
27.0-27 .4
•'ur' y' 4ary,e„
1 .007
1 .007
1 .004
1 .007
1 .007
1 .004
0.993
0.996
1 .000
nkotinet mg/clgt
2.07
1 .39
1 .93
1 .80
1 .80
1 .91
3 .25
0.99
1 .94
0.89-3 .25
"ar"/nicotine ratio
13 .2
8 .3
30.4
14.8
8 .3-30.4
19 .7
14.1
13 .2
15 .2
14 .4
Amount oJ Component Re(ative w'7or••
BaPi
Itg/j*
0 .91
0 .68
0 .58
0.79
1 .04
1 .18
0 .72
0 .82
0 .64
0 .58-1 .18
BaAt
µg/g
1 .40
0 .92
1 .08
0 .90
1 .49
1 .64
1 .01
1 .00
1 .42
0 .90-1 .64
phenol
aWg
3 .95
2 .98
3 .83
3 .90
4.28
4 .62
4 .88
3 .07
6 .10
2 .98-0 .10
ocrerol
mg/=
0.72
0.51
0.62
0 .63
0.77
0 .79
0.72
0.57
ad
0 .31-0 .79
aceWdehyde ng/g
39 .1
42 .6
37.9
36 .1
38 .4
39.9
19 .6
25 .1
34 .9
19 .6-42 .6
HCN
n4g/j
6 .11
4.21
12.2
12 .0
13 .3
12 .1
9.8
13 .0
12 .5
9 .8-13 .3°
NO'
aS/j
9 .6
8 .0
9 .4
8.7
10.8
10 .0
33 .7
11 .3
12 .8
8 .0•33 .7
Technofogy tnvrrdgaad; other norer:
• 1-6 coataiued double the nitrate level of control biend S8&I (God, 1976a) .
I
so
3~
~
b High density reconstituted tobacco (ATS), slurry procew (God, 1976a) .
° Duplicate samples of control blend SBB-11(Ciod, 1976b) .
~
C
L
~
J
e Control blood SB&lII (contaiaed 3 .2 !i glyceroq (Ooei, 1977) .
i
S1
~
• Olyceroi omitted fmm control blood S88-m (God, 1977) .
r Full retura of cut rolled burley aems (()ori. 1980) .
~
S
3
s Nieotine In SB&N blood adjusted so that eigareua delivered MS nicotine at 1 .0 mg/cigt (Ciorl, 1980) .
~ S8B-N blood .vith 1 .5 % of an additive to reduce MS irdtation .
t MS "tar" and aicodns determined by the FTC procedure .
J B.P = benzo(aJpyeww k BaA - beoz(a)aat6ncane
~ Sub .equent HCN aaalysas foe the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th asria involved an iaaproved and nwn accurate analytical procedure .
m Becauss of analytical probbm, HCN data fi= S88-1 smopies Mm omitted 6om raa`e .
° In du oeiSiaal roports, aioropa osid .a .rorev exprewd as NOp Sioce it hu been deawa°trated that more than 9S9i of the
nitrogeu oxides In tobacco soatA is s3teia oxide (NO), dw nierojea oxides data were recalculated aoooedaqtly .
In the same NCI study, another set of eight cigarette samples whose "tar" yields were
equivalent at 25 .5 f 0.4 mg showed similar disparate compositions in their MS particulate and
vapor phases (Table IB) .
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TABLE 1B : VARIATIONS IN MS COMPOSITION FOR CIGARETTF.S
DELIVERING 25.5 t 0.4 mg OF "TAR"
,AnaIXJ2/S'
.tio.
L-Z
D'-
r
L3£9
IYUL&
Bi!oe4
Per agarette Deuvery
"tar"e mg/cigt
25 .9
25 .9
2S .S
25 .5
25 .1
25 .4
25 .1
25 .7
25 .1-25 .9
"tar"/"urtp,.q•'
1 .016
1 .016
1 .000
1 .000
0 .984
0 .996
0 .984
1 .008
nicotined mg/cigt
1 .68
0.38
1 .67
1 .78
1 .18
0 .16
2 .02
1 .91
"tar"/nicotine ratio
15 .4
68.2
15 .3
14 .3
21 .3
158 .8
12 .4
13 .S
12 .4-158
~
~ ;.
0 .16-2 .02
Amount oj Compor+ent Relatrve to "Tar"
Ba0
µg/g
0 .72
0 .54
1 .06
1 .16
1 .56
0 .76
0 .78
0.66
0 .54-1 .56
BeAI
µg/g
1 .20
0 .87
1 .56
1 .54
2.35
1 .03
1 .05
1 .72
0 .87-2 .35
4,99
4 .33
3 .53
3 .26-4.99•
0 .40
0 .59
0 .63
0.40-0 .80
phenol
mg .r
.".,3;
3 .26
4.055
4 .89
3 ;71
acreaol
mg/g
0 .78
0.57
0 .86
0 .82
0.73
acetaldehyde
mg/g
41 .1
35 .0
46 .0
41 .8
36 .7
30 .6
39 .2
39 .3
30 .6-46 .0
HCN
mg/g
7 .8k
11 .3
12 .6
12 .0
9 .7
11 .1
12 .7
12 .6
9 .7-12 .7'
NO1O
mg/g
9 .2
2 .0
10.5
10 .8
7 .4
10 .9
11 .4
11 .4
2 .0-11 .4
9.I
Technology tnvest/gated; other notes:
' Cigarette fabricated with SEB-I blend and medium porosity, citrate-treated paper (Gori . 1976a) .
b cigarette fabricated with low-nicotine flue cured tobacco grown with normal nitrogen fertilization (Oori, 1976b) .
° Control SEB-III blend ~(t3~ori, i~~'7):
e SEB-III blend with addZd-o" (1 .0 %) (Gori, 1977) .
• Tobaceo substitute (GytreN) :SEB-m blend - 30:70 (dori, 1977) .
t Denicotinized SSB-III blend (Qod, 1977) .
a SEB-IV control blend (God, 1980) .
b MS "tar" and nicotine determined by the FfC procedure .
I BaP - benzo[alpyrene 1 BaA - benz[a)anthracene
4 Subsequent HCN anaiyaea for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th aeriea involved an improved and more accurate analytical
procedure.
t Beeau.e of analytical problem, HCN result from SEB-I sample 1-2 was omitted from range .
m In the original reports, nitrogen oxldes were expressed as NO= . Since it has been demonstrated that more than 9596
of the nitrogen oxides in tobacco smoke ia nitric oxide (NO), the nitrogen oxides data were recalculated accordingly .
Cigarette design technologies for the cigarettes listed in Tables 1A and 1B included RTS
inclusion, stem inclusion, tobacco substitute inclusion, nitrate enhancement, humectant (glycerol)
effect, tobacco additives, e .g., cocoa, nicotine adjustment, use of high porosity citrate-treated
cigarette paper . Several of these together with other technologies (expanded tobacco, perforated
filter tips, filter-tip additives) have been used in concert and to different degrees to attain specific
"tar" yields . ranging from 0 .1 to over 40 mg .
•
Another anomaly ignored was the fact that the "tars" from different types of cigarettes
i .e ., those cigarettes rated ultralow-, low-, medium-, and high-"tar" on the basis of "tar" yields
determined by FTG analysis, may be quite different compositionally . The consumer smoking a
15-mg "tar" cigarette is inhaling "tar" entirely different in composition from the "tar" in the
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MS of a cigarette whose "tar" yield is 20 mg or 7 mg . Examination of the data (Adams et al.,
1987) in Table 2 for four different U .S. commercial cigarettes indicates the significant variations
in individual component : "tar" ratios for several MS components of interest .
TABLE 2: COMFONENT :"TAR" RATIOS OF DELIVERIES FOR
SELECTED COMPONENTS IN FRESH MAINSTREAM
SMOKE FROM COMMERCIAL CIGARETTES DESIGNED
TO YIELD DIFFERENT "TAR" LEVELS'
CiQt A(NF1°
Per Cigarette Delivery
. . r„
ta
mg/cigt
mg/cigt
nicotine
Amount of Component Relative to "Tar"
. .tar,t
g/g
20.1
Cigt B (F)
15 .6
Cigt C (F)
Cigt D(PF)
6 .8
0 .90
2 .04
1 .50
0 .81
0 .15
1 .00
1 .00
1 .00
1 .00
nicotine
g/g
0 .10
0.10
0 .12
0 .17
benzo[a]pyrene
Ng/g
1 .30
1 .14
1 .79
2 .44
N-nitrosodimethylamine
Ng/g
1 .55
0.20
1 .78
4 .56
N-nitrosopyrrolidine
.Ug/g
3 .21
0 .65
4 .81
14.67
N'-nitrosoanatabine +
N'-nitrosoanabasine
llg/g
6 .37
47 .69
77 .06
113 .33
N'-nitrosonornicotine
IiS/g
50 .10
31 .28
40.15
73 .67
4-(N-methylnitrosamino)-1(3-pyridinyl)-1-butanone
Ng/g
21 .14
11 .54
8 .26
19 .22
catechol
mg/g
2 .08
4 .56
3 .96
10 .11
' Data from Ad .ma er al . (1987) .
b NP - nonfiltered ; F- filtered; PF - perforated filter
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III. REPRODUCIBLE ANALYTICAL METHODS
Between the Bradford et al. (1936) publication and the implementation of the FTC
smolring method for the determination of cigarette MS "tar" and nicotine yields, there were
other analyses used for this purpose . The details of the five most commonly used procedures are
summarized in Table 3 . Other details of these procedures plus comments on the events occurring
at the time of the FTC's involvement in the "tar" and nicotine labeling are summarized in
Appendix B .
TABLE 3 : METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF TOTAL SOLIDS AND NICOTINE
L&M Tobacco Co .
Method (Keith and
The Consumer Newsome, 1956,
Union's Method Cambridge Filter 1957, 1958 ;
Smoking Wolman Method (Consumer Method (Wartman Foster D . Snell Newsome and Keith,
Condjtiona, ete . (Wolman . 1953) Reoorta . 1955) sr al. . 1959) Method (Kimball) 1936 . 1957)
cigarette length 47 variable ; depends 47 variable ; depends variable ; depends on
smoked, nvn on length of on length of length of cigarette
cigarette being cigarette being being tested
tested
tested
butt length, mm variable ; depends 23 variable ; depends 23 variable ; depends on
on length of on length of length of cigarette
cigarette being cigarette being being tested
tested
tested
number of puffs number required to number required to number required to number required to 14
consume 47 mm of attain 23-mm butt consume 47 nun of attain 23-mm butt
cigarette length cigarette length
puff
puff
puff
no ./min
volume
duration
33
2 .0
frequency,
I
35
35
2.0
1
1.
35
2 .0
1
44
1 .9
2
lab temp ., °C 25° not specified not apecified not specified 23 .90
lab RH, %- 45% not specified not specified not specified 60%
cigarettes
per determination
smoked
5
8
10
5
10'
cigarette selection selected for selected for selected for selected for selected for
uniformity in uniformity in uniformity in uniformity in uniformity in
moisture content, moisture content, moisture content, moisture content, moisture content,
cigarette aize (if cigarette aize (if cigarette size (if cigarette size (if cigarette size (if
feasible), weight, feasible), weight, feasible), weight, feasible), weight, feasible), weight,
firmneu, and other firmness, and other firmness, and other firnuxaa, and other firmness, and other
chancteriatica characteristics characteristics characteristics characteristics
The Consumer
Union's Method
(Consumer
Reoons. 1935)
Cambridge Filter
Method (Wntnun
er o1 . . 1959)
Foster D. Snell
Method (Kimball)
L .dcM Tobacco Co .
Method (Keith and
Newsome, 1956,
1957,1958 ;
Newsome and Keith,
1956, 1957)
determination of SoHds (designated
total solids as tars in the
publication) are
determined by
gravity deposition
of smoke over 25
m1of0.1N
sullbric acid . The
mixture is extracted
with chloroform,
and the chloroform
extract Is heated to
evaporate the
chloroform . The
residue Is then
heated, or dried,
for 3 hr at 100°C.
The weight of
remaining material
after the heating ia
reported as tars .
Smoke for determination of both
nicotine and solids
Is absorbed in
acidified alcohol .
One portion of the
acidified alcoholic
solution Is diluted
with water, then
extracted with
chloroform. The
aqueous layer ia
nude alkaline and
re-extracted with
chloroform. The
two chloroform
extracts are combined, and the
chloroform
removed by
evaporation to yield
the tar, which Is
weighed .
Cigarette MS Is
collected on a glass
fiber filter material,
Cambridge filter
medium CM-1 13 .
The weight of
material retained in
the filter represents
total solids (total
particulate matter) .
Part of the material
retained on the
Cambridge filter Is
water. Thus . this
method includes
water In the value
for total aolida,
whereas the
Wolman Method
and the Consumers
Union Method do
not.
.
To determine soUds
(tar content In the
communi-cat'wn),
smoke is collected
in acidified alcohol .
The alcohol
solution Is heated
on a steam bath
(100'C) to
evaporate the
alcohol. After
about 5 hr, the
residue is heated in
the beaker at
105°C for 7 hr.
The weight of
material remaining
in the beaker Is
designated as the
tar content.
The smoke in this
method is retained
on an a-cellulose
trap . The a-cellulose
Is washed with hot
acidic methanol . The
solution Is extracted
with chloroform . To
deter-mine soUds
(termed tar in the
publications), the
chloroform solution
is evaporated on the •
steam bath and
heating is continued
for 3 hr at 105°C .
Tar value is
determined by
weighing the
residue .
determination of Solids for deter•
nicotine mination of
ntcodne are
collected over 10
ml alcohol acidified
with sulfuric acid
in a 300-m1
1Cjeldahl flask.
Solution ia treated
with alkali and then
steam-distilled . The
distillate Is treated
with silicotungstlc
acid to precipitate
the silicotungaute .
The silleotungatate
Is aeparated and Is
ignited to an ash
whose weight Is
used to calculate
the nicotine valueb .
Another portion of
the acidified
alcoholic solution is
treated with base
and steamdistilled .
Mcodne in the
steam distillate Is
measured spectrophotometrically.
To determine
nicotine, the
Cambridge filter
with the retained
solids is extracted
with 0.1 Nsulfuric
acid . The solution,
after washing with
chbroform, Is
made alkaline and
Is steam-distilled.
Nicotine in the
steam distillate Is
determined either
by the aiGcotungstio
acid method or by
the spectrophoto•
metric method .
To determine
nicodne, an aliquot
of the acidified
alcohol solution
containing the
smoke solids is
heated to remove
the alcohol, the
residue Is made
alkaline and Is
steam-distilled.
Wlcodns is determined gnvimetrically in the steam
distiWte (siGcotungstic acid
method) .
The extracted
methanol solution is
made alkaline and is
steam-distilled .
Mcodnt is determined In the steam
distillate spectrophotometrically.
' The authors recommended that three to six such determinations be carried out and the results averaged .
b Since other alkaloids coprecipitate with nicotine as silicotungstates, thia determination yields the alkaloid or total alkaloid
value .
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Table 4 summarizes the chronology of the various analytical procedures proposed and
used for the determination of cigarette MS "tar" and nicotine yields .
TABLE 4: MAINSTREAM SMOKE "TAR" AND NICOTINE DETERMINATIONS
The Pre-FTC Era'
The FTC Era
T6e Ultralow-"Tar" Era
Wolman Method (Wolman, 1953)
FTC Methodab (FPC, 1%7a)
Spectrophotometcic Methodad : For
determining "tar" yield of cigarettes
designed to deliver < 2 mg/cigt
Consumer Union's Method - No . I
(Consumer Reports, 1955)
LecM Tobacco Co . Method (Keith and
Newaome, 1956, 1957, 1958; Newsome
and Keith, 1916, 1957)
UK Methods (Bentley and Burgan, 1961)
' For complete details on these five methods, aee Appeodt : B .
b FTC methods Incotporate contributions of Bradford et al. (1936), Griffith, (1957), Wartman et ol . (1959), Ogg et al .
(1960, 1962), Ogg (1964) ; rf. Bates et al . (1967, 1%8) .
° 7he Reader'r Digest (Riia, 1950; Norr, 1952; Miller and Monahan, 1957s, 19S7b, 1957c, 1958s, 1958b, 1959, 1961, 1966,
1968• ; Miller, 1958, 1%2 ; Ratcliff, 1959) in ita continued attack against cigarette smoking had retained Foster D . Snell,
Inc . to determine the "tar" and nicotine yields from U .S . (Miller and Monahan, 19S7b, 1958s, 1958b, 1959, 1961, 1966)
and Canadian (Miller and Monahan, 1957c) cigarettes .
d For details on these methods, aee Appmdbc C .
• in thia article, Miller and Monahan (1968) cite FTC (6TC, 1968) not Foater D . Snell data .
IV. DI]FFERENCES BETWEEN FTC AND OTHER METHODS
Debardeleben et al . (1991) presented a very fine review of the determination of "tar"
and nicotine in cigarette smoke from an historical point-of-view . They included discussion of the
following topics and how certain procedures eventually were included in standard methods of
analysis such as the FTC procedure and the CORESTA and ISO procedures :
• Smoking machines
• Smoking parameters
- the origins of puff volume, puff duration, puff interval, butt length'=
• Smoke trapping systems (cold traps, Cambridge filter pad)
12 DeBardeleben et al . (1991) nude no mention of the depth of insertion of the cigarette into the cigarette holder . It was eventually set at
I 1 nun (7/16 in) . This insertion depth ensured that in most products with perforated filter tipa, the perforations were not covered, i .e . .,
the perforations were external to the cigarette holder .
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~ Analytical procedures
- water (Karl Fischer titration, gas chromatography)
- nicotine (silicotungstic acid method, spectrophotometric methods,
titration, gas chromatography) .
Table S summarizes information from Bradford et al . (1936), Wynder and Hoffmann
(1967), Johnson (1986), DeBardeleben et al., (1991), and others on the similarities and
differences in the smoking parameters used by various investigators or institutions in the
determination of cigarette MS "tar" and nicotine .
Table 6 compares the smoking and parameters and analytical procedures prescribed for
use by the cigarette manufacturers (Bates et al ., 1967, 1968), by the USDA (Ogg et al ., 1964),
and by the FTC (1967b).
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TABLE 5: SMOKING PARAMETERS PRESCRIBED FOR USE IN VARIOUS
DETERMINATIONS OF CIGARETTE MS "TAR" AND NICOTINE
Source
p~
Bradford
CORESTA
24
puff volume, ml
35
35 t 0 .3'
33 t 0 .25"
35
33
35
3S t 0.5
35 t 0 .5
puff duration, .ec
2 .0
1 .8-2 .2 f 0 .0t3'
2 .0 t 0.05b
2
2
2
2 t 0.2
2 t 0 .2
puff fcequency, puff/min
1
1°
1°
1
1
1
1'
l
bua lenyt6, mm
23
23
OW + 3•
23
OW + 3•
23
OW + 3'
20
OW + 3a
30
OW + 31
23
OW + 3'
F+81
F+Br
F+Bt
OW+Sh
17.5
17.3
17.5
17.5
17 .5
17 .3
aample aize, no . of ci8areaea
200
100
ia.eRion depth, mm
11
11
air flow, mVaec
17 .5
PPl
3m
4Qe
FM
TPM trappinp tyatem
CFI+i
SSPti
CFFi
BSFt
CF14
ESpk
CFFi
CFpi
CFpi
TPM water analyaia
llC'
KFl•
Oct
KEtm
Oct
KFI°
Oct
OC1
KFl°
Oct
GC1
QC1
ClC!
Od
OCi
OSpo
ad
OSpo
laboratory conditions
22'C
60% RH
22'C
60% RH
22'C
60% RH
22•C
60% RH
23 .9'C
60% RH
23 .9'C
60% RH
ci8arette conditioning
22'C
60% RH
22•C
60% RH
22•C
60% Wi
22'C
60% RH
24 hr @
23 .9'C
60% RH
24 hr 0
23 .9'C
60% RH
TPM nicotine andyaia
STAF"
K1tN
' ptrior w 1989 ` Atter 1989
° 1 puff every 60 t 1 aec ° 1 puff every 60 t 0 .5 aac
• OW - overanp ; 23 mm or overweap + 3 mn% whichever Ia longer
r F - flher ; 23 mm or Sher + 8 mm, whichever Is loag .r
e For cipralba s 75 nM 20 aom a oveewpp + 3 me% whichever ia lon8er
k For ci8aauea > 75 mm,10 mm ar ovenvap + 5 mm, whichever ia looSer
1 OW m overnc .pp 30 mm or aver.vrap + 3 mm, whichever ia lon`er
J CFP - Cambridje mter pad k BSP ~ electroatado precipitation
~ OC - gas cbromatojrapby ~ KFT ~ Karl Fiacber BtnBoo
e BTAp - ailioowo8 .dc aaW pencedur.
o OSP - OeitFith still procedure. 'lbis procedure was uaed for war yean In the U .S . but .vaa
replaced by a ps cbeom .w;eapbio met6od, wbsequeofly approved by the FTC
19
KF I°
TABLE 6: COMPARISON OF SMOKING PARAMETERS PRESCRIBED FOR
USE BY THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY (BATES et al, (1967, 1968),
OGG et ot. (1964), AND THE FTC (1967b) IN THEIR
DETERMINATIONS OF CIGARETTE MS "TAR" AND NICOTINE
Source
Parameter
Bslgs ti.el,
2u
Fn
puff volume, ml
35 t 0.5
35 t 0 .5
35 f 0 .5
puff duration, sec
2 .0 t 0 .2
2 ± 0.2
2 ± 0 .2
puff frequency, number
l per 60 ± 1
I per 60 ± l
I
butt length, mm
NP: 23, 30b, or 47
F- OW+3°
F+OW+3°
NF : 30
F:OW+3°
NF - 23
F- OW+3d
air flow, ml/sec
17 .5
17 .5
17 .5
sample size, no . of cigarettes
200'
200
100
ineertion depth, mm
11
11
1l
TPM trapping system
CFFr
CFFt
CFFr
TPM water analysis
Kb'1'e
KFre
GC6
K1TTe
()Ci
TPM nicotine analysis
GS>J
GSFi
GSPi
()Cb
laboratory conditions
23 .9 ± 1 .1°C
60 f 2%RH
23 .9°C
60%RH
23 .9°C
60%RH
cigarette conditioning
variablet at
23 .9° ± 1 .1°C
60t2%R13
24 hr at
23 .9°C
60%RH
24 hr at
23 .9°C
60%RH
' NF - nonfiltered cigarette ; F - filtered cigarette
6 30 mm or overwrap + 3 nun was the preference of Bates er al (1967, 1968)
° OW - overwrap ; 30 mm or overwrap + 3 nun, whichever Is longer
d OW - overwrap ; 23 mm or ovenvrsp + 3 mm, whichever Is longer
• 40 determinationa on S cigarettes
r CFP - Cambridge filter pad
e KFT - Karl Fischer titration
b OC - gee chromatography ; the procedure of Schultz and Spears was recommended
~ Eventually a gas chromatographic procedure was implemented in the FTC procedure to
determine water and nicotine In the particulate matter
1 OSP - Griffith still procedure
k it was recommended that cigarettes be conditioned under laboratory conditions
specified until they "come to moisture equilibrium with the atmosphere of the
conditioning chamber ."
Both prior to and after the implementation in 1967 of the FTC analytical procedure for
cigarette MS "tar" and nicotine, numerous investigators reported on their determinations of total
particulate matter, water, nicotine, and "tar" in cigarette MS . References are indicated in Table
7. Surprisingly, most of the studies conducted pre-1967 dealt with methods of determining
20
TABLE 7: CHRONOLOGY OF ANALYSIS OF MS TPM AND NICOTINE AND
WATER IN MS TPM
tinatlon TPM Nicotine Determtnation TPM Water Determination
Pre-193Q
~.
~ ~ I{iaeling, 1882s, 1882b
\, Lowenthal, 1892
~ Schmidt, 1904
Theodorovita, 1905
~ Warburg, 1906
Biederbeek, .1908
\ Toth, 1908, 1909
Toth and Krampera, 1910
Van Leeuwen, 1919
Hahn and Langer, 1920
Bogner, 1921
Popp,1922
Baumberger, 1923a, 1923b
Ptyl and Schmidt, 1927
Wenuach, 1928
Winter.tein and Aronaon, 1928
_/n •
193Qs
•
Preiu, 1936 Bodnar, 1930s, 1930b
Heiduachaka, 1930
Batu and Toole, 1931•, 1932a', 1932b'
Hahn and IfiriamaM, 1931
Kovalenko, 1931
Malaquin, 1931
Pydki, 1931a, 1931b, 1932 .
Wenusch, 1931a, 1931b
Heiduachaka and Poat, 1932
Molinati, 1932
Nagy, 1932a, 1932b
Hofmann, 1933°
Nagy and Dickmann, 1933a, 1933b
Pfyl, 1933a, 1933b
Pyriki, 1933, 1934, 1935
Schloumann, 1933
Toole, 1933
Kopericu, 1934
Pretu, 1934, 1935, 1936
Wenuach, 1934s, 1934b, 1934c, 1934d,
1934e, 1936a, 1936b, 1937a,
1937b
Wulfert, 1934a, 1934b
Bodnar et at ., 1935
Jensen and Haley, 1935
~
Hofmann,
1942b
Pyriki,
1943
Griffith and Jefl'rey, 1948
Dabrowaka,
1949
~
~
--j
~'
S
tp
J
tp
21
Table 7. Continued:
TPM Nicotine Deterrnination
TPM Water DeterminatioC
19SOs
Schmihl et at., 1954b
Schmihl, 195Sb
Schmihl and Schneider, 1955b
Keith and Newaome, 1956, 1957
Aksu and Fneroan S, 1958s, 1958b
Morgareidge, 1958, 1959
Trifu and Dumitreacu, 1958s, 19S8b,
1959
Wartman and Harlow, 1958
McConnell et at., 1959b, 1960P
Monod and DuPont, 1959
Staberg, 1959
Wartman et at ., 1959
Willita ct at., 1950
Marchand and Zenard, 1951
Cundiff and Markunaa, 1953', 1955'
Laurene and Harrell, 195Sb
Cogbill et al ., 1959
Fiahel, 1959
izawa and Kobashi, 1956
lzawa et at ., 1956s, 1956b
Grittith, 1957d
Aksu and Enercan S, 1958s, 1958b
Laurene and Harrell, 1958"
Mathur, 1958
Trifu and Dumltreacu, 1958s, 1958b
Wartman and Harlow, 1958
Kuhn, 1959b
Pleaaanta et al ., 1959b
Staberg, 1959
Waltz er al., 1959b
L2&
Bentley and Burgan, 1961
Bock et at., 1962
Ogg et at., 1962
Harrell and Sullivan, 1963t
Smith and De Souza, 1963°
1964 biopm (fatnn/'r Reporr
Ogg, 1964
Okada and Shibayama, 1964b
Senkus, 1960
TTokura and Furakawa, 1964
Rodgman, 196Sa, 196Sb, 1965c
Yamazaki tt at ., 1965
CORESTA, 1966a
Batea et at., 1967, 1968
MOller and Moldenhauer, 1967
Wynder and Hoffmann, 1967r
Dalhamn, 1968
CORESTA, 1969a
Georgiev, 1969
Gilea, 1969t
Gilea and Sullivan, 1969
Ogg, 1969
Viart, 1969
Barkemeyer and Seehofer, 1960b
Ogg ct al ., 1960, 1962
Kuhn and Marek, 1961
Aamua et al ., 19626
Pyriki and Moldenhauer, 1962
Artho and Grob, 1963, 1964d
Harrell and Sullivan, 19631
Seehofer and Borowaki, 1963a
!%{ SSageaai (ienerol'c Report
Mann et al., 1964°
Ogg, 1964
Senkua, 1964t
Tokura and Funkawa, 1964
Lyerly, 1965a°, 1965b°
Pyrikl and Moldenhauer, 1965a, 1963b°
Rodgnun, 1965s . 1965b, 1965c
Verband,1963
Yamazaki et al., 1965
Lyerly and Gilleland, 1966
CORESTA, 1966b, 1966c, 1966d
Harvey et al., 1966' , 1967'
Bates et al ., 1967, 1968
Lyerly 1967°
M811er and Molden6auer, 1967
Wynder and Hoffmann, 1967t
Dalhamn, 1968
Charles et al ., 1969b
Pillsbury et at., 1969
CORESTA, 1969b
Georgiev, 1969
Gilea, 1969r
Gilea and Sullivan, 1969
Ogg, 1969
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Crowell, 1960b
Fishel, 1960
Holmea and Cridlin, 1960
Crowell et al ., 1961b
Jarrell and Wickham, 1961°, 1962°
Ogg et al ., 1962
Harrell and Sullivam, 1963r
Waltz et al., 1963b
1964 b5ogoow Gsewertil'c Reporr
Neurath et al ., 1964
Okada and Shibayama, 1964s, 1964b
Sloan and Sublett, 1964°, 1965°
Neuath, 1966
Neurath er al., 1966
Schultz and Spears, 1966°
Thome, 196Sa°, 1965b°, 1966°
Bates et al., 1967, 1968
Graves, 1967°
Wynder and Hoffaunn, 1967r
CORESTA, 1969a
Table 7. Continued :
TPM Determination
TPM Nicntine Determination
TPM Water Detennination
1970s
Ogg and Schulz, 1970
Smit, 1972b
Hartung and Stewart, 1973
Norman, 1973, 1974
Rothwell and Grant, 1974t
Harbin and Stamey, 1975
Williamson et al., 1975
Bronnemann et al ., 1976r
Hammond et al., 1976
Keith, 1976
Owen, 1976
Wakeham, 1976
Burton et al., 1977
Maeda et al ., 1978
Rix, 1979
Cano et al., 1970°
Ogg and Schulz, 1970
Sadler et al., 19704
Diffee and Sheppard, 1971°
Bourlas and F.aperdy, 1972b
Hartung and Stewart, 1973
Schulz and Seehofer, 1973
Randolph, 1973°, 1974°
Rothwell and Orant, 1970
Wagner and Thaggard, 1974°, 1979°
Diffee, 1975
Roberts, 1975°
Williamson et al ., 1975
Bourlas et al ., 19766
DeVriea et al ., 1976"
Watson et al., 1970°
Hartung and Stewart, 1973
Roberta, 1975°
Rix, 1979
Bmnnemann et al ., 1976"
Hammond et al ., 1976
Keith, 1976
Leonetti and Carugno, 1976°
Lyerly and Greene, 1976°
Owen, 1976
Wakeham, 1976
Campbell, 1978
Oaivoromchi et al., 1978°
Maeda et al., 1978
Ma.kninec et al ., 1978a
Rix, 1979
1980.r
Hege, 1980b
Norman et al., 1980a, 1980b
Thomaa, 1980b
Herning et al ., 1981
McMurtrie et al., 1981
Sloan and Curran, 1981b
Wald et al ., 1981
Yama111100, 1981
Baakevitch and Ferrer, 1982
Dobbina, 1984
Yamamoto et al., 1984
ISO, 1986
Johtuon,1986t
Williamson et al., 1986s, 1986b
ISO, 1987s, 1987b
CORESTA, 1989a, 1989b
Shoffner and Ireland, 1980°, 1982°
McMuttrie et at., 1981
Wald et al ., 1981
Yamamoto, 1981
Baskevitch and Ferrer, 1982
Dobbins, 1984
Yamamoto et al ., 1984
CORESTA, 1986°, 1989b°
ISO, 1989a°, 1989bb
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CORESTA, 1987°, 1989b°, 1990'
ISO, 1987a, 1987b
Table 7. Continued :
TPM Determination TPM Nicotine Determination TPM Water Determination
1M
Yamamoto et al ., 1990 Ayres et at ., 1990b Deldardeleben et al ., 1991t
DeBardeleben et al., 1991t Yamamoto et al., 1990
DeBardeleben et al., 1991t
Deutach and RobeR.on, 1991°
Deutech and Jefton, 1994°
• Titrimetric method b Spectrophotometic method °(3aa chromatognphic method
d Distillation method ° Extraction method t Review
a High pressure liquid chromatograph
nicotine or total alkaloids in cigarette MS . Those described post-1967 include improved
procedures (e .g., gas chromatographic methods instead of gravimetric, titrimetric, or
spectrophotometric procedures for nicotine ; gas chromatographic methods instead of the Karl
Fischer titrimetric method for water), spectrophotometric methods for determination of "tar"
in the MS from ultralow-"tar" cigarette, automation of existing procedures, reviews, and the
like.
VI . HISTORICAL TRENDS
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984
A. Sales-Weighted
Average MS "Tar"
Deliveries
50
3 .0
45
1711.r Tlpe
Raoonaututad Tobacco Sbaat
40
From the mid-1950s
through the late 1980s, the salesweighted average "tar" yield of
U.S. cigarettes has declined as
shown in Figure 4 .
This decline in "tar" yield
is the result of inclusion of various
combinations of these technologies
to varying degrees in the design of
cigarette. As noted previously,
these technologies include :
Papar Addithes
Papar Porodty
i:panded Tobaaoo
35
V.atllatlon
30
25
~ . . . . . .... . . . .
~ • . .. ..~
15
- Tar
••••••••• Nicotine
10
5
0I I I I I
L_
I I I
0.0
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984
Figure 4.
• tobacco blend and weight
• tobacco rod length and
circumference
• filter tips (material type and additives)
"Tar" and Nicotine Deliveries, Sales Weighted Average
Basis
24
• processed tobaccos (reconstituted tobacco sheet, expanded tobacco)
• paper (type and additives)
• air dilution (increased paper porosity, filter tip perforations) .
In Figure 4 are indicated the approximate dates when these technologies were introduced
and subsequently became used routinely thoughout by U .S . cigarette manufacturers .
It has been noted by the U .S . Surgeon General (USPHS, 1979, 1981, 1982) that the
following changes in the properties of the "tar", actually CSC, accompanied the decrease in
sales-weighted average "tar" produced by inclusion of the various technlogies in cigarette
design:
• The BaP per mg of CSC decreased over the same time period .
• The tumorigenicity, as measured in mouse-skin painting studies, of the MS "tar" (CSC)
decreased over the same time period .
B . Sales-Weighted Average MS Nicotine Deliveries
From the mid-1950s through the late 1980s, the sales-weighted average nicotine yield of
U. S. cigarettes has declined as shown in Figure 4 .
This decline in per cigarette nicotine yield is also the result of inclusion of the various
technologies to varying degrees in the cigarette design .
VII. EFFECT OF VARIATION OF MAJOR SMOKING PARAMETERS ON FTC MS
"TAR" AND NICOTINE YIELDS
An individual cigarette smoker generally does not consume his/her cigarette by the major
smoking parameters (puff volume = 35 ml, puff duration = 2 sec, puff frequency = 1 puff/60
sec) defined for use in the FTC smoking procedure . Data are available from several RJRT inhouse studies to show the effect on MS cigarette "tar" and nicotine yields of keeping two of the
three parameters constant and varying the third .
In 1979, Rix (1979), using Response Surface Methodology, conducted a detailed study
on the effect of puff volume, duration, and frequency on puff number plus the MS TPM, MS
nicotine, MS water, MS "tar," and MS carbon monoxide yields from 85-mm Winston and
Marlboro cigarettes . Table 8 summarizes the 'tar" and nicotine data on the 85-mm Winston .
"Tar" and nicotine yields are increased by increasing the puff frequency and by increasing the
puff volume. Examination of the data in Table 8 reveals that of the three major parameters
changes in the puff duration have the least effect on MS "tar" and nicotine yields: See
comparisons of Sample No . 17 vs Sample No . 18 and Sample No . 1 vs Sample No. 3 where the
puff durations of 1 .5 vs 2 .5 sec were studied .
TABLE 8: THE EFFECT OF VARIATION IN SMOKING PARAMETERS (PUFF VOLUME,
DURATION, FREQUENCY) ON THE FTC "TAR" AND NICOTINE YIELDS
FROM AN 85-mm W7W!nN
Puff Puff Puff FTC
Samole No. Volume, ml Duration, sec Freauencv "Tar" . ma
' Data are from Rix (1979) who also presented similar data for the 85-mm Marlboro . Rix also presented data on the
yields of TPM, TPM water, and carbon monoxide .
b Data represent the average "tar^ and nicotine yields from Samples Noa . 5 through 10.
Rix (1979) also compared the effect on the carbon monoxide, nicotine, and "tar" yields
from the 85-mm Winston and 85-mm Marlboro of changing the major FTC smoking parameters
(35-m1 puff volume, 2 .0-sec puff duration, 60-sec puff frequency) to more "realistic""
smoldng conditions (65-m1 volume, 2 .0-sec duration, 45-sec frequency) . Table 9 summarizes
the results obtained . At the higher puff volume and frequency, the % differences between the
Winston and the Marlboro become less for MS "tar" and nicotine yields, with the Winston yield
being the higher . In the 150-page report by Rix, there are numerous plots of the relationships
between carbon monoxide, nicotine, and "tar" yields and puff volume, duration, and frequency
for the 85-mm Winston and Marlboro . Also included are plots (2-sec puff duration, 1 puff/min)
of the "tar"/nicotine ratios vs puff volume for the following brands : Winston, Camel, Vantage,
Now, More, Real, and Marlboro .
TABLE 9 : 85-mm WJVSTiDN AND MARl.8OR0: COMPARISON OF FTC CARBON
MONOXIDE, NICOTINE, AND `-TAR" YIELDS AT STANDARD AND MORE
"REALISTIC" SMOKIING PARAMETERS
cjgg agg
' Numbers in parentheses represent % difference between WINSTON and MARLBORO :
% Difference - 100(Wtnsron - Marfboro)l Wlnrton
In a similar study on the 100-mm Winston and the now defunct 120-mm Dawn, Dobbins
(1984) elected to vary the puff volumes at different puff frequencies with the puff duration
•
13 Whether the "realistic" conditions for 1979 smokers would apply to current (1994) smokers is not known . Two years later, Henning et
at. (1981) observed that filter cigarette smokers took a 35 .9- to 47 .8-m1 puff of 1 .94 to 2 .06 wc every 26.9 to 30 .0 sec .
27
•
maintained throughout at 2 .0 sec because of the findings of Rix (1979) on the minimal effect of
variation in puff duration . His data on number of puffs plus MS "tar," and MS nicotine yields
are summarized in Table 10 . In addition to the data summarized, Dobbins also reported the MS
TPM and TPM water yields for the cigarettes . The effects of variation of puff volume (puff
duration and puff frequency constant) and puff frequency (puff volume and puff duration
constant) observed for the 100-mm Winston and the 120-mm Dawn were similar to those
reported by Rix for 85-mm Winston and 85-mm Marlboro .
Rix (1979)
Dobbins (1984)
Herning et al.
(1981)
,
cigarette type
85-mm filtered cigarettes
100-mm and 120-mm
filtered cigarettes
smokers of filtered
cigarettes
puff volume, ml
26 .3, 35 .0, 37 .5,
60.0,68 .8
15, 25, 35, 40, 45, 55
35 .9-47 .8
puff duration, seo
1 .15, 1 .5, 1 .0, 2.5, 2 .85
2.0
1 .94-2.06
puff frequency, sec
30, 45, 60
30, 45, 60
26 .9-30 .0
Sm4king Parameter
28
TABLE 10: THE EFFECT OF VARIATION IN SMOKING PARAMETERS (PUFF VOLUME,
FREQUENCY) ON THE FT C "TAR" AND NI COTINE YIELDS FROM A 100-mm
W11VSTrIN
Puff
Volume. ml
Puff Puff
fluration. aeo Freauencv
RCC
"Tar" . me
FTC
Nicotine, mQ
No . of Puffi
15
2 .0
30
13 .5
1 .08
20.7
1S
2 .0
45
10 .0
0 .81
15 .2
15
2.0
60
7 .8
0 .63
12 .0
2 .0
30
23 .2
1 .77
18 .4
2 .0
45
17 .4
1 .19
13 .5
2 .0
60
13 .8
1 .02
11 .1
35
2 .0
30
30.6
2 .24
16,6
35
2 .0
45
23 .0
1 .72
12 .6
35
2 .0
60
18 .6
1 .36
10.5
1 40
2.0
30
32 .0
2.32
16 .0
45
2 .0
30
34 .6
2 .44
15 .8
45
2 .0
45
25 .9
1 .89
12.2
45
2 .0
60
21 .3
1 .52
10 .1
SS
2 .0
30
38 .0
2 .68
14.2
SS
2 .0
45
31 .4
2 .09
11 .4
55
2 .0
60
24 .1
1 .62
9 .4
25
' Data from Dobbina (1984)
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VIII. RELATIONSHIP TO HUMAN SMOKING
USPHS, 1979 :
The "tar" and nicotine content of cigarettes is measured by machines which smoke cigarettes
according to a predetermined puff rate, butt length, duration of puff, and volume of puff . An
individual smoker does not necessarily consume cigarette in this standardized manner .
Depending on the makeup of the cigarette, the wet particulate matter that issues with the [MS]
from the butt end amounts to 0 .2 to 9 .0 percent of the weight of the [MS] . The. ..FTC issues
reports semiannually on the "tar" content of all U .S . commercial cigarettes . In those reports
"tar" is defined as total particulate of [MS], minus water and nicotine, and is determined by
smoking cigarettes under standard conditions in a 20-channel machine [Pillsbury et al ., 1969] .
[From 1955 to 1977], the "tar" and nicotine contents' of cigarettes have declined . This trend is
illustrated in [F'igure 5] which depicts the sales-weighted average "tar" delivery per cigarette
from 1955 to 197T. . . For the years after 1967, periodic measurements of cigarette "tar" by the
[FTC, 1967b] permit reliable calculations of sales-weighted average "tar" delivery .
•
From 1954, sales-weighted average "tar" decreased from approximately 37 mg to approximately
23 mg . Although this change paralleled the rapid increase in filtertip market share, it also reflected
a decrease in the "tar" content of both filtertip and nonfilter cigarettes . . . Since 1966,the salesweighted average "tar" has continued to decrease . . . The observed decreases in sales-weighted
"tar" have been paralleled by declines in the sales-weighted nicotine [yield] per cigarette .
a A cigarette does not have a"tu" content; Its MS does.
b FiQnre S is in an extension of that ahown In the 1979 Surgeon General's report (USPHS, 1979) ;
it represents data from 1954 through 1985 .
USPHS, 1981 :
There is evidence that machines that measure "tar" and nicotine content are not suitable for
measurements of smoke from lower "tar" and nicotine cigarettes with perforated filter tips . . .and
that the "tar" and nicotine in the inhaled smoke may be more than indicated by the test
procedures .
The FTC ratings of "tar" and nicotine yields measure an implied risk to the smoker . Smokingmaehine"data guide experimenters in elucidating the mechanisms of induction of smoking-related
disease . Absolute levels of smoke constituents my be very important for experiments, so the
experimenter must have reliable information about the comparability of machine and human
smoking . The use of machine data to monitor risk has somewhat different requirements . If the
relative yields of different cigarettes are not greatly affected by smoking conditions, present
smoking-machine standards will be adequate to indicate relative risk of new cigarettes . We know,
however, that the relative yield of many constituents is affected by butt length, puff frequency,
and degree of ventilation . We need to determine how the variations in these smoking parameters
affect relative yields of the several substances in smoke that are of toxicological interest .
Methods for determining "tar"' and nicotine yield were developed before very low yield
cigarettes were an important segment of the market . It is questionable whether existing procedures
can measure accurately the "tar" delivery of the cigarettes yielding 0 .1 mg of "tar." Other
techniques giving acceptable results must be developed . Procedures for determining "tar" yields
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of low magnitude through measurement of fluorescence have been recommended (Thomas, 1980) .
[see Appendix C, this memorandum]
USPHS, 1982 :
The composition of the [MS] and [SS] depends greatly on the smoking conditions and the methods
of collection and analysis . This has long been realized; more than 20 years ago, standardized
smoking conditions were established for machine measurements of cigarette smoke [Wartman et
al., 1959] . Since then, the . . .FfC, research institutions, and the U .S . cigarette industry have used
the same standardized parameters for cigarette smoking [Bates et al ., 1968 ; Pillsbury et al .,
1969] . . . The standard cigarette smoking conditions reflect the average smoking habits of a male
smoker of nonfilter cigarettes as determined 25 years ago (Brunnemann et al ., 1976] . The average
smoking parameters recently recorded for filter cigarette smokers were one puff of 1 .94 to 2 .06
seconds duration, repeated every 26 .9 to 30 .0 seconds, with a puff volume of 35 .9 to 47 .8 ml
[Herning et al., 1981] . Nevertheless, FTC-standard cigarette smoking conditions continue to be
used for comparisons of tar and nicotine yields in the smoke of present cigarettes and those made
years and even decades ago .
The trends for the
sales-weighted average
tar and nicotine
deliveries of U .S .
cigarettes since 1955 . . .
are shown in [Figure
5] . . . During this time,
the percentage of filtertipped cigarettes in
U .S . cigarette
production increased
from 18 .7 to 90
percent . . .
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984
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3 .0
45
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30
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20
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15
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Tar
••••••••• Nicotine
The reported data are
5
based on measurements
obtained by machine
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1
1
I
0
0 .0
smoking of cigarettes
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984
under standard
Figure S . "Tar" and Nicotine Deliveries, Sales Weighted Average
conditions . As
Basis
discussed before, these
conditions may have
reflected the average smoking habits of individuals 25 years ago, but today [1982] they appear to be
representative of less than 10 percent of U .S . smokers .
1
I
I
Despite the repeated criticisms and deficiencies noted above (USPHS, 1979, 1981, 1982)
of the FTC analytical procedure for "tar" and nicotine yields, a procedure imposed on the U .S .
cigarette manufacturers (FTC, 1966, 1967), no serious attempt has been made by the FTC
during the past decade to modify the analytical procedure it put in place in 1967 . Because of a
B&W uniquely filtered cigarette product that behaved differently when smoked in the holder on
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the FTC-recommended smoking machine and when smoked by mouth", an attempt was made
to introduce a new holder that would circumvent the problem . The original rubber diaphragm
holder on the FTC smoking machine is still in use.
IX. PERTINENT EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA : DO PEOPLE WHO SMOKE
REDUCED-"TAR" CIGARETTF.S HAVE A LOWER INCIDENCE OF
SMOKING-RELATED DISEASE?
In 1976, Hammond et al. (1976) described the decrease in mortality ratios in lownicotine, low-"tar" smokers compared to high-nicotine, high-"tar" smokers for lung cancer .
Several years later, Hammond (1980) wrote :
Wynder and I drafted a resolution that . . .was quoted in the Congressional Record [U .S . Congress,
1967] and by the Surgeon General . It said, "The preponderance of the scientific evidence strongly
suggests that the lower the 'tar' and nicotine contenN [sic] in cigarettes, the less harmful would
be the effects . . . The statement has been relevant ever since . Today I would change this wording .
Instead of saying that "the preponderance of evidence strongly suggests," I'd now say "the
preponderance of scientific evidence very strongly suggests" and I'd leave the rest of the wording
unchanged .
' A cigarette does not have a"ur content" ; its MS does .
In a comparison of the cellular changes (hyperplasia, metaplasia, carcinoma-in-situ) found
in the respiratory tract of smokers who died from lung cancer during the periods 1955-1960 and
1970-1977, Auerbach et al . (1979, 1980) reported that the epidemiological data reported by
Hammond et al. (1976) were paralleled by pathological data . They reported :
Although we do not have the tar and nicotine content [sic] of the cigarettes smoked by the subjects
in this study, all those who died in the 1955-1960 period had to have smoked cigarettes up to the
time of their death that were higher in tar and nicotine, than those who died during the years
1970-1977 . . . [F]or the last 5-10 years of their lives none of the 1970-1977 group could have
smoked cigarettes with as high a tar and nicotine content [sic] as those smoked by the 1955-1960
group .
Whenever we have found an early microscopic invasion in the tracheobronchial tree
epithelium in our previous studies of lung cancer cases, it was always next to and probably arose
from an area of carcinoma-in-situ . The changes in the cigarette over the 15 years from the time
the average group A person died [the 1955-1960 group] to the time the group B people died [the
1970-1977 group] has resulted in the changes demonstrated. . . These changes seem to be the result
of decreased tar and nicotine and they correlate with epidemiological data already presented . . .
With regard to reduced-"tar" cigarettes, Wynder (1980) noted :
A number of retrospective epidemiological studies have shown a decreased risk of disease
associated with filtered cigarette smoking . . . In our studies we calculated risk among persons who
smoked filtered cigarettes . . . [T]he risk of developing either epidermoid lung cancer or larynx
•
1s Mouth smoking of the cigarette generated much higher "tar" yields than when the cigarette was smoked In the FfC smoking
machine because of compression by the smoker's lips of longiwdinal dou In the filter tip .
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cancer is reduced up to 33 % in long-term (Z 10 yr) smokers of filtered cigarettes, compared to
smokers of nonfiltered cigarettes.
The retrospective study from our group included more than 1000 cases of lung and larynx cancer
and showed a reduction in risks among long-term filter cigarette smokers of 10 years or more of
between 25 % and 33 % for both men and womea . . . This finding has been confirmed by the
prospective studies of the American Cancer Society . . . ([¢1 discussion to Russell (1980a)]
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ITEM TO BE INSERTED :
In 1964, nicotine was essentially given a clean bill of health in the first Surgeon
General's report on smoking and health (USPHS, 1964) . Fifteen years later, nicotine was not
described in overly adverse terms. E.g., in the 1979 Surgeon General's report it was stated :
For the habitual smoker, the smoking of a cigarette is a rewarding experience ... Because of the
myriad compounds present in cigarette smoke, it should be kept in mind that the pharmacological
effects of smoking are not related solely to nicotine ; rather, it is the combined effect of the whole
smoke . Nevertheless, nicotine is generally accepted as the principal constituent responsible for
cigarette smokers' pharmacologic response. . .
Because "tar" rather than nicotine was considered to be the most hazardous part of the
particulate phase of MS, there was an era when it was proposed to fabricate a "less hazardous"
by redesigning it to deliver a substantially reduced "tar" level but deliver the same or an only
slightly reduced nicotine level, i .e., decrease the "tar" :nicotine ratio (Russell et al., 1973,
Russell, 1976, 1980b ; Schacter, 1978) . Russell et al. (1973) noted :
[T]he least harmful cigarettes for heavy smokers may be those with high, rather than low, nicotine
yield. . .
[A] cigarette with a high nicotine yield would enable heavy smokers to curb their tobacco
consumption, and harmfulness would be further reduced if, at the same time, the tar and CO
yields were low . . . To reduce tar yield without lowering the nicotine yield presents a challenge to
cigarette technology but is one which the skill and resources available are no doubt capable of
meeting . . .
and Russell (1980) in a conference on "safer cigarette" design wrote :
[A] low-tar, low-CO, but medium-, rather than low-, nicotine cigarette might reduce tar and CO
intake more than occurs with low-tar, low-CO, low-nicotine cigarettes . It might also be more
acceptable to smokers .
A problem with this concept was consumer acceptance when "tar" :nicotine ratio was less than about 7 . The
consumer re " from inhaling because of the harshness of the MS . Perforated filter-tip
cigarettes with" 1" :nicotine ratios between 9 and 11 or other filtered and nonfiltered cigarettes
with "tar" :ni e ratios above 10 are not perceived as too harsh to smoke's .
•
1s The following ia my recollection of In-house experiments conducted by Harris with a modified NOW with 2-mg "tar" delivery : Its
nicotine delivery was enhanced by nicotine ask addition to the blend so that'4ar" :nicotine ratio was decreased from about 9 to about 3 .
Even though the MS nicotine delivery per cigarette was about 0 .6 mg and the MS nicotine delivery per puff was only about 0 .1 mg,
panelists repotted the modified cigarette to be totally unacceptable because of the harshness of the smoke . Cigarettes with deliveries of
18 mg "tar" and 1 .5 mg nicotine (a "tar" :nicot'ux ratio of 12 and a per puff nicotine delivery of about 0 .1S mg) are rated acceptable .
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APPENDIX A : HISTORICAL COMMENTS ON THE POSSIBLE HEALTH
ASPECTS OF POORLY DEFINED "TARS" OBTAINED
FROM TOBACCO BY A VARIETY OF METHODS
Prior to the first production of carcinoma in laboratory animals skin-painted with the tar
from cigarettes smoked under conditions supposedly simulating human smoking (Wynder et al .,
1953a, 1953b), there were various comments and studies described in the literature on changes
produced in laboratory animals by application of various tobacco products (tars, juices, extracts)
and the possible relationship of tobacco smoke tars to respiratory tract cancer . No malignant
tumors were produced in studies with tobacco tars or any other industrial tars such as coal tar
prior to 1915 when Yamagiwa and Ichikawa (1915, 1918, ef . summary 1965) developed the
procedure to produce tumors in laboratory animals skin-painted with coal tar solutions . Between
1915 and 1953, numerous studies were described of attempts to produce tumors with v' t~tS e~S
tobacco products . None of the tobacco products (tars, extracts, etc .) in a smoking
process simulating the human smoking of cigarettes . Table APP A-1 summarizes representative
tobacco product studies conducted between 1880 and 1953 and their results .
TABLE APP A-i : MISCELLANEOUS TOBACCO TAR STUDIES PRIOR TO
WYNDER et al. (1953a, 1953b, 1955)
Year
Event
1880 Tillmanns (1880) suggested that tobacco amoke particulate matter was of interest in cancer research from an etiological
standpoint because it possibly contained the aenx products of incomplete combustion as In coal tar and aoot .
1900 Broach (1900) observed cellular proliferation in guineas pigs painted with "tobacco juice ."
1911 Wacker and Schminke (1911) iqjected tobacco tar from pipes into rabbits and reported cellular proliferation .
1915,1918 Yamaglwa and Ichikawa (1915, 1918) produced carcinoma in robbta by repeatedly painting their sMn wlth a solution
ojeoaf tar. 7hts was the first nporred tneident ojthe production ojearetnoma In laboratory animals and was the basLs
for the all the research on chemical tumorigenesls In subsequent years .
1923 Hoffman et al. (1923) reported that tobacco tar which was not nicotinatree produced strong acute toxic aymptoma
when painted on mouse akin .
1928 Helwlg (1928) reported that rabbits injected with tobacco tar from pipes developed extensive cellular proliferation ;
mice akin-painted with the same solution developed ulceration at painting site .
1930, 1931 Roffo (1930, 1931) painted 30 rabbits with a tobacco tar, one rabbit developed a tumor . Roffo claimed that this was
the first production of cancer In a laboratory animals with a tobacco tar . However, his tobacco tar was obtained by
destructive distillation of tobacco, not In a smoking process (cf. Wynder st al., 1953 ; Wynder and Hoffmann, 1964,
1967) .
1932 Bogen and Loomis (1932) concluded that tobacco tar did not possess the necessary irritating or stimulating properties
to induce cancerous growths when painted on mouse skin .
Cooper et al . (1932) collected tobacco tars from tobacco mechanically smoked at 400-500°C and at 700-800°C and
applied the tars as 10-50% aolutiona in benzene, ethanol, or glycerol . Only one tumor-bearing animals was observed .
He concluded that tobacco was relatively unimpoetant In cancer causation, especially when the data were compared
with those obtained with aimila coal tar solutions.
1935 Schurch and Winteratein (1935) reported that mice treated with cigar tobacco tar or cigar tobacco tar fractions did not fLn ,
develop cancer either treated with the tar or tar fractions alone or subjected to a combination of tar treatment plus
v
irritation (thermal or mechanical) .
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Table 1 (Appeadibt A) . Continued:
1937 Taki (1937) reported a squamous cell tumor on the skin of mice treated with a tar extracted from tobacco pipes .
1946 Jaffe et al . (1946) questioned the validity of Roffo's results because of the fact he had used a destructive distillate of
tobacco rather than a tobacco tar generated by a smoking process .
1949 National Cancer Conference panel (American Cancer Society, 1949) reported that the tobacco smoke tar painted on the
skin of Strain A mice, injected subcutaneously, or itoected intravenously did not induce tumon of the lung (adenomas)
or any other organ .
1953 Shotadze (1953) treated mice (lower lip) with a tobacco pyrolyate for 1 l months . No precancerous or cancerous
conditions were observed .
1953, 1955 Wynder er al. (1953a, 1953b, 1955) rreported the production of carcinoma In laboratory animals (highly tusceptible
mouse strain) painted with massive doses of cigarette smoke condensate generated under conditions simulating human
smoking conditions .
• The Strain A mouse is extremely susceptible to development of lung adenoma; 90% of them will die with adenoma
of the lung .
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APPENDIX B: INFORMATION PROVIDED RJRT MANAGEMENT IN THE
MID-1960s FOR COMMUNICATION TO THE FEDERAL
TRADE COMMISSION re ITS CIGARETTE MS "TAR"
AND NICOTINE LABELING PROPOSAL
Below is presented the essentials of a 1965 memorandum prepared for RJRT management
by Rodgman (1965c) . It incorporates information from memoranda by Senkus (1964) and
Rodgman (1965b) and a draft memorandum by Rodgman (see also 1965c) .
A Short Explanation and Analysis of Methods for Measuring "Tar and Nicotine"
in Cigatette Smoke fJan/Feb . 19651
Introduction
Suggestions have been made from time to time that cigarette packages should indicate the
amount of "tar and nicotine" produced by smoking of the cigarettes in the package . Even if it
were established that "tar and nicotine" have some relationship to health, there is no method by
which a smoker can be accurately informed of either the amount or the composition of the "tar
and nicotine" he receives from the cigarette he smokes .
The term "tar and nicotine" requires clarification . Cigarette smoke consists of the particulate
phase and the gas phase. The particulate phase has been referred to in scientific and other
literature by a variety of terms, such as tars, smoke solids, solids, total solids, particulate matter,
total particulate matter, smoke condensate, total smoke condensate, and smoke condensables . One
of the components of smoke solids is nicotine ; the nicotine fraction of smoke solids is sometimes
referred to as alkaloids, or total alkaloids . It seems more meaningful to use the term "total solids"
instead of "tar," and such term will be used in this memorandum .
Summary and Conclusions
Various methods exist for determining in the laboratory the total solids and nicotine in the
smoke from cigarettes smoked by a machine under laboratory conditions. Although the different
methods produce different results, one method could be arbitrarily selected as the standard . But
the total solids and nicotine received by any individual smoker would vary from that produced by
the smoking machine in the laboratory using the same brand of cigarettes, even if it were assumed
that the cigarettes smoked by the individual and those smoked in the laboratory are exactly alike .
This is because the smoking habits of individual vary, and because the conditions under which
cigarettes are smoked vary .
•
It may not be assumed, however, that cigarettes smoked by the smoking machine in the
laboratory are the same as the cigarettes of the same brand purchased by the smoker . Because of
unavoidable variations in the manufacture and storage of cigarettes, differences exist in the
tobacco, paper, filter, and condition of cigarettes so that measurements of total solids and nicotine
in the smoke of one sample of cigarettes will differ from measurements obtained with another
sample of the same brand, assuming that all possible steps are taken to assure as much uniformity
as possible . The measurements appearing on a package of cigarettes would relate to the cigarettes
used in the test and would not be accurate as applied to the cigarettes contained in the package .
Even if two cigarettes of the same brand, or of two different brands, were to deliver precisely
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the same amount of total solids, variations in the cigarettes, in smoking habits, and in smoking
conditions would generate total solids in the smoke of one of the cigarettes composed of different
quantities and kinds of chemical compounds from those found in the total solids from the other
cigarette . Since it is not known which, if any, chemical compound in the total solids is harmful,
it is not helpful to the smoker to furnish him a quantitative measurement of total solids, especially
one which, as has been stated in the two preceding paragraphs, cannot be accurate .
The conclusion is therefore inescapable that labeling the amount of "tar and nicotine" on a
cigarette package cannot give to the smoker meaningful information as to the amount or
composition of the total solids and nicotine he receives from the cigarettes he smokes . He is more
likely to be misled than informed .
Methods for Measuring Total Solids and Nicotine
The following five methods for measuring total solids and nicotine are described in Table
APP B-1 :
(1) The Wolman method [Wolman, 1953]
(2) The Consumer Union's method - No . 1[Consumer Reports, 1955]
(3) The Cambridge filter method (Wartman et al., 1959]
(4) The Foster D . Snell method' [Kimball]
(5) The Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company method [Keith and Newsome,
1956, 1957, 1958; Newsome and Keith, 1956, 1957] .
•
It should be recognized that a number of variations of such methods are possible, and there may
be other methods . Those described [below], however, appear to be the ones most commonly
reported.
The five methods described in Table APP B-1 have not been compared on the same lot of
cigarettes . Three of the methods, however, have been compared by Keith and Newsome (1957a,
1957b, 1968) . The results of such comparison show distinct variations and were reported to be
as follows:
Consumer Union' .
Method - No . I
Foeter D. Snell Method
L.dcM Tobacco Co . Method
Solids, rtg/ciyt
18 .8
34.2
19.1
Nicotine, nglclat
2 .2
2 .9
3 .S
It is of course clear even apart from such comparisons that the various methods described in Table
APP 13-1 necessarily will produce different results because they do no start with the same smoking
conditions .
Generally speaking each of the methods require five to ten cigarettes for testing purposes . The
cigarettes are smoked by machine, which is designed to retain 100% of the particulate phase of
the smoke . Each method proceeds on the basis of smoking the cigarette using a fixed volume of
puff, a puff of specific duration,a fixed frequency of puffing, and a specific amount of the
cigarette to be smoked . All methods other than that of Liggett & Myers use a 35-m1 volume puff .
The most common duration of puff is two seconds, and the most common frequency of puff is one
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per minute . The Wolman method and the Cambridge filter method2 smoked a fixed length of
cigarette (47 mm) regardless of the length of the cigarette being smoked and regardless of whether
it is a filter cigarette or not . Some of the methods smoke to a predetermined butt length, e .g ., 23
mm ; in such methods the length of cigarette smoked would vary depending upon the initial length
of cigarette being tested and whether or not it is a filter cigarette . The Liggett & Myers method
smokes fourteen puffs of each cigarette, so that the number of puffs taken determines the length
of the cigarette smoked .
TABLE APP B-1 : METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF TOTAL SOLIDS AND
NICOTINE
1.&M Tobacco Co.
Method (Keith and
The Consumer Newsome, 1956,
Union'a Method Cambridge Filter 1957, 1958 ;
Smoking Wolman Method (Consumer Method (Wattman Foster D. Snell Newsome and Keith,
Conditions . etc . (Wolman . 1953) Reoocta . 1955) ft ol . . 1959) Meth (Kimbalb 1956 . 1957)
cigarette length 47 variable ; depends 47 variable ; dependa variable ; depends on
smoked, mm on length of on length of length of cigarette
cigarette being cigarette being being tested
tested
tested
butt length, tnm variable ; depends 23 variable ; depends 23 variable ; depends on
on length of on length of length of cigarette
cigarette being cigarette being being tested
tested
tested
number of puffs number required to number required to number required to number required to 14
consume 47 mm of attain 23-mm butt consume 47 mm of attain 23-mm butt
cigarette length cigarette length
puff
puff
volume
duration
puff
no ./min
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35
35
2 .0
frequency,
l
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44
2 .0
l
1
1 .9
1
2
lab temp ., °C 25° not specified not specified not specified 23 .9°
lab
RH,
%
45%
cigarettes
per determination
not :peeified not specified not specified 60%
smoked
5
8
10
S
10°
cigarette selection selected for selected for selected for selected for selected for
uniformity In uniformity in uniformity In , uniformity In uniformity in
moiature content, moisture content, moisture content, moisture content, moisture content,
cigarette size (if cigarette aize (if cigarette size (if cigarette aize (if cigarette uze (if
feasible), weight, feasible), weight, feasible), weight, feasible), weight, feaaible), weight,
firmness, and other firmness, and other firmness, and other firmness, and other firmneu, and other
characteristics characteristics characteristics characteristics characteristics
2 It should be noted In the Cambridge filter method as outlined by Ogg et ai . (1962) the cigarette under teat is smoked to a 30-mm butt
length . Further modificitiona of this method, including length of cigarette to be smoked, are under consideration by the Analytical Methods
Committee of the Tobacco Chemists' Research Conference .
The Consumer
Union's Method
(Consumer
$Sports . 1955)
Cambridge Filter
Method (Wartman
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Foster D. Sne11
Method (Kimball)
L&M Tobacco Co .
Method (Keith and
Newsome, 1956,
1957, 1958;
Newsome and Keith,
1916, 1957)
determination of Solids (designated
total solids as tan in the
publication) are
determined by
gravity deposition
of smoke over 2S
m1of0.1N
sulfuric acid . The
mixture Is extracted
with chloroform,
and the chloroform
extract ia heated to
evaporate the
chloroform . The
residue is then
heated, or dried,
for 3 hr at 100°C .
The weight of
remaining material
after the heating ia
reported as tars .
Smoke for determination of both
nicotine and solids
is absorbed in
acidified alcohol.
One portion of the
acidified alcoholic
solution is diluted
with water, then
extracted with
chloroform . The
aqueoua layer ia
made alkaline and
re-extracted with
chloroform . The
two chloroform
extracts are combined, and the
chloroform
removed by
evaporation to yield
the tar, which is
weighed .
Cigarette MS is
collected on a glass
fiber filter material,
Cambridge filter
medium CM-! l3 .
The weight of
material retained in
the filter represents
total solids (total
particulate matter).
Part of the material
retained on the
Cambridge filter ia
water. Thus, this
method Includes
water in the value
for total solids,
whereas the
Wolman Method
and the Consumers
Union Method do
not.
.
To determine solids
(tar content In the
communi-cation),
smoke Is collected
in acidified alcohol .
The alcohol
solution is heated
on a steam bath
(100°C) to
evaporate the
alcohol . After
about S hr, the
residue is heated in
the beaker at
105°C for 7 hr.
The weight of
material remaining
in the beaker ia
designated as the
tar content.
The smoke in this
method is retained
on an a-cellulose
trap . The a-cellulose
is washed with hot
acidic methanol . The
solution is extracted
with chloroform . To
deter-mine soltds
(termed tar in the
publications), the
chloroform solution
is evaporated on the
steam bath and
heating is continued
for 3 hr at 105°C .
Tar value is
determined by
weighing the
residue .
determination of Solids for deternicotine mination of
ntcodne are
collected over 10
ml alcohol acidified
with sulfuric acid
in a 300-mi
i(ieldahl flask .
Solution Is treated
with alkali and then
ateatn-0iatilled . The
distillate ia treated
with ailicotungatic
acid to precipitate
the ailicotungatate .
The ailicotung.tate
la separated and ia
ignited to an ash
whose weight Is
used to calculate
the nicotine valueb .
Another portion of
the acidified
alcoholic solution is
treated with base
and ateam-diadlled .
Mcodne in the
steam distillate ia
measured apectrophotometricdly .
To determine
nicotine, the
Cambridge filter
with the retained
solids Is extracted
with 0. 1 N aulfitric
acid . The solution,
after washing with
chloroform, ia
made alkaline and
is ateam4iatilled .
Nicotine In the
steam distillate ia
determined either
by the silicotungstic
acid method or by
the apectrophotometrie method .
To determine
nicodnt, an aliquot
of the acidified
alcohol solution
containing the
smoke solids is
heated to remove
the alcohol, the
residue ia made
alkaline and is
ateam-diatilled .
Mcodne ia determined gravimetrically in the steam
distillate (silicotungstic acid
method) .
The extracted
methanol solution is
nude alkaline and is
steam-distilled .
NTcodnt Is determined in the steam
distillate apectrophotometrically .
' The authors recommended that three to six such determinations be carried out and the results averaged .
b Since other alkaloids coprecipiute with nicotine as ailicotung .tatea, this determination yields the alkaloid or total alkaloid
value .
•
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From the foregoing it is apparent that each of the methods has adopted arbitrary smoking
habits for the smoking machine, which habits do not correspond with the habits of each individual
smoker . The volume of puff taken in smoking [Derr et al ., 1937 ; Cigarette Components, Ltd .,
1957 ; Schur and Rickards, 1955, 1957 ; Cuzin et al., 1958], the frequency of puffs [Derr et al .,
1937 ; Cigarette Components, Ltd ., 1957 ; Cuzin et al., 1958 ; Staub and Furrer, 1957 ; Bentley and
Burgan, 19613, and the duration of the puff [Derr et al ., 1937 ; Hilding, 1956 ; Schur and
Rickards, 1955, 1957 ; Cuzin et al ., 1958 ; Staub and Furrer, 1957 ; Bentley and Burgan, 1961]
vary among individuals. The length of the cigarette smoked, or the butt length to which cigarettes
are smoked also varies among smokers [Hilding, 1956 ; Cigarette Components, Ltd ., 1957; Schur
and Rickards, 1955, 1957 ; Finkner et al ., 1957; Bentley and Burgan, 1961] . These variations
necessarily mean that the amount of total solids and nicotine collected by the smoking machine
is not the same as what individual smokers receive .
It is obvious of course that all smokers do not retain 100% of the particulate phase as a
smoking machine is designed to do . The degree of inhalation differs appreciably among individuals
(Cigarette Components, Ltd ., 1957] . Moreover, smokers who inhale hold the smoke in the lungs
for different times, some exhaling more quickly than others [Mitchell, 1962] . The Amount of
particulate phase retained in the lungs obviously depends in part upon the time elapsing between
inhaling and exhaling . Smokers who do not inhale admit the smoke to their mouths ; the duration
of retention of the particulate phase in their mouths obviously affects the extent of retention of
solids [Mitchell, 1962] .
Other variations between smokers include the following :
• The burning temperature of cigarettes varies from smoker to smoker because of
differences in smoking habits [Cuzin et al ., 1958] .
• The pressure drop across a cigarette differs from smoker to smoker [Bradford et al .,
1936; Hilding, 1956 ; Schur and Rickards, 1955, 1957 ; Staub and Furrer, 1957 ; Cuzin
et al ., 1958] .
• The total number of puffs per cigarette and the time necessary to consume a cigarette
varies from smoker to smoker [Hilding, 1956 ; Bentley and Burgan, 1961] .
Successive puffs of an individual on the same cigarette may differ with respect to puff
volume, puff duration, and frequency, degree of inhalation, temperature change by puffing, and
pressure drop produced by smoking [Staub and Furrer, 1957] . The manner of smoking successive
cigarettes by an individual may also vary . These differences include length of cigarette consumed,
total number of puffs per cigarette, and time required to consume a cigarette (Staub and Furrer,
1957] .
All of the variations so far mentioned have been the subject of comment in the scientific
literature, and all would affect the amount of total solids and nicotine received by the individual
smoker as compared with a smoking machine . In addition, there are other variable factors, which
have not been reported in the scientific literature and which may affect the amount or composition
of total solids and nicotine delivered to or retained by a smoker . Some of the factors are :
• Smoking at very low temperatures and very low humidity . These conditions would
prevail in the winter in the northern states .
• Smokin,g at reduced pressure, e .g., in the mountainous states . There is some indication
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that the rate of burning of a cigarette will differ depending upon the altitude at which the
cigarette is smoked .
• Smoking in areas which are either abnormally humid or abnormally dry.
• Smoking from a pack which has been opened for more than a day . The cigarettes may
lose appreciable moisture under and conditions . Although loss of moisture will not affect
weight of solids produced per cigarette', it is believed to affect the chemical composition
of smoke.
Variations in Cigarette s
The following variables affect the yield of total solids per gram of tobacco product consumed
and the composition of the smoke and total solids :
• Tobacco [Wynder and Hoffmann, 1963, 1964] .
Since tobacco is an agricultural commodity, it is not homogenous . Its characteristics vary from
leaf to leaf of the same plant and within the same leaf . And of course a variety of types, grades,
and blends of tobaccos are used in the manufacture of cigarettes, such as flue-cured, burley, and
Turkish tobaccos, and blends of such tobaccos .
• Processed tobacco (Wynder et al., 1959 ; Nicod, 1961 ; Cuzin et al, 1963 ; Uhlman,
1963] .
Just as different tobacco types and blends yield different amounts of total solids, homogenized
tobaccos (reconstituted tobacco sheet), on a per gram of processed tobacco consumed, yield
different amounts of total solids than does tobacco . Extraction of tobacco decreases the yield and
alters the composition of the total solids in MS and alters . Steaming of tobacco produces similar
changes .
• Number of cuts/inch [Wynder and Hoffmann, 1964] .
With the same tobacco type or the same blend, increasing the number of cuts per inch decreases
the total solids in MS .
• Filtration and pressure drop [Wynder and Hoffmann, 1960 ; Bock et al., 1962 ; Ayres et
al., 1963 ; Waltz and Hausermann, 1963] .
The higher the degree of filtration the lower the total solids ; the higher the pressure drop, the
lower the total solids. The efficiency of filters of the same design will vary from filter to filter
depending upon the construction or the manner in which the filter tow is packed.
• Paper porosity [Schur and Rickards, 1955,1957 ; Lipp and Van Hooy, 1962 ; Wynder and
Hoffmann, 1964] .
The cigarette paper which is normally supplied to the cigarette manufacturer usually has an
3 This has been shown to be Incorrect . Loaa of moisture from the tobacco filler affech the yields of both "tar" and nicotine .
• The study by Green et a! . (1982) showed that moisture loss from the cigarette filler had profound effects on the MS composition .
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appreciable range of porosity . The solids in MS usually decrease as the porosity increases .
• Number of pt~`'s taken to consume a given length of cigarette [Newsome and Keith, 1956,
1957 ; Segelken et al., 1962] .
E.g ., burley tobacco buras at a greater rate than other tobacco types ; thus, a different number of
puffs are required to consume the same cigarette length of burley, flue-cured, and Turkish
tobaccos .
• Moisture content of cigarettes [Newsome and Keith, 1956, 1957 : Sato et al ., 1961 ;
Wynder and Hoffmann, 1964] .
The age of the cigarette, e.g., the length of time on the retailer's shelf, may affect the moisture
content of the filler.
• Variations in amounts of total solids and nicotine In each puff [Lindsey, 1959, 1962 ;
Kotin and Falk, 1960 ; Wynder and Hoffmann, 1961 ; Ayres et al., 1963] .
It has been suggested in the scientific literature that the amount and composition of total solids in
later puffs markedly exceeds that in earlier puffs [Lindsey, 1959, 1962 ; Kotin and Falk, 1960] ;
other investigators report finding very little difference between the mounts in the early and late
puffs [Wynder and Hoffmann, 1961 ; Ayres et al ., 1963] .
• Additives on tobacco [Alvord and Cardon, 1956 ; Lindsey et al ., 1959 ; Bentley and
Burgan, 1960 ; Candeli et al., 1960; Wynder and Hoffmann, 1961 ; Cuzin et al., 1963 ;
Scherback et al., 19631 .
The amount of total solids and composition of MS and solids vary with the amounts of additives
such as licorice and glycerol . It is impossible to apply these to tobacco uniformly .
• Humidity of analytical laboratory [Newsome and Keith, 1956, 1957 ; Sato et al ., 1961 ;
Wynder and Hoffmann, 1964] .
It is quite obvious that some of these variable are interdependent, e .g., filtration, paper porosity,
cuts/inch, filling capacity, and pressure drop .
Chanaes in the Comcosition of Smoke and Total Solids
It has been pointed out that the amount of total solids and nicotine produced by smoking can be
changed by a large number of variable factors, including the type of tobacco, the efficiency of the filter,
and the porosity of the cigarette paper. As has been mentioned in connection with such factors, they (and
probably others) may also change the ratio of various components of the smoke . As a result, the ratios of
the components in the total solids may be different .
m
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f- APPENDIX C : DETERMINATION OF "TAR"' YIELD FROM
ULTRALOW-"TAR" CIGARETTES: SPECTROMETRY
The following paragraphs, slightly modified, are from a 1988 memorandum written
by Rodgman :
In the mid-1950s, Watson (1954) investigated the fluorescence of cigarette smoke and related
the difference in fluorescence between inhaled and exhaled cigarette MS to the degree of
particulate matter retention and the possible relationship to lung cancer causation . At the same
time, Schmghl and co-workers reported on their studies of the fluorescence of cigarette MS,
particularly with respect to the fluorescence of its particulate matter (SchmBhl et al ., 1954 ;
SchmAhl, 1955 ; SchmAhl and Schneider, 1955) . In fact, they used this analytical procedure to
estimate the degree of absorption of MS by the smoker during consumption of the cigarette . From
their fluorescence measurements on inhaled and exhaled MS particulate matter, Schm1hl et al .
(1954) estimated that as much as 90% of the MS particulate matter was retained in the lungs and
bronchi during deep inhalation. Subsequently, Wynder and Hoffmann (1960) claimed they had
confirmed the findings of SchmAhl et al . Neither Watson nor SchmBhl commented on the findings
of Bruce (1941) who reported that there was no correlation between fluorescence in general and
carcinogenicity .
/
Bentley and Burgan (1958) described the use of fluorescence techniques to estimate the levels V/
of several PAHs, including BaP, in a PAH-rich fraction derived from CSC . The use of
fluorescence spectroscopy to estimate PAHs (or BaP) is not surprising : UV fluorescence
spectroscopy was used by Hieger (1930, 1933) and Cook et al . (1932, 1933) in their concentration ~Ie ,/
of the PAHs in coal tar and the isolation of BaP and other tumorigenic PAHs from the PAH-rich
coal-tar fraction in the early 1930s .
However, it should be noted that the fluorescence of a solution of cigarette MS particulate
matter is not due solely to the PAHs contained therein . E.g., Duggan et al. (1957) noted in their
study of the fluorescence properties of compounds of biological interest that, in addition to the
PAHs and structurally similar heterocyclic compounds, many classes of compounds such as
phenols, aromatic amines, and conjugated polyenes exhibited pronounce fluorescence properties .
All of these classes of compounds are now known to be present in CSC . Glycerol and propylene
g.lycol, major tobacco additives which appear in MS, are .UV transparent at the absorption or
fluorescence wavelengths used .
McConnell et al . (1960r'used fluorescence techniques in their method to evaluate the
efficiency of various cigarette filtefs-in particulate matter removal from MS . They did note that
the fluorescence intensity of solutions of cigarette MS particulate matter was linearly proportional
to the weight of MS particulate matter . However,'ate the high-"tar" deliveries (about 30 mg/cigt)
of the 1960 cigarettes, it was noted that the gravimetric method was more rapid and slightly more
accurate than the fluorescence method . A similar procedure ftc described by Smit (1972) in his
determination of filter tip efficiency for particulate matter removaTfratQMS .
Burton et al. (1977) confirmed the findings of McConnell et al . (1960) on the linearity
between fluorescence and particulate matter weight and also noted the fluorescence method was
more accurate and less time consuming for low-"tar" cigarettes than the gravimetric method used
in the FTC procedure . Three years later, Thomas et al . (1980) described an automated method,
base on fluorescence technology, for the determination of FTC "tar" in the MS of low-"tar"
delivery cigarettes .
r
r
P/
r
ILe UV absorption method described by Sloan and Curran (1981) for estimation of per
cigarette "tar" yields is similar to the UV fluorescence procedure . A modification (Hege, 1980)
of the Sloan-Curran UV procedure was used at RJRT R&D in low-"tar" studies and in Premier
studies (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co ., 1988). K
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DRAFT • January 22, 1965
A Short Explanation and Analysis of Methods of Measuring
"Tar and Nicotine" in Cigarette Smoke
Introduction
. Suggestions have been made from time to time that
cigarette packages-should indicate the amount of "tar
and nicotine" produced by the smoking of the cigarettes
in the package . Even if it were established that "tar
and nicotine" have some relationship to health, there is
no method by which a smoker can be accurately informed of
either the amount or the composition of the "tar and
nicotine" he receives from the cigarettes he smokes .
The term "tar and nicotine" requires clarification .
Cigarette smoke consists of the particulate phase and the
gas phase . The particulate phase has been referred to in
scientific and other literature by,a variety of terms, such
as tars, smoke solids, solids, total solids, particulate
matter, total particulate matter, smoke condensate, total
smoke condensate and smoke condensables . one of the components
of smoke solids is nicotine ; the nicotine fraction of smoke
solids is sometimes referred to as alkaloids, or total
alkaloids . It .,seems more meaningful to use the term "total
solids" instead of "tar", and such term will be used in this
memorandum .
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Various methods exist for determining in the laboratory
the total solids and the nicotine in the smoke of cigarettes
smoked by a machine under laboratory conditions . Although
the different methods produce different results, one method
could be arb_itrarily
selected as the standard . But the
.
total solids and nicotine received by any individual smoker
would vary from that produced by the smoking machine in the
laboratory using the same brand of cigarettes, even if it
be assumed that the cigarettes smoked by the individual and
those smoked in the laboratory are exactly alike . This is
because the smoking habits of individuals vary, and because
the conditions under which cigarettes are smoked vary .
.It may not be assumed, however, that cigarettes smoked
by the smoking machine in the laboratory are the same as the
cigarettes of the same brand purchased by the smoker . Because
of unavoidable variations in the manufacture and storage of
cigarettes, differences exist in the tobacco, paper, filter
and condition of cigarettes so that measurements of total
I•
solids and nicotine in the smoke of one sample of cigarettes
will differ from measurements obtained with another sample
of the same brand, assuming that all possible steps are taken
•
-3to assure as much uniformity as possible . The measurements
appearing on a package of cigarettes would relate to the
cigarettes used iii the test, and would not be accurate as
applied to the cigarettes contained in the package .
Even if two cigarettes of the same brand, or of two
different brands, were to deliver precisely the same amount
of total solids, variations in the cigarettes, in smoking
habits and in smoking conditions would generate total solids
in the smoke of one of the cigarettes composed of different
quantities and kinds of chemical compounds from those
found in the total solids from the other cigarette . Since
it is not known which, if any, chemical compound in the
total solids is harmful, it is not helpfuli to the smoker to
furnish him a quantitative measurement of total solids,
especially one which, as has been stated in the two preceding
paragraphs, cannot be accurate .
The conclusion is therefore inescapable that labeling
•the amount of "tar and nicotine" on a cigarette package
cannot give to the smoker meaningful information as to the
amount or composition of the total solids an$ nicotine he
receives from the cigarettes he smokes . He is more likely
to be misled than informed .
Methods for Measuring Total Solids and Nicotine
The following five methods for measuring total
solids and nicotine are described in Appendix A hereto :
the Wolman method ; the Consumer's Union method - No . I ;
the Cambridge Filter method ; the Foster D . Snell method ;
and the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company method . It •
should be recognized that a number of variations of such
methods are possible, and there-may be other methods .
Those described in Appendix A, however, appear to be the
ones most commonly reported in the scientific literature .
The five methods described in Appendix A have not
been compared on the same lot of cigarettes . Three of
the methods, however, have been compared by Keith & Newsome
(Tobacco Science II, 14-19 (1958)) . The results of such
comparison show distinct variations, and were reported to
be as follows :
Consumer's Union
Method - No . 1
Solids, mg ./cig .
18 .8
Foster D . Snell Liggett and Myers
Method Tobacco Co . Method
34 .2
19 .1
Ln
Nicotine , mg ./cig .
2 .2
2 .9
3 .5
It is of course clear even apart from such comparisons that
the various methods, described in Appendix A necessarily
will produce different results, because they do not start
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Generally speaking each of the methods requires from
five to ten cigarettes [query, Liggett & Myers method?]
for testing purposes . The cigarettes are smoked by a
machine, which is designed to retain 1007. of the particulate
phase of the smoke . Each method proceeds on the basis of
smoking the cigarettes using a fixed volume of puff, a puff
of a specific :duration, a fixed frequency of puffing, and
a specific amount of the cigarette to be smoked . All methods
other than that of Liggett & Myers use a 35 ml . volume-of
puff . The most common duration of puff is two seconds, and
the most common frequency of puff is one per minute . The
Wolman method and the Cambridge Filter method smoke a fixed
length of cigarette (47 mm .), regardless of the length of
the cigarette being smoked and regardless of whether it
is a filter cigarette or not . Some of the methods smoke to
a predetermined butt length, for example, 23 mm . ; in such
methods the length of cigarette smoked would vary depending
upon the initia7l length of the cigarette being tested and
whether or not it is a filter cigarette . The Liggett & Myers
method smokes fourteen puffs of each cigarette, fo that the
number of puffs taken determines the length of the cigarette
smoked .
-6From the foregoing it is apparent that each of the
methods has adopted arbitrary smoking habits for the smoking
machine, which habits .do not correspond with the habits of
each individual smoker . The volume of puff taken in smoking
a cigarette, the frequency of puffs, and the duration of
the puff vary among individuals . The lengths of cigarettes
smoked, or the butt length to which cigarettes are smoked
:also varies among smokers . These variations necessarily
means that the amount of total solids and nicotine collected
by the smoking machine is not the same as what the individual
smoker receives .
It is obvious of course that all smokers do not take
in, or retain, 100% of the particulate phase, as a smoking
machine is designed to do . The degree of inhalation differs
appreciably among individuals . Moreover, smokers who inhale
hold the smoke in the lungs for different times, some exhaling
more quickly than others . The amount of the particulate
phase retained in the lungs obviously depends in part upon
the time elapsing between inhaling and exhaling . Smokers
who do not inhale admit the smoke to their mouths ; the duration
of reteption of the particulate phase in their mouths obviously
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determines the extent of retention of solids .
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the burning temperature of cigarettes varies from smoker
to smoker because of differences in smoking habits ; the
pressure dro,p across a cigarette differs from smoker to
smoker ; and the total number of puffs per cigarette and
the time necessary to consume a cigarette varies from
smoker to smoker .
Successive puffs of an individual on the same cigarette
may differ with respect to puff volume, puff duration, degree
of inhalation, temperature change by puffing, and pressure
drop produced by puffing . The manner of smoking successive
cigarettes by an individual may also differ with respect
to number of puffs per minute, length of cigarette consumed,
total number of puffs per cigarette and time required to
consume a cigarette .
All of the variations so far mentioned have been the
subject of comment in the scientific literature, and all
Would affect the amount of total solids and nicotine received
by the individual smoker as compared with a smoking machine .
In addition, there are other variable factors, which have
not been reported in the scientific literature, and which
may affect the amount or composition of total so~lids and
nicotine delivered to or retained by a smoker . Some of
these factors are :
,
a. Smoking at very low temperatures and very low
humidity . These conditions would prevail in
the winter in the northern states .
b . Smoking at reduced pressures, for example in the
mountainous states . There is some indication
that the rate of burning of a cigarette will
differ depending upon the altitude at which the
cigarette is smoked .
c . Smoking in areas which are either abnormally
humid or abnormally dry .
d . Smoking from a pack which has been open for'more
than a day . The cigarettes may lose appreciable
moisture under arid conditions . Although loss of
moisture will not affect weight of solids produced
per cigarette, it is believed to affect the
chemical composition of smoke .
Variations in Cigarette s
The following variables affect the yield of total
solids per gram of tobacco product consumed :
a . Tobacco . Since tobacco is an agricultural
commodity, it is not homogeneous . Its
characteristics vary from leaf to leaf of
the same plant, and within the same leaf .
And of course a variety of types and grades
of tobacco are used in the manufacture of
cigarettes, such as flue-cured, Burley and
Turkish tobaccos .
b . Filtration and pressure drop . The h ;gher the
degree of filtration, the lower the total
solids ; and the higher the pressure drop, the
lower the total solids . The efficiency of
filters of the same design will vary from
filter to filter depending upon the construction
or the manner in which the filter tow is packed .
-9c . Paper porosity . The solids usually decrease
,as the porosity increases .
d . Number of puffs taken to consume a given length
of cigaz'ette . For example, Burley tobacco burns
at a greater rate than other tobacco types ; and
thus, a different number of puffs are required
to consume the same cigarette length of Burley,
flue-cured, and Turkish tobaccos .
e . Humidity of analytical laboratory .
f . Moisture content of cigarettes . The age of the
cigarettes (e .g .•, the length of time on the
retailer's shelf) may affect the moisture
content . Moreover it is not possible to
manufacture cigarettes with a constant moisture
_ content .
g . Variations in amounts of total solids and/or
nicotine in each puff . It has been suggested in
the scientific literature that the amount and
composition of total solids in later puffs markedly
expeeds that in earlier puffs ; others report
finding very little difference between the amounts
in the early and late puffs .
h . Number of cuts/inch . With the same tobacco type
or blend, increasing the number of cuts per
inch of tobacco in the manufacturing process
decreases the total solids in the smoke, and
changes their composition .
i . Additives on the a er and/or the tobacco can
elter the amount of smoke solids and or nicotine .
Additives include flavoring materials .
Of course some of the above mentioned variables are
interdependent, e .g ., filtration, paper porosity, cuts/ inch
of tobacco, and pressure drop .
-9AIt should be emphasized that variations between
cigarettes exist between practically all cigarettes . That
is to say, cigarettes manufactured at the same time, from
the same tobacco and other materials, will show many of
the variations described, and would on testing generate
total solids of different amounts and composition . This
is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the five
test methods d'escribed in Appendix A all produce an average
reading for all the cigarettes tested, rather than a reading
for each cigarette .
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the Composition of Smoke and Total Solids
It has been pointed out that the amount of total
solids and nicotine produced by smoking can be changed
by a large number of variable factors, including the type
of tobacco, the efficiency of the filter, and the porosity
of the cigarette paper . As has been mentioned in connection
with some of the factors named, they (and others) may also
change the ratios of the various components of the smoke .
As a result, although the amount of total solids may remain
the same or be reduced, the ratios of the components in
the smoke might be different .
A Short Explanation and Analysis of Methods of Neuuring
"Tar and Nicotine" in Cia .,rette Ss+oke ~. .~.~.~ ..~
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Int~.i.°o .
Suggestions have been rade from time to time that cigarette
packages"should indicate the amunt of "tar and nicotine" produced
by the emoking of the cigarettes in the package . Even if it were
established that "tar and nicotine" have some relationship to
health, there is no method by which a smoker caa be sccuratelr
informedof either the snunt or the compositioa of the "tar and
S
nicotine" he receives from the cigarettes he ssiokea .
The term "tar and nicotine" requires clarification . Cigarette
smoke consists of the particulate phase and the gas phue . The
particulate phase has been referred te•in scientific and other
literature by a variety of terrs, such ai .tars, saoke solids, solids,
total solids, particulate oatter,'total particulate nttter, snoke
condensate, total sooke condensate aad smoke coadensables . One of
the components of smoke solids xs jicotinei the nicotine fraction
of smoke solids is somsti .es referred'to u alkaloids, or total
alkaloids . It seems more meaningful to use the ters "total solids"
instead of "tar", 4nd such term vill be used ta this sswrandum .
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dumaa~ and Conclusion
Yariou& methods exist for determining to the laboratory
the total solids end the nicotine in the ss+oke of cigar .ttes ssioked
by a machine under laboratory conditions . Although the different
.ethods produce different results, one method could be arbitrarily
selected a1 the standard . but the total solids and nicotine received
by any individual smoker would vary from that produced by the
ss,dcing machine in the laboratory using the sam brand of cigarettes,
even if it be assumed that the cigarettes smoked by the individual
and those smoked in the laboratory are exactly alike . This is
because the smoking habits of individuals vary, and because the
conditionsr under which cigarettes are smoked vary .
It may not be assumed, however, that cigarettes smoked by the
smoking machine in the laboratory are the sa .ro as the cigarettes
of the same brand purchased by the smoker . Because of unavoidable
variations in the manufacture and storage of cigarettes, differences
exist in the tobacco, paper, filter and condition of cigarettes so
that measurements of total solida and nicotine in the ssioke of ms
sample of cigarettes will differ from measurements obtained vitb
another sample of the same brand, assuming that all possible steps "
are taken to assure as eauch uniformity as possible . Zbe measure .ents
appearing on a package of cigarettes would relate to the cigarettes
used in the test, and would not be accurate as applied to the
cigarettes contained in the package .
Even if two cigarettes of the saoe brand, or of two different
brands, were to deliver preaisely the aase aount of total solids,
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variations in the .eigarettes, in smoking habits and in s .oicins oonditions
would generate total solids in the a.oke of oae of the cigarettes
composed of different quantities and kinds of chemical compounds from
those fouad_ia the total solids fro* the othsr cigarette . iiace it
is not known which, if any, chemical compound in the total solida
is harmful, it is not helpful to the ss»ker to furnish his a quantitative measurement of total solids, especially one which, as has beaa
stated in the two preceding paragraphs, cannot be accarate .
The conclusion is therefore inescapable that labeling the
amount of "tar and nicotine" on a cigarette package cannot fiw to
the smoker meaningful information as to the amount or composition
of the total solids and nicotine he receives from the cigarettes be
smokes . He is more likely to be misled than informed .
Mthods f,Qr Ifeasgrin;Total „fiolidg and llieotine
The following five methods for aeaauring total solids and
nicotine are described in Appendix At the Wolsisn sr thod (1) ;
the Consumer's Union method - No .' I(Z) ; the Cambridge pilter
s+ethod (3) ; the loster D . Snell method (4) ; and the Liggett i l~rers
Tobacco Company method (5) . It should be recognized that a aumber
of variations of such methods are poasible, and there may be other
methods . Those described in Appendix A, however, appear to be the
ones most commonly reported .
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The five s+ethods described in Appendix A have not baen
cosQared on the s .me lot of cigarettes . Tbrea of the tsthods,
hos+ever, hive been compared by Xsith iNevsom (S) . '!be results
of such comparison show distinct variations, and were nported
to be as follows :
Consumer's ttaion
h2thod _ No . 1 (2)
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Poster D . Snsll
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Liggett i Myers
Tobacco Co .
Method (S) .
18 .8
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19 .1
2 .2
2 .9
3 .5
Solids, mg ./cig .
Nicotine, mg ./cig .
it ia of course clear even apart from such comparisons that the
various aethods described in Appendix A naosssarily will produce
different results, because they do not start with the same smoking
conditions .
Generally speaking each of the mthods requires from five to t•n
cigarettes for testing purposes . Tbe cigarettes are smoked by a
machine, which is designed to retain 100x of the particulate pbase
of the smoke . Each method proceeds on the basis of smoking the
cigarettes using a fixed volu .e of puff, • puff ot-srecific daratioa,
a fixed frequency of puffing, and a specific asomt of the cigarette
to be smoked . All s+ethods other than that of Liuett i lbers tisae a~
1S-ui . volume of puff . The most eoasson duration of puff is tro
seconds, and the most comson frequency of puff is otu per sinute .
The Wolsun method and the Caabridse Tilter tiatbod* s .oked a fisad
* See footnote, page 12
length of cigarette (47 na .) regardless of the length of the
cigarette being smoked and regardless of whether it is a filter
cigarette or not . tow of the methods amolc .e to a predetermined
butt length, for exanQle, 23 0 . ; in such siethods the length of
cigarette smoked would vary depending upon the initial leqgth of
the cigarette being tested and v_hether or not it is a filter
cigarette . The Liggett iWers method smokes fourteen puffs of
each cigarette, so that the number of puffs taken determines the
length of the cigarette smoked .
From the foregoing it is apparent that each of ths .rthods
has adopted arbitrary smoking babita for the smoking tachine, which
habits do not correspond with the habits of each individual smoker .
The volume of puff taken in smoking a cigarette (6, 7, 10, 11), the
frequency of puffs (6, 10, 11, 13, 14), and the duration of the
puff (6-8, 10, 13, 14) vary among individuals . The length of
cigarettes smoked, or the butt length to which cigarettes are
smoked also varies among smokers (7-9, 11, 13) . lbese variations
necessarily mean that the amount of total solids astid nicotine
collected by the smoking machine is not the aaae as what the
individual smoker receives .
It is obvious of course that all smokers do not retain 1002
of the particulate phase as a smoking machine is designed to do .
The degree of inhalation differs appreciably s,oong individuals (11) .
Moreover, smokers who inhale hold the smoke in the lungs for
different times, some exhaling more Quickly than others (15) .
The amount of the particulate phase retained in the lungs
obviously~depends in part upon the time elapsing betwen inhalini
and exhaling . Smokers who do not inhale adait the smoke to their
mouths ; the duration of retention of the particulate phase in
their mouths obviously affects the extent of retention of solids (15) .
Other variations between smokers inelude the following : the
burning temperature of cigarettes varies from smoker to smoker
because of differences in smoking habits (6) ; the pressure drop
across a cigarette differs from smoker to smoker (6-a, 12, 14) ;
and the total number of puffs per cigarette and the time necessary
to consume a cigarette varies from smoker to smoker (8, 13) .
Successive puffs of an individual on the same cigarette uy
differ with respect to puff volume, puff duration and frequency,
degree of inhalation, tes4erature change by puffing, and pressure
drop produced by puffing (14) . The manner of smoking successive
cigarettes by an individual t.ay also differ . These differences
include length of cigarette eonsurd, total nueber of puffs per
cigarette, and time required to consume a cigarette (14) .
A11 of the variations so far mentioned have been the subject , .
of comaent in the scientific literature, and all would affect tha
asount of total solids and nicotine received by the individual
smoker as compared with a smoking machine . In addition, there
are other variable factors, .fiich have not been reported in the
scientific literature, and which saay affect the asount or
composition of total solids and aicotine deliverad to or retained
,1
by a saoke : . Some of these factors are :
a . Smoking at very low temperatures and very low humidity .
These conditions would prevail in the winter in the
nb'rthern states .
b . Smoking at reduced pressures, for example in the
mountainous states . There is some indication that
the rate of burning of a cigarette will differ
depending upon the altitude at which the cigarette
is smoked .
c . Smoking in areas which are either abnormally humid
or abnormally dry .
d . Smoking from a pack which has been open for more than
a day . The cigarettes nay lose appreciable moisture
under arid conditions . Although loss of moisture
wiil not affect weight of solids produced per ci6arette, it is believed to affect the chemical composition
of smoke .
Variations in Ciaarettes
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The following variables affect the yield of total solids per
gram of tobacco product consumed, and composition of the smoke
and total solids :
a . Tobacco (37, 38) . 6ince tobacco is aa agridiltural
comiewdity, it is sot boaogen .oua . Its cbaracteristics
~ary from leaf to leaf of t6e sa.e plamt, asd vithin
the same Laf . Aad of course a .ariety of types,
grades, and blends of tobacco are used is'the smufacture
ot.cigarettes, such as jlus-cured, burley, aad Turkish
tobaccos, and blends of such tobaccos .
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b . Filtra_ tion aad eressuXg droD (17,9~3i, 33~5 the higher
the degree of filtration, the lowar the total solids=
and the higher the pressure drop, the lwrer the total
solids . The efficiency of filters of the sar design
vill vary from filter to filter dapending upon the
construction or the .aaner ia•vliich the filter tar is
packed .
c . Pa~er porositr (Z6, 31, 38) . The cigarette paper Mhich
is normally supplied to tha cigarette sanufacturrt
usually has an appreciable range of porosity . %e solids
usually decrease as the porosity iscrrasos .
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a greater rate than other tobacco types= aed thus, a
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different number of puffs are reqnir+N~Ro oontosr t1~s sar
,
cigarette length of lurley, flue-cur.d, md llittdsb
tobaccos .
a. Moisture content qfciasrettes (27, 29, 38) . tbe ap of
the cigarette (e .p ., the length of tir on the retailer's
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f . Va_liations to _o,i„jotal solids snd,tiicotins in
Sach f (17, 22-24, 36) . It bas bsn suuest .d ia the
scientific litarature•tbat the asawat rd corposition of
total solids in later puffs .ariudly esouds that in
earlier puffs (22-24jt others report finding very little
difference between tbe asomts in the •arlr and late
puffs (17, 36) .
t. Additives on tobacco (16, 18, 20, 21, 259 30, 36) . The
amount of total solida and oo .position of the s .dce aad
solids vary with the asounts of additives such as licorioa
and glycerol . It is impossible to apply these to tobacco
uniformly .
Of course aow of the above-msntloosd variables are ietsrdependent= e .g ., filtration, paper porosity, and pressure drop .
Moreover, it should be qphasiad that there viil tie tariation tros
cigarette to cigarette ia the composition of sacb cisaratte Miss
to the nature of the cigarstts-sishint process .
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It has been pointed out that the a .amt of total solids aad
nicotine produced by smoking can be chsajed by a large number of
variable factors, including the type of tobacco, the efficiency of
•10the filter, and the porbsity of the citarette paper . As has been
osntioned in connuction vith such factors, they (and probably oths n)
aay also ciange the ratios of the various cowposrents of the eooks .
As a result, although the a*ount of total solids .ay teaain the saoe
or be reduced, the ratios of the co .poaents in the•total solids mp
be different .
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._ .EMIX
IiE1'HODS FOR DETEMNATION QZ KICOTINE A& IMDS_
I . T_h Nolman! t~ethod_ (1)
The conditions for smoking are as followss
Length of cigarette a.okad - 47 millimeters (o .)
Length of butt - variable, depending on length•of cigarette
being used in test
Volume of puff - 3f sdlliliters (or cubic centimeters ; sl . or cc .)
Frequeecy of puff - one puff`per minute
Temperature of laboratory - 71' F .
Relative humidity of air - 45%
Clgarettes smoked for each determination - Five
In this and in other methods, the cigarettes are selected for
uniformity in moisture content, cigarette sise (if feasible),•
cigarette weight, firmness, and other characteristics .
Solids for determination of cot e are collected over 10 rl .
of alcohol acidified with sulfuric acid in a 300-al . Kjeldahl fluk .
Solution is treated with alkali and is then steam-distilled . The
steam distillate is then treated with silicotungstic acid to precipitate the silicotungstate . The silicotungstate is ssparated and is
ignited to an ash . The weight of the ash is uaed in the calculation
of the nicotine value . However, since in this method, other alkaloids
could coprecipitate with nicotine as ailicotungstates, this datermination in reality may, depending on conditions of the experiment, yield
the alkaloid value or the total alkaloid value . Mother itss to note
is that the silicotungatic procedare can also be described as the
gravimetric procedure - implying that a weighing is performed in tLe
determination of nicotine .
Sol~tds_ (designated as tars in tbe article) are determined by ,
gravity deposition of smoke aver 25 rl . of 0 .11 aqueous sulfuric
acid . The mixture is extracted with chloroform . The chloroford
solution is heated to evaporate the chloroform . The residue is then
heated, or dried, for three hours at 100' C . (!12' F .) . The weight :
of material remaining after the beating is reported as tars .
~_ e Consumer's Union Method - tlo . I(2)
Smoking conditions :
Length of cigarette smoked - variable, depending upon length of
cigarette being used in test
Length of butt - 23 sss .
-12Volume of puff - 35 ml .
Duration of puff - 2 seconds
Frequency of puff - one per minute
Room emperature - Not stated
itelat~ve Humidity - Not stated
Cigarettes smoked for each deteriination - eight
Smoke for nicotine and solids is absorbed in acidified alcohol .
One portion of the alcohol solution is treated with base and is
steam-distilled . Nicotine in steas distillate is measured by means
of a spectrophotometer . This then is a spectrophotometric proeedure,
whereas thi Wolman method described above is a gravimetric procedure .
The second portion of the alcoholic solution is acidified,
diluted with water, and is then extracted with chloroform . The water
layer is made alkaline and is re-extracted with chloroform . The two
chloroform extracts are combined . Removal of chloroform from composite by evaporation yields the tar, which is then s'rrjighed .•
III L, The CambridAe Filter Nethod (3) - Sometimes referred :,to as•the
American Tobacco Co . Method or the Consumer's Union Nethod-~to . II .
Smoking conditions :
Length of cigarette smoked - 47 =m .*
Length of butt - variable, depending on length of cigarette
being tested
-Volume of puff - 35 al .
Du;ation of puff - 2 sec .
Frtquency of puff - one per minute
Temperature of laboratory - Not stated
Relative humidity of laboratory - Not stated
Number of cigarettes smoked per determination - ten
Smoke from a cigarette is collected on a glass fiber filter
material, Cambridge filter medium CM-113 . The weight of material
retained on the filter represents total solids (total particulate
phase) . A part of the material retained on the Cambridge filter is Ln
water (about 12% in smoke from a 70-mm . blended, non-filter cigarette) . ~
This method, therefore, would include water in the value for total 6,
solids, whereas the preceding two methods would not .
~
~
It should be noted that in the Cambridge filter method outlined by
~ Ogg et A1 .
(39
,
~
t
®
40) ss+okes the cigarette under test to
`• a 30-am . butt length . Further modifications of this method,
including length of cigarette to be smoked, are under consideration
by the Analytical Methods Coamittee of the Tobacco Cbemists' Research
Conference .
-13To determine nicotine, the Cambridge filter with the retained
solids is extracted with 0 .1 N_ Sulfuric acid . The solution, after
washing with chloroform, is made alkaline and is steam-distilled .
Nicotine in the steam distillate is determined either by the gravimetric metAod (silicotungstic acid precipitation, aahing and weighing
of ash) or by the spectrophotometric method .
IV . The Foster D . Snell Hethod (4)
Smoking conditions :
Length"cf butt - 23 mm . Length of cigarette smoked - variable, depending on length of
cigarette being tested
Volume of puff - 35 ml .
Duration of puff - 2 sec .
Frequency of puff - one per minute
No . of cigarettes smoked for each determination - five
Room conditions not specified
For solids determination (tar content in communication) smoke
is collected in acidified alcohol . The alcohol solution is heated
on a steam bath (at 100' C ., 212' F .) to evaporate the alcohol .
After about five hours, the residue is heated in the beaker at 105' C .
for beven hours . The weight of material remaining in the beaker is
designated as the tar content .
To determine nicotine, the acidified alcohol solution containing
the smoke solids (on aliquot portion) is heated to remove the alcohol,
the residue is made alkaline and is steam-distilled . Nicotine is
determined gravimetrically in the steam distillate (ailicotungstic
method) .
V . The Li,ggett and Myers Tobacco Co . Method (5)
Smoking conditions :
Number of puffs - 14 - the only method of the five enumerated
here which uses the number of puffs as the controlling factor
in the amount of cigarette to be smoked .
Length of cigarette to be smoked - Variable, depending on length
of cigarette being tested,
blend of tobacco, pressure drop,
and other factors
Length of butt - Variable, as in preceding item
Volume of puff - 44 ml . (all preceding methods above, 35 al .)
Duration of puff - 1 .9 sec .
Frequency of puff - One every 30 seconds (all preceding methods
above , one pe r ssin . ) .
-14 Room temperature - 75' F .
Relative humidity of room - 60 2
Cigarettes smoked for each detersiaatioa - ten ; however . it is
Oecoamended that three to six such determinations be carried
out and the results averaged .
The smoke in the present a+ethod is retained on an alpha-cellulose
trap .
The alpl .a-cellulose is washed with hot acidic sk thyl alcohol .
The solutioii is extracted with cf -iloroform .
To determine solids (termed tar in the articles) the chloroform
solution is evaporated on the steam bath and heating is continued for
3 hours at 105' C . Tar value is determined by weighing the residue .
The extracted methanol solution is made alkaline and is steamdistilled . Nicotine is determined in the steam distillate apectrophotometrically .
-17-
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:-
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.
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_
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/
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.
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I
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v
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• FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIDN
.
/Yasbington, D.C. 20S80
,.
OFFICE OF INFORUATlON M-6800 Ext. 197 .
For RCLEASC: I1•:-MDIATE, Friday ttarch 25, 1956 .
•
~ The Federal Trade Comission today announced that it,has sent identical letters
:
• to each of the nation's major cigarette manufactu•rera and to Mr . Robert D . tdeyner,
.i
Adainistrator ot Fhe'Cigarette Advertising Code, Inc ., in regard to factual state:
~
' ments of tar and • nicotino content on labcls and in advertising of cigarettes .
i
.i
The text of the letter is as followss ' ,
. .
i
~
.•
Gentlaoens
The Cigarette Advertising Guides proawlgated by the Commission in
Septembor 1953 provided that no representation should be made that "any
brand of cigarette or the smoke therefroa is low in nicotine or tars *+~ *'
when it has not been established by competent scientific proof applicable
at the time•of dissemination that the elaim is true, and if true, that
such difference or differences are significant ." On the basis of the
--•--•»•--
!
facts now available to it, the Commission has deterainsd that a factual
f
statement of theQ and nicotine content (expressed in milligre-'es) of
the mainstream srao~ce from a cigarette trould not be in violation ot such
~
;
.
Guides, or of any of the ptovisions ot latr administered by the Co=issioy,
so long as (1) no collateral representations (other than factual statesuats of tar and nicotine contents of cigarettes offered for sale to the ,
public) are made, expressly or by implication, as•to reduction or elinination of health haaarda, and (2) the statement of tar and nicotine content
is supported by adequate records of tests conducted in accordance t+ith
the Cambridge Filter Method, as described in an article entitled "Deteraination of Particulate Matter and Alkaloids (as Nicotine) in Cigarette
Smoke," by C .,L . Ogg, which appeared in the Journal .of the Asaoeiation ~ :
of Of•ficial Agricultural Chemists, Vol . 47, No . 2, 1964 . It is the
Comcaission's position that it is in the public interest to promote the
dissemination of truthful inforaution concerning ,cigarettes which may be
materi~al and desired by the consuming publie,
8y direction of the Coaoaiesion . '
.•
. Joseph W . Shea,
•
. • .
Seeretary
. .
.
., .
.
~
Table 8. Continued :
1
33
1 .5
3
35
2 .5
60
23 .7
1 .60
9 .3
24 .1
1 .43
9 .1
• Data are from Itix (1979) who also presented similar data for the 85-mm Marlboro . Rix also presented data on the
yields of TPM, TPM water, and carbon monoxide .
b Data represent the average "tar" and nicotine yields from Samples Noi . S through 10 .
Rix (1979) also compared the effect on the carbon monoxide, nicotine, and "tar" yields
from the 85-mm Winston and 85-mm Marlboro of changing the major FTC smoking parameters
(35-m1 puff volume, 2 .0-sec puff duration, 60-sec puff frequency) to more "realistic""
smoking conditions (65-m1 volume, 2 .0-sec duration, 45-sec frequency) . Table 9 summarizes
the results obtained . At the higher puff volume and frequency, the % differences between the
Winston and the Marlboro become less for MS "tar" and nicotine yields, with the Winston yield
being the higher . In the 150-page report by Rix, there are numerous plots of the relationships
between carbon monoxide, nicotine, and "tar" yields and puff volume, duration, and frequency
for the 85-mm Wlnston and Marlboro . Also included are plots (2-sec puff duration, 1 puff/min)
of the "tar"/nicotine ratios vs puff volume for the following brands : Winston, Camel, Vantage,
Now, More, Real, and Marlboro.
TABLE 9 : 8S-mm WINS'liDN AND BIARl.BORO: COMPARISON OF FTC CARBON
MONOJaDE, NICOTINE, AND "TAR" YIELDS AT STANDARD AND MORE
"REALISTIC" SMOKIIVG PARAMETERS
cjg .roue
' Numbera in parentheses represent % difference between WINSMN and JNdRLBORO :
% Difference - 100(Wfngton - Marlboro)lliRroron
In a similar study on the 100-mm Winston and the now defunct 120-mm Dawn, Dobbins
(1984) elected to vary the puff volumes at different puff frequencies with the puff duration
13 Whether the "realistic" conditions for 1979 amokets would apply to current (1994) smokers Is not known . Two years later, Herning er
al. (1981) observed that filter cigarette smokers took a 35 .9- to 47 .8-m1 puff of 1 .94 to 2.06 aec every 26 .9 to 30.0 sec .
27
c:lfdaniclnicotn-1 . fda
revised 11-02-95
COMWIM re FDA NICOTINE REPORT : GENERAL
• "tar" reduction plus nicotine reduction - graph presented by
Wakeham, Surgeon General, etc .
1954 nicotine delivery level = 2 .7-3 .0 mg/cigt
steady decrease in nicotine delivery vs time : current
nicotine delivery, even if modified slightly for low"tar" vs regular-'4tar", is substantially less than
the 1954 value
why did FDA elect to consider nicotine delivery
levels only from 1982 to 1991? (see p .267-270]
Are the data correct that the sales weighted average
nicotine delivery for all cigarettes increased from
1982 to 1991? Recollection : nicotine level was
decreasing gradually through 1986119871
Is it because of the substantial decrease in sales
weight average nicotine delivery from 2 .7-3 .0
mg/cigt 1954 to about 1 .0•1.1 mg/cigt in 1980 .
If the tobacco companies were so eager to "hook"
the consumer, why did they reduce the nicotine
delivery so drastically?
what was the fate of the low-nicotine or zeronicotine cigarettes marketed around the world (U .S.
- Sano, brand in Gennany, etc .?) Most were
withdrawn within a year or two found them
unacceptable . The Sano was marketed for many
years but eventually was withdrawn because of
extremely low sales.
why did FDA cite Imperial Tobacco Company U .S.
patent for enhancing nicotine? Imperial is not a
U.S. company and sells few cigarettes in this U .S.
. "tar"tnicotine ratio proposals of Russell and Jarvik :
substantially decrease "tar" delivery but not
nicotine delivery or substantially decrease "tar"
delivery but decrease nicotine delivery only slightly .
post-1954 it was the practice of U .S. tobacco
companies, particularly RJRT, to investigate all
suggestions from external sources pertinent to
smoking-health issues :
1 . clean bill of health from Surgeon
General in 1964 re nicotine
2. recommendation by Wynder et al .
(late 1950s, 1964 review, 1967
book, 1968 monograph) that
reducing "tar" delivery by 50% or
more would reduce respiratory tract
cancer: mouse skin-painting studies
indicated that such a reduction in
"tar" dose lowered the % tumorbearing animals from m45 to 0%!
more recent studies in the 1968-1980
NCI smoking-health program on the
"less hazardous" cigarette
essentially confirmed the earlier
findings by Wynder et at.
(a) when the tobacco
industry accomplished
an approximately 50
% "tar" reduction by
cigarette design, the
reduction was not
considered to be
enough
(b) When reduction of
approximately 70 %
in the sales weighted
average "tar'• was
accomplished (40
mg/cigt in 1954 vs 11
mg/cigt in early
1990s). other factors
were emphasized
2
(increased use of
flavorants in low"tar" cigarettes,
harmful pyrolysis
products from
flavorants, smoke
nicotine level, tobacco
nitrate level and Nnitrosamines, blocking
of filter-tip ventilation
holes by the smoker,
environmental tobacco
smoke diversion, etc .
3 . levels of tumorigenic polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons in MS could
be reduced by
(a) filtration (reduction of
"tar" delivery)
(b) reduction of
polycyclic aromatic
hydro-carbon
precursors in tobacco
( s a t u r a t e d
hydrocarbons,
phytosterols,
terpenoids) by
extraction of tobacco
with organic solvents;
because the extraction
produced only a slight
lowering of the
tobacco nicotine level,
the level of MS
nicotine was only
slightly reduced
(c) addition of burn
modifies, g
e,
.,
nitrate, to tobacco
and/or to the cigarette
paper (citrate) ; both
these technologies
reduced the MS
3
-1
nicotine level
(d) inclusion of processed
tobaccos (RTS,
expanded tobacco) in
the blend ; both
processed tobaccos
yielded reduced
nicotine levels in the
blend and its MS
(e) air dilution (cigarette
paper porosity, filtertip ventilation)
4. levels of tumorigenic N-nitrosamines
could be reduced by
(a) filtration (volatile Nnitrosamines removed
selectively from MS
by plasticized fliter
tips)
(b) use of low-nitrate
tobacco or by removal
of nitrate from
tobacco and/or stems
by extraction, etc.
(c) addition of high
molecular weight
saturated
hydrocarbons .
5. compare the changes in the antitobacco investigators suggestions
over time: reduction of levels of
tumorigenic polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons in MS by removal of
their precursors from tobacco by
extraction andlor by addition of
nitrate or use of high-nitrate
tobaccos vs reduction of tumorigenic
N-nitrosamines by addition of high
molecular weight saturated
hydrocarbons (a demonstrated
4
10
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
precursor) and/or removal of r.itrate
from the tobacco or use of lownitrate tobaccos
6. according to some authorities (Van
Duuren et al., 1960), level of
tumorigenic aza-arenes in MS is
related to nicotine level of tobacco ;
however, at least seven different
studies conducted in the U .S., Japan,
and Germany between 1963 and
1992 failed to confirm the presence
of the tumorigenic aza-arenes in MS
(Candeli et a1 ., 1963 ; Kaburaki et
al., 1970; Schmeltz et a1., 1972,
1979; Snook, 1978 ; Snook et al.,
1981 ; Grimmer et a1., 1986, 1987 ;
Kamata et al., 1992)
7. levels in MS of allegedly promoting
low molecular weight phenols can be
reduced by
(a) filtration : phenols are
selectively removed
from MS by
plasticized filter tips
(b) addition of nitrate or
use of high-nitrate
tobacco
levels of low molecular weight
phenols in MS are Increased by
organic solvent extraction of tobacco
RJRT efforts re flue-cured standards association (?)
and burley standards association to have acceptable
nicotine range for new tobacco introductions
modified so that a lower lower limit was acceptable :
range was altered by the associations but reduction
of lower limit was less than requested, upper limit
remained unchanged ; major opposition included the
farmers (yield per acre and revenue) and at least
5
one other tobacco company (L&M) ; L&M
maintained the position that the nicotine range
should not be modified because of the importance of
nicotine to the smoker, l .e., it was the major reason
why smokers smoked
level of nicotine in MS may be reduced by
(a) solvent extraction of the tobacco
(polar solvent more efficient in
removing nicotine than nonpolar
solvents)
(b) addition of nitrate or use of highnitrate tobacco in the blend
(c) inclusion of processed tobaccos
(RTS, expanded tobacco) in the
blend
(d) use of . genetically designed lownicotine tobaccos or low-nicotine
tobaccos grown under reduced
nitrogen/nitrate fertilization
: levels of precursors of flavorful smoke
components are usually proportional
to nicotine level of tobacco, hence
flavor becomes less acceptable to
smoker
(e) use of filters containing acidic
additives which will react with MS
nicotine, removing it from the MS
stream
6
• suggestions by investigators such as Russell, Jarvik, and others that the design of
a "safer" cigarette should involve the substantial reduction of "tar" delivery and
either maintenance of the nicotine delivery at the level it was prior to
manipulation of the "tar" delivery or only involve a slight reduction of the
nicotine delivery' . E.g., Russell and coworkers suggested that
a low-tar, low CO, but nedimr-, rather than low-, nicotine
cigarette might reduce tar and CO intake more than occrrrs
with low-tar, low-CO, low-nk+ntlne cigarmes
Finally, a case will be made for a medtian-nlcntine, low-tar,
low-carbon monaxtde (CO) ctgarette.. . [emphasis added:
AR]
I
Ruaell MAR, WUwn C, PaW UA, Cde W, and Peyenbend C(1979), Compedwo of 1he BReet on Tob .ooo Coorump8on and
Carbon Moooxlde Ab .oep8oa of Cha*q to Hijh and Low Nlcado . C*reqe. . BRIT. M®. J .1973 PW): 512 ; RuaeU MAH,
Cole PV, Idle MS, and Adame L(1975), Ceebon MonoxWe Ykldi of CSpreaa and T6eir Rel .doa to Nioodne Yield and Type of
Fiher. BRIT. MED. J. 1971 ft : 71 ; Ru ..eU MAH (19M, Low-T.r, Medium-Nicodo. Clpreuee: A Nerr Appra .c6 to Safer
Smokn. BAIT. M®. J .1976 p) : 1430; (19E0), lti.k Rednodon Ao6ievemems and Fuame Direodoos .lo God 09 and Bock FQ
(8dttor.) . d Sqfs Qaaftaet danbary Repmt 3, Cold Sprioj Hubor Leboatory . Cold Spring H.ebor NY :137-177; (1950), T6e Ca .e
for Medium-Nicodne, Lo .v Tu, Low Carbon Monoxide Ci ;areaa .ln God GB and Book tO (Ediwrs) . A So Qamrael Banbwry
RepoR 3, Cold SprinS Harbor Lebor .tory, Cold Spring Harbor NY : 297-310.
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EXHIBITNO .____~&
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Date:
Rptr:
C : \fdanlc\Ilico fil-2. fda
Revised 11-25-95
COMMENTS re FDA NICOTINE REPORT : NICOTINE & AMMONIA
In its 1995 report, the FDA discussed the chemical manipulation, particularly the use of
ammonia and ammonium compounds, to enhance nicotine delivery' .
• tobacco treated with ammonia/steam (the process used by RJRT to
reduce the nicotine level in high-nicotine tobaccos) produces the
following changes:
in the tobacco
(a) reduced nicotine level (% reduction
is dependent on processing
parameters set by Company to
achieve a certain nicotine level)
(b) reduced sugar level (% reduction is
dependent on processing parameters
set by Company to achieve a certain
nicotine level)
(c) increased levels of alkylpyrazines (%
increase is dependent on processing
parameters set by Company to
achieve a certain nicotine level)
in the MS from the ammonia-treated tobacco
(a) on an equal weight of tobacco
smoked basis, the nicotine delivery is
lower in the MS from the processed
tobacco than in the MS from the
control tobacco
(b) the MS from the processed tobacco
contains higher levels of flavorful
pyrazine and alkylpyrazines than the
control tobacco MS (pyrazines are
highly flavorful compounds that
impart desirable flavors to tea,
~ United States Fc1pd and Drug Administration (FDA) (1995) Nicotine in Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products Is a Drug and
The.e Products are Nicotine Delivery Devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act . US FDA DHHS: 1-326 (August) :
249-250 .
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coffee, cocoa, peanuts, roasted
meats, etc.)
(c) the MS from the processed tobacco
contains higher levels of pyridine
and alkylpyridines which, at low
concentrations, are flavorful ; the
source of the pyridines in MS is
primarily nicotine which is an
indication that more of the nicotine
in the ammonia treated tobacco is
being decomposed during the
smoking process than that in the
control tobacco
(d) the level of ammonia in MS is
increased
While the precise wording of the definition of a "safer" or "less hazardous" cigarette
as enunciated by different investigators has varied slightly during the intervening years, the
essence of it is essentially the same now as it was forty years ago, namely, a "safer" or "less
hazardous" cigarette has been defined over the past forty years or so as one whose MS
particulate matter has been reduced and whose MS particulate matter shows reduced specific
tumorigenicity as measured in mouse skin-painting studies= . Within this definition has been the
implication that the total particulate matter should show, on a per milligram basis, reduced levels
of those MS components considered responsible, at least in part, by some investigators for the
observed tumorigenicity in laboratory animaW . Much effort in the 1950s and 1960s was
directed toward the reduction of the MS delivery of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons shown to
be tumorigenic to laboratory animals under certain experimental conditions. Subsequent research
involved methods to reduce the allegedly promoting phenols, the ciliastatic vapor-phase
components (aldehydes, ketones, hydrogen cyanide, low molecular weight acids), and the
volatile and tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines .
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Expansion of tobacco lamina has been accomplished by a variety of processes . The first
three methods developed were the RJRT process involving the expansion of tobacco lamina with
a chlorofluorocarbon, the NCSU process involving the expansion of moistened tobacco lamina
by freeze drying, and the PM process involving the expansion of tobacco by sequentially treating
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Wyndor BL and Hot6n.m D (1964), $xpeeimeatal Tob.ooo C.roioopo..b . ADV. CANCER RES. d: 249-453; (1967), Tobaoco
ard Tobacro Stinoks: Sawbu fn &Psri+nertai CarbWjauitr . Ik .dendo lkea, No .v York NY; dod aB (Bditoc) (1976) . Report IJo.
! . To+wd Lea Astardow Qaanaa. 711e Ptrrt Set of Bxperlamwl aaamrxa . DBEW P.bl. No. (Nffi) 76-90d ; (1976),1tePoa
No. 2. Towand Lsrt 8atardow Qjanaa. 711t Ssowj Sn 4fSxpsdnanal atanau . DHEW ML No. OM 76-1111; (1977),
Report No. d. Toward Lar flataidow Qsairaa . The 7Mrd Set tVBfepabrwrtd Qaanasi . DHEW l.bl . No. (NtEi) 77-12ft
(1980, Report IYo. 4. Toward Leu liouWdour Qaanaa . 7bs Powdr Sst qf6spsrbnenrol Qaanaa. DSEW PpDI. (MH) MareJr
(19> 0); NNloo.l C.ncer Uutiwte (19ad), Rsport Ab . S. Towond Lssn BetwdoNr Qaanwt . swwary: Powr Slhl» Palndna Bfoauayi
uslna Coidsrrsort,Jbm BsperlnenrW a6anaa . DHEW PaN. (ND!) (SePteAber 19®0).
Oori OB (Fdiwr) (1976), RsPort lYo. 2. Towand Lar Rauudowr aaanaa. 71u Saod Sst ofEacperieientd Qaorrau . DHEW Pobl.
No. (NID) 76 .1111 .
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it with ammonia and carbon dioxide (in situ generation of ammonium carbonates) . Tobaccos
expanded by these three process were studied as part of the second series of experimental
cigarettes' in the NCI "less hazardous" cigarette program .
In Table 1 are shown selected data from the NCI study of these three processes and their
effect on tobacco and tobacco smoke composition . The data concerning the ammonia treated
tobacco are particularly pertinent to the FDA claims .
TABLE 1. THE EFFECT OF AMMONIA/CARBON DIOXIDE EXPANSION
OF TOBACCO ON TOBACCO AND MAINSTREAM SMOKE
COMPOSITIONs
Exoandon Procea
PM
For the samples studied in the NCI program on a "less hazardowus" cigarette, the
ammonia treatment produced the following effect on the tobacco:
• a reduction (47 %) of the % nicotine in the tobacc o
• an increase (8 .5 %) in the level of ammonia in the tobacc o
These changes in tobacco composition produce changes in the smoke composition and
its biological properties :
• a reduction (59 %) in mainstream smoke nicotine delivery
• a reduction (38 %) in the nicotine/"tar" rati o
• an increase (21 %) in mainstream smoke pH
• a reduction (40 %) in the benzo[a]pyrene/TPM ratio
• a reduction (30 %) in the benz[a]anthracene/TPM ratio
• a reduction (48 %) in the phenoUTPM rati o
• a decrease (24%) in biological activity as measured in a mouse skin-painting
experiment
While the data on the flavorful aspects of nicotine per se in mainstream smoke are sparse,
data on the effect of various types of ammoniation of tobacco indicate that the levels of pyrazine
and several flavorful alkylpyrazines are increased significantly . Also, certain of the ammoniation
treatments reduce the level of nicotine in tobacco and its level in mainstream smoke not only
because of the reduced level of nicotine available for transfer from tobacco to mainstream smoke
but also because of its enhanced decomposition° to pyridine and alkylpyridines whose levels, like
those of pyrazine and the alkylpyrazines, are also increased in the smoke of many ammoniatreated tobaccos7. If, however, the ammonia treatment of the tobacco moderately reduces the
nicotine level of the tobacco, the levels of the alkylpyridines in mainstream smoke from such
tobacco are not necessarily increased over those in the control tobacco smoke . Increasing the
reduction of the tobacco nicotine level by more prolonged ammoniation eventually results in a
decrease in the levels of alkylpyridines in the mainstream smoke, presumably because of the
paucity of their precursor .
Ammoniation of tobaccos with high sugar levels, e .g., flue-cured tobaccos with 15-20%
sugars, substantially increases the levels of allrylpyrazines in the mainstream smoke from such
tobaccos . Only a slight increase in mainstream smoke alkylpyrazines is observed with low sugar
tobaccos such as burley (sugar levels usually less than 2 %) .
The flavorful properties of pyrazines have been well documented over the years . They
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Kaburaki Y, SuSawan S, Kobuhi U . and Doilara T (1970), Studies on the Composition of Tobacco Smoke . XIV . The Formation
of Pyridines in the Pyrolysta of Nicotine . J . AGR. CHEM. SOC . JApAN II.' 224-231 .
areen CR, Martin JM, and Rodgman A(1976), Perwal communication on the effect of treatment of tobacco with ammonia or
various ammonium uln on levels of pyrazinea and pyridinw in ci ;arette smoke.
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contribute significantly to the desirable flavor of a variety of foodstuffs, including tea and
coffee•, cocoa and chocolate, roasted peanuts10, roasted meats (beef, poultry, fish)", etc .
Table 2 lists some representative data on the effect of various ammoniation treatments
on the levels of various pyrazines and pyridines in mainstream smoke . In addition to the data
shown in Table 2, similar data on the increased mainstream smoke levels of pyrazines and
pyridines were obtained from tobaccos and/or tobacco stems subjected to a variety of other
ammonia treatments:
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•
the denicotinization of tobacco with ammonia and steam
the denicotinization of tobacco with ammonia and an organic solvent
the ammoniation of the RJRT proprietary reconstituted tobacco sheet
the addition of ammonium salts (ammonium carbonate + ammonium bicarbonate
or diammonium hydrogen phosphate) to reconstituted tobacco sheet
• the addition of ammonium salts (ammonium carbonate + ammonium bicarbonate
or diammonium hydrogen phosphate) to a blend of tobaccos
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Mafa JA and Sizer CE (1973), Pyrazinea In Food . A Review . J. AG1t . FOOD CSFAl. 21 : 27r30 .
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Vac Fraa= M, Stein HS, and Tibbeaa MS (196E), Steam Volatile Coaadaieab of Roasted Coc°a Bana. J. AGR. FOOD CHEt.
16: 1005-1008 .
TABLE 2. THE EFFECT OF VARIOUS AMMONIATION PROCESSES ON
THE LEVELS OF NICOTINE, PYRAZINES, AND PYRIDINES
IN MAINSTREAM SMOKE'=
% Difference from Control
NH3ICO2expanded Auecured tobacco
vt
control
8u"ured
vt
vs
control
soatrol RRnrton
control Wbvraw
Canef PJ@er
nicotine•l"tar"•
-30
-8
0
-14
ammoniab/"tar^
547
77
ND
48
pH, averaye minimum
6 .98 vs 5 .67
5 .67 vs 5.73
5 .90 vs 5 .69
6 .00 vs 5.90
pH, avenpe maximum
7 .42 vs 5 .90
6 .29 vs 6.02
6 .30 vs 6 .02
6 .53 vs 6.20
pH, overall avera8e
7.20 vs 5 .79
5 .98 vs 5 .87
6 .10 vs 5 .85
6 .26 w 6.10
pycuine
236
38
52
93
pyrazine, 2-methyl-
345
19
57
96
pyrazine, 2,3-dimethyl-
436
32
68
95
pyrazine, 2,3,5-trlmethyl-
361
30
125
114
pyrid'me, 2-methyl-•
141
30
$2
42
pyridine .2,3-dimethyi-r
34
33
44
83
moke Analvte
o16oro
19bossaa +
4 Sfr ACs
Modifiedt
l',anel PJlnr
vs
A!S "tar". rtleoNrte. and ammonia
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MS avrarJnea°
MS ev~idJnesd
• ms/ciyt b µ8lciyt
° Similar % differences between treated and control tobacco MSs were obtained for the following pyrszines : 2-ethylpyrazine ;
2,5- and 2,6-0imethylpyrazine ; 2-ethyl-S-metbylpy+&zJm
e Similar % differences between treated and control tobacco MSs were obtained for the following pyridines : pyddine ; 3- and
4-methylpyridine; 2- and 3-ethylpyridine ; 2,4-, 2,5-, and 2,6dimethylpyridwa
° 2-picoliAe r 2,3-lutidine
• AC • mibure of ammonium cuboate and bicarbonate
e Cs+ntd 1Mrw blend was modified with NHVCO~4xpanded tobacco and dianunonium hydro8en phosphate-treated stems to
simulste the Yaibero
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Green CR, Mutin JM, and RodBaun A (1976), Personal communication on the effect of treatment of tobacco with ammonia or
various ammonium salts on levels of pyrazlnes and pyddines in ci8arette aaake .
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"Free" (unprotonated) nicotinel"free" (unprotonated) ammonia
no method for "free" nicotine
method for "free" ammonia
Prior to the 1975 and 1976 reports by Sloan and Morie", several methods for the
determination of ammonia in cigarette smoke had been reported". However, as Sloan and
Morie noted, none of these earlier methods was suitable for the determination of "free"
(unprotonated) ammonia in cigarette smoke :
None of the published methods distinguished between ammoniam lon and free (unprotonated)
arnmonla.
From their analytical determination of ammonia in tobacco smoke by the use of an ammonia
electrode and the calculated fraction of "free" (unprotonated) ammonia vs pH, they noted :
Tfu aWrhnental -values for free ammonia agreed my well with the theoretical amounted
calculatul from total ammonia and pH of the smoke . . ?1ie oalcnlated free ammonia agreed with
the eperlmental value.
In fact, the investigators suggested that the puff-by-puff pH of cigarette smoke is dependent to
a great extent on the level of "free" ammonia in the puff :
T he Increase In pH wlth puff number is consistent with the Increase of free aaunonla . . .
Attempts to apply the technique successful with mainstream smoke ammonia to
mainstream smoke nicotine presented several problems :
• the unavailability of a nicotine electrode corresponding to the
ammonia electrode
• the difference in the physical nature of the two amines in
mainstream smoke aerosol, namely, ammonia is a highly watersoluble mainstream smoke vapor-phase component whereas
nicotine is dissolved and/or suspended in an essentially waterinsoluble aerosol particle
• the differwee in contribution of the two amines to mainstream
smoke pH with the methods currently employed in mainstream
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Sloan CH and Moii . OP (1975), Medwd tor tb . Deteemin.doo of Unproloo.ted Ammonia in CiS.reue Smoke . 29t6 TOB . CHIIN.
RES. CONF., CaBep Puk MD: P.per No. 16; (1976), Deaeemin.tion of Unprotonated Ammonia In Whole CiSueae Smoke .
BEITR. TABAIYORSCH. d 362-365 .
Ayra CW (1969) Determin.tioa of Ammonia in Tobacco and Tobacco Smote . TALANTA 16: 10S.f-10t7; Co4ias PF, L.wrence
W W, and WiI1Lau JF (1972), Tide1 (Ammonia In C'g .rette Smote]. BE1TR. TABARFORBCH . 6: 167-172; Bcunoemann KD and
HotBo.na D, (1974), au Chromatographic Deteradadoo of Ammonia In Cilueae and Cij .r Smoke . 28& TOB. C1H!M . RES .
CONF., W{et¢ NCs Paper No . $3; Sloan CH and Mode OP (1974), Deteemin .Non of Ammonia In Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke
with an Ammonia Bieatrode . ANAL. CH1M. ACTA 69: 243-247 ; Btumem.m KD .nd Ho}fm .nn D(1975), Chemicd Studies on
Tobacco Smoke . 70QQV . <iu Chromacojrsp6ia Deteeminatioa of Ammonia In Cisareue and Ci ;ar Smoke . J. CHROMAT. SCi .
19: 159-163 .
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smoke pH determination
the difference in absorption of ammonia and nicotine from
mainstream smoke vapor-phase and particulate phase, respectively,
when they contact the highly buffered fluids, e .g., saliva, coating
the surfaces of different parts of the respiratory tract
In its discussion of cigarette design and manufacture, the FDA criticizes the chemical
manipulation of tobacco to alter the pH of mainstream smoke .
• The treatment of tobacco products with basic compounds such as
ammonia, ammonium hydroxide, ammonium salts, or urea
compound, and its salts in tobacco products because :
Ammonia inaaasea the pH of the smoke and thereby enhances the absorption of
nicotine In the body." (Emphasis added : AR)
• The treatment of tobacco products with acids or acid-generating
casing materials (sugar, cocoa) :
Manufacturers also reduce harshness by routinely adding acids to tobacco to
loawer the pH of the snwke. (7f:eyJ also use conventional casing materials, such
as sugars and cocoa, to produce acids in the smoke and reduce harshness .'D
(Emphasis added : AR)
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Brunnemann KD and Hotl'mano D (1972), On the pH of Tobacco Smoke . 26th TOB . CHFM. RES. CONF., Williamsburg VA:
Paper No . 11 ; (1974), The pH of Tobacco Smoke. F'OOD COSMET. TOJQCOL.12: 115-124 .
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Bwnnemaat Im and Hoftmano D(1974), Gas ChromatoSrapbic Determinatwn of Ammonia In CiSareae and Cigar Smoke . 28tb
TOB. CEIFM. RE& CONF., ItdriS\ NCt Paper No. S3; (1975), Chemioai Studies on Tobacco Smoke . 70QC1V. Gas Chromatographic Determination of Ammonia In Cigarette and Cigar Smoke . J . CHROMAT. SCL 13: 159-163 .
&unaamron KD, Hot6naann D, and Wynder EL (1973), Studiea on the Inhalability of Cigarette and Cigar Smoke . 27th TOB.
CHFM. RES. CONF., Winuton-S.lem NC: Paper No . 27 .
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AemitaSe AK and Turner DM (1970), Abaoeptlon of Nicodae In Cigarette and Cigar Smoke tbrouSL Orai Mueoa . . NATURE 226.•
1231-1232 ; ArmitaSe AK. Dollery CT, George CP, Hou.eaun TH, Lewia FJ, and Turner DM (1975), Absorption and Metabolism
of Nicotine from Cigarettes. BRIT. MED. J.197S nvl : 313-316 ; Armitaje AK, Dollery CT, HouaemaaTH, Kobner 8M, Leai.
FJ, and'Niner DM (1978), Absorption of Nicotine from Small CiSar . . CLIIN. PHARMACOL. THER. 29: 143-150.
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United States Food and Drug Admini .tratioa (FDA) (1993) Nicotine in Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products Is a Drug and
These Products are Nicotine Delivery Devices under the Federal Food, DruS, and Coenetio Act . US FDA DHHS : 1-326 (August):
250.
United States Food and Drug AdmWrtration (FDA) (1995) Nicotine In Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products Is a Drug and
These Products are Nicotine Delivery Devicea under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act . US FDA DHHS : 1-326 (August) :
232 .
Humectants such as glycerol and other polyols are used for two major reasons in tobacco
smoking products :
• To maintain the pliability of tobaccos during blending, cutting, and
cigarette fabrication in order to reduce fragmentation of the
tobaccos
• To aid in the retention of the moisture in the cigarette tobacco
blend during fabrication, shipping, shelf storage, etc .
A blend moisture level of 1246 is optimum for cigarette
fabrication, e, g. , cigarette firmness, production speed ; a moisture
level less than 12 % presents problems in cigarettte fabrication .
If the cigarette moisture content decreases below 12 % during
shipping, store shelf life, etc., the composition of the mainstream
smoke changes drastically : The per cigarette deliveries of "tar,"
nicotine, aldehydes and ketones, etc . increase markedly and the
cigarettes, because they are perceived as harsher (less smooth), are
considered unacceptable by the consumer .
The FDA noted :
Tobacco lndustry o„Q4ctals acknowledge that controlling moisture content is
essential to ensure that nicotine content [of the mainstream smoke] does not fall .
It should also be recognized that the "Tobacco industry officials"
cited by FDA were Philip Morris R&D personnel=' presenting a
review paper in symposium at the 32nd Tobacco Chemists'
Research Conference .
The FDA could have just as easily have phrased its stement as
follows : Tobacco industry officials acknowledge that controlling
moisture content is essential to ensure that nicotine content does
not rise.
If, as the FDA implies throughout its report, the cigarette
manufacturers wanted the consumer to receive more nicotine from
the cigarette, they would use less humectant so that blend moisture
would drop to a pre-calculated value, say 10 %, thus increasing
both the total per cigarette nicotine delivery and the per puff
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DeBardeleben MZ, Clanin WE, and Oannon WF (1978), Role of CiQareqe Physical Characteristics on Smoke Composition . RECENT
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nicotine delivery during smoking . The manufacturers make every
effort to select the correct humectant level so that the moisture
content of 12 % persists as long as possible .
• In its discussion of humectants, the FDA stated :
Casings often include a humectant, usually glycerine [sie] or a higher glycol,
which serves to keep the tobacco moist and less sensitive to changes in
humidtty. . .
Its statement about RJR's acknowledgment of its use of glycerol as
a humectant suggests that RJR was involved in something
nefarious :
RJR acknowledged using glycerine (sic] as a hurnectant . . .
Giycerol, used by RJR in its cigarette blends since the introduction
of the Camel, is a natural component of tobacc& . Propylene
glycol, used by some manufacturers, is not a natural-occurring
compound .
Humectants transfer from the humectant-treated tobacco to its
smoke. For a glycerol-treated cigarette, about 10-12 % of the
weight of the "tar" determined by the FTC method is glycerol ;
for filter-tipped cigarettes, the transfer is at the lower end of the
rangen.
In its analysis of the FTC data on sales-weighted average nicotine deliveries for 19821991, the FDA wrotel' :
FDA. . . analyZed lr}/brmatton supplied by the FTC that was derhed from the FTC's database on
nicotine levels !n ctgarene" [sic] . . . (T/here ts an apparent tncrease in the sales-weighted FT1C
nicotine delivery rattngs, for all cigarettes, since 1982 (the earliest year for which the computer
database Is available).
To limit its discussion of nicotine delivery data only to data available from 1982 to 1991
indicates the lack of objectivity in the FDA's examination. Even though they may not be in the
22 Cundiff RH, Greeae aH, and Laureoe AH (1964), Column Elution of Humectants from Tobacco and Determination by Vapor
Chromatognphy. TOB. SCI. 8: 163-168 .
n Wynder EL and Hofi'mam D (1967), Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke : Sardiu In Esperimrnml CaicinogcnssLr . Academic Prea, New
York NY: 480482.
24 United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (1995) Nicotine in Cigarettea and Smokeleaa Tobacco Products Is a Drug and
These Products aro Nicotine Delivery Devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act . US FDA DHHS: 1-326 (August):
266-270 .
ss The database referred to deals with nleoNne levefs /n dganne smoke not Ncodne kvelr !n dganaesl
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FTC computer database, much
additional data are available! FTC
data on nicotine deliveries have
been published since 196r .
Comparable data are available for
sales-weighted average "tar" and
nicotine deliveries from the mid1950sn. Even though data prior
to 1967 were not generated by the
FTC, they were generated by
analytical procedure which
1982 1984 L986 L988 1990
Ye.r
eventually formed the basis of the
F'igure
1
.
Sales-Weighted
Nicotine and "Tar" Levels in
FTC procedures for the
Cigarette Smoke as % of 1956 Levels: Average of
determination of "tar" and
All Brands, 1982-1991
nicotine in mainstream smoke.
Such data have formed the basis of
discussion by the U .S. Surgeon General', the National Cancer InstituteP and others of the
effectiveness of various cigarette design technologies in generating a "less hazardous" cigarette .
If the 1982 through 1991
values are compared to the 1956
sales-weighted average "tar" and
0 .3e
nicotine deliveries rather than with
the 1982 data, an important fact 3 of 0 .36
1986
emerges: As shown in Figure 1, Levets
0 .34
even with the slight increase in
sales-weighted average nicotine
0 .32
deliveries between 1982 and 1991,
the values are less than 40% of
the 1956 value, ranging from 33
to 38% of the 1956 value, i.e.,
between 1956 and 1982, the sales- Figure 2.
weighted average nicotine delivery
decreased about 67% ; between
1956 and 1991, it decreased about
RUE
1984
1986
Year
1988
1990
Sales-Weighted Nicotine and "Tar" Levels in
Cigarette Smoke as % of 1956 Levels : Average of
Alt Brands, 1982-1991
26 Federal Trade Comcpissioa (1967), "Tar^ and Nicotine of the Smoke of S9 Variedes of Cigarettes . (November, 1%7) ; Federal Trade
Commission (1968), 'Tu" and Nicotine of the Smoke of 122 Varieties of C'sa[ettes .
r Wakeham H(1976), Sales Weighted Average Tar and Nicotine Deliveries of U .S . Cigarettes from 1957 to the Preseat . In Wynder
EL and Hecht SS (Bditon). Lung Cancer, UICC TECH. RPT. SERIES 2.f: 1S1-1S2.
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28 United Stetes Public Health Service (USPHS) (1979), S1+ioMng and IteaM . A Reporr of du Swryeon Oerteral DHEW Yabl . No. ~-'
(PHS) 79-50066; United States Public Health Service (USPHS) (1981), flie lieaW Conaequenoer oj Smoktng . M changing FJ,
G7goreae. A Reporr ojthe Surgeon Oenewl . DHHS P.bl. No . (PHS) 81-S01S6.
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29 National Cancer Imtitute (1980), Report lYo . S. Toward Lea Boiardows CJgarstret . S&anmary: Four Sktn Palndng Bioaraays Ustng
Condenaaie, fhrn Erperimenta! qgarraer . DHEW FtiW . (NIH) (&ptember 1980).
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have been published since 1967'" .
Comparable data are available for
sales-weighted average "tar" and
nicotine deliveries from the mid1950s". Even though data prior
to 1967 were not generated by the
FTC, they were generated by
analytical procedure which
eventually formed the basis of the
FTC procedures for the
determination of "tar" and
1992 19" 1996 19ee 1990
Year
nicotine in mainstream smoke.
+''bM
1.
Sdes-Weighted
Nicotine And "Ter" Levels in
Such data have formed the basis of
Cigarette Smoke as % of 1956 Levels : Average of
discussion by the the U . S.
All Brands, 1982-1991
Surgeon GeneraY`, the National
Cancer Institute'° and others of
the effectiveness of various cigarette design technologies in generating a "less hazardous"
cigarette.
'
If the 1982 through 1991
values are compared to the 1956
sales-weighted average "tar" and
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nicotine deliveries rather than with
the 1982 data,, an important fact
.36
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emerges: As shown in Flgure 1, L19,56
.vt1s
0 .34
even with the slight increase in
sales-weighted average nicotine
0 .31
deliveries between 1982 and 1991,
the values are less than 40% of
the 1956 value, ranging from 33
to 38% of the 1956 value; l.e.,
between 1956 and 1982, the sales- F%= 2.
weighted average nicotine de2ivery
decreased about . 67%, between
1956 and 1991, it decreased about
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1982
1904 190i
1990
Yaar
Salae-Waghted Niootine aod "Tar" Levels in
Cigarette Smoke as % of 1956 Levels : Average of
All Brmds, 1982-1991
62% . Such decreases hardly denote a concerted effort by the U .S. cigarette manufacturers to
"hook" the consumer, as claimed by the FDA, on cigarette smoke nicotine by supposedly
increasing the exposure to mainstream smoke nicotine . By suitable selection of coordinates in
the plotting of these data, the appearance of the sales-weighted average nicotine increase between
1982 and 1991 may by accentuated or minimized, cf. FIgures 1, 2, and 3. Figure 3 puts the
nicotine deliveries from 1956 through 1991 vs the 1956 sales-weighted average value in proper
perspective.
Numerous technologies
introduced sequentially from the
mid-1950s to the late 1960s were
incorporated into cigarette design
to control MS delivery and
composition. All are considered
to contribute to what some
authorities, even some with
pronounced anti-tobacco
sentiments, have characterized as
a "less hazardous" cigarette when
included in cigarette design (the
U.S. Surgeon General'0, the Figure 3.
National Cancer Institute",
Gori'=).
. .tr o • _ _
Mc~tIM
U6~ 1 s 1984 r .r 3lea lfat - 1!!0
.
Sales-Weighted Nicotine and "Tar" Levels in
Cigarette Smoke as % of 1956 Levels : Average of
All Branda, 1982-1991
These technologies include (see FYgure 4) :
• tobacco blend and weight
• tobacco rod length and circumference
• filter tips (material type and additives)
• processed tobaccos (reconstituted. tobacco sheet, expanded tobacco)
• paper (type and additives)
• air dilution (increased paper porosity, filter tip perforations) .
Some of the technologies were developed for economic reasons but later were found to
have an effect on cigarette mainstream smoke delivery and composition that were in accord with
the definition of a "safer" or "less hazardous" cigarette . An example of this was the first
30 United States Public Health Servke (USPHS) (19?9), S5noltng and Rsattb . A Rsport qf du Swgson CknsroG DREW Pribi . No .
(PHS) 79-50066 ; United States Public He .Uh Service (USPHS) (19a1) . flre 8seltlr Coerequanea q/S+Moxing . 7he Q+miging
agamu. A Repoit q/ab. dYrrgson Owau,nl. DHHS F.bl. No. (PHS) S1dGLSi.
FE
Nadonal Cancer Tnatitute (1980), Rsporr nw .1. Toward Leu 8atnrdow agwrap. .Slonmaiy: Four Skn Patndng Bloasaays Uring
Qondenaaufi+om Srpcdmerual aganau. DHEw Pubi . QV>fl) (Sepasber 1980) .
n Ood OB (19E0), i,eW Hazardous Cigarottes : Tbeory and Pr.ctice.la God OB aaid Book FO (Editora), A $0 aganaet Banbury
Report 3, Cold Spria; Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spriaj Harbor NY : 261-279; (1980, A Sununary Appraisal . In Oori GB and Boot
FO (Editors), A StiJs.agoreast Baabury Report 3, Cold Sprins Harbor Laboratorp, Cold SptioS Harbor NY : 3S3-3S9 .
12
successful incorporation of
reconstituted tobacco sheet into
cigarette design in 1953 by R .J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company with
the Winston. The Winston was
also the first highly successful
filter-tipped cigarette . Other
technologies were developed and
introduced by the cigarette
manufacturers in an attempt to
respond directly to a variety of
smoking-health claims .
introduction of these technologies
1
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I
1
.
1
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0 1
is noted in Flgure 4 . Over the
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984
years, use of these technologies in
concert and to various degrees in F'igare 4 . "Tar" and Nicotine Deliveries, Sales Weighted
Average Basis
cigarette design has provided the
consumer with a great variety of
products whose number has increased from about a dozen in the mid-1950s to several hundred
presently. It should be remembered that the cigarette is a system : All of these technologies
used in cigarette design are interactive . i, e., inclusion of or change in the level of use of any
particular technology may require other adjustments in the cigarette design to maintain certain
attributes acceptable to the consumer .
Within a decade of the introduction of the successful filter-tipped Mnston with its
reconstituted tobacco sheet component, all U .S. cigarette manufacturers were using reconstituted
tobacco sheet, either in-house developed or purchased from a supplier, in their products . Filtertipped cigarettes had escalated from about 1 .3 96 of the U . S. market in 1953 to 64 % in 1965" .
During the period 1955-1965, the sales-weighted "tar" and nicotine deliveries decreased by 40
and 48 %, respectively . Since filter-tip ventilation had not been discovered and utilized in
cigarette design, compensation by cigarette smokers for such a decrease (48%) in nicotine intake
was almost an impossibility .
In addition to reducing the •`tar" and nicotine deliveries, what else did the incorporation
of reconstituted toba3eoco sheet into the cigarette blend accomplish? During the same period,
1955-1965, the specific tumorigenicity of cigarette smoke condensates from commercial
cigarettes containing increasing levels of reconstituted tobacco sheet decreased" as did the
" ari .e VN (1954) . Market Growth of Reducod Tar Ci=areaea . RECENT ADV.1'OS. SCL 10: 4-14 .
34 Wynder EL and Hotfnunn D(1955), Reduction of'Ylimoripeoioity of CiSaieete Smote . An Bxperimeahi Approach . J. AM. MED.
A.4SOC .19I: aE-94.
13 '
cigarettes containing increasing levels of reconstituted tobacco sheet decreased" as did the
benzo[a]pyrene per mg of smoke condensateu.
eo
In a continuation of their mouse skinpainting studies'a, Wynder et al ." examined the 70
effect of application of lower and lower annual y„
doses of mainstream cigarette smoke condensate ~
on tumor production in skin-painted mice
. They ~50 reported that skin painting of mice with a total 40
annual dose of 10 g/mouse produced papilloma in '
about 60 % of the mice, but only a small ~'opercentage (< 1096) of papilloma-bearing animals
(no carcinoma-bearing) animals was observed K 20
when the total annual amount of cigarette smoke 10
condensate applied was less than 5 g/mouse .
Further reduction of the annual dose to did not ° L
:
yield any papilloma- or carcinoma -bearing
(see Fjgtu'e S) .
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---7
3
5
mice Graav
FIgure
.
of
e
J
a o,o
Ci`arette Smoke/Nouse/Year
S. Relationship of Tumor Yield and
Dose (Wynder et al., 1957)
Wynder and his colleagues used these data
as the basis for their statements that reduction of the "tar" yield of cigarettes by about 40-50%
would produce substantial reductions in the incidence of respiratory cancer in cigarette smokers :
. . .A.lthough It is d{fficult to estimate a comparable exposure leuel for man, the human data in line
with the animal data Indicate that a reduction in total tar exposure will be followed by a decrease
in tumorformation. . . Measures that can succeed in the tar exposure of man include thefollowing :
l . More e~, jj`'adive Jtltration. lt seems feasible to produce a Jilter that will remove 40 per
cent of the tar from a given cigarette and still allow the cigarette to maintain a satisfactory
pressure drop and jlauvr .
2. Mod~'ication In the types of tobacco so that the blend used Is as low as possible in
tar1t [sic] and nicotine content. . .
. . .It may be predicted that if the average smoker were erposed to only ha{f the amount of tobacco
tar to which the smoker of ngular-siz.at cigarettes ts now [1957] exposed, his cancer risk will be
~ Wyeder EL ud Hof6mtm D(1965), Reduction of Tumotigenicity of Cigarette Smoke . An Experimental Approach . J. AM. MED .
ASSOC .192: Es-94 .
u Hotriaann D and Rathkanp (7 (1966), Unpublished data cited In Wyader EL and HotYmana D(1967), Tobacco and Tobacco S7moke :
Studlet In S+rperlrnrntal CaMeogenesfi. Academic Press, Piew York NY: S31-S23 .
36 Wynder EL, aralum EA, and Cronin;er AB (1953), Study on the Esperimerual Production of Cancer with Tobacco Tar . PROC.
AM. ASSOC. CANCER RES. 1: 62-63; Bxperimenual Production of Carcinoma with Cigarette Tar . CANCER RES.13: 833-864;
Experimental Production of Carcinoma with Cigarette Tar. II. Teata with Different Mouse Strains . CANCER RES. 1J: 443-448;
Wynder 84, Lupberger A, and l}renror C(1936), 8sperimental Production of Cancer with Cigarette Tar : Strain Differences . BRIT.
J. CANCER 10: S07-S09 ; Wynder EL and Wright OF (I9S7), A Study of Tobacco Carciaogeaesi . . I . The Primary Frac6ona .
CANCER lo.• 235-271 .
37 Wynder BL,1{opf P, and Ziegler H(1957), Dosa Response with Cigarette Tar . PROC. AM. ASSOC . CANCER RES. 2(3): 261 ;
A Study of Tobacco Careinogenesia . II . Dose-Response Studies . CANCER 10: 1193-1200 .
X Tobacco does not contaia "tar ."
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sign{ficantly reduced. Any measure designed to thus reduce man's exposure to tobacco tar whether
through modtfieation of the tobacco or the eigarette, or through more effeetive filtration, can
sign{/ieantly c+ontribute to the decrease in risk
The data from these dose-response study (and the threshold limit value for cigarette
smoke condensate) were subsequently reported and their pertinence to the human smoking
situation -and cigarette design were discussed many times by Wynder and Hoffmann" . E.g.,
they stated in 1964 and and again in 1967 :
It is apparent that a redudion of tumorigenic components can be most readily accomplished by
reducing the total amount of smoke condensate . . .to which one is ezposed.
From the results of additional biological studies, Wynder and Hoffmann'° concluded :
It Is apparent. .,,from laboratory studies . . . that exposure to tobacco smoke condensate and tumor
yield are quantitatively eorrelated
Similar dose-response findings were subsequently reported from the National Cancer Institute's
massive 10-year "less hazardous-cigarette" study involving tests on cigarette smoke condensates
from nearly 100 experimental cigarettes and over 30 control cigarettes and the Kentucky 1R1
Reference Cigarette (Gori", National Cancer Institute') .
How did the introduction (see FIgure 4) of the various cigarette design technologies
speak to the suggestions on "tar" reduction? Table 3 discusses the various technologies
acknowledged by various anti-tobacco smoking investigators and institutions as contributing
significantly to "less hazardous" cigarettes . In addition to the beneficial reduction sought by
Wynder and others in mainstream smoke "tar" delivery, most of the technologies also produced
a decrease in mainstream smoke nicotine delivery . This reduction in nicotine delivery occurred
between 1957 and 1965, even though as late as 1964, the U . S. Surgeon General commented on
the toxicity of nicotine as follows :
Mhe chronic toxicity of nicotine in quantities absorbed from smoking and other methods of
a9 Wynder EL and Hot6n .na D(1962), Studiee with the aamoua and Paztieulate Phaae of Tobacco Smote . PROC. AM. ASSOC.
CANCER RES. !(I): 373 ; (1963), Eia experimenteUer Beitag wr Tabatrauc6kaaaerogeaeee . DEZPr.11ZD. WCHNSCHR. 8g:
623-628 ; (1964), FVerimental Tobacco CarcioogeoeaL . ADV. CANCER RES. d: 2t9-4S3: see 372-373 ; (1967), Tobacco and
Tobacco b5noke: Studia In Bxpetimentd CarobwgenesU . Academic Press, New Yort NY : S44-S03 .
40 Wynder EL and Hoffmaan D (1965), Reductioe of Tumorigenicity of Cigarette Smoke . An F.xperimeatal Approach . J. AM . MED.
ASSOC . 192: E8-94.
a ()od OB (Editor) (1976), Report No .1. Toward Less Hazardous Qganrttu . 71te Fiat set qjErpertmmwt l3garettes . DREW Publ .
No . ¢YIH) 76-905; (1976), Report No. 2. Toward Leaa Hazardous Agantus . lhs Second Set ojFrperirnenta/ Qgamus . DHEW
Publ. No. 0iIH) 76-1111 ; (1977), Report No. 3. Toward Less Hazardous Qgantus . 71:e 7ltird set oJSrperinienul Gtgamus .
DREW Publ . No. (NIH) 77-1280; (1980, Report No. 4. Toward ltst Hazardous Qgannu . Me Fowrh Set of Fxpuimmtai
Qgarette. . DHEW Pabl. (MS) Mareh (1980).
n National Cancer Institute (1980), Report No . S. Toward Leu Hazardous Qganttes . Sanunary: Four sk/n PainNng Bioassays Osing
Condentate from F.rperlmtntal Glgannes. DHEW Publ. (NIH) (September 1980).
15
signtficantly reduced . Any measure designed to thus reduce man's exposure to tobacco tar whether
through modification of the tobacco or the cigarette, or through more effectivefiltration, can
signiftcantly contribute to the decrease in risk
The data from these dose-response study (and the threshold limit value for cigarette
smoke condensate) were subsequently reported and their pertinence to the human smoking
situation and cigarette design were discussed many times by Wynder and Hoffmann'9 . E.g.,
they stated in 1964 and and again in 1967 :
It is apparent that a reduction of tunwrigenic components can be most readily accomplished by
reducing the total amount of smoke c»ndensate . . .to which one is exposed.
From the results of additional biological studies, Wynder and Hoffmanni0 concluded :
It is apparent. ., from laboratory studies. . . that exposure to tobacco smoke condensate and tumor
yield are quantitatively oorrelated.
Similar dose-response findings were subsequently reported from the National Cancer Institute's
massive 10-year "less hazardous-cigarette" study involving tests on cigarette smoke condensates
from nearly 100 experimental cigarettes and over 30 control cigarettes and the Kentucky 1R1
Reference Cigarette (Gori", National Cancer Institute'=) .
How did the introduction (see FIgure 4) of the various cigarette design technologies
speak to the suggestions on "tar" reduction? Table 3 discusses the various technologies
acknowledged by various anti-tobacco smoking investigators and institutions as contributing
significantly to "less hazardous" cigarettes . In addition to the beneficial reduction sought by
Wynder and others in mainstream smoke "tar" delivery, most of the technologies also produced
a decrease in mainstream smoke nicotine delivery . This reduction in nicotine delivery occurred
between 1957 and 1965, even though as late as 1964, the U .S . Surgeon General commented on
the toxicity of nicotine as follows :
[TJhe chronic toxicity of nicotine in quantities absorbed from smoking and other methods of
39 Wynder EL and Hoffmann D(1962), Studies with the Qa .eow and Particulate Phase of Tobacco Smoke . PROC. AM. ASSOC.
CANCER RES. 3(I): 373; (1963), Bia axperimeateUer Beitnj zur Tabakraue6kanzero8ene.e . DEUT. MED. WCHNSCHR. 86:
623-628 ; (1964), Experimental Tobacco Carotoogenwia . ADV. CANCER RES. g: 249-453 : see 372-373 ; (1967), Tobacco and
Tobacco s+noke: Sadiu fn Lsperkenui CarMogenesls . Academic Press, New York NY : 504-505 .
p Wynder EL and Hoffmana D (1965), Reduction of'i5imorigeaieity of C'Wrette Smoke . An Experimental Approach . ,/. AM. MED.
AS.SOC.192 : 88-% .
41 Ooci OB (Editor) (1976), Report JVo . 1 . Toward Lers Razanfow agantau. M F1rst set qJBcperbuntal agaroau . DHEW Publ.
No. (MH) 76-905 ; (1976), Report /Vo. 2. Toward Less RotArdoas aganau . 7/u Second Set of Fxpenlmental aganaes . DHEW
Publ. No. (NIH) 76-1111 ; (1977), Report JYo. !. Towod Less Razasdou agamui. 71u 77iin! Set of 8rputmental agarraes.
DHEW Pobl. No. (NIH) 77•1280 ; (1980), Report No. 4. Toward Less Hazardous agansaa . 7/u Founh Set of 8spsrimenro!
aganaes. DHEW Pob1. (NIH) MareL (1980) .
n National Cancer LDtitute (1980), Report No . S. Towanf Leu Hazardous agarrttes . Sunwwry : Four Skin Paindng Bloarsays Using
CondensateJhvm F.xperimental aganats. DHEW Yobl. (NIS) (September 1980) .
15
tobacco use Is very low and probably does not represent any important health hazard . . ." ?Tu
evidence. . .supports a conclusion that the chronic toxicity {fniootine in amounts ordinarily obtained
In common forms of tobacco use Is very low Indced . . ." [TJhe chronic toxicity of nicotine In
quantities absorbed from snmking and other methods of tobaecn use is very low and probably does
not represent a significant health problem`5 .
As noted previously, by 1965, several of the design technologies succeeded in reducing
the "tar" delivery by 40%, the goal sought by Wynder . However, the decrease did not stop
there. Introduction of additional technologies reduced the sales-weighted average "tar" delivery
52% from the 1955 value . Eventually, the sales-weighted average "tar" delivery was only about
33 % of the 1955 value, i . e., a 67% reduction! When the anti-tobacco smoking group realized
the tobacco industry could provide the consumer with cigarettes at almost any specified "tar"
delivery, criticisms turned from "tar" to other factors :
• Flavora,n{,g : Since the lowered "tar" cigarettes were assumed to contain additional
quantities of flavorant formulations, the fate of flavorants during the smoking process
became a point of contention, i.e., did the flavorants generate undesired pyrolysis
products during the smoking process? This question was primarily triggered by the Philip
Morris advertisements of the new flavor technology applied to the Merit16 .
A comparison of the mutagenicities (Salmonella typhlmurium) of the mainstream smoke
from a cigarette blend with no flavorants, no casing materials, and no humectants vs
smoke from the same blend with normal flavorant and casing/humectant levels vs the
smoke from the same blend with normal casing/humectant levels plus 10 times the
normal flavorant levels revealed no differences attributable to the flavorants . The
humectants, by their dilution of the 'tar", diminished the mutagenicity of the mainstream
smoke.
• 7ter- ,p ventilation and compensation „for nicotine : Despite the fact that filter-tip
ventilation provided remarkable control of "tar" delivery, this technology was criticized
because the smoker supposedly could block the ventilation holes and increase intake of
"tar" and nicotine to "compensate" for the lowered "tar" and nicotine deliveries .
Nothing is said about the apparent lack of "compensation" for nicotine during the years
(1955-1970) when "tar" and nicotine deliveries were reduced by more than 50% .
Nor was much said about any nicotine problem when several noted investigators - as
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46
United States Public Health Service (USPHS) (1964), SYnoktna and Healrh . Repon of rhe Advt+ory Comndaee w ehe Surgeon (3eneral
of the Public Health Savtce. DHEW Pohl. No . (PSS) 1103. See 32.
United States Public Health Service (USPHS) (1964), SSnoktna and Realih . lieport of du .ldviaory CoeuMlaee to the Surgeon General
of dhe Public Health Servlee . DHEW Yobl. No . M 1103 . See 74.
United Statee Public Health Service (USPHS) (1964). &nokfna and Neateh. Report q fthe Advtiory Caemlaee so dhe Swgeon General
of the Public Health Service. D1IEW Pabl. No. (PHS) 1103 . See 73.
Uoyd RA (1978), Personal communication on Nertt research . Detailed exanoination of the Merir ciSarette with particular emphasis
on the flavorant technolo8y revealed that the teehnolo8y used differed little from that employed on the 70-mm unfiltered Came! .inoe
1913 .
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recently as 1980 - proposed that cigarettes should be designed to deliver further reduced
levels of "tar" and carbon monoxide but with nicotine deliveries either unchanged or
only slightly reduced . E.g., Russell and coworkers suggested'7 :
G, ~~low-tar, low CO, but meditrm-, rather than low-, nicotine cigarette might
ty,~-~ -reduce tar and CO intake more than occurs with low-tar, low-CO, low-nicotine
cigarettes
and
Finally, a case will be made for a medlran-nkwtine, low-tar, low-earbon
monoxide (CO) eigarette . . . (emphasis added: AR]
•Environrnental tobacco,srnoke : Switch the criticism from the smoker and supposed selfcontamination to the smoker and his purported contamination of others in the room .
47
Russell MAH, Wilson C, Fatel UA, Cole PV, and Feyenbend C (1973), Comparison of the Effect on Tobacco Consumption and
Carbon Monoxide Absorption of Chae" to HigL and Low Nicotine Cigaeettee . BRiT. MED. J.1973 nv): S 12; Russell MAH,
Cole PV, Idle MS, and Adama L (1975), Carbon Monoxide Yie1ds of Cigarettes and Their Relation to Nicotine Yield and Type of
Filter. BRIT. MED. J. 197f (Jd): 71 ; Russell MAS (1976), Low Tar, Medium-Nicotine Ciganttea : A New Approach to Safer ~
Smoldn; . BRIT. MED. J. 1976 il): 1430; (1980, Riat Raductioo Achievementa and Future Dinoctions . In l)ori GB and Bock FO ~
~-'
(Sditon), A Sq/e (aganae t Banbury Reporr 3, Cold Spt4ng Hatbor Laboratory, Cold Spt4aB Harbor NY : 157-177 ; (1980), The Case
for Medium-Nieotine, Low-Tar, Low Caebon Monoxide Ciganttea . In God OB and Boet Fa (Editors), A Sq/e Qganttef Bonbury ~
Report 3, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY : 297-310.
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0 .075
0 .070
0 .065
NIT
Ratie
0 .060
s
0 .005
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1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 L980 L986 1990 1995
Year
Sales-Weighted Avetage Nicotine/Tar Ratios
I'`igUl^8 G .
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0
• suggestions by investigators such as Russell, Jarvik, and others that the design of a
"safer" cigarette should involve the substantial reduction of "tar" delivery and either
maintenance of the nicotine delivery at the level it was prior to manipulation of the "tar"
delivery or only involve a slight reduction of the nicotine delivery .
a
Ruueli MAH, Wilson C, Patet UA, Coie PV, and Feycnbeod C (1973), Compatiwn of the Effect on Tobacco Consumption aad
Cacbon Monoxide Absorption of Changing to HiSh and Low Nicotine CiSareae . . BRIT. MED. J.1973 pv) : S 12 ; Ruaeell MAH,
Cole PV, Idle MS, and Adama L(1975), Carbon Monoxide Yields of CiSarettea and Their Relation to Nicotine Yield and Type of
Filter . BRIT . MED . 11975 nU) : 71 ; Rw .ell MAH (1976), Low Tar, Medium-Nicotine Cigarettes : A Nea Approach to Safer
Smoking . BRIT. MED. J. 1976 p): 1430 ; (1980, iG.k-Reduction Achievements and Future Diiectan.. In C3ori (3B and Bock FO
(Editors), A Sq/e Glgarrae t Banbury Report 3, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold SprLV Harbor NY : 157-177; (1980), The Case
for Medium=Nicotine, L9w+ Tar, Low Carbon Monoxide Cigarettes . In flod oB and Boct FQ (Bditon), A Safe Ctgarsuef Banbury
Reporr 3, Cold SprinY Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY : 297-310.
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TABLE 3 .
Cigarette Design
TwmlQgx
CIGARETTE DESIGN . TECHNOLOGIES
Qrigjpgl Goal
_u_&Muent Findin¢s
Effect
on MS
Nicotine
• blend of fluecured, burley,
oriental, and
Maryland
tobaccos'
• more consumer acceptable MS •
than that from an all-fluecured or all-oriental tobacco
cigarette
• filter tip°
• esthetics (no tobacco
fragmenta in mouth)
• TPM` reduction
• as efficiency of filter tip was decrease
increased, MS TPMb decreased
• reconstituted
tobacco sheet
(RTS)a
~ economics (tobacco leaf stem
constitutes 20-25 96 of the
purchased leaf weight ; prior to
1953, stems at R .J . Reynolds
Tobacco Company were
discarded, sold as fertilizer, or
processed to recover nicotine
for sale to chemical company
that manufactured a nicotinebased insecticide)
• as level of RTS was inc- decrease
reased, the MS TPM" decreased
• specific tumorigenicity of CSC
decreased as RTS level in
blend was increased
• TPM° PAHs decreased as RTS
level in blend was increased
• in some instances, MS NNAs
and TSNAs increased as RTS
level of blend increased
• cigarette paper
additives
• to ensure the cigarette paper
char line preceded the tobacco
blend char line during the
burning of the cigarette
• slight decrease in TPM" with slight
increased use of some ciga- decrease
rette paper additives, a.g .,
citrate
• air dilution via
cigarette paper
porosity
• TPM` reduction
• TPM' reduction proportional slight
to cigarette paper porosity decrease
• reduction in VP component
deliveries proportional to
cigarette paper porosity
+ improved fabrication of filtertip rods
• filter-tip additives (plasti- decrease
cizers) such as triacetin
selectively removed components found primarily in the
MS VP as well as components
partitioned between the VP
and PP, e.g., phenols, VNAs
TPM° less than that from an
all-flue-cured or all-oriental
cigarette
specific tumorigenicity of CSC
from American blend less than
that from all-flue-cured or alloriental tobaccos
Table 3 (Continued) :
Effect
Cigarette
Design
on
MS
TechnoloQV Original Goal Subsequent Findings Nico jpg
• carbon • reduction of MS VP •"carbon-filter" off-taste decrease
components (HCN, acrolein, eventually became unaccepacetaldehyde, acetone) table to the consumer
reported to be ciliastatic in tn • slight decrease in TPM°
vitro studies delivery : decrqase dependent
on filter-tip construction
(compartmoatalizod carbon,
carbon-impregnated cellulose
acetate fibers, etc .)
• processed tobacco
• denicotinization • reduction of nicotine level in • increase in levels of certain decrease
tobacco flavorful compounds, e.g .,
py~~
• expansion• f • reduction of per cigarette • reduction in TPMb delivery, decrease
TPM° delivery plus reduction reduction in levels of
of levels of allegedly harmful PAHs/mg TPMb, reduction in
components levels of several allegedly
• economics (the most expensive harmful VP components, e .g.,
item in a cigarette is the CO, HCN, acrolein
tobacco; any reduction in • reduction of specific
weight/cigt is reflected tumorigenicity of CSC
economically)
• air dilution via • reduction of MS TPMb plus • reductions of TPM° and VP decrease
filter-tip reduction of MS levels of VP components proportional to %
ventilatiod components (CO, NO, HCN, air dilution
etc.)
' This blend of tobaccos, the so-called American blead, was introduced by RJ . Reynolds Tobacco Co. in the C<onel cigarette
in 1913; eventually the American blend was used In cigareaes througLout the world .
b TPM - FfC "tar" + nicotine; WTPM - wet TPM - FTC'4ar•• + nicotine + water .
° Winrton, Introduced by RJ. ReynoW. Tobacco Company In 1933 . was the first tUter-tipped cigarotte to command a
signitican anarket share .
• In 1953, RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Company used its ln-house RTS In the newly Introduced NRnrten blend ; RTS use eventually
extended to other RJRT bead. (Camel, CavaUer7 ; by 1960, all U.S . cigarette as.aufacwrers wero incoeporatiqg an RTS in
their products.
• In 1965, R .I. Reynolds Tobacco Company reported the development of the first expansion peooeu applicable to tobacco
lamia .e; previously reported expansion processes were effective only with tobacco steaas . Expanded tobacco was Included in
RJRT products during and after 1965 .
t Incorporation of expanded tobacco and filter-tip ventilation in cigareue design permitted the generadon of cigarettes whose
"tar" delivery ranged 5om 0 . 1 to 10 mg.
AbbnWmiona:
CSC ~ cigarette solote condensate RTS - reconstituted tobacco abeet
MS ~ mainstream smoke TPM - total particulate matter
NNA • N-nitrosamine VNA - volatile N-nitrosamine
PP ~ particulate phase VP • vapor pbaae
In his 1979 .report, the U .S. Surgeon General, citing data present by Wynder and Hecht',
listed the major technologies that could be used in the design of cigarettes and classified their
effectiveness in the design of so-called "safer" or "less hazardous" cigarettes2 . Table 4,
adapted from the 1979 Surgeon General's report, lists each of these technologies and its
effectiveness in reducing per cigarette mainstream smoke "tar", mainstream smoke nicotine,
mainstream smoke carbon monoxide, and mainstream smoke benzo[a]pyrene, deliveries as well
as its effectiveness in reducing the tumorigenicity (mouse-skin painting) of mainstream cigarette
smoke condensate and in vitro mainstream smoke ciliatoxicity . Also indicated in Table 4 are the
tobacco industry members who originated the various technologies, particularly those considered
highly effective and which were used in 1979 in marketed products and are still used, I .e.,
cellulose acetate filtration, reconstituted tobacco sheet, air dilution via paper porosity, expanded
tobacco . The FDA in its 1995 discussion' of nicotine essentially ignores the years of effort
involved in developing these technologies and their effectiveness in reducing mainstream smoke
yield including nicotine delivery .
The categorization of the effectiveness of the various cigarette design technologies as highly
signiflcant, signtficant, insigniftcant, etc . is not that of members of the Tobacco Industry but of
institutions and investigators characterized by their anti-tobacco sentiments . These include
institutions such as the National Cancer Institute, and anti-tobacco smoking authorities such as
the U.S. Surgeon General', Wynder and Hecht', Wynder and Hoffmann', and Gori et al .'
I
Wynder EL and Hecht SS (Bditora) (1476),1ung Cancer. UICC TECH. REPT. SERIES 2S: 138 .
2
United Statea Public Health Service (USPHS) (1979) . S+noAing and Reald:. A Report of the swgeon Cknernl . DHEW Pabl. No.
(PHS) 79-50066 . See Chapter 14, Table 26.
3
United States Food and Dnig Admiaiatratioa (FDA) (1995) Niootlm in Cigarettew and Smokeless Tobacco Products Is a Dn :B and
Theme Productu are Nicotine Delivery Devicea under the Federal Food, Dnt=, and Co .metic Act. US FDA DHHS: 1-326 (August).
National Cancer Institute (1980), Reporr No. 3. Toward Lesa Razardow aganaes . SUonmary: Four Sxin Palnting Bloaasays Using
Condensatefian Espe>imenml aganrtei . DHEW Frbl. (NN) (Septsber 1980.
United State . Public Health Service (USPHS) (1979), Sinoling and Real& A Report of rhe Surgeon Gcnerol . DHEW Pabl . No.
(PHS) 79-50066 . See C6aptar 14, Tabb 26 ; United Suta Public Heahb Service (USPHS) (1981), 7he Realth Consequences of
&noking. 7he a:anging agaretre. A Report of the Swgeon GeneroL DHHS FttW. No. (PHS) 81-30156.
6
Wynder EL and Hecht SS (Bditoc .) (1976), Waj Cancer . UICC TECH . REPT. SERIES 2.f: 138 .
I
Wynder EL and Hoffimam D(1964), 8:cperimental Tobacco Carcloo8eaeai.. ADV. CANCER RES. g: 249-433 ; (1965), Reduction
of Tumorijeaiaity of Cijantte amotce . An Bx#eeiaaatal Approach. J. AM. MED. ASSOC. 1P2: 88-94; (1967) . Tobacco md
Tobacco SMoke: Slardteu bt Zperta.attal Ca>tclnogeneaL . Academic Press, NeMr York NY ; Wynder EL and HofGnann D(Bditors)
(1968), Toward a lsa Rarafyt agantte . NATL. CANCER INST. MONOG1tAPH 28.
God aB (Editor) (1976), Report A6 1. Towaid Leu Roundour agorata . flie Plrtt Set oJ6xPertmenwl agaretra . DHEW Pobl .
No. (NIH) 76A03i <Iorf oB (Editor) (1976), Report 1Vo . 2. ToMand l.ur Rarartlow aganaa. Tlre Second Set q/Sxpe>rinenral
agareaa. DREW Fubl. No. (NIH) 76-1111; tioti GB (1976), Approaches to the Reduction of Total Particulate Matter (rPM) In
Cigarette Smoke . In Wynder EL, Hotl'mann D . and Qotl GB (Editor.), Proc. dnd Wor{d Car{/. on &moidrg and fleairlt, lYew York
NY.197S, DHEW Pabl. No. (NIH) 76-1221, Vol.1:431-461 ; (loti GB (1977), Leaa Hazardou . CiYarettea. In Nieburg . HE (Bdiar),
Prrwenaton and DeucrJon of Cancer. Pon 1: Preyoudon. Vol.1 : 6dology, Marael Dekker. Inc ., New York NY : 791-804 .; God OB
(Bditor) (1977). Report lYo. 3. Toward Leti Harandout aamraa. 7Ue 7Mrd Set of F-speriieentd agontut . DHEW Pabl. No.
(NIH) 77-1280; (torl aB (1977), Las Hazardous Cigaraaee . to Nieburga HB (Bdiwr), P.rNertaton ad Deteettan ojCaneer, Pat
1 : Pirvennton. Vol.1 : Edology, M.rcet Dekker, Inc ., New York NY : 791-80W . tioti aB (1980), Lea Hazardous CiQarotte . : Tbeory
and Practice . In God OB and Bock FO (Editon), A S* aganaet Baubury Report 3 . Cold Spring Harbor Laboatory, Cold SPting
Harbor NY : 261-279; (1980), A Summary ApprdW . In God aB and Boct FO (8diten), A Sqfe agantu! Banbury Report 3, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY : 353-359; Dorl f3B (8ditor) (1980), Report No . A Toward !su Ratordoua
agarettes . T1u Fourth Set ojEcpaimental agorraea . DHEW Yabi. KH) MaeeY (1980) .
0
cn
N
1J
N
m
~
~
00
w
3
,
. .
TABLE 4 . CIGARETTE DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES : REDUCTION
OF SELECTED SMOKE COMPONENT LEVELS AND
BIOLOGICAL ACTIVTTY OF CIGARETTE SMOIW
Selective Biological
Reduction
Tumori1V\
hnologj
. .T--f f
~
gsw 4i4X
Ciliatoxicitv
To6acc+o Proc+esslnp
t 50%
0
insig
sig
2 50%
sig
expanded tobacco'
L 50 %
M
sig
Z 50 %
questionable
questionable
cut
insig°
insig
insig
insig
questionable
insig
extraction with organic
sig
sig
insig
sig
sig
insig
cellulose acetate Sltration•
sig
insig
Sig
~g
msig
Cbarcoal filtratloRd
s1g
~~
~
insig
sig
sig
z 50 %
air dilution:
via paper porosity'
via filter-tip ventilation!
sig
sig
= 50%
n 30%
sig
sig
insig
insig
sig
sig
additives (nitrates)
sig
sig
sig
sig
sig
increase
Tobacco Substitutas
Z 50%
Z 50%
insig
sij
z 50%
sig
reconstituted tobacco sheet
(paper processy
solvents
Ciparette Paran~eters
•
b
•
d
lntroduced into el`uott, detip In t6 . 8ltantipped W%riae and 7amm Amnsl (1953) .
Ffnt used In marketed products by R .J . Reynolds Tobacco Caapanr ia 1968 .
Introaucea In the siest WShlr succaaw sltertippea eisareae, nro wawron, In 1953 .
litroduced In an LAM product, the Lork, In 1963 .
• Introduced Into R .1. Reynolds Tobacco Coaipany products In 1938.
~ IIntroduced In an American Tobsoeo Caapany product ia t96a .
s Addition of dusls or nn of hijh-aitaa tobacco Increases level of Maitro ..mines In tobacco smoke.
`dbbnvtaqoir:• CO - oasbm moaoactds ; BaP - beazo[o)pyreos ; sig - stjnt6cant reduction ; ioais - iasiSniSoant reduction ;
questioo.ble - tnduotiou .n1din .aV.eimsntd .rcos
~ H1odoted dsfm ior nioodns reeeat dfxt of tec6nolojies In use In ouanntly marketed U .S. cigarette products .
1 At kast one 1ob .ooo subidpitm swdW (CytraN) In the National Cancer lastimte's'9ea haaidow" oiSaeeae pooSram showed an
inereaae In per oipza . BaP delivery and In BoP .'1'PM eadoto.
0
United Stata Public Health Seevice (USPHS) (1979), SSwokWa ard tlsal& A Report of de SwSson (3enrral . D1iEW Pobl . No .
(PHS) 79-50066 . Ses Chapter 14, Tsbie 26 .
10
God aB (Editor) (1976), Repon 1Yo. 2. Toward Lcit floundow Qaanaa . 71u Serad Set qfFxPerGrunwl Qgantua . DHEW Publ.
No. (NIH) 76•1311 ; National Cancer Iastitws (1980), Rsport IYo . S. Toward Lesr Bazamdou r Qganau . Sw"MaT. Four W^
Palniina Bloauay. Uaina CondcnratsJian Fspai+nsnwf Qaarraei . DHEW hW . M[I (Septt<fber 1980) .
4
. ..
, . . •.
While neither the Surgeon General nor Wynder and Hecht discussed in detail the effect of
the so-called American blend on the mainstream smoke components or properties listed in Table
4, data are available that indicate American blend mainstream cigarette smoke condensate shows
lower specific tumorigenicity than several of its component tobaccos, e .g ., flue-cured tobacco,
oriental tobacco. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon delivery, particularly the benzo[a]pyrene
delivery, and the deliveries of low molecular weight phenols are less in the mainstream smoke
from the American blend than in the mainstream smokes of flue-cured or oriental tobaccos" .
In its discussion of the "manipulation and control of nicotine delivery in marketed products",
the FDA limits the bulk of its discussion to events following about 1979" . Less than 15 % (18
of 128) of the citations precede 1980, t .e., the period from mid-1950s to 1980 when the effective
technologies were developed and introduced . The FDA's attitude about the events subsequent
to 1980 appears to be What cigarette design technology have you developed lately that will
contribute to a"less hazardous" cigarette?
Considerable data are available on the effect of several of these cigarette design technologies
on mainstream smoke composition and biological properties . Of particular interest are those data
which indicate the effect of a particular technology not only on the nicotine content of the
mainstream smoke but also on the nicotine: "tar'-' ratio. Technologies studied extensively at R .J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company include :
• reconstituted tobacco sheet whose composition is essentially 60-70% tobacco stems
plus 30-40% scrap tobacco laminae (see Table 3, Footnote d)
• expanded tobacco laminae (see Table 3, Footnote e)
• air dilution produced via filter-tip ventilation (see Table 3, Footnote, f) .
Because R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company developed the first meaningful process for the
expansion of tobacco laminae", it not only used expanded tobacco in the design of its own
cigarette products but also licensed the expansion process to other domestic and foreign cigarette
manufacturing companies who used expanded tobacco in the design of their cigarette products .
Between 1964 and the mid-1970s, considerable data were generated in-house at R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co . R&D on the following:
• the effect of tobacco expansion on tobacco composition
• the effect of inclusion of expanded tobacco in a cigarette blend on mainstream smoke
it
Wynder EL and Hoffmann D(1967), Tobacco md Tobacco SmaAr S7wdiu tn F-spsr6nenwl Caulno ;wud . Academic Press, New
York NY .
®
United S4tea Food and Dro= Adminlstratioa (FDA) (1995) Nlcodae In CiBareetea and Smokeku Tobacco Producta L a DeuB and
These Producu are Nioodne DeWery Devicea under t6e Fedeed Food, Dru=, and Caemeda Act . US FDA DHHSt 1-326 (Aajwt) :
See 232-288 . Chronoljy of Footnotes prioc to 1980 : 1964 - Footnote 404 ; 1970 - Footnotes 302; 1971 - Footnote 423 ; 1972 Footnote 503 ;1973 - Footnote 491 ;1975 - Footnotes 39Sa, 483a ;1976 - Foomoe" 430, 461;1977 - Footnotes 397, 398, 412 ;1978
- Footnotea 406, 457, 465 ; 1979 - Footmrote 477, 486, 48Sd
13
Fraddctwa JD ('1970), Process for lncrasinf the Fd* Capacity of Tobacco . U.s. Patst No. 3,543,451(AMguat 18) ; Moser OP
and StewaR oM (1970), Procew for Increada= db FWias Value of Tobacco . U. S. PaEe.t No . 3,S4Z,452 (AoYort 18) .
5
composition
• the effect of inclusion of expanded tobacco in a cigarette blend on the biological
properties of mainstream smoke
•
The data generated were summarized in a report, originally issued in 1972" . When additional
data, particularly biological data, were obtained, revisions became available in 1974 and 1977 .
Each report was provided as an accompaniment to presentations to management and R&D
personnel of the various tobacco companies interested in licensing the R .J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company expansion process . A copy of either the original report, or its first or second revision
was provided at the time of presentation . Cigarette manufacturing companies in the following
countries received copies : U.S.A., Canada, U.K., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Korea,
China, Taiwan, and Australia . Although the data per se were not published in a scientific
journal, nearly two hundred copies of the reports were distributed worldwide . Many of the
potential licensees, using their own tobaccos and/or tobacco blends, investigated the effects of
tobacco expansion on mainstream smoke composition and properties . Except for minor
differences in the data, attributable to the minor differences between the tobaccos studied at
Reynolds vs those studied in the potential licensee's laboratory, the experimental data were
uniformly confirmed with regard to the reductions in levels of allegedly harmful components
(benzo[a]pyrene, acrolein, phenols, etc.) . The Reynolds findings on the effects of inclusion of
expanded tobacco on themainstream smoke nicotine delivery and the nicotine :"tar" ratio were
also confirmed . Most significantly, confirmation of the mainstream smoke composition and
biological findings (mouse skin-painting) was also obtained in the National Cancer Institute's
decade-long study of design technologies whose use led to "less hazardous" cigarettes" .
m
1$
Rodgman A(1972), 013-Sxpanded Tob .coo . (Deoembec), pp. 66 ; (1974). 013-8xpanded Tob.cco. lat Waion. (Febnury). pp.
77 ; (1977), 0-13 BxpaedeOTabaoco . 2nd Ravidou . (October), pp .177 . T6eee repoits are .uamoarks of data ont6e etfect of tobacco
expandon on smolce compod8on and pcopeede.. Tiw.e data .ren used io pre .eatadomi w mrn~gemeat and R&D peaonnel of vuiow
tobaceo compardea inaoeated In lioenaiog tM RJ . Reynolds Tobacco Company expan.bo process . Copies of t6e eepoeta were
peovided potential ttcen.eee at daa of praentadoo . Tobecco coaipinia Boaa tbe 6opo .viag couatdae were involved : U .S.A., Canada,
U.K., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Koroa, China, Taiwan, and Australia .
(7ori GB (Editor) (1976) . Repott No. Z. Towand Lat Rarardou pgonaa. 71rs Sarond set ofBrperbnenmt Qgarraer . DHEW Pobi.
No. (NIS) 76-1111; National Cancer In .tiwte (19E%, 8epoa /Yo. J. Towand lssa Rnundows Aganeaa. Swnnmary: Four sktn
Palnatng BJooarayr UaJng Cordenaatt finai Erpertnunta/ Qganaa . DIi3rW AW . (M (SepterDer 1980).
6
TABLE SA. EFFECT OF TOBACCO EXPANSION ON CIGARETTE
SMOKE COMPOSITION : A COMMERCIAL BLEND
(CIGARETTE SAMPLES FABRICelTFD 70 EQDIVALEM'
FIRblNES4j
Ratio of Control Tobacco B1end :Exeandad Tobacco Blend'
Anatyteb
100% :0% 90% :10% 75% :25% 50% :50% 0%:100%
partlculate nhase
. 4tar , 9,
21 .1
20.8
28 .6
24 .4
23 .6
nicotine, mg
2 .01
1 .60
1 .44
1 .26
1 .01
nicoane: "tar" ratio
0 .0703
0 .0656
0.0610
0.0597
0 .0505
carbon monoxide, mg
16.2 o~ b
15 .46-C'~%
13 .9 0Sl9
11 .5 O•s~
9 .8
Q•'*1 t
1enzo[a]Pyreno, ng
16 .1
13 .0Q,ri'r
11 .1 tp, ,P
10.4 0• k '4
7 .1
e• %k*
formaldehy a, µg
53
48 1 q~~
41 ~~51
39 t•~~
36
acetaldehyde, µ8
965
955 aQ""f
925 3a • t~
880 0' 11
790
mg
' Cigareaea In each sample fabricated to eqdtAlent fir.mneat
b Per cixareae values
TABLE 5B .
Analvter
EFFECT OF TOBACCO EXPANSION ON CIGARETTE
SMOKE COMPOSITION : A COMMERCIAL BLEND
(CIGARETTE SAMPIES FABRIG!?ID ?10 EQUIVALEM'
PRF.SS'URE DROP)
Control Tobacco Blend
ExpWW Tobacco Blend
particulafe phase
64tarp
,
,
an
23 .2
31 .0
nicotine, mg
1 .88
1 .20
nicotine :"tar„ ratio
0 .0606
0 .0517
carbon monoxide, m8
14.0
12 .6
benzo[a]Pyrevo+ a8
20 .8
12 .4
formaldehyde, µ8
55
45
acetaldehyde+ µ8
1050
793
Ys122CP~
' Ciyareue . In each sample fabricated to eqd .aleot
b Per cisarette values
6
t
3 7' ~ 4
TABLE SA. EFFECT OF TOBACCO EXPANSION ON CIGARET'I'E
SMOKE COMPOSITION; A COMMERCIAL BLEND
(CIOARETIE SAMPLES FABRIGlTFD 7b EQUIVilIF.NP
Fm1VF.SS~
Ratio of Control Tobacco Blend :Expanded Tobacco Blend'
10oas :o%
90% :10%
75.% ;,2 5.%
5o%:sog~
0% :10og~
28 .6
24 .4
23 .6
21 .1
20 .8
nicotine, mg
2 .01
1 .60
1 .44
1 .26
1 .01
nicotine : "tar" ratio
0 .0703
0 .0656
0.0610
0.0597
0 .0505
carbon monoxide, mg
16.2
15 .4
13 .9
11 .5
9 .8
benzoLa]Pyreno+ ng
16 .1
13 .0
11 .1
10.4
7 .1
formaldehyde, µg
53
48
41
39
36
acetaldehyde, µg
965
955
925
880
790
Analvte"
paniculate nhase
6 .tar„ mg
i9w phase
' C'iSareaea in each aampb fabricated to eqni .aieot tirmneds
b Per cigarette valuea
TABLE SB.
EFFECT OF TOBACCO EXPANSION ON CIGARETTE
SMOKE COMPOSITION: A COMMERCIAL BLEND
(CIGARET4E SAMP1F.4 FABRIGlTlD 70 EQUIVAI.F.iVP
PRExSDRE DROP)
Control Tobacco Blead6
Exnanded Tobacco
Blendd
partlculate DhaSe
,.
tar
„ ing
31 .0
23.2
nicotine, mg
1 .88
1 .20
nicotine:' `tar•' ratio
0 .0606
0 .0517
carbon monoxide, mg
14 .0
12.6
benzoIa]pyrene• ng
20.8
12.4
formaldehyde, µg
55
45
acetaldehyde, µg
1050
793
MpQ,pl+'ase
' Per cigarette values
b CiYarauea In each wnnple fabricated to eaoi.akot prasaore drop
7
TABLE 6.
EFFECT OF TOBACCO EXPANSION ON CIGARETTE
SMOKE COMPOSITION : FLUE-CURED AND BURLEY
TOBACCOS
Flue-cured Blend
Ana(yte
Burley
Control
E38g0~
Control
ExpAded
partic tg i+ase
. . ,• . mg
32 .9
18 .2
27 .7
17.7
nicotine, mg
2 .75
1 .25
1 .92
1 .13
nicotine:"tar" ratio
0 .0836
0.0687
0.0693
0 .0630
carbon monoxide, mg
15 .6
7 .0
benzo[a]Pyrene . ng
28 .5
8 .7
ta
ygpa phase
formaldehyde, µg
31
23
acetaldehyde, µg
970
575
' Fer cisacepe values
0 .090
•-e
burley blend
o--o
flue-cured blend
x . .x
coeeerclal blend
N • nicotine
T • t1tar"
.080
N/T
Ratio
0 .070
0
•
0 .060
X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. X
0 .050
I 1 I I
0 10 25 50
I
100
ExpandQd Tobacco, X of Blend
Figure 7 .
Nieotine/"Tar" Ratios for Expanded Tobacco Blends
TABLE 7. EFFECT OF TOBACCO EXPANSION ON CIGARETTE
SMOI{E COMFOSITION : STANDARD EXPERIl1Ii~'.NTAL
BLEND (SEB)'6
Analvta, Control SEB
• effect of RTS on MS nicotine
• effect of expansion on MS nicotine
• low-tar, medium nicotine ; the Gori cigarette
• tobacco substitutes
• tobacco extraction/reversal of opinion - nitrate addition/reversal of view
• carbon-filtered cigarettes
•
m
10
TABLE A . STATUS OF ASSERTIONS MADE ABODT CIGARETTE SMOKE, ITS
FORMATION, ITS COMPOSITION, AND ITS PROPERTIES
Asswlon
Statr~s
• Nontobacco Sources qf PAHs'
§ PAHs in MS due to PAHs in lighting source flame (match, lighter) false
§ Major precursor of PAHs in cigarette MS is the cigarette paper false
§ PAHs in MS result from transfer of air pollution-derived PAHs on leaf surface false
•Precursors in Tobacco of PAHs !n Tobacco Smoke
§ No BaP is present in MS ; if it is present, its *or precursor is cellulosic false
§ Major precursor of PAHs in MS is one or more tobacco components true
§ The major precursors in tobacco of MS PAHs are the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons false
§ Tbe major precursors in tobacco of MS PAHs are saturated hydrocarbons and false
phytosterols
§?be major precursors in tobacco of MS PAHs are terpenoids and phytosterols true
• Controversies over Presence or Absence of &wRc PAhfs in Tobacco Smolu
§
No
BaP
is
present
in
MS
false
§ No alkylated PAHs are present in MS false
§ No cyclopentanobenz[a]anthracenes are present in MS false
§ Dibenzo[a,l]pyreno is present in MS false [caveat']
•Mechanisms of,f~=genesis of PAHs !n Tobacco Smoke
§ MS PAHs formed primarily by a degradation-combination mechanism false
§ MS PAHs formed prttnarlty by a unimolecular aromatization mechanism false
• lavels of P,4M In M$an¢ Its Thnu~(ggntcitv
§ MS PAHs ara the only major tumor initiators causing mouse skin tumors false
§ MS PAHs are major cause of respiratory tract cancer in smokers false
§ MS contains a•`supercarcinogenie„ PAH false
§ Promoters in MS augment PAHs in their tumorigenicity false
§ Increasing BaP content of CSC increases its tumorigenicity false
11
TABLE A. (Continued) :
Assertlon
&g{9
• 7he "lndicator" Concent
§ BaP is "indicator" of CSC tumorigenicity, levels of tumorigenic tetracyclic PAHs false
§ Phenol is "indicator" of promoting effect of CSC false
§
Catechol
§
Catechol
is
a
is
a
tumorigen
false
promoter
false
• Control of P.lX LeNels In MS
§ Removal of lipophilic precursors from tobacco reduces MS PAHs true [careat"]
§ Addition of nitrates to tobacco reduces MS PAHs true [caveat°]
§ Increasing number of cuts/inch reduces PAHs false
§ PAHs may be selectively removed from MS by PAH complexing agents in filter false
• Control of Levels Qf MS CeMMnents Partitioned between VP and PP
$
Selective
filtration
impossible
false
§ Selective filtration possible with MS components partitioned between VP and PP true
•ggulvalence/Noneaulvalence of PvroEysis and the Smoking Proorss
§ Fate of an individual compound during pyrolysis is equivalent to its fate in tobacco false
during smoking process
§ PAH levels in a tobacco pyrolysate can be correlated with their levels in CSC false
• &morlpenlc Threshold LlmltsQf C ;ggrette Smoke Condenaate and Some of Its Comnonet~
§ No threshold limit exists for any tumorigenic compound
false
§ No threshold limit exists for any tumorigenic mixture such as CSC
false
• T~umor,jgenic Arrt Arenes In Tobacco Smoke
§ The tumorigenic ais-arenes dibenz(a,h]acridine, dibenz[a, f]acridine, and dibeazo- questionable
[c,g]carbazole are present in CSC
• MS Cotnnonents Alleped to Ciliastatic to Smokers' Resn[raLW Tract Cilia
§ In vltro water-soluble ciliastats in MS impair lung clearance in smokers' lungs
§ In vitro water-soluble ciliastats in MS removed from smoke stream by carbon
12
false
TABLE A . (Continued) :
Assertion
Status
• MS Comvonents Alkgedlv Resnonsible or Lung Cancer Inductlon in Smoker s
§ BaP and NNK in MS are responsible for respiratory tract cancer in smokers false
• Tobacco and Tobaeeo Smoke Comnonents Class{Red as Signilicant 74norlgen s
§ Tobacco and tobacco smoke contains 43 significant tumorigens false [caveat']
•Tobaccv Smoke Comnonents Anttcsarclnogenlc to Alleged Tobacsc+o Smoke Tumorlgens
§ MS contains components that are anticarcinogenic to PAHs and/or NNAs true
§ CSC is antimutagenic to (righly mutagenic "cooked food" mutagens true
§ Nicotine and cotinine are antimutagenic to NDMA true
' The bonafide benzo(a.lJpyrene was subsequently identified in tobacco smoke, but the PAH defined as benzo(a,Qpyrene
(dibenzoldif,PJehryaene) was nor benzo(a,lJpyrene (dibenzo(de, f,p)chryaene) but was dibenzola,elfluoranthene .
b Extraction from tobacco of lipophilic precursors of tobacco smoke PAHa produces an increaae in the deliveries of low molecular
phenols, alleged by some inveadgatora to be promoters of the tumorigenicity of certain PAHa .
° Addition of nitrate to tobacco or use of high-nitrate tobacco in the blend does deceroaae MS PAHa but Increases MS NNAa, many
of which are alleged to be tumorigenic to humacu .
a There is a host of reaaona why many of the 43 smoke components listed as significant "tumocigens" should not be included in
such a list .
Abbrevfatfona:
f`~ I Eflta
'o c .acrl. :A t--e expse-=en+„a :, SzveatiEution on tho ieolat :on a.cd/or i.deatificatloa of eQvvral Da7,7eyol :c arc=tio ia ; drocarbona present in the cigarette
snoko oondensate froas CA)SL blead tobcoco .
:Ao-~t
':be five pcl7c; clic ar^^
.,.•,at .e
~a~er.e ar.;: 3,G•'v= ;
; -mcc, ot*ea :.oo:tatod and idantifivd in Uo ciCamcte awoka condensate irco C'.N:.L blond tobacco. TbsaO 2~qdrocarbcrs vcra idontif ied Y7 otandard ehecical techniques and eoe`rersioa to one or rore known
derivatives .
The arcrmt .o ty''rccarboas wore charactoricod as tol2ovas
(1.67 =g . tY= 2^, ;C0 Vit'.::L c:gr,.rottes) by cclting toint, u1t .Mvt_o1et
crd ir.f~~r~3 atcc:-; s;,octza oS' t} :e ;;dr ca,r:ar.j a .^.fl :r_rc .^..ra_c ra (4 .03 rS . f: cm
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. ..~`CL
C}vC :'r t .c:'1 0',oC V rZ c f a 1 0 h ,"t'.Y'Q :..r bc : : ,* ..~. . .w 3 toltir.C point cf M.r o W .M. .I M CV :A„ I c"' .o acid C,.
.Ed.C, M . .?CVISo t :clts•7:f; point ..IId i;l: rarCd atC'.cI';`YicA a pFot~" = of
ln
ar.t~: mciar.o: a-9,1.0 ; r-.-rc,r,e , (1 .36 sgo ircD 1L, CCO CA.•EL ' ciCc : ottoa ) by r!xt ;r e
relting poiot ar.d ul :r aviolot atcorption aFeotr= of the Yydrocur :an, s3xtvro
celting point and in ."r~ speetr~.~ of tl :o p7rono-trinitroflucrencno cor. ; lem ;
lvoranth t,rg (1 .95 age t`rom •I49CC4 Ca :'L o:gGrettes) tq u2traviolot spect .-M
and r.vctureg relting point of the ~qdrocarbca, v.±zt•ae sAltirg Foir.t,of thfl
flvorantror.e•tr•_r.itrcfltmrenone
Oowplcet
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( l. ee
w9 . f.-= 33, c,•^.
;
.. :~ L ciZ-..rnttca ) Iv7 r.ix turo mc1t'-=.g FA :nt9 ultr aviclot and L.::^•.~rod n~..: a sfectra of th e L-, d m carbon and r'.xtur e = l4%,N46 :g poi.:t of LMa 3 ,4 -tcr.zrj:c:.0 ^icrio ac :,d cccYlo m .
r ~.~.
Chro~atorraphq of the F'cxane•Eluted Naterial
(Fraction 1) of the Aexar.e.:olublo, Feutral Praction
25
of `~'-o r rr .:;.t.io F.y drocarxn C:,ncentrata
Ito isolstion r.ad Identification of F.aFhthal.en o
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:fi.e Iso:ation and IdentL'' :catioa of Anthraceno . . .
4be IiolatioA and Identification of 3,1, .Benzpyrena .
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Statistical anolysoo tcaod on rotroapoctivo (1n,35,51,60,66,67,71,72,71,,
%~,95,96,97,1C8,110,111,117,12E) nr.d pro;pcctSve (36,52) clir :cal otv3ioa r.avo
indicated that tobacco moke, and in particular oigr :rotto ea:o:ro, is a r.n.Scr
ccun 3tivo factor in the prcaeat bigh and iacreaeinC inci .'once of cs =or of tho
racpiratory eystsa 3n the humn . goceatly, Dol .l (34) has pro3cntod an oxoollont
cr.itical appr4iaal of tboae stctistical atudioo . P.e concludoe : . . . . . .tr:oro i3
the evidonce that oisr.rotte ec^aking ia an i ..Yortant factor in tho p :roduct4cn of
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•~, seo3 °oault 2'r :w expcsi . re to fiem or rore S.N.deFoadcnt i.~c:ust.^ral rrocococo .
:Y':et::cr t.`:o l.norease in oi g.-.rette co .wu-r rticn and the growth of the opec :fie
Sn di:strica can toget.':er account for tho roal' inarease in mort-clit7 and for tho
extant of the a:a2e preponcorance o .:nnot be soon with certainty . Fr.cvled,-e of
tho
extent of the cban p i n
true
martality and
l .'Jtilf :ZC :eIIt
of the i t:.^. d=octal
= cc?:r.r+ ,z= s
c'
to 'r`or'"~t tho i^.rCpc.raticn o: a
preciso Lslanco ehoot . There iQ, hovevor, no direct ovidencv to iw=,l3cato thc3o
othcr onviroa .rontal tootoro which a.Mo also knavn to havo inereased in prevslo :co
:-I tho laat tms or five docadest and it io a reasonable presuription eat the
changes which have taken place in tobacco ccx~t :ca (im a...~zr:t ard in Lot..cd)
are rc3,.ors :rle for t~:e raJcr ~.rt of '..h3 real inc :-v : se in ~:-•s11L; . 'a.^
ti~e action of oiEcr3tto enelce ls duo to ita 3,d-tera-prone contor .t or to scr, .o
other su ;stan..^e, and vt7 it shou].Y be d .Stcrcat froc that of mo :co fZ^cn pi ;ea
a.:d cid rs, is %m ..cs" n. . . . . .
.".. .`iaL :. r eI328 :a is g
4 ."~ ~or4. .r'
..ital;J,
atterpts to doter~...ine a particular cor..^,titsrr,t of cigarotte g: oIce possibI7
recronsib2o for the i nitiation of cancer of tho lti :ne have rorulted iz car.~i~craUo 3::vostiC-nt:cn ca tre cc=:calt:c.z cf c_CaretLo =cko ca :reroats . F.n:=l
data, e.ployi.^.g varic•,a i':rocticns of ciC:.retto =oko cor.de^oato, have Lndicatecl
that tt:o r.a~cr ,~ :~t of t!:e c:.rc! .^.c~;cwc activity of ci~rstto s=o ::o ccrce~ats
roE_dc~s in t,t:o aeut:':1 iracticn (1~1) . :7~:o nstitral frccticn wcv.?c ^cr^m::7
c: a tz :.n
the
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of
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Otr ir``LL:3 .~ .n.VC3 •. .~ ~
tha Fol; c; olic arcL.:tic ;;,:r` ocs.^ t cr.o ,, «,a V o: vri ct. :: ra
: . .m
polycycl .:e aromtlc ~4rcroczrbcns Fret ent i .z tobacco ecoke con,:cnnato . Furthermore, aa :.-sl data ha :od cn Om tar ot+t,ainod L,7 satractir.g urecokod cigr.rotto
tobacco vith not2 :ano1 co=;arcd vith theso of the tar from smokod cigarettes
ou_r€ost that the aasor part of tho carcir.oEonio activity of aissretto s~olse is
produced dtaizg the actval amoldng rroccso (L^J .) .
:.:
+::. U:c: ;:.:;: t t:o ca rci:o r enie offect o : iocacco tar
(c~t,:.r.ed ty dost :^,: ..ve di z t:~acn of tohacco) in : 3 b}its ~~ r a •.s rrcr'~3~
w4
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a c_..
.. ...o6e .. .c ef.cP oo •„a di:e to t h e action of 1, .•'.-bcn: ant2'r co;.o, I, der .'lmt .vo3
on thooe aesq sFooioe . :pvotroacopic cx n .anstion of vsrious i`r-wct : cns of t.':•_s
t;,`xcco t:.r '~icatod ».e ^s~esaace of cc- ccctainir.g t:e 1,~~Lcr~::..-s±.~^,3:0,
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7r.e sar,o year, ItoPto (F2, 84) identified nv .: rouo c=poncnts of toZ:.:cco
tar and acoko obtainad t7 the dcatru.otivo distillation .of tobacco . Diati?.Iaticn of totccco at 100 to .1201 C. gave the following idcntiriable
•
corbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, cethaao2, a=onia, acetic aeidP - ac :etatcs,
F3ridinos, ` l .=thylp7rrolidino and ft-fa•al. •Dictil3atlon of anothar sampZo oP
to~ctcco at 350" C. for two hours Cavo tho Followinat oar .bon concadc:e, crston
dioxide, .a=oniuD csrbonato, acotic aoid, ncotatosp ouccir .io acid, lLz.3.. ~ic~ic ac :d,
.oario aald~ prenolio' aeida, Frjrrolo, ohloroph7ll derivativos, . p2:onanthrcno, IZ,
an•.hraccr,o, III, a*d "von.Y,rrc=o ." It ia o : L:tcr9st to n.oto that tre trr
rrrdi:cod b~ doatrut :vo di,otiila ~on of tobrcco at 3;C" C . ~s vory hig~ cr.rai,nogenio . ae oon :parod with the ta,r : obtained at lf0 - 1200 C .
L`uring the period 1933 to 1941, F.ofto (£6, 89, 92, 93) docc='itEd tho trosulta obtained by the opoctroaccpic study of tho tot+zcco tar ot,tainod by deatrti:ctive dictill.ation of tocccco at 3£0° C . A rrarkod oi-rilaritq was noted
botween the ultraviolet absorption trasima of thia tbbacoo tar and 3,4-Dcnw .-p7ror.a)
IV, in the range ?]r0 to 310 3r.}i.
In 1947,* IYoda (54) deeoribed the identit'..ostion of vnr'.oun cctponeMta ot
taLacco a^~..0 a . Ch . polyo9alia 2ydsoearbon of intorest vas identitied, nsrol,7,
azulana, 7.
Ma :7 of these hstar=,ic3io ccnrounds exhibit carcinoganic acti9il .,r or.h slighV ~
less than the analogous hqdrocarboa (53)•
•
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m
vin
ia
:n i?~!., ;,efe :rl ::e (2, ?, G, 63) deccz-Stcd t~e identi . :cat:cn o£ 31i banzpyrvne in t2:o tar obtaiced fr= tmning oiCaretto p ::por . Tho tecr.r.:c;uea
e=ployed involvod reFeated cr.rosstoeraphy on al=ina and ol•saviolot abccrption spoct :rophotc¢etry.
S.brki.ng independont37 in Englands, Coopor and iin3sey (29), and, Coorer,
Cil:ert and Linrcoy (2?) reported tho identification of various . polmclic
aror.atio bycroearbens in the moke and tar l5r= tvrnlaE eiCarotte pzper . 11l:oce
authors er :ployed standard techaiqucs Cevalopad by Cooper and co-uor :rora (l, 21,
25, . I6, S8, 31, 11:) . °cpcatr:d .cr.rc=to,-r:~r:~y on a1=i."a, in co^,)t,..^;ction
~-::,c :ct spec•.r c ;._o t,o«.ctr ;, ::"2cr.tad t.d rPQ3C nco cf t.':o :0110'JS.b?
c : r:on$i p~er8::tr.rene, :3j anthraccr.e~ S :Tf 3,4~tcr.:,.~;rer.e . IYt ~ro:e, ~'===,
!'3ucr antrcne, !~C ; acer.aFbthylane, x ; 1,12..tenzopcryl.or.e, X i j and an•..h.ant~.Mene,
xII . An alSqlpyrenw t.aa also tentativol,y identified in the tar.
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Cccrcr, :.indcoy ar.c WaLer !?1), Ccr.:-„ina, Cooper and Lir.dsc-; ( :.1) c--A
Cacp-er and h:.r,dscy . (30) ecploycd tho above aontionod techsiqws to idcntif7
ar.whm-ceno S :I, ( :1, 30, 31), pyrc:~e, ~iIII ( :1, 30v 31)o and 3,~C .•Len::,,-~:^cne,
I9 (30, 31 ;, in ciEcrstto cr.cko condonaate . 3be procoduros involved Sn t ::eeo
'_r.vc~ . . ;:..t!crs e ..~s "zed ct~ fo71cv33 Cc,:.:,:st :cn of the c :Cc :~ot'oa tz.:3r
ccnditiors si_~uhai^F the hLw:n wm-c :ar:g pattern ; collection of the s--oke -condc ::ca .o at r^: ~ed t.erpe,-_t•r.-a ; r o=oval of aci :;io and b,:aic c=j.cnent3 0 : t : o
swoko condenoato Ly ct:cr.ical fractionation ; repeated cr.rozatoCr-_ph,7 of tho
recu :::.r.g r.eutral ta~.- on Als=ina to givo fractions containing the varioi:c p o3.;cyclic ar=tic tydrocarbons= identi.ric.ztion of thoeo aroa:otic }~ydrocarbcra ry
ultraviolot 3poctrophotoa.otry .
:n 1955, Ca ..«-pte11 and Cooper (19) identified 3,1,,•beazp~rer.o . 17, in the
aloe snuff nsed t^7 the Pantus of the ?tarsv~,.al. 'Yie aice ia p--opared
tq ::ectir.g aloe et= . Vonda srn:f':, vhich ciso cont3 ::s toba.coo, ia u: cd ty
the :.•.u .s . :a..-rboi1 and Cooper as.so Sdent ::.od 3,/,-ter.rpyrono in tho Vorda
snu ::. "!:e quar.tit3 fotmd was sis.il.zr to that identified in e .gr.retta s=Le
ccr: e~~~te '31) .
`: :.:k, ' :.:eh.,:rt and ".'a :er ( ;> ) dcs c:- : ted the idcnti : :cc ticn of v--r3
cu-3
co Yor.en ta of cirarette aacko ccndcnr.ato . Cno of th.o conpour.ds presn=t3 .y
Sdontd fiod Las a-2 :entr'_acontano w oviouwsly idcnti,f .ed t-,~ : c . .•~ w^
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;.:.coo usoc cy "oFar ;1 as .
"ccs :: 2+ ;S . ; ;9) aculd not datec•., 4 . e~ ecc :ca of 3 .-~r.r,,;: ono in t:s
oic*arette awoko corsdensato . ?i:o min differonco botwoon tl :o p~occduroa c_^ :1oycd
by Fosak and CcoFer vaa the diPfetronco in the puff rato . Coopor t-& gj . c-.r,lcfcd
a 2• .aecond putY overy 0610 sooondof vhereaa, : osxk gj glo ezzFlo7od a :.-aocor.d puff
evary 60 soconde . ibo cosavstion tompcrrs tnro3 vore e : ccntiLl:y the &ara in r.oth
invoatigations .
Wripht aad Wyndor (314) dese :~ibed the chemical fractionation of c3Lpr ette
crcke cc-x'cr.:,ate . ^:o F» oli_-+-.c .-7 :.mcticr.ation in this c:.re taa ecac^t'..a~:~
t.*:o sc: s cs t~.at of :.csak ;j -i-j . (59) aad Cco ;.er ~U g,l . ( 21t 25, .26, 23- , n7, 32 ) .
W-right and Wyr.dor astawtod that the qvantity of 3,l,~bonzpyrvae in tho szoLre
corrensa'e vaa one part par ail3ion try vei&t of the ahols condonaate .
SeolsapP (91)) idonti :iod capk.t.'•.alene, XIII, anthracone, III, a.nd 3,1.Mccr~ :-c~, I+, in :,^e moke ccr.ycnz ate fr or cir-,,rettos using osaontla1 .:Y L: o
oc=o Fzocodu.-es deccribed Frovicua3,y. Calculation, bcsod on ultraviolet atoo:~••
tion data,, iadicatod 50 Ng . of 3,4•benr-,.,jroae per 100 g. of whole tar obt :.ir.cd
froc, 2pC0 to 4000 cigarottcs . Ibo •puff rato and snok :.ng tocraratt-mos for tho
o:6-arotta9 were eaeantislly the aar.o as those reported Sn othor inveatiFutlons .
L: .r.dcey (68) $a~ar izcd the idcati .''icaticn of the Folyc; clio arcr~tsc
y--'rccarbors i.n cigr.rotte sc .^oke ccndena.ate prepds•ed in the laboratory of Ccopcr
Wr:;.t:t and lr'y:^.der ( 5, 215) do3critoa the idontification of an+,kxacezo, 10
p7•.-orso, VIII, Ferylene, XIV, f2ucruntroae, IX, chryflora, 7(Vv and 3,lvbcn :.l, . rc,
IV, in cif-arotte scaka cor.donoate . Zhsse authors also otserved L'•.:t the c:C .r::inC of c-'r.ontr:,accnt^.ne cr.d similr:r. alirh.:. tic 2Udrecr .Mbons obtai .^.o3 t,7 ea'. ~c' icn
of toracco C--vo, in audition to acotylcr.o and other gucs, r.a7 of •.l
.,:rbons idontifiod in the ciraretto seoke con.'.onr3atop e .C.,
:ecylirdo r-;^Y:r.~?,
aa
r.e, c".ryEenc p 3,l.- bc n:,p7re ne a M flu.:r^Y.nt.hoae . I17 turn inC c:gsrctta
YM~YCb
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rct•„e ;a;.6r sr;::ro »en~orxata t•, :t vere =.-:le to i:cntS,* t: is co"cutid I n
=oke cordor.aata obtainod tq emoldng ciearot4.e p&per under oonditioas
tka bvma =o3d,ag Froceea .
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i:yr..:or and '~r'.;;!:t (1 .:1) fract2oratcd cij-'"rotto =^ko cc^=4cr.rate L•.to (a)
a boso-f`reo, v2:ole oondonaato, (o) niootSr:o•f1roo baaia tar# (o) an acidic tar,
W a neut:-al ter, ( e) a r.otb7ler.o chlor:do ..ir.solublo tar, and (f) a vatcr .solubls tar .
tiYactions (a) aad (d) ; st~.ovEd o=i.no£onic activity conparab2o to that of
tho vholo condonaato . Anirsl r.nd epootrographia data based on the oiC=otte
tar obtainod trj extracting unsnokod oigarottoa vhen oorpared vith an :ral cata
of t!-e cor.Acnsti;•„a !`:= v-..ckcd,oi,-arottos i .wicstod that the ra4or pa .-t of the
Y:'O3e . .t : .^z e :.o~+2`9 :
:to~+2`9 to
.. .ciSS
iJ
`: t.l
};~2'~' .
.i•JB~8' i•JB~8 OP `~'.e tOt60C0 .
La= (61) had also dotcrr S ::ed ttat t.1:o ;r1rolysis at 8CC<' C . of tr.o aLphatie
h; d :rocarLone ottaiaod trom tobacco yio].ded the polycyolic arcratio tr,drccar :bns,
n.
:"7 . Mo tc: porrt .~-e of E^.C° C . is appr oxizately that oncoumtored
the norra 1 cSE---rotto axoki^e. Froceca (33 ; 119) . 4hua, f: o= the data
flL-,r,pliod by hr.Grt and '4'qnc :er (5, 115) and Lzm (61), it Ss conceivable that the
alrbatic h;fdrecarbons pro : ont in tobacco are procuraers to the pol ;raqoL+o
ar cr..:.t.a `:-j--,.'r ccsrhons found in tko a«+oks cozyler•oate .
Lettre and Ja•rm (64) detocted antb :ncono, p7rerw, 1,2.-bon:antbraceno, 1,
~-rer.cYf:-cr.e cr.d 3,L,-bo^cryrer.e in tvo t:._w rrosor.t in srckod cieur tutt3 . Cae
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I,ettr0, Jchr- ctd f!ausbuck (65) eat :.=ted the quantity of 3,ly-'.,on..~p7rcno :.:
t: e a: ke ccrr:c.^.eate S .or 1ok:'^ civ..-ottefl to bo 4G: J :g. :hiz is t : e hichest
c:l•:a otta :ncd to dato, represonti^g 26 .7 R . of 3,l.-bo=pyroro per 1L0 cir :.rottee (aee T`aLle I) .
Lyer.a (6, ^0) r:;oated t: o Frccc-du.^cc ca•-r3ed out t-7 other :...^vostiC-,toro
.n
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..:,.:utos using 4-sQCc1~Ci• Me aLit ::or tiBsL`rCd that 9arjj, .^.~,' t: e
tor ;:o of oWok'.rC coi ::ciaod roro tia:% realSty than roCulr.r or "aver a,-o" scc :ei=4
r.oth-cds uoed L-y other vor1cer3 . :bo ranCa of concentrations of tho Fol;;cycLo
arcr.atSo hyCrocarbcr.s vas oasontial.]J the came as that reported b; earlier
vorkerc . I7ors idonti ::od •aeuleno and 1#' ,-bcn:.antt,xaccno in the cccko coadcnoato in addition to 3,4•teazp7reae .
Cazdcn ar.C (20) e3t :r :,.t,cd t~o S :ant .tf of 3,C• .co^cr ;,:rora in ci,-a«et•„o
or r'. :o . co^'or^
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of v .r v
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of
Cam -- t: 41- :::7 w* o aam o vrl•.:e . ~.a ast:r~4„o of t: o qi :,:nt : t7 of t! .o 3s4 -to:.. ;~-J:cr.o .=
:.csc d oa t ::e u :traviolat aLvc: rtica -:xi= of the 3,l,.•bor .;-,7r-- r.e ar.d al: o cn
Vs
Lr
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tto c :ol ;::c ai rrxor ;.s involvi .~Z., ccavorr :cn at the 3,1.-bon: ry: ozo to 6-icdo3,4-bcn .,^ .-,7rono follcs :od b7 ostiaatioa of this lattor a =pocn3 b7 spect-'°o p2:oto-
aetrio a,ethods .
Diol:ey and Touo~~ (32) dc : crited the ic:entiriaation of aa,,hracone, ptor :nt2-,roaej gfrenep fh :ornntl:ar.o# scornphthylor.o, cr.r,rnone and 3,4-cori: ~,~: cca Ln
ciearette a=ke coadonnato . :2ioce autt:ora used modific:.tioT.a of 7mos+n Frocedures vhoreby t.':o un3aturatcd alipb :-tio rsdrocarrcra vEre , sor=rr?,ed f-.ac t'r.o
arossatio hydroor.rbcna . Ly copplox forration between the insatura ~ ;3 ?:,, 3rcc.:rb:ra
and thiourea' iind by co=plex Forratioa 'botAen the arorntic 't ;~rocaicbcns ar:d 2p
4,7-'..rinitrofluoronone. Zheoo authors also empla3rod silica eel aaa the chrc-..,a .•
to?ro~}ac adaorbont inatead of al~~.c., the adac'rhont preforrod ty caot othor
iwvest : ..tors . woy a.lso sntst : :utod : e=ne for cyclohmmme as the ¢a ::
elutir:g ;aolvont .
Z7 cka7 and Tct:oq were the on'.,7 investieator9 to rercrt th3 aotral iao?a
:ation of epocifio polyc7olio ArorAtic h7drocarbons b7 cr=.c
.ntioadchrei
other than ultrav .olet otsorption or :1Loreaconco spSct= ;:hct -=t:7 . :-e-e
ant?:ora e~ploy~ad mich rethodo aa ultr.:violot and infrared ataarption etWios,
a.elting and rAxtore melting point doter•...inatioa.grp and x-ray cr7stallopfa ;hic
studioa in their cr.aractori :ation work in which thoar oharacterizod naph '~^ co,
anthraooual ph.oaznthrene, pyrene and fluoranthene .
::b1.e I e=zs the avsilab3s data on the 3 .dentif:ca;:cn of the po :,qc7c.lio t7drooarbons in oigaratte saoke coadaaaate and the eati=tod quantities
vh9ra az:ah data vsrQ avai2abls .
"> '"hose suw.ora eat :.:3 tod c,..., :.ntitj aa 1pa-rt ;c: :illlca ci v : o :o cc:.,; c:rsta.
Cae huadrod cicarettos giv@ 3 to 5 g . of vhols ooador.:ate.
4'ihis qt:aatlty roprevents tho total of t: e 5 hydrocarbons latod pc : 1^.0
oigar hutts .
7 Ca tt:o ba.9i3 of 314,00 C:."x'
.. .L c :S-- .-ctt,e3 . Zn 3 scrica of ex ; cr:~ca•,a on
the protreat-oat of C.''r'L blend tobacco, 3500 C :1 :7L ciC.:r ottas wcr a
a=okod as controls and the polMol3o hyCrocsrtons eatiratcd afLo,r ccncont;;ation by thiouroa aad tr'.r1trof'icurenoAe c=-eloz forr.ation and
orarvrostoarn~ (81) .
8 Ca tho br,eim of 1L,,11C0. . .CAbEL
c{ ._rottes . In a sor_os
of exxri .o^ts on
.
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a=olCed ys cC.,l"ol .3 .
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-,,;rrQ^.o u~d
tiero with t: o corroarc n.Adir.s .' : rci~iors :`rrc~ t,ho 1C, `.C0
c±prette run .
9
ir.C aFrrox :=te1,7 = pCe of 3,C•ben:,-g-rcr.e, ua.s c=bi:cd vith t:a 3,4ben: pqrar.e fraot3on lron the 1C, 500 C : YEL al.Za.wette r~.m .
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f
.
4
:7o reaoarcb doacritcd in this report rorreseat3 a ccncertod ofrort to
2eterr.ino Wr.othcr or not tho poi;-c~,~c1So arcratic hyc:rocarhora rr o proccnt
in cip;r,.rotte aaoko oomdcncato. Cr.o of tho sa3cr obJoctions oftored to Fr :vioua imroatigations io .th,;.t t2•.o idozti:' :c:ticn of rpocitio ccnrour.@o colol7
on the hssio of ultraviolet ah+sorption etisdioo Is not 'dgri'riitive : `Sincv tho
preaont reaearch descrihos the actual isolotion . idcntification and c:~.,araoter• .
i:ation of soverai pol7cyclia ar=atic 2ydrocerbonep inoluciing the hi~+.2y
cc.-ci:o,-eaic 3,4-`Arzryreaej t:e rayor critic : .:ra of yaat rosca.Mch r.ro ncl
CU2L' : iod .
12:o z81or stePa er,.plojed in thia h.boratoz7 in the Ssol.z t:on of tho
Yol„7oyclio arcratio }Lydrocsrr.ons 1`rom C.%•iL cigarette =aoo cc:don^rato wrore
ac followas Col2ection of tho cnoko co :der.aato un'Jer aroking crr.3itior.3
. ... . . .,s,:
••. ' -g
.. h,. ra .: s--css.Z lh ..`_-ita ; c: e -. :c:.l 1:rct :cn:.tica of tho vhole ccndc r.-
s3teo to give a hoxar,e-soluble , neutml t`ractioaf ropeatod cr.ror.atogm#.7 of
io
the hoxane-eoluble, noutral fracticn !,n ordor to conccntrate '+.':e po17c;,•co
arosstSc h7drocarbons f chrcratoC=pb7 of this arc=tio lqdrowrbon concent :ate
to soparate the ir.dividual 27drocsrtror.sj charactors.«ation of t': e in3ivid=l
polyc7olio aromatic tqdrocarconsf estiratioa of tbe =or=t of tho ir.dividul .:'
rydrocartaas in tr.e amoke corwona.zta on the w:sis of ul:.:.vic.:at ahsor-eti :a
d.zta.
.'a acmo iaa :,:~r.caas t.:iaurea,* picri : ac:,a ax
formation was utSliaod in the isolation and ideatificatioa of apecific aro¢a
t7droQarbons .
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er.ployod in this stt:d,y.
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c p-pa rst un em plo,?ed for tre eol,lect c::
n of t IM C•+ :%:L ci4a-
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m tte
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1. ` :oked 60 cie-arettoe Lt a tir.o vhOroas in tho r.osorrt
st•.xd:r 30 c:j!` ret-tea Voa s=eked o :,.,.-ultar.oousl,^, and
2. :'nc?rcd t2:cir ci*s•••~+.tpe in a ve :-tica res :ticn :..crorc
in tlzis atud•j t?:o cib :..wet•„os vere swoxed i n a : cricc ntal
poaition.
"~ir ty V,121. ciC:.rottc3 werfl rlacod in a'mLtc,; of 3 s?- c-.ino c: r-;,,
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"':e vacu= vas orcated ty a s: a11, electricsll, dr :ccn r..w p, K(1.3
cu . : t . d _s^3.: ce-3 ::t of ::•eo air s cr rr n::t3 at a vnm= of C7 in . c .' w a rv
t}:-Oe r . r• :.. =o tcr , N, K-'s c.ut,. :tica1,].7 oponcd S'cr a 2-coccad irt :.•^mA1.
al:ov+.ng the vwc•, :,"n t:-= t; o ai .- ~ to be applied to tba co:
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FIG • 1 SCHmiA`PI C DIAGRAM OF SLt UKING APPARATlT :3
0T0S OTLTS
17
".'bo =ksr.g tS : o rcr ciC-Arotte avorarad 9 to 11 uinutes or fr= 28
to 33 put`:3 per ciCarotte at a rate of t,r co 12-soccnd puffs por ;.j .~,:to .
:Y~.e cisrsottes vc .-o szokod so thut Ar--czSra ;el7 45 to 50 = . of the
length was cons=od leaving a butt of 20 to 25 =.
One da7's onoldng uoumlly cowi3tcd of 1100 to 1,L00 C% :-SL ciVrottca .
: .e vholo condoncate was rirsod 15roM the variovs piocos of Clas3~ .aro into
the first receiving f2aok (uhic.3 goacra13,7 contained the na j cr rorticn of
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the tar r
cp;.urat•, :s * n e -.ot. :: o1.±o nolu•,;Son of tho C+ .MIL ciga.Motte =cko conden..
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oato vas t ::on nub4 *ect..~d to a ckowial fractionation to be doscribed Sn a
ez:beec,uoat port of this report .
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,;
Fcur hLmdred C .'. : rI. cigarottos vere stored at 25° C . in a stsialo3s
steel 6-ire soch tnsbet in a dcsiccatcr containing a solution of 750 g . of
95 pcrcont elgoorol and 250 g . of vater . This solution r
..,iinta:..^od the
woist•.:.-ro ccntoct cf t .a c3ccrottos at 1^ .,:.4 perccnt . :I,.e contact t!=
in t-he desicc .ztcr was at least 6 hotzs pr'•or to s=oking .
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Cr .~t Ca .,«CO C ~t+3 O' ~'.:.^!1Cw_a""'" ''u~. . C .,
_Ce~tAr_o~ thgyiotal "~~ sP ?y,iP~s~r~C,~&arQtto T ::otobook
Pa~;os 27~02-2?903)
:r-o arcld .DZ " .^.: :old ( ::~aa 1) was arrar.ged as shc~a in i'i2 .
ao t.%ore cculd cOaceivab.Ty te a di:'feroncfl in the total n=tor of
pUr!'s per cigarot•.o t;a:ecn c!wa :rott.^a 1 a^~,~. 5, 6 a.w:d 10 cn
1:, 16 c-A 20 on 'rm Bs 21 ard . : 5, 26 c nd 30 on 'r- Ct di :o to t::c
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on Arms A, B ari3 C . :5b1.e 11 srovs the resul•,,o ottai^.od . T"..o avoroce
nLWbor of p,v.*'fa per cigarot'.o tcr tr.o ovar•aU eystcn uus 30 .3 puff3 por
oigarstte .
P.o ossontial diff0renco vas found between the puff rates at di .°:orent
unifo :,d positior.a .
11
12
13
14
15
rm
Arm A
Arm C
To Suction Centre
FIa . 2 3tANIFOLD ABRANGFLiSDiT
ZTOS OTLtS
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Tho zct.hanolio solution of the vbolo condenoata obtai .Mod by s: olking 1'_Co
to 1L^O CP.2!F.L ci,r.:rottes (end aon ;„ainir.r 45 to 55 g, of whole con:cns:to) w:.3
nc•a, :' :cd v :th A4,n -3 . of 0 .2 N h ;drochlo::c acid . :^ho re~,:lt :: ;~cidic
t:on •aa.o estrr, .c~„od vit.h a total of 1500 r1L diotillEd he=e in s :x <5C-C-.1 .
;.crtlozs .
rc: y_ors . :he :ot~~al vrs ccded to !»' :o d,'.1;:?.e al~r:l: to : ec~:^o t?:c :ar rtics
of o :r.ulsione and sntsoqr.ent loso of polyc ; clia aror.atic Y7d .-ocar ho na . iho
I:cxzao ext .-act vns then sxtz•actod •.+IW% 1 ;0 =lL of an aqceou sol•.:wtcn of
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iJ .".G CGLCO :.w"'s'•n?C '~'. 9 .^.L`12 aZi .~'.v`r 1i. Tro 9170 'C:.a L'.CY.^. .w.^•• .^.CS
20
'• tol=3 of 10,5~,'YJ C'~TL ciC~arottes vcro s'r :osod yiolding a total of 430 u .
of vholo condea=te (kaccd on tho detar .:.Sa;.tioa of tbo voi;k.t of condor.oa'„o in
an aliquot) . Chorical t`ractionatioa of this vhole oondonaato aa rccc : acd nbcvo
gave 77.594 g, of the hr.=r.c-colublap uont.zl :tactica (0 .7:2 g, pcr 100
rottos) . Tr.o c.6.= :cal fftatioaatioa 3s au=arizod in Flovahoet I .
In an initial oxploratory run, a total of 25C0 C.' : :L ci Pb--r* ttrc 'jrro ~ c::cd
.r .. . .w
ti ~~?? 2 t .a..1! C f 11.0 E . ~ f -.1 Ola C^ :.Ae ".
; eldcd +6 .0 g . ( 0 . c4 0 g. per 3•.^>0 cisarettea', of t:.e hcx: r.o-ao1u::a, r.e•,:•sal
!ractioa.
~"~
; :'7C3°_uCG' •.3
In a cuL~soc;z:er.t caoking rur : in vr3ch the protreat=c::t of C,c'EL ciga .rotton
z-aa boirx investicated (F31), 35C0 C'IY?L citarottes yio] .Zed 23 .365 g . (0 .E63 g .
per 3...O c :r~~.~ottcs) of tco ~cx ;.::o-solu :.le, r.outral f:action . At v:~or.a pointa
in the e• ;r-,.eri.,.ental vork to te doscrited .. certa :n fractions fron each of t .cse
..atie
t.~soe ruaa Were eitNer comb ' ined or iavvo3tigatod for spocifio polycpclie r .roWrccartons . Fovever, the bulk of the work •.4 be doccribcd in thio report
concorr.s the hezane-aolub3o, neutral t~mction from the I0*5G0 C12GIL cigaretto
r%M .
Tho p.aterial comprisina tho"hox ::no-solublet no•stral fraction fr=
owo dm7lo scokirle ( Table III) was chr-omtogr pl :od on al=i.-a ( a 1Lwir.ti~
Cxido Kerck) L: i.-.g a colurn, 45 nn. in diazeter . :be hci£ht of the
co1== a : ter t=,^.i:.g vaa 250 = . V.e he^.rar.o-solu'r,le, neutral -Craction
vaa di3solved in 60 r.l. of ho=..^a, placed on tbo eoluz-a and eluted with
600 =l . of hewro, IOCO nl . of 15 porcoat bonzene in hox,r.ne, lOCO r.l. of
tc.=ero axd r..o of
:'bo velchto of t..a 4 S~cVrv .s rse
ia
7S bl o
•
. .a .
Fraetiofl 1( oluted by hoxars ) con ..istcd of aaturatod, in :.^atu : ated
and arcr.atio hydrocartons ; fraction 2(eluted by 15 porcont toncene-roxaae)
cor.s istod of ur.saturated and arocztic h;,Tdrocsrbons ; 2`: action 3 (eluted Ly
benrEno) ccoraiated of the hi,-% rolccuiar voight carborql cozPoLndsl and
fraction 4(oluted tV tnet:.aaol) vso the residue a3 shown in Florasheet 2 .
:`raction 1 was slightly fluerescontf whereas fraction 2 was higb .'~y rluorescont in uitriviolot ligr,t .
r raction 2from Rti:r.s 1, 2 and 4 vero ccnbL~.od ; fraction 1 from R=
3t 6 ar.d 7 were ocuhinod ; and fraction 1 from P.urs 4t 8 and 9 were cc :.,bi nod for aubsocusat c~romato~ra ., .
I7raotion 2 i .-om eaah of the ni ne r•.aa vao corhazed .
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f*r= gl :.ac .-are with zothanol.
I 2 . hdd 650 r,1 . of C.2 :7 L-.,drechlot'lo acic: .
3. Extract with 6 x 250 rlL of ho=r.e
Aqi:ooua ¢eth.:aol lam
F+cxa: ti 1,ayer
.~.
l. 'c5ttrsct with a ooZLt3oa
conai3tir.g of 6C0 cl. of
C.2 :1 eod' :: tVc:-a:-.+Co
cr.d 75 .^.1 . of mt.'-.:.-:cl .
2. :xt,-,,.ct with a sol::'! =
of rot~.a^.ol :•aatcr, 1s 1J
,.,cC ,:1 . .
~q~ot:o ret:a.-:ol
layer
ACZDIC
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6 .94o c.
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Qien~+ .
re ttcs
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CiEaretto
flO .
1
1215
6.940
2
1:70
9.087
3
1150
d,
1320
5
12C0
6
15% E'enzone•Aexaneellite'_1
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~
Z'sthanolelut nd
~ E_.
1'.enzeneel ut.e
hexano-
03111.04
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-- -% _
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0.571 ' 2.2105 31..8
0.358
5.2
0.750
10.8
0.716
2.283 25 .1
0.302
3.3
0 .542
8.61.0
0.751
2.157 R4 .9
0.451
5.2
10.719
0.812
1 .362 12 .7
0.454
5 .5562
0 .463
1 .313 23 .6
1200
8.807
0.734
7
1250
9.447
8
1200
Total
01 tate4
:t.7
6.241
E8.5
6.0
3 .805 41 .9
6.932
76.3
0.514
6.0
4 .653 53 .8
7.775
89.9
4 .2
0.134
1 .3
1.957' 18 .2
3.90?
36 .4
0 .326
7.0
0.100
1.8
2.915 57.6
4 .7]4
P5.0
1.4'37 20.9
0.468
5.3
0.290
3.3
3.599 40.8
6.194
70.3
0.756
1.947 20.6
0.453
1..8
0 .527
5.6
3 .990 42.2
6.917
73.2
11.235
0.936
2.947 36 .1
o.646
5 .8
0 .1322
7 .3
5.9s1 9.3
10.396
92 .5
05
7.463
1 .080
1.667 2:.2
0.343
4 .6
0 .357
4.8
4 .061 51. .6
6.428
e6.2
10500
77.f!94
0.742
17 .71i3 22 .7
3 .P61
5.0
!, .(?36
5.2
33 . P49 43 .6
*59 .404
76.3
*j'ortion loct on uatrr unpirator .
910S OZLTS
2 .888
23
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. :.~ .y I L `' = ~ C T T ^ ~ ~
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. 7i~;iT7R' L FPlC"'ICa
= ;vnL tTc~LF.
6.940 g.
;
CLr^~,...Mtoira~ on alz~i .~xs (45 s~ . x 250 ~. )
~,~ ~eazonc~••
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2000 r1l .
~`------- conzene
100o a1.
r.otr.ar,ol
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ro,
,
FRO- 2
: n .35`?g .
2 .8F3 g .
~ chxlz kotoixs,
' etc .
~ G» CL'1~tiQ
~ ~; ~ car Vos,
1 eato rs
I
I
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~~ C;abS: o vit5 s-» h=ct:or.a 2`r= eiG-.t additioaal cr.ro=tosra=}
I
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77 . 1
i .
:,.. . .w g•
~ total
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. . . .c
3 . 2 61 g .
4 .C3.5
tota3
tot al
w
To FLCdSFIZ:,T 3
:.J~ 04
To FLGSr=T 4
I
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6- .
33 . "
-"-1. 9 g o
total
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r•'j~rfn~w'w•~
D"'"-.I'-:a (Notabc>ok Fagoo 32G7:o6s, =4:3)
: ..cticn l ;17.117 g. ) fcon tho prcocdi.-ig ch.=toC= vaa chrc .:: tcEra,pbed on ah:rins (Alucintm C~cids ::orck) uning a oolucn 45 == . ian d3ssitar,
250 t3a . in 2en'gth. Thrco scri.rato c..a ztograas varo r= wL^g 5 .63a g.,
5. :.E2 ;. e-- : 5.920 g . of this ='.3rSs?.
Tvc'_va .A.=wc:.3 v:rc takon in s.ll (1:0 e2utoci uit~ l vith 90
poroc=t bo=oaosowcne p e : d 1 ti,r ;_th u3 •^ ^cl) . Those ft-ac r :.cns, in t,.-.n,
uora ccbir,cd on t: a Yzz :o of im-'r^.,rod at:ro:p+„icn spcct.Ma to zivo 4 .^
olanaas o° c=;)curds sg follows s
1. :atuMtod h,drocarpons (oolorlsss molid), 2 .4:.7 g.
U^ t*=l,ad h;-d:ocarr,ora ot : er ttstn compcurd A2.2
(3ro31ov oil), 5 .908 g.
;
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=«
„_ c h~ocar o ...s
4.
'
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VdV~uL
W`i~WW~MYiV~t
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?hS.s rsyrrssc-its a total of 16 .51,.8 g. or 96.6 percant recovery.
?Y:o Iatt,:r i:rct.cn ( .tt . 2.4C9 g1) L4s ccW~`^cd
;'r-ctivm 2
(elutcd bJ 15 percent ton : or.a in hc=r.o, vt . 3 .E61 g . ) fzrcr. the proccd":r.g chrcr.:.',a" .W. to elvo w o ; oI-,rcyc :.: a arc:.wtic hrcl .Mc~.~ :An ca::cc :~ ts
`~vt . 6 .350 30) as ohcra :l i_^. F1crwsL•.eat 3 . Ztis :ratcsrS.al, in bonzo:^.o aolut:.cn, hcd a docp ti ::a :':~ rcccc:..^s .n •.1~Qiolot lieht w! :er o;.a '.:.z
vntori^ , not in soluticnp tluoroscod bluo-pnon in ultravio :.ot Iicht .
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7
I t 8i r q 'S."3 W
-:=1
t"o
=c1r
.Tuio
h--3
2 S c P :cnfl =0 :ac ,41 OC 1 :::.•cd 2:czd to t
.,!a
double bonda . : edLct :cn elvoa a sa =-V+.od b7+d.Moc.:.~tcn •.ritu foi v = be
o f t=1-9 5t.~ .:ctL."`9 0f C~..~*'^OL4d A22
.R.
described in a cubsoquont r"S
c M{.rfM c +W.
!
YGrY
Mivi
W1
M
bVr
.
Cr.wr
gt
I
.r~*°"±~a'^^'' ;, ~ ?~y ~~ q;;? :-"'~c ~, • _~L~, .. C •
; ~ ~.; ~ ! ( Fi: r. C^I'~7 1)
• w wr~~
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r .
(~i'FS'y ~ ~-^• .. ..~^?
~
6 .
.~t: ~.~ .~. :~.. ..~. .':1 ~
:~
;
. .Jtir1 ~
; • ~ . ., ., . . . ~ ..
5.9.:C
~•
Cr.r^=togrzph on alumfna (45 ~ . z 250 ~. )
i:e.xa~e
2 .439 go
total
.•C .~ a :
~
..~ 4 ..•
VC .~ ~
ii
w
i•
..6
g._C! 7.-.,-,etZ=a2hZ
DJ'sc:~~y1tS
Cr.romtography of the polfcyalia cro=tic rydrorarbn cor.centrato
( 5 . 390 g. ) on al%=ir.a ( A 1=in'.~ W-do 1•:erck) in e coltsn 45 x . x 250 trz.
=ploying hcxane and tenzor.o-hexano eolutions as eluting solvente gave
t.r.a !a1.:rtii:_a -min fractiors ( seo Flcvaheot 4 )t
1L iiT:BL` tL .^"tltcd h,Jd : cca :'to.^`8 ., 1 . 2g0 e .
2. Pr=tio IWdrocarbens ( qery ,a1s b1Lo .°lucrescexo),
0.426e .
--ar-1-L4.alono-t7Pe of
arc=atio bydrocrr':cn.
3. Aroc$tio lqdrocartrona ( intense blue-vY~..ita fluoreacence) s
0 .1.23 g .
'!'yo vrricus fraot :o"
. aonotitutir.g thia rain fraction
Cavg u1•.:-z7io:.: t aI,0or ;.*Aon 3zcctra (F:ec...~:un DR, 1.0-=.
s_lica cc7.lc, abcclute otr.ar.o2, 25" C . ) vit.': abcoration
at 3A^C, 3 ; 5, 355 and 374 t-p c .h.rro.ct.oristia of the
..;.tic hxrocarben .
s +!^~sco~e-,r, .~-er.e~•:"rono-tppc~ of nrcT
4. A rozbtic b7drocarbons (deep purplo-t11ue riuorosconce )j,
1.11.6 g.
The varioue frrctior.a constituting this cain fraction
.o
ul+a~aviclct
ahco Ytrcn spcct :z (1'oc'=n DR, 1.0-=.
g.:
ailiea cel:s, atsoluto eth:. .^.ol, 25° C . ) taith at3crpticn
tax4mci at 256p 2F.4, 342, 362, 379, 3C6 and 4^4 rJ .t
aw : acteristio of tho p7rer.o, %l,•bon: r~: e ::o an d 1,Lu•
hQ.^.co ;eryle= g.^cup of escmtio h7drocarbans .
5. aosidls (1.9(C6 g . )wha ;,b wi1.1 b4 == .',.i:cd •Ji•,a tho
tenzono•ol•atcd :aterial f:om the initial cr..^=tcgr=
(Flavsbeet 2) .
FractSon 1 abm (1 :2E0 g. ) s:a rccr.roratographod on alumira (25 =* z
2&5 = .) wing hexane as the oluti ::g aolvont to givo 0 .433 g. of
=saturated h7drocarbons a .nd 0.716 g. of naphttalor.o.-t7e-o t:y3roca rbocs
adn.:r.ad xit5 nnsaturated 2qdrocarbona . Zhis lattor tractSon vae
~
conanod vit5 Praotion 2(0 .426 g.) and 2»vooty~i,eci as dcscribcd in
Flavahoet 5.
`'
N
m
Ln
m
N
m
•
27
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U
P
4'lY.GRA
Y
C
M
E
:^
.
..:.:...,.~...
FR . 2 . F'if ;•'Fi ; . '? 2
5.330 C.
Chroratog=Fh on alumim
,
r C=.no t
5 '"2C
~
h= ne
hex:4%O
I 3' Lon:.eae .
;
I .rNJII:.8T.13
o:;.$t ore••
~
:~At .~'~ol
I
7 7 1, .i
C
~rLi
1 .28 G'
.
1;:.t'iut.LT^.. tC,i
2 :7:rocarton,
ostcrs,
ra;btba]er.oa
2.146 g . L9E6 g.
3,,G-bcr.:.Y:j': C .^•C tj j.e
i
c• r
on a.l1...r..a
0.123 g.
r7.ath . YCene,
yhonant,:.z/enos,
ostora
0 .426 Q .
e3ter8
:.arht; d14T08
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_
I
1 .
1
_
5~ .z . S
To e LC'ti:ar~r;:T 6 To s IlWS ME"T 7
i: '(.= .^.9
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ma ° ."Lti m, 7 t;~J i^ . , ., . C1'M~`y cF t~l Fr'~f~~ ir!Tg
T!
r
7
.I
~
~+~7A~
..
l.CEb g.
~ Ctsxstoeraph cn nhwmi :-z (25 c3?. s 1X
I Elute vSth hasaae .
Fv .
~~s,- 10
zI
o . 9e~
~
.er. ~
ra,.ht..a.e
e atera ~
~ o9tE7T9
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b ydPOQarb0B8
ChrcmatograFh on ahcias
I
~
7me .
12rg .
" . p . 69-790 Ctt
nltrav~.olot atsorp.•
tlcn cpectr . inCicates
mpkthalera uith trsces
Ot ~^nnlt`~7t~"`flf;^~l
g, t'apttlP3cro
':?:o napt :t.~alono fracticn (1 . C°6 g. ) vas chrcr=:to , 4-1-od on ai
.....irs
(Alunia= Oxi,4o Merck) in a colacn 25 = . = 250 rs* u .ing hox:.no aa t.ho
olutinF oolvont . A total of tan fractions (L50 c.l, of aolvont) vere
collec±ed . Ccr»':,:tiono vero rcco on t»s t~sia of atoccr ;,t:ea
t* c' :e
r lovehoot 5 . +
:~ ctioac ~ctioa (C .C2q g . ) t~ s»a.n .' ..w.
Z;ai3 mator iai vaa rec ~ rcr.ztorrs,r.»od on al=-i na as before to e-vo a
flracticn, vhich on evaporation contained 7 srC o of a colorlo3s, cry3talli .:o
.0 j==aea
0014d L•3 t!! t1
of .,: "ti'1 ~'.a .2"@ . ws.~ '' `"`C :+Ms:
:' .f"
.+
t19 C_C:'
'?
A
w j a'~r~ +.
69 - 75° C . rltr-ar'.olot atccrj tion str.dias (Eeck : an DK,y1 .C+-cw. si2ioa
cellst, r.et»anol, 25° C . ) ir.dicatcd tho -Ixeaer.ce of napht?~.alor.o contar.inatod
with a_a_h_t .~,.:1, c_ (r.nx.4m* at 324 and 339 ay) .
CtU'
.~ :::.ti - of twa cater :a1l gave a coic:iecs cryo 11^ ao .14d, vt.
- V . ..• ~_ : .~.. .a . L.~ .~
.. . . d . .a ~
.• ca
r.
„
~y,
~
. ... . .a•"
/C ~"
.
V.
. ..~ ;:. .._ ._oaa r
,
and iafl~-~ared ataorption spectm of t: is cater~'..a1 wcro ia3entical with those
of an aLt : er.tia sampls of ^ac»+.,»ale,:o .
ZO o s t '6
...u
: ^
?he rrx!= obtained in the ultraviolot ubsor ;.t:on spcctr= (icc:Waa
silica collo, ~et,'-.aziol, 250 C . ) of the sn»1i :..ed c~an; Io were
at 2 ;6, :66, 273, 276, 2F~, 2,1-.6, 2;7, 301 .0 3C6 and 311 r)a (cf .(41)) .
Calcu:.ation b:.3ed on oovorrl of t»oce i :dicatod the ;reaenco of
1.67 r-G, of ;ure na,^,ht.".alcne in the suhL• ..~xd raWple.
A mie. L:"a
C pC :^t of tr0
= te r!az (y . r . 79 .5 + CC .
wh th an aut .*.octSc sa;.plo of r.zr»t.»alor.o (r. .p, 81,0 - P„1 .5° 00) gave no
dc ,. e3s .. .II
n ~ : . j . of M:.~~.W O, ct^i . .7 • G~1.C-0 C . ~ .
~° C . )
b• ~nt~ ~. ~Ms
1. CcT.C .A Z"'~•GIVFIR
Tt:e c:Mor.,atoCra,p~,~, identification and c .u.aractori=tion of
an•,,: racer.e are o .arized Sn Flovs»aot 6 . Cr.e t:-action of tho init!a1
chrcr..3tot:-= Cave ar, ultraviolet absorpt4on s~.ect: ~ i:.dies°,~:.
:.:.Z
.Z,~ L`:o
.
^~"Anf`w+{•rqwn•
fi+re .9p. .7ce of
2.
CC, IV F'um
CF
o .tS
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iLn
~
~
U
N
. C~
. C ;v
~r.^.IL'3 ) o f a7:`.. .:. Cc^A L :: :.
C . C~Jj z O. I ts ) of f+^"~
.. . ~
m
Ln
boa : or.o ga4o the snthra,cer.o-;:c.-.c acid cc._^ ^, .1~, ~. p. 1: :. -1.:3° C . m
N
,.~ .red according to tho zothcd
O;:•',..'w
""
_..ad
by r ieaor (4C ) irca~
1. 0,, .
Cr,rcr;to..= ; ,h on aaicic acid
z~ . x 100 r~ . ) .
(25
:oxsce
L.L.nnnw+1 .w
~onza :.o-c~ ~ ^
1~
rt~. 2..b
23 r..3 0
esters?
45 ry•
ant ~=acor.ep
estore
Treat vith F.icz'io
acid in tea :eme.
- ~
(
.
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.,
c cl•~ = :.a (25 .~» s1:0-_.)•
~..~~
`1,,
~
fi CT{
C
% Ca
a
42 =g .
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~ 25 = . : : 1s0 M .1 .
1.r~
r
r?, t
:~.. .--
.
7. ~
1
.=,=
32 .
=,-;
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6 .5 =- .
I. A
= .r .
. ; : .W .~ .
~~~ . 50
Z..., n. . ^v-1..1
Crr -. :-zta--cr.
cc
~.
(4-5 = . x 1C0 =a.) .
T
A • 4' r. T
Pierio
N cid ,
..~.`..._
.~.. ..._s.
~.
~
r .p. 196-21r:0 C.
. ..
Crys ^ "co : rcr: =oLl=.:a2,
t. p. .^.L`6-21i o C . ; L.a . p . 212-213° C . '
4 .103 _:-,' :? s-oct .-
Chra:.ic acid in r.cctio acid
~.~..~.
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A
A
~
. . .p . /./irR. .C.G~ N . ; r
.. .M .p .
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h
:1c43 Cet 6
)
~'Jv0 6.5
arr . o r
SC i d ccL'^-'=
the
orploying the aL•ove prccodure (40) . I"= zolt :.nv ;.fliat of the c=pl= ti:0 21.:} •. 24211 C . a.^.d a risak e roltinv point with t2%.o aut%xntio
c=plo gave r.o doa*nro3sioa (140 . 241950 C .)•
Cecc==cssticz: of the cntrrrccnc-p :crio acid cc-lr.: rj c!^ro=tc•
, :ar+~7 V .^. .~.r,'..i.:a. fl.^) c-:_:r?csa sol ..d, r . ;;• 1%b - :1;)° C .,
1n1~1 ..~ .0
S. - Y :1 a
~
~+3. . .~ t w .r .n. .~ .:v . C. . .. C..
~.
1/ /~lr
.I Y. ...rrr ..
t :o :1 riva`~
..
= t+S"..Z :1o.L Cava
t
w: w..1-w'. :
c1.-nC) m .p• 2C6
•
F:. ..ro
C. A
-0
L..LZLw
t^oltir.g point vit/ an autlhontio a=plo (r.aot..n Y.odsk) # z .p. '216 21?° C .i =a1tod at 213 - 213° C .
:to abovo sEn rlo of onth~ ccno uaa disaolvcd in 2 .0 /rl, of
acot_o acid . Cno r.i2l .~tor of this colut :.cC «V.x r c:w":od :cr 1L
. of crr c^3c me-co in a colut_cn of 0 .75 r3 . of acotic aci.-vith4cC :
^ .15 =i . of Lr,a„~: cccc-d{m .^, to tho sctrr.3 of Craoro a:3 L+orc-. ::a
;~ ~ ~,f~~ . .
i .'i
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r .. ~@.~'V ftrzl .-.-0~
ty e:;~ ct! cn with a total of 10 r] .. cf Y.cn: ono, g`.o rr ~rquf.:ar.o9, :,^ .
7bis rat,or3c1 trra Isrif'.od by c:~sc=ao~r : 7 ca a1t..:- Lml ar.d
cr7~ t.:3~: a! oa f5r= mothnnol to g.vo 1on; 7ol1c~.r noc,dloo of ar.t.~ ~~
~- 42W C. A .ri:c t•.:ro =oltinc I:c :.z:t with an
F:u+..y fl ::+.. ! c + :. .'.'~j. 1o S .'".. .p• "MS . 2t CO Ci of EuCo n o C 0 "r"C :+C 1 C .^. ( .". . -e • Z I cJ ~
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of t~
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!dect.ral v:th that of an auth.entic sarrlo.
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e tM~Mcl, ~.5^ C. ) and
r !
pvor o idcntica71 with thoso of an authontSc =plo .
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342, 3 .`, 5, 370 and 373 :p (c :. (!«2) ) . Calcj'.,:.ticn b.:ccd cn the
x-..nq at 34 .?0 35s and 3?3 L-p ita3cated tho proser.cs of 4.03 r.C . of
c:: tM--ccenc in thA s~lA ; rior to c~^.,:ractmi .-,ticn as tho aa~.-~^....
qta.~c:.or3~ : ^ .
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pro_:C C :'.."": ::t^` "' .. 1.. .~ ta, ..J.Jna . ..^. ti cn
and C4 :' :: c:'
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i. 146 €.
Chr = LC cm~yh Oii J33'^
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03 t8r 8 7
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tl= raat: e:e
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s.,
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~ C.620 rC.
I = . p. 175•179° C .
...-.,......
, -
.
,
1. 296 ag. in rixtti:re
~ :resL vith picr .c acid in
~bca^.eno .
¢eltod at 195 - 1980 C .
x o outlined in ?lc•,r : boet 78 the 3il.-bon :,pyrono ccr.car.trate fr cm
t}:e 10 # 5CO CtiN.rL ciE^sctte r = vt s co=hir.ed vith a sirilar 2`rsc tion
!'r
,rw
a
ci
3,4-:n .^. .t.;:cro.
Ctr.:tte r .--. cVntai .wi. in- y
ZL~~
L'
~ .
of
:l:o co .:tined ccr.ccntratas were`rxL`'icd ~f !o ;rsticn
of tho ric: i o ac:d ccr.plox . ::da complex r.altod ct 190 - 195° C . ar.d
Cavve ;:o dcFr oraicn of the irelt3 :.~; poi nt vith tto authentic sa_-.pl.o
,.~: sparsd a !:ovo .
.7hr~to~,, .~j of t~o 33~-ye••~,; or.o-picri0 :.a: cc_~lax Cavo
a s=71e of 3#4-ber.c ;,yr eaei ic . p . 170 - 1750 C ., vhicW ravo no reltir.e
;oint deFroo3ion with an authontie caaplo`(a .p. 178 - 18^^ C.) .
3 . Ap!'CF:PT2Gtl "r7PrEC':F.A
:"1:e L'_tmviclat a:A iz .flta.Mcd ab3orption r;:ct ra cf t : :is sao
rlo
were identical vit? : thoce o .° an aut*entic s=r1e of
I :2:e ultraviolet ab3orytion caxt= (Locl=uan riC, 1 .C-= . silica
colls, abflclute ethanol, 250 C . ) vor e at 255p 2E8, 275, 2:7, 297,
34°, 3E.G, 3?7 and 403 z~if z -^ at 253, 2731 ::9-1, 295, 371 w.d 397
~
cp ; aI:culdor at 330 m in a~ccreat vi .h the pi:blS,16-ed ul:.- .:v'.clot
atrc :rtion cpectr= (L7) and tho opectr= of Eun aut~o :.tic cr.~ple
( rnst=n Xcda ;c Chomica13,, Distillation Products Ir.dustrieo ) .
Ca : c'.:: .aticn tascd on UMo u1t .-avio? Et a :cc: rticn at 31,9,
^
of 3,4.tE
"
of~1 .a7
rp
rr':`B :0 :~ ~«3 8"OICB L`C .^. .^.~Zlratii ::^ :w 131 CLV C~. .`•z 3.
r
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d
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r~f:
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.
.^~ .
..i{li",n
.•i1e
..*- i.a;'i~`~a'
1. Cf' :1CY.1TCCRr. F~:Y
i
b4
The fltoranther.e-ric*a f-*-ct.cr.3 S:ro~ the 1C, `^C.` C' ::?.iL ci C:.: rtte
( C . :.41 G . ) and a3 ;,,C aiCa,-etto run .( 0 . %70 g . ) kGrfl cc,:,-
Chr=-to ; ra j"7 of thin raterial on al=ira did : ot rcrr..it iool : t:.on ot' c«;-3talL:o .l::cranthe: o duo to an oay ccnt,A::rnar.t.
!.
•
'71^e fluora .^.thono-r;chu frcction (0 .4C0 g .) vas dinsolvrd in 1.5
r.1. of varW (60° C .) Flacial acotic acid . 1, solution of- l,0 cC . of
2,49?-tr:r.itrofluorenone ia 3 .5 E1. of boiling glacial acot:c acid
vaa nddor3 and the resultinQ eolution vaa a13.oWOd to cool apont:.•u*ously to 25° C .
Finci ?eLl.aw-orr.r.Ce ncc.~c2es Frecipitsted aftor 2 hov+-s . Tnose
:ro
rcccvoz•ed ~ ;~
..:.d uer a :~s'~cd vit, ~2 :' . of cold
wc
(0° C . ) haa::r.o to ~-ire z:.terial •lith an ir.definite r-olti .*.C Fcin t.
Chxror.atogmpby, on aliw,.i:.a deecWiosed the eoe,^.3.ez and Eavo !"racticna
with ultraviolet a : sorption apoctra cP.c.ractcrLstio of r- ; ~eno, f3.t:or•
ant3ser.e and
:'ae flucrant::or.e3-r'..ch fr actions
vere ccrt_.xd, coaccnt: rt : d and zCain troatod with 2,4,7-trinit .-•ofr•,:oreacae in g1acS.a3. .acot3c acid aa before to eive ye13oW need3ca,
~. p. 201 - 210° C . ' A risture r.el tirg point ot the fluor : nttbor.o-trLnitroflucrenone coQplooc with an authentic aacpls (75), c .F . 214 215° C . ,,rsve no dopr ocs ion .
^ecc- :csiti cn of •.tc f?i:cr ~+.rono. .t.~ir.i ~ of'! »o .~a_no ccw^lex on
(25 =, x 1C0 ..
- )Cave fhar^,.nthor.o, :. p . 103 - 1:E° C . A
cixtL,.•-,o -altinC point with an authentic -^le, V-.p. 1L'7 - 1C9° C .,
Zt7a no ae ;--assicr .
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4ho first fraction Sr= the '_a ttor cr.rcratoCra.: gavo an ul *..ravio :ct c :ccrytion Epoctr=vith =:= at <62, 274, 3G0, 328 and 3G3
r7i . ;'hooo r,acSr..a coir.cide with t .':o; e for the hydrocarbcn,
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14 , 0,00 C1'/ZIM ci ga:•otte3 . "Y
, +e ult:aviolot abaorpticn r-& :r'.= were at
2b1, 2'17, 22?, 3C°, 322, 341 and 358 =,p ( cf.(43),10
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"1:e r* ;: vno-r:c.ti f:actiocs :~ the 10, 50^ cica:^ette :n:r
nnd th.e 3 ;Ca V : CL o:C--:ot',a uaro coWbinc; , C .ccclved !:. 1.0 wl4
of glac :r.l acotic acid Mr.d tr cYtcd wi t» 02.0 r.3, of
f.uorer.c :.3-9 in 0.5 r.1. of bo!' w E.'.ncio .lZ acz.t:C acid. A rod
c:iata2l:co solid p .-rocip:tatod ca cooling r clid a :`tcr ti.;.c;:inL with c.'•.illed bozane (1 .0 «,1., C° C . ) and drjinC, coltsd at
cn
m
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C : :t w_th an aut: cntSo s:r; ?o (?5), r .p.
2.:2 - .^.43° C., waa 235 - 23?° C . Me inflcarod ahso :ption oroctrs~
of thia ~tcr :al wa3 idc :~tic :1 with that of an aut::ontio o=p1o of
pyrone..triaitrofluorenono eocplmc.
The eocp,lox uaa dcc=pooed oa a1=,trs to obtain pyreno for
ultraviolet 8tsorption ottt3ivs . .
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Clt,.~violot abscrYtSon atudios (Pocl=n EX, 1 .C-.^-- . aiLcs co].3c,
abooluto eUanol, 250 C . ) on tho pyror.o obtained ty deco=,position of
',l:o co--plex ind icated a rir.3.n= of 1.36 c;,. of pyrcr.o in the ocrYlwoat• i'rco 24,000 C':mL cigarettes .
-
:Y6 ultravio2et abcc:rticn =x:m wero at 262, 2?<^, 293, 31d, 334
ead 3?2 a}3 in aCreezont witb trcae of an authantie aarp1o (cS . (44))•
ti^.a (Iccl=sn DK, 1 . ,~ . ailica co11a, ab3o?ute etY~.: no1, 25° C . )
wero a t L6,0_ , ~~ 2 C9 j 3'.'..~ 3 2 70 i~~..~r, 357] M z.+.d. 3.:v -.-,u a.: a '='c.:c.^. :i ~..~.
published data (46) . ?Y:o eat:=ted quantity of 1#2•ben :8athrace'ne vas 0 .16
to 0 . :2 A. por 1Co cig^...rcttos .
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at_ :` t!~c r.c4+..rrl fmctia :: obtained fmn t ::o 3`.C' ' :r:7
cil.-r otto :^.m. :l:e ultr aviolot absorption rr ..-inn ('.Ec~:n CX, 1 . Cti-= .
3•f»~ reL`s, cyclchcw.3, 25° C.) were at 291, 303,0 331, '~.4-°, 3tx, 3E3
a:d G :..° n,u (c . . %"4C)) .
The evidence for this aroratio rqdrocarbcn was tho ultraviolet atzorp-'
tion naaiira at 408 ond 432 rp (of . (49)) .
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Z2:e r.ain ir.tcroat in tbe 1=esonce of tho Fo37cyc3 :c arc.:,: tSc byd:ro~.r'rons
in ci,^arotte ccrwvr.3=Yo .'„^- t.':..t r...^; cf ': vrc cr::ra~.::.3a ~ro ~c:ra to ho
carcinoConio (53) to variouo sFEciao of aai .,~.aU. She cur: ont cer.trovoray conccrr.ir.b the ir.fluonce oP cigarotto smo ::i::g on t,' :e incrotoir.e ihciCCr.co of =naor
o_: the 1:.^:C in t.`:e ~:~..a.^. r..-3o ilg, 3L, 35 . 36, 51, 52, 60, E6, 6?, 71, 72, ?4a
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fraction of -the cwoke casden°ate (121 ; arA 13 producod p : iza.-i1,7 by p;:'ol"si :
of the tobacco durriw„ the e='r.i^g yrocoas (121) .
In vi :r.~ Qf t fd;,ta, :: is loCica to accc; o that L : e c:: c .:c~,cac aca :: ,
of cit rstta sr oko condca:ate ia due to the precor.ce of or.o or =cre carcinoceaic
gol;cqclio aroratio rydrocMr bons . 4l:o presenco of aeverhl of tho pollc-clio
2r-drocart':.r,s in c_Lc~rotto cnoko tzs boen des :cns+,ratcd by t,x.o .-,wc:o korlxre in the
•.ritsc: cta+.e9 r.nd a}.road, r.rir.circllf trj moano of ult~wiolct cxct .-~cF:cto~ot . .
!j..rc9 vcry iitt?o actua.l i: clsticts n4 cua :ratoriration work haa bevn rercrtod
in tho P:ct, this con3titutos twe ra :.a oi;3ect of the ;xcse--t recc :~.rc:.
7'h= 14 ;rl^-clic arc-*rtic r:,M'..rres~r.3 vhrc'~ have ei+w'^.er heon S :.c2;.t,-d ar
identified in the noutral fraetion of eie.~rette scoke . cc n:ona:.to are as fou~ ~ :
Acor.a;h•,~yle-:o (3C ?9), nntrsacono (2I, 30, 31, E2, 849 99), artranthrcr.o
a~uler.e (6, 54, 703, 1,2•ben :,anthracer.o (61, 70, 79), l,L^••boazorerilor.e (30, ,
'79) 3,G•bon: r,~ : ore (6, 20, 30, 33, 32, 65t ?0, 79, 99, 114, ]35), 3-=t1 :-~l~rer.c
.: erA ~~ti1'_5`~r
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h~ r.e-soluble, r:eL•', ..rcl', rc.l i`: -atian of C"1-L c .~:.retto cccko ccr.dcnsato . ':hr~
of t*":oco h~ :McarVcr~ -_c= ::c• ^'rr^ro• ~ .G-tQrc-Rr.^^o> ~"r ~, :c^ect
: nn ofa.- as c=ca. :ogenio r.et:vit7 13 ccncnrned .
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o~cplar.atsor~a of thin apparont a:oza~y appoar p?ausiblo at procent .
1. "Mo o.:.Mci,~o~r.ic
. ic activity o!' t~e hexno•solublo, r.eutral fr~ction
(or vhole ccn3onscte~ ic de:e rz! r.ly to soco hitherto ta,.k=ova povortul :,,~
csrci ::oConic pcl ;, c .-c13c crar.:tic hydroc .:r:.ca .
2. ,1 a ;-r:orgiotio ef!'"t is ottai^od .pr cc tbe uict.m hJdreear vcr.o .
:2iis pr:eno=er.on has bccn coseribe8 ty ct ..~::erois vorlscrs (102, 103) in the
=so of the po1,7o7c2io a.-or:atic kydrocarbons .
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l<, =W eit: er for ocmo c :zi.ou.•.d in cigtu-oLto onoko or :or 30=o ccm,^-ound
preaent as a ; ol.:ut^..nt in air .
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cir.c-cnio activ:ty of a n=ber of tiio3o ccc-,o•,a.d3, a rothod of either corgete .
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1. : cr.o cc-,;.•,:: d or Croup of cc;oi..^:~n, e ., the a.3i~:-:tic r,; dr e..
esrbr.s, -. escnt in the tot:cco =y be prcc,.asora
. - to t.`:o Fo :7cyclic
cror..atio b73rocn rbon3 presont ia the tobacco =oloa . Zt:ua, a 2ctiror=: g-, of
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f1ho tob.:cco. :h •, :a p tre co ntcnt of tr.o po1,7c; clio b y droc* r. bc = i n •,yo
smoke r-I ght be l..Mjerec3 17 o: ther lo•.reriag t !:o cozi.-u3tioa to =,-crat•.rc of
the tobacco bclcv 5L"J° C . or by raising tho ccub=tion tc..rc =t.ao atove
E50' C . t7 tte addi tion of suitable Tb eco ca A itives wuot Le
osre^ti=?. L^ ec? .• :'1Csfl , t4?f..C l o30, a :.d ncnt emic , lt t the
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F.Y' . . of U:o r.iSph.,^.t_e L-yd.-oc:..M:~ora ort :-:cted .^rcm tol-occco CSvea
an t.'-.raceno, p7rer.o, 3,4-bonaFyran e a :d 1#lWconrr-yr oao . :^ oaaorvatic na
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38
wero =do IC-7 :•:r ir.l-.t ar.3 ry:•.c3er (I15) vit': : ccr.ect . to arn aiir!::tic h~Cromrlcr.o
cixture (90 pcrcont of vh4ch vas pxeat :.a,i.7 l:entriacontaao, a-C31H~) ot,tui .^. : d
b7 tbo extraction of tob~icco . Pyrol3rois of tbia wi :tture in an os~-ca-freo
at~ocFhcre ;iolc3od r~nt~.rscor.o# pyrene~ fluorant2:enes cr.ryaona and 3,4-bor.c;yroro
in the pqrolssato .
In 11~42, roi'fo (94) ncted thct t2 :e extrrciior: of tobacco with o••ch orEc..z io
L. ....i\Y.'r~tt~
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ro :.-a.lted i.^m a ro:^w' :cn of t,ho cr.rri.^oCcnio ccti•rity of '.ho t.s ott,,:'•:od ty
c°.catr :otive diotil2ation oY' : the oxttMsctod tot;.cco ao cc ;_p~-r cd vith the tar
ottained ty t} :o destz-uotive diati2l .ation of Uh:o nonoxtractod tot.ccco . Roffo
cu~. Featcd that the cxtraction would removo t ::3 FY;7tostcr oia, a nor : =1 con: 'i•.
. ^,~ :;ccc. ^c w^. ~O C : .,» ..«< » ::9.53Q
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.~;'t.o
- 0 .7
on dry ueiCht r.u co .r.rxred Vith other ph,.nts, e .g., Fotsto, 0 .15 For contj
csbtaL-ev 0 .12 parcent ; oats, 0 .20 pcreent ; sqti;ach, 0 .16 pcr cent .
:. = c:M•. x a u V. .V rs r :.vo dcr.c ::J t.a
r :. ted t.',.:..•t the p7rolysia of ctcrola or sterol
e : tors, e .F., ch olc ;,tercl, 7n1II, R" = Ii . or choleoteryl paL-!t a to,
~'2 ; ,•,.~,^. ., in t,Y :o °cr... .•C^ of polyCyc? :c c: ~;.tic
( 39, 1G7 )I o : g ., c~-;•soao and 3'~othylc~clopcntonophonsnth.Mc:.e, :VIiI, of ~ :h'_c.h_ch
a t Icaat one, clx •, cc^o, is carcino ~_? auic ( E, 9, I^, 17, "' , I.:, 103, 105) . I.o
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e?c13c nc=c«,:.tie ccw ;.ounds, severa3 o: which are earciacgonio and ti•hich woL
cp, ;e:.r in the noutr :.l fraction of toL•:cco =ace, e .g., c}oiestMd_enc-3,5, X717,
(39, 105), cl:olcsteacno-4, XX (390 107), dickolestoryl ether, XXI (39), cr .olestai:o, XXII (3~), and coF.rostame, XXIII (39) . Cbolootadieno-3,5 (107, 109) and
c::ol.a3tenoMe-L (16) are carei .^,oCeaie . In Ceneral, the prytootaroln differ
2: on choloctcrol in t;:e otructure of tho side chain at C17•
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XXI
XXII
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Co:s:4crst:cn ef tn i3 cata cc ::car^.:^g t.':o stcrols ar.d 11-h o cLi,',.w;,ic
e:.r lm r.a aiu- rcst3 tha t tt o Frec•: -aor theor~ of eiga.rotte 3Cc6o C017C j C . C
i3 a loCical =e . At ;,resEn ts tt:e
to:r.g isvost :C•sted in thin 1abcratcr7 (81) .
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With raaFcct to 2 . atove, °e :.r.::ay (55, 56p 57) and Yo :ma•.m.1 and Ear.:3on
(5C-) deccn3tratyd thzt the p7ro?yaia of cuch or ;au! o =teri; 3s as
;rcact ( :b), crol:atcrrl (56, 58), c^.a7. (56) 57), ;etr ol~.r ( 5 :,)
~ i ip acet~ :.cno (56, 57 .1 . 81:d i.".o~`mo (55) at te--peratu: as ra :.Ci: C f: = iGC°
to 92C° C . (s to that ottsSr.od in t.o L=a ;:g cjC:.-ottca (3~, L9)) b=e
tr.rs vr_c!: vcro carci:o :erlc to r.curo sz_r. . T'hese tsrs ocn+„a•.r.cc a t~.iph ccr.ccat .-r.tion of pol7cyclio r.rro=t:c hydroc: rbor.a .
lir± ]rar accrcr :.•ao :ts r.rse toon carricd ou t t7 othor i .:t oc ti rntcrs vi!, :
recroct to hc .:ted f;c:ct•,;.^ :a, vUch aro ~•:.::ci~.r.lly
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a: .. .~c
ra,,~^
..r_..ls, e .g.,
ta:cted t`cad (1^6), ror.stod coffee (76, S5, £t3), toa r90)~ fat3 (62, F7, 93i,
re,:to {iC4, 113) i a .^.d gr~in (69) . A ror e dctriled descriptioa of these
exror±=oat3 ~s boon Froaeat~ ~rev!oi :s~,,^ (S0) . In rcst in,tc.nces, ~ :~ci~c~~u^±c
tars voro ottai :cd b7 bcatina t : o!ccdot.:: f .
Far:-.LC,7 ( ;7) ot..er: Ed t_...t a Y twa ta ...,.c.•a V W e at ~ .h.c
.m oco=•rod, tho carcinoeonic uctivity of tho rcsulting tar also tc a- e aj, ^ .cront.
TMo g"eater tho te=Ceraturo of r,,•rol~-sis, tho groater the : ro.;.3ti : at.ica aad
caroinoeonic acti :vity over the te .-.Feratura ran€e 450 to 850° C .
It io possible that such a =ecb :r.i= is oporative in tt :o casa of tho L~
i:.g of totacco di:rir.g t.~o nor:.-sl rmolking r.roceca . In order to ryd ;:oo t!:3
ccntent of .: e po1yt-Icae ara..~.:t :o tqdroca rtors in the sro :.-e, tho tc :'per zt ;w a
of ccrbu3tn cn e2xuad oi whcr ta lcs~orcd tolcv 5CC' C . er raisod a y;, : a 9r'C° C .
:~j t2:e addition of sti :aa"1o re : Cewts . ':hin apr,roach vi11 ta wvactiumt3d in
this laloratory in the tuture .
a
b
to,z,:ccos does conta=.n froo sn1R,, .•w on tho lsaf (7) . Presi=bly t::o :r ce oulftr
r.: :ces e3 a eontar11r_:r.t durinv t .*.a arMi:b of txo tobacco vith certaia ouL L-~ .
containing Snaocticidos .
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zxpcr'_s.enta v111 ho ccr--:uctod at acme tir.o in tho Putin•e to dotor ri.~.o the
offoct of tho suL^.:- content of tobacco on the pol7c; clic arc:.,at:.c,h9droca- --•: on
contont of the =ok,e oonde=to .
a.:t:rM^..;be !ol i cyc~± c cr^nativ h„^-drccartoa ...c, scc .-:ri
oaro, phenanth-rene, ryrer.o, 3-rcth7l ;.qrcr.o, fluor :.ntr.ono, 1,2-tonzantlzracone,
3,4-`.oncp; rcae, 1, i : -tenzeFer; leno and znt!'-.cnthrene hrvo been identif iod as
co: •':it•,:ohts of tho szoko cor-,4cnsato troc V2SL blend ciCa : ettos .
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Mr . Kenneth H . Hoover :
August 3, 1962 is the deadline for submission of
abstracts of papers to be presented at the 16th Tobacco Chemists'
Research Conference in Richmond, Virginia, September 26-28, 1962 .
May we please have your approval to present the paper
entitled "The Composition of Cigarette Smoke . XI . Heterocyclic
Nitrogen Compounds from Turkish Tobacco Smoke" by A . Rodgman and
L . C . Cook at this meeting, and may we submit the manuscript to
TOBACCO SCIENCE for publication? If approved, only the abstract
has to be submitted at this time for the conference . The talk
would be based on the attached manuscript .
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The findings presented in this manuscript have been
described in RDR, 1962, No . 14 . The discussion given in this RDR
of the testing of indoles and carbazoles for carcinogenic activity
has, of course, been deleted from the manuscript even though all
of these tests gave negative results . The review of other heterocyclic nitrogen compounds identified in tobacco smoke, e .g .,
9H-pyrido[3,4-b]indole (norharmane), 1-methyl-9H-pyrido[3,4-b]
indole (harmane) dibenz[a,h]acridine (1,2,5,6-dbenzacridine,
dibenz[a,i]acridine (1,2,7,8-dibenzacridine), and 7H-dibenz[c .g]
carbazole(3,4,5,6-dibenzcarbazole) was'omitted from our manuscript
because of the reported carcinogenicity of the latter three compounds
(cf . RDR, 1962, No . 14) .
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Division : Chemical Research
RPI1, 1961, No. . IV
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Notebook pages : non
Previous Reports :
RDiyl, 19j4, No . 31
RD,J", 19j5, No . 13
RDR, 1956, No . 10
RDR, 1959, No . 1
RDM , 21962, No . ~_.
THL SinOI'
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HEALTH PROBLEM -.,,,., ..,._ .
A CRITICAL AND OBJECTIVE APPRAISAL OF
The cigarette smoke-~h alTf7'problem is discussed in detail,
and it is related to the potential iinvolvement of the members of
the Company's Research Department .•Arguments and conclusions by
those claiming cigarette smoke as a health higrareggn4gdl as
counter-arguments and conclusions by those not in'~accord with
such views . The weight of the arguments and counter&arguments
is discussed in some detail . An attempt has been made to present
the argu :nents and conclusions as objectively as possible . Based
on theAarguments and conclusions .,lazzaafteft several recommendations
are made .
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(7?) which presented my position as briefly and as concisely as
possible . The two memoranda have identical schematic organizations .
As mentioned before (77), if requested, a thorough, fully documented
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MEMORANDUM
Although the majDr part of the sales of this Company consists
of cigarettes, what the Company sells is cigarette smoke . To maintain
our first-place position a,ainst any eventual ity, we should be first
in :3csu :.si vio :l of 1 .'"ifo=mati on concerning the co! :?no-,z_L
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~: f a i,^ :a of studi es relating it to ill-health and par.ticular=y to
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-2~ . The Evidence - Pro and Con
~~ The cigarette smoke-lung cancer problem has been investiga ted
epidemiologically, pathologically, biologically, and chemically .
Each discipline has yielded pertinent information . The -rpidemiological
studies have also suggested a relationship between cigarette smoking
and other diseases .
a . Epidemiological Data_
It has been shown in thirty retrospective (27*, 38, 10,4, 118)
and in four prospective statistical studies (15, 27*) that the
1incidence of ]lung cancer is low in nonsmokers, proportional to
ci arette consumption, greater in ci .garette smokers than in cigar
or in pipesinokers (who show a higher incidence of oral cancer
than do cigarette smokers), greater in cigarette smokers who
inhale than in those who do not inhale, greater in cigarette
smokers continuing the habit than in ex-cigarette smokers, and
comparable in male and female cigarette smokers when smoking
duration, amount, and tumor type are considered (39, 1'•7) .
1'hese "findirigs'-indicate that cigarette'.smck3.pg inci•eases~:the . .sisk
of, .d'eve] :oping lung cancer .- Many-authorities : be~ieve •the . .relationship to be one of cause-and-effect .
Contradictory data have been provided by statisticaL studies
which suggest that smoking habits (and possibly lung cancer) are
linked to a constitutional factor . The twin studies of Friberg et
al ., (36), Fisher (34, 3j), and Raaschou-Nielsen (65) indicatedd
a greater concordance of smoking habits between identical twins
than between fraternal twins . These studies, however, fall in the
*This author reviews 27 different retrospective studies
by Breslow,et al ., Denoix and Schwartz, Doll and Hill,
Haenszel et al .,' Koulumies, Levin et al ., Lombard
et =:1 . , McCor.nel= e t al . , ~,a11 : Gnd eortzr, ;:u11er,
= Otter and Tuli ;', S .ad4 :'JS ky at al ., Orhzirer and Sch on=nger,
./:3chrer, et ai ., :ci :'.VaL'tZ e ~ al . , ..~.tl7cks, o t ot;i.$ and CG .a~vc?_' ,
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studies, i .e ., careful but limited . The Seventh Day Adventist
study of Wynder et al . (120) provides serious argument for
the constitutional hypothesis . Other contradi'ctory data were
provided by th,i immigration (and also retrospective) studies
of Eastcott 431~ in New Zealand and Dean (28, 29) in South
Africa . These studies compared national averages of cigarette
consumption with lung cancer mortality data for immigrants and
nonimmigrants . I .e ., in the lung cancer victims the actual
smoking habits of immigrants to Ne ealand and New Zealand-born
persons were not known ; similarly or the South African study .
To validate his findings, Dean (29) obtained smoking data .on
his sample by questionnaires addressed to the next of kin, a
practice decried in several of the retrospective lung cancers ;.,oking studies . Nevettheless, the results of these studies. ~,
. `c,r..d
(28, 29, 31) can account for only a saall fraction of the ;lung `~^^
cancer incidence observed between smokers and nonsmo%ers .
The statistical data from the lung caacer-sToking .studies
are almost universally acc pted . The majority of scientists accept
these data as indicative of degree of association or a
cause-and-effect relationship between lung cancer and smoking .
Controversy is provided by Fis4er (34, 35), Berkson (14), Little
(j3A), Greene (37), and others . More will be said about their
comments in a subsequent section .
After more than ten years of argument oen ~D o methodology,
sampling bias, retrospective vs . prospective study, inhalation vs .
noninhalation, real vs . apparent increase in lung cancer incidence,
short butt-length vs . long-butt length, etc ., criticism of these
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changes developrin= the? lungs of mice exposed to ci ;;arette
smoke (50-52) .
(b) Fluorescent constituents of cigarette smoke are absorbed
into respiratory tract cells of ,::an and experimental
animals (59, 60) . However, fluorescence and carcinogenicity
are not synonymous (17) . Carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbon
(benzoCalpyrene, dibenz [a,h3 anthracene) and noncarcinogenic
polycyclic hydrocarbons (anthracene, phenanthrene) are
highly fluorescent ; carcinogens like urethane, p-benzoquirione, and P-naphthylamine exhibit little or no fluorescence .
(c) 'rlhole cigarette smoke (46) and some of its constituents
(phenols, fatty acids) (33, 119) cause ciliary paralysis .
(d) Cigarette smoke collects at cilia-free areasnand at areas
of paralyzed cilia (33, 41) .
Contradictory evidence indicates the following :
(a) The above-described cellular changes can be caused by
previous respiratory diseases :-•:like. : influenza (2),
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(107), Asiatic influenza (30),Apul~
:onary infarcts
(6) .,and by illnesses like uremia (105, 107) . ana vitamin
,7 deficiency .
These changes are )bserved to a degree in ir .fants (3), in
~ Aor3s :nokers (43), and in resid-~nts of areas of extreme
\ air pollution (106, 110) .
W These changes are observed in the tracheas (windpipes) of
~ smokers, but anceri60#40 tracheaIjis extremely rare
~ (43-45, 10,09 115) .
(d) Ciliary paralysis can be caused by air pollutants like
i::dust-i a? gases --2) and au' ;on,obi le e :{ :.aust ,7.,ases (=
~e) T:zere is no evi lencz t these c :_ar.;;ed ces ls ever beco^e
cancerous
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factors other than c ;garette smoke, since these changes occur
in nonsmokers' lungs and in the cancer-free trachea of smokers,
and since it is not known whether these changed cells become
cancerous~ ci~arette smoke, therefore, is not'1'ne only factor to
be blamed in lung cancer causation .
c . Biological_Data
Cigarette smoke condensate is carcinogenic to mouse skin (27*) .
Much is made of the fact that the dosage leve], used exceeds that
of the human exposure . Other investigators like Passey, Orr, Moore
and Miller (27**) did not obtain positive results with nominal
dosage levels ; Softe interpret this an indication that cigarette
smoke is not carcinogenic . It should be noted, however, that
many attempts were made to induce cancer in animals with coal tar
prior to the first success with highly unrealistic dosages (121) .
Kennaway ~44 .) :nommented on these negative findings as follows :
"The emphasis laid upon the collected negative results
of painting experiments from various laboratories, .and the
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must take precedence of negative results ."
Cigarette smoke condensate is a powerful ;romot6ng (or
rcinogenic) agent for polycyclic hydrocarbons (102) .
Inhalation studies with cigarette smoke have yielded an
increased incidence of adknomas in adenoma-susceptiblW~~~~ains
(32, 61) . No human-type carcinomas have been produced although
cellular changes and bronchitic conditions have (50-52) .
It is interesting to consider the studies of Campbell (see (108))
}f_' :_1S author reviews the swudies by Croninger and SuntZ?ff,
Guerin a'n d Cuzin, Koprowska, I- :oore and Bock, vrris et a? .,
: uSi,ara, 'Jynuer et al .
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either autoinobmle exhaust gases or cigarette smoke . Subsequent
stud,y by others has shown that inhalation of exhaust gases and
at :. =osp'r.eric dusts incrd eased the adenoma incidence . Campbell's
negative findings with cigarette smoke are often quoted as
demonstration of the noncarcinogenicity of cigarette smoke ; seldom
is his evidence quoted to indicate the noncarcinogenicity of
air pollutants!
These negative inhalation results are interpretdd by some
as an indication that cigarette smoke is not a carcinogen for
human lung tissue . Two facts offset such thinking . First, mice
are not men, hence carcinomas should not be expected in a host
resistant to the induction of carcinoma of the lung, and whose
usual lung cancer is the adenoma (108) . Also, asbestos and sodium
arsenite, recognized industrial carcinogens, have not been shown
to be carcinogenic in animals (16) . Secondly, the ratio, lung
cancer deaths :total ci;arette smokers in the United States
.
. .. ~ is approximately 1 :1700, hence an inhalation
experiment involving Tice would require 1700 animals for the
production of one carcinoma, assuming thsit the response of mouse
and human lung tissue wafhe same . No such number has been
used in any single experiment . T"ne 'biological :-findings are dismissed
by some with the statements Nice are not men ~.:nd Mouse skin is
not human lungL tissue, statements to which even the proponents
of the cigarette smoke-lung cancer proposition agree (116) .
d . Chemical Data
Cigarette smoke contains fourteen polycyclic hydrocarbons
(27*) and three heterocyclic nitrogen compounds (1-13) knourn to PIN
be carcinogenic to mouse skin . The hydrocarbons include nenzral
an thrace ne, benzo ~si,i~ per~~lPne, :~enzo~aj .~;rrene, benzo ~e3p .-ren, ,y
chrysene, dibenz [!j,h3anthracene, 1-metry lpyrene, cho_a :ahrane !84 ; ,
aibe ::zc pyrene, dibenzo Ca, llpyrene , di ;=:n.:cCa, i3 pyren :, ,
? , ~.-uih ;; Ctro-lH _ - b enzc
-79H-benzoCa3cyclopent[i,anthracene, and benzCe3acepizer.a~ ~hrylene .
The heterocyclic nitrogen compounds are ?u-dibenzocarbazole,
dibenz~M,acridine, and dibenz La,Z3acridine .
Cigarette smoke also contains various promoting (or cocarcinoEzelnic) agents like the phenols and the fatty acids .
These findings, at dirst impugned, are now accepted but
dismissed as unimportant because none of the compounds has been*
shown to be carcinogenic or cocarcinogenic to h ruman lung tissue .
It is unlikely that such experiments will ever be carried out .
e . The Evidence to Date
Obviously the amount of evidence accumulated to indict
cigarette smoke as a health hazard is overwhelming . The evidence
challenging snch an indictment is scant . : :owever-, the evidence
from epidemiological, pathological, biological, and chemical
studies supporting the proposition that lung cancer is caused by
or associated with cigarette smoke is paralleled by similar
evidence supporting the proposition that lung cancer is caused
by or associated with air pollutants . In some instances, the
evidence seems to be stronger in sun-)ort of cigarette smoke
as Pcausative or associated factor ; in other instances, the
evidence ^seeas :: to be stronger in support of air pollutants as
a causative or associated factor .
Any criticism levelled at the lung cancer-cigarette smoke
proposition, e .g ., statistical studies annot prove cause-andeffect relations in between two factors (a criticism of the
epidemiology) ; mice are not men (a criticism of the biological
evidence ) ; metaplasia and hyperplasia do not become cancerous
(Jcriticism of the pathological evidence) ; and no experimental
evidence exists to show that any cigarette smoke constituent is
carcinogenic to human =ur_& tiss .:e at `-ze 1?vel := t =r
ci ;'"%lreti,Pe ss^.:oke (a Cri tic].sT! of th+° chemical ev1 .d?ncc" , is
eq*ua'_'_y applica~ble to the l-ur:g cancer-ai= po :.lutc :. .t _= pcsit_on .
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After reviewing this evidence, many governmental~ag ncies
and medical societies throughout the world have concluded that
ty* i:t=.was ..sufficient to establish a cause-and-eff ct relationshin
between ci arette smoking and cancer of the lung .J~ ?ior.e stated that
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smoke was the cause, the only~ cause, etc ., and many
acknowledged the role of air pollutants in the increased incidence
of lung cancer . None suggested that research on all other factors
be dropped in favor of a concerted study of cigarette smoke .
Theae agencies inuluded the American College of Chest Physicians (1),
the British Ministry of Health (27*), the British Medical Research
Council (27*), the Danish Joint Committee of the Danish National
Health Service, Dh Cancer Society, and the Danisr. :•:edical
Association (26), ~Tational Cancer Institute of Canada(27*), the
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Netherlands Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Health (27*),
the Royal College of Physicians (Gt . Britain) (103), the United
States Study Grouf on Smoking and Health 1957 (27*), the United
States Public Health Service (27*), the World Health Organization
(27*), etc .
Com,aenting on such pronouncements, Little (~6), Scientific
irector, TIRC, said
"-Se will not find out from over-simplified and
perhaps superficial concl~}hi' .ons
.on s as to causation .
Such an attitude would only stifle or delay needed
research to find the basic origins of lung cancer and
cardiovascular diseases, which are most powerful,
diversified and deadly enemies to our well-being . Nor
will they be solved by resolutions or by review
committees that cobcern themselves solely with
sugz,estive or incomplete data ."
At present in the Unite-EStates, this evidence is under
review b ;;r t wo 'r r ::upS, ti. e~Sur ;eorn ser.era l ' s r".C: vi a, . .r y Co ." - ; ''c? e on
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Smoking and Health and by a special committee of the American
Medical Association . It,wi11 be very surprising if their
conclusions differ substantially from those o .£ other groups cited .
It has been repeatedly stated tiiat some scientists discount
the cigarette smoke-lung cancer theory . This is true . But it should
be noted that many of those quoted in this regard are on record with
contrasting views . Scientists in this category include, among
others, Arkin, Berkson, Dean, Eastcott, Fisher, Hueper, Little,
Macdonald, Passey, Rigdon, and Rosenblatt .
Berkson is repeatedly quoted as one of the statisticians
disagreeing with the cigarette smoke-lung cancer data . However
Berkson's considered opinion is illustrated by his statement (13) :
" . . . . .the definitive important findingA these prospective
statistical studies is not that there is an association
between smoking and lung cancer, but that there is an
association between sir.oking and deaths from all causes
generally . . . . ."
The thesis that cigar6tte smoking was statistically associated
with a shortened life span was advanced almost a quarter of a
century ago (64) .
The statistical studies by Dean (28, 29) in South Africa
and Eastcott (31) in New Zealand cannot carry the weight ascribed
to them . Eastcott's study (31) did not compare immigrant and
nonimmigrant lung cancer victims with respect to their individual
smozing habits but with the yearly per capita consumpti n in
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New Zealand and the United Kingdom . Since the per capita
was greater in New Zealand than in the United Ifingdom and since
t:°:e number of i"1migrant lung c .: ;ncer victims ':la ;,
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::otin, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, TIRC,
~ recently commented (40) on the conclusions of the 195! U . S .
Study group on Smoking and Health :
"The statement . . . . . .to the effect that 'The sum
total of scientific evidence establishes beyond reasonable
doubt that cigarette smoke is a causal factor in the
rapidly increasing incidence of human epidermoid cancer
of the lung' tepresents a view wi ;h which we concur ."
Little, Scientific Director, TIRC, stated in 1947 (5j, cf .
55) :
"Although no definitive evidence exists concerning
the relation between the use of tobacco in the instance
of lung cancer, it would seem unwise to fill the lungs
repeatedly with the suspension of fine particles of
tobacco products of which smoke consists . It is difficult
to .see .how such particles can be prevented from becoming
lodged in the walls of the lungs, and when so located,
how they can avoid producing a certain amount of irritation .
One might also question the ultimate results of continued
inhalation of the type of atmosphere which characterizes
the lower levels of city streets . Experimental work
with animals involving these matters is still inconclusive,
but it seems probable that the lung as an organ is not
immune to the ef'Lect of chronic irritation and that it
will in this resnect resemble the other organs of the
body . Such being the case, wisdom in avoiding unnecessary
lung irritation seems to be establ'ished ."
and more recently (58) :
" . . . . .in the first place we don't criticize the statistical
findings . We believe that they were honestly obtained and
that they show, under the conditions that they were collected,
a strong correlation which is suspicious enough to make it
imperative that further research be carried on . . . . . . "Hueper, long a proponent of the lung cancer-air pollutant
proposition, noted (42) :
"A~, .definite amount of reservation is indicated in accepting
the claims advanced by some parties concerning the role of
cigarette sr.:olcin ; as a direct or indirect factor in the
caU :a tiCli Gf lun z cancer . :`Te 'i r•rt ;leiZsS the type° :$nd a ;-, lount
of evi3enee on ti :is mat cer on :^.and J ustifies the conciusi on
uaa t ci~arettF .-r ;.;ci:in~ ,, ha . ~ co ::tY`i au ted to or a s cr a v ate d the
a ctiCi :: of oL :~er
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of cigarette smoking, the studly . . . .of air pollutants would
be impaired and neglected . The available evidence raLher
definitely assigns to these factors an important ro ;e as
human respiratory carcinogens ."
And Passey (63), who does not believe that lung cancer results
from the action of carcinogens ; sai5 :
"I do not belittle the important part which smoking
plays [in lung cancer causation,] . My aim is to sug`est
its mode of action . In fact, I would say that- .-it is
dan ;erou s to smoke . "
Additio(Vl citations could be given but these few suffice
for now .
III . The Tobacco Industry's Contribution
To investigatre the cigarette smoke-health situation
The Tobacco Industry (except for ift Liggett and Myers Tobacco
Company) has given about five million dollars to TIRC since 1954
~~-- for research . According to Little,(54), its Scientific
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Director, the purpose of TIRC is
" . . . .to encourage and support qualified research
scientists in their efforts to learn more about these
complex problems [cancer and heart diseasz'' ."
Through December 1961, TIRC grantees publ ished 197 papers
(56,", 57) . Of these, 36 were concerned with the chemistry od
toooacco and its. smoke ; 47 with cancer research ; 13 with human
lung studies ; 78 with heart and circulation studies ; 4 with
gastrointestinal tract studies ; 5 with psycho-physiologiL\-cl
studies ; and 14 miscellaneous studies (lung cancer reviews,
tobacco-health textbook) .
I believe that much of this research, particularly that
on the chemical, biochemical, and biological study of tobac-co
~,nd its smok e could have and .:shoul . ' :zave ~-~e :r.
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, . : e : .`~ a e :.z .- c h d ..t~'~artalents of the tobacco co'a p aa_es* .
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" . . . .more about these complex problems . . ." (to quote Little (541))
as scientists not employed by abobacco-rnanufacturer .
Concerning qualification of research persons, it is interesting
to note the criticism of cigarette smoke inhalation studies (presumably those of Essenberg) by Little in 1957 (55) :
"These poor beasts are usually put in practically an
air tight container, and smoke is pumped in and pumped
in in such quantities that the white rats become yellow
or yellowish brown . . .
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and to relate this criticism to observations made (51) inAcigarette
smoke inhalation studies (50-52) conducted by a TIRC grantee :
"Depending on the time of exposure, the fur of the
exposed mice gradually changed from white to yellow
to darkish brown . . . ."
This smoke inhalation project was activated on September 1, 1957,
over a month after Littlefs criticism of such techniques .
If a coordinated chemical, biochemical, and biological research
program on the tobacco-health problem were undertaken by the members
of this Companyts Research Department, the findings made could not
have any more adverse effect on the Tobacco Industry in general or
on this Company in particular than those reported JW* (56,57) OW
OW by ~ TIRC grantees or associates, Kotin and Falk (parA,lysis
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of cilia with cigarette smoke and components),
Leuchtenberger (cellular changes produced in the lungs of mice
exposed to cigarette smoke), Bock, Moore, and Homburger (tumor
production with cigarette smoke), Kosak (isolation of carcinogenic
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the future for our Research Department personnel to have experience in studies involving test mammals, particularly if governmental restrictions are imposed because of conclusions reached
by the recently appointed Surgeon General's Advisory Committee
on Smoking and Health . One of the five observers at the first
meeting of this Committee was a Division Director of the Food
" ~ and Drug AdministrationAMembers of this Research Department
have studied in detail cigarette smoke composition (8, 9, 1$-24,
47-49, 68-77, 79-101, 114) . Some of the findings have been published (19, 22, 24, 74, $0, $2, $9A, 91, 94, 96, 9$, 100) . However, much data remain unpublished because they are concerned with
carcinogenic or cocarcinogeniccompounds (23, 47, 4$A, 6$-72, 75,
_ 76, 78, 84-86, $$-, 92, 101, 114.) or with patentable material
(83, 89) . This raises an interesting question about the former
compounds . If a tobacco company plead "Not guilty" or "Not proven"*
to the charge that cigarette smoke (or one of its constituents)
is an etiological factor in the causation of lung cancer or some
other disease, can the company justifiably assume the position
that publication of data pertaining to cigarette smoke composition
or physiological properties should be withheld beeause such data
might affect adversely the companyts economic status when the
company has already implied in its plea that no such etiologic
effect exists?
It is not my intent to suggest that this Company accept the
E .g ., Lartigue vs . Reynolds Tobacco Co . and Liggett and Myers
Tobacco Co ., Greene vs . American Tobacco Co ., and Pritchard
vs . Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co .
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cigarette cigarette smoke-health data at fAce value, but I do suggest that
this Company, through its Research Department, actively participate in'cigarette smoke-health studies . Other Companies (General
Motors Corporation (7), Imperial Tobacco Company (Great Britain)
(10-12)) have reported their findings on the air pollutionhealth problem and cigarette smoke-health problem, respectively,
without apparent loss of prestige (or income) .
IV . Recommendations
After consideration of the evidence available on the cigarette
smoke-health problem and the Company's obligation* to its customers,
stockholders, and employees, it is recommended that facilities,
animals, and personnel (where necessary) be acquired to study
biologically cigarette smoke, tobacco, tobacco .and additives .
This recommendation has been made kv*aw by Teague (111)
in 1953, by Rodgman in 1954 (66), in 1955 (67), in 1956 (68A),
in 1959 (72), and in 1962 by Nielson (62) and Rodgman (77) .
Data from such studies may be invaluable if governmental restrictions are imposed as a result of the conclusions of the Surgeon
Generalts Committee on Smoking and Health . It is, I believe, moEe
urgent than ever that we acquire dexterity in biological techniques .
* It is nterest ng to note remar s like y on t t eyt do
something about the liquor industry? After all, there are an
estimated four million Americans classified as alcoholics . Alcoholism •im not only is a health hazard to the drinker but also
causes untold anguish to his family ." or "What about the meatpacking industry and the supposed relationship of stturated animal fat to cholesterol-caused circu&atory disorders and heat.YC :
disease? After all, many more persons die of heart disease than
lung cancer ." These remarks may have some justification, but
~ attempts to minimixe our obligations by pointing an accusing
finger at others is no solution to the cigarette smoke-health
problemi
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~ active cigarette'smoke components, e .g ., polycyclic hydrocarbons,
phenols, be published . It is also recommended that analytical
procedures concerning such compQnents be published .~
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These recommendations are made because I believe they represent the best answer to the questions : What effect would immediate publication of these data have on this Company's economic
would be the
. status? What/effect on this Company of not publishing these
data now, but being required at some future date to disclose
such data, possibly in the unfavorable atmosphere of a lawsuit?
It is recommended that the Company'is supervisory personnel
be provided with reports like the Royal College of Physicianst
report Smoking and Health, the Annual Report of the Scientific
~, Director (TIRC), and other pertinent review articles just as
~ they were provided with Northrupts book Science Looks at Smoking,
the pamplets Tobacco and Health, and "favorable" articles such
as the one from Life entitled New Evidence That Cancer May Be
Infectious . In this way, the Companyts supervisory personnel
will be better informed about the cigarette smoke-health problem
than they would be if their main informat ion sources were the
daily newspaper, Readerts Digest, etc .
And finally, it is recommended that the Company's manage~
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RESEARCH C02-II ,
.
55 . Little, C . C ., Statement in "False and `,&sleading Advertising (Filter-Tip N
Cigarettes)"9 Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on ~
Government Qoeratiens, House of Representatives, 85th Congress, July 18-26 ~
(1957), 34-61 .
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. msEA:wa C0: t•f-TTTy, 9 ,_b~. F r'
Re,vorts
- The Teen-a
58 . Little, C . C ., Tn„terview, CBS~.
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..~ ae Smoker . Text of a televis ion
.
12,
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program, Columbia Broadcasting System, Sept
.10
59 . MeTlors, R . C ., Cellular Localization of Fluorescent Products Derived
from Cigarette Smoke : ._Studies_ in Ncnerimen aimals and in bi~n
~luorescence
~Scrosco
.~dP~ J.^PATIiOL ., -1957, 611 .
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60. Nlallors, ft . C ., M~,co~onic Localization of Tobacco Smoke Products ian
r~,~Tracts
of Animals E7cnosed to~ Ci .rette Smote . rR OC . AI4.
the 4.esniratow
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ASSOC . CAi•1CER ;fSARCH, 2_`U, 325 (1958) .
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61 . Muhlbock, 0 ., Carcinogene Werkina van Si arettenrook -ihiizen
. ?`MD.
TUDSCHR. GENEESK ., c)2, 22?-2278 (1955) .
62 . Nielson, E . D., A Pronosed Research Program of Biolo i~Testing . RDId,
19.66z,, No . 113 (NOV . 19 .
63 . Passey, R . D ., Some Problems of Lung,Canoer . LANCET, , 1,2 (i),, 10?-112 .
.yy.~F
M/Y
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64 . Pearl, R ., Tobacco
Smoke and Longevity . SCIr,'•JCE, 87, 216-217 (1938) .
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,
Smokina_Habits
Twins.
65 . R.saschou-2lielson, E ., .._,t
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... .__.. . DA:dISH rED . BULL . p _, 82---. .....,...,in
88 (1960) .
66 . Rodg*nan, A ., The Synthesis of Various Substituted Phenols for Use as
.
Flavorants in o cco o uc s . , , No . E .
67 . Rodgman, A ., The Fractionation of Ci. .~ret~te
Smoke
______r
._ .... and,~
_. . . ... Tars . RDId,
. "" __
=, No . 13 (AP .
68 . Rodgman, A . The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . I. The
lation and or dentificati~on o~f PolXc~clic Aromatic drocarbons in
""CANLEL Cia2rette Smoke Con nsate . ~RDR, ]„ .16b, No . 9 SEPP . 28) .
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68A . Rodgman, A ., The Pre ration of Some Phenolic Flavorants . RDR, 12~6,
No . 10 (OCT . 1 .
69 .
Rodgman, .A . ,
_s_iE_o_f__Cin__ette_ Smoke Condens-Q,te . II . The Pr_et r°9~m,gnt QfC4,'Z, L QPnd Tobacco . RDR, 195 6_ No . 12 (NOV . 1 . ~
70 . Rodgman) A ., The Ana;ysis_ of Ci,a,arette Smoke Condensate . III. Fluev
y
~
cured Tob,;cco .=D.
71 . Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Ci rette Smo e Condensate . IV . 3,4,g,9
Dibenzv ene in CAMEL Cigarette Smoke Condensate . RDR, ,_o .
OCT . 17 .
72 . B,od,,~n, A ., The Analysis of Ci,sratte &-aoke Ccndensete . VI . The
Influence of anl'c ve`n~
o`ib~ia cco and { %,-her F i~ c ~or s on the
. .•..u..
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73 . Ro%,grmn, A .,
aDa, 1 7 Q, No . 11 ( : I:lY 1~ ) .
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74 . Rodgman, A ., The Com osition of Ci arette Smoke . III. Ph adienes .
J. ORG . CHE:•i., 2,~1. , 191 -1924 (1959) .
75 . Rodgman, A ., The Analysis c .f Cigar.ette Smoke C-ndensate . X. The
Effect of PoxNous Paper and or Filter Tip IJaterials or Aluminized
Pauer anaior ~ .umina aaca.zive
t!te*
nolas
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etalst•ll1
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76 . Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . SIC . The
De,ter~,-n.~in,ation ,of Pol c.....clic
.,.... . Aromat
... . . c drocarbons
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JAN .
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H 1 ~: A ~ a
sittW96 on .o~~ C_i6~~ rett~' Smo e, Smo~cipg, ~pnd
H;~I, 2, ~1+To .
Rodgman, A ., The Smoking and Health Problem - A Critical and Ob ective
.Appr~ a~ i 1. RV1i, 1 , No . !
.
78 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Arialsis of CiAarette Smcke Condensate .
V . The Pol c olic H drocarbon Precursors in Tobacco . RDR, IM, No . 1
DEC .
.
79 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analsis of Ci arette Smoke Condensate .
VII . Solanesol and Solanes 1 Ace eta
. RDR, IM, o . 22 DECOMM~_
r.... .
80. Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., e mnosition of Ci r~ret~e Saoke
.......I.
~ u,.w..
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SolaneUl Acetate .
.t~e TOBACCO SCIFNCE, I, 86-88 (1959) .
81 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Anal sis of Ci rotte Smoke Ccndensate .
7~Iq :aUoZjL,a,rol . RDR, IM, No . 23 (SEPT . 29 .
82 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., ~,no t o Ci arette Smoke . IV.
Toco herol . TOBACCO SCIENCE, /~, 7-8 1960) .
83 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The A al sis of Ci arette .Smoke CondPnsate .
XIIIy Sclareolide from Turkish Tobacco Smoke . RDR, =0, No .8 (M 1 .
84 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L. C ., The :ln 1 si of Ci arette Smoke Condensate' .
i Aroiaatic H drocarbons . RDR, 19 , No . 20 AMY 2 .
85 . Rodgwn, A ., and Cook, L . C ., T'h_e_AnglYs.Ls ..°f Oi arette Smoke Condensate .
e ect of Alumi !S "no d Catal sts on Total c
H d ca bo s Total Solide and Nicotine . RDR, 10c60, No . 36 DEC . 2 .
86 . Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., Th~ysis of CiL7r, rstte S .7oke Condensate .
XVIII . Chloranil and 2r7-'s~initrofluorenone
a s Fi? torViip
.,_. _.
.. ~aditives .
RDB,, 1,~~0, ido . 3S7T~~C. 7) .
a7 .
R.odg.nan, A ., and Coo :c, L . C ., The
Anal sis >.
of Ci~arotto
CondQns .te .
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XX. 1,,~,tote on the Normal Long-caained F3riria_ry ~?cono•lsi~ .. :~n ddrendtua.to
.
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Rodg.nan, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Anal sis of Ci ar,?tte Smoke
Phenols ; RDR, 12.61, No . 10 (FEB . 23 .
89 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analvsis of Ci~,arette Smoke Condensate .
va
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T h obacco S~noke . RDR, ~, No . 42 (ATJG . 18) .
S9 .A. Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C .p The Com osition of Ci rette Smoke . X.
12ac-HydroL i ovl . Oxid e fr m Turkish Toba cco mo . TO ACCO
SCIENCE, 6, 123-124 (1962) .
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90 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C .•, The Anal sis of Ci rette Smoke Condens :ite .
p c ic Nitro en Com ounds n Tur ish obacco Smo
E
o . 14 JUI~ 21 .
91 .
Rodgman, A ., a nd Cook, L . C ., The Composition of Ci arette Smoke . ~ XI.
Heteroc clic Nitro en Comoounds in Turkish Tobacco Smoke . TOBdCCO
SCIENCE, §~, ~174-177 (1962) .
92 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The .An?l sis of Ci arette Smo e Condensate .
KXVII . Eu enol and Isoe enol . R, 1_962_, No . 15 ITNE 21 .
93 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., Bellin, S . A ., Mims, S . S ., and Young, G . W.,
The Anal sis of Ci aratte
Smoke
. .,, .. , ~Condensate
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. ., ..,.,,.
. .,..... ~., ,....The
,. Comnosition of an
Aliph~,#y~ o~st~~r k~a ction fr om Toba cco and Toba~+.
eco
Snoke
. RDR, 1961 , No . 15
.~. . ..~r.+ .( Mr1R . 27 .
94 .
Rodgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., Bellin, S . A ., Mims, S . S ., and Young, G . W ., The
Comnosition of Ci arstte Smoke . IX An A,linhatic Ester Fractio ,from
~
Tobacco and Tobacco oke . T0 CCO SCIENtCE;~"k, 4(1962)': -`r `
95 .
Rodgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Chappell, C . K ., The Analvsis f Ci~ratte
Smoke Condensate . XV . Compa•rison of Different ~`obacco Types . nR, 11,60,
Mo . 21 JUP1E 30 .
96 .
~ ition of Ci . ar
~ ett,e
Rodgroanp A ., Co .ok, L . C ., and Chappell, C . K ., The Comos
S~oXe.,,.,,,_VI_k n rison of Different Tobacco Types . TOBACCO C NCJ 0
1-5 (1961) .
97 .
Rodgtnan, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Latiner, P. H ., The Anai"rsis og Cigarette
Smoke Condensate . VIII . Solanes 1 Esters and Phytosteryl Esters . RDR,
98 .
Rodgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Latimer, P . H ., The C.:,.voosition of_Ci~~~retz9
. II
. Sola
.. ........_,.,~~_
. Smoke
..,,..~_
..., ..._:aqsXl ana ._Pnytostorll,Estors . TOBACCO SCI^?TC3, 1, 125-12C
99 .
Ana]~,y_sis of
Cigarette
Smoke
Rodgman , A . , Coo :, L . C ., and ?fi;.s, S . S ., The
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Condensate . :{II. Scualenes and Solanesenes . RDR, b0-, No .
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101 . Rodgman, A ., and t•1ims, S . S ., The Anal sis of Ci . arette Smolse Condensate .
XXIIIII ._Possi,ble__Precu_rsors in Tobacco of enols n o acco !ao e . -""
RDR in preparation .
W/VMdR'ILIAIYI~Y/.
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102 . Roe, F . J . C ., Salamin, 14 . H ., and Cohen, J., I om-?lete Carcino ens :in
Ci ga-r-e-tte Smoke Condensates Tumour Promotion a Fhenolic Fraction .3cIT.
J: CANC~ 33
.
103 . Royal College of Physficians, "Smoking and Health" . New York, N. Y ., Pitman
Publishing Corp ., 1.~,62 .
104 . Saboux, M. S ., Osman, L . M., Glem, J ., Fahy, T ., and ILamb, P ., C4c
of the Lungs .R vi~ew of J09ses,: DIS . CHEST, Al, 530~'j46 (1962) .
1% . Sanderud, K., Squamous ithelial Meta lasia in the Respirato.ry rTiact in
Ur,~nmj.e,~,. BRIT. J . C.ANCER, ~, 2
106 . Sanderud, K ., aamous NTetulasia of the Respiratory Tract Epithelium . An
Autons Stud~y of 21/~ Cases . . a oriT'o`To~iacco
'~moT cua "
on,and
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uamous bista le sia of the Re s irator Tra ct Foitheliu~~a.
An Autopsv Stud of 214 Cases . , . e a on o"'TTseas~"e:"°'~'~le PtT~L:
WS
OBIO
.,
108 . Shin,ikin, td. B ., Pulmonar T ors in Ex^oerimental Animals . ADiI. C :1CER
R='SE~IRCH, I, 223-26? (1955) .
109 . Spain, D . t•i., The Distinction Between Re eneration and Atyaical Alterations
. ip he Bronchia lMucosa . ANf. REV. TDffaC . , 7, 5''1- ?09 .
110 . Szolomajer, J ., Mor holo ic31 Chanaes in the Tracheobronchial :•iucosa of
Residents of Cincinnati and va.rons . n: CTO OF SCIMCE DISS ., V•dIMMSITY
OF CIi•TCIPIi'Te1T , , 04 pp .
111 . Teague, C . E ., Si :rv v of Cancer Research with Emphasis uaon Possible
Csrcino ens from Tobacco . SPECIAL REPORT, FEB . 2 .
112 . Tremer, H . 2•I., Falk, . H. L ., and Kotin, P ., Efc .Air Pollutants on Ciliated Mucus-secretin Enitheliu .*n. J. NATL . CA?TCER I'TST ., a, 9-9 : 1cn9 .
113 . Van Duuren, B . L ., 3ilbao, J . A ., and Joseph, C . A ., Tho Carcino enic
Nitro•en Heteroc clics in Ciaarette-Smoke Condensate . J. NbTL . CH~.
I
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114 . Walker, W. E ., Phosrimtric Deter.mination o R Polyn 1'egrA=oic
iivCrocarbons . MR, I``?bl, 's•to.~~(qj .t'? . 2'7).
of Bronchial Epitheliira
(A. POst- :iortel"Al Stud ) .
115 . '.leller, Z . W . , M°tanla sis
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:,:d. J . CLT.•' . PA!.? 2i, 7,~~=~l77.
116 .
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117 . Wynder, E . L ., Bross, I . J ., Cornfield, J ., and 0'Donnell, W . E ., ;!Ms
Cancer in Women : A Stud of Environr~ental Factors . 1dEW ENG .
255,, 1111-1121 1
.
118 . 4ionder, E . L ., Ferrari, E ., and Frrti, E ., Lung Cancer in Venice . AnEvidemiolo ical Stud . LIITCLT, 1961 (ii), 1347-13 9 .
.
119 . Wynder, E . L ., and Hoffmann,. .DStudies
with the Gaseous a nd Particul,,ite
Pha se of
Toba
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Smoke
.
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120 . Wynder, E . L ., and Lemon, F . R ., and Bross, I. J., Cancer~and Coronary
Arter Disea se 9monrz Seventh . L1a-v Adventistr .
121 . Yamagiwa, K ., and Ichikawa, K ., Uber die Kunstliche Erzeumng von
II .
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ll ~ ~ a„I/,fJY
,
' Author : Alan Rodgman
Division : Chemical Research
1 q6 3
RDM, 1962, No . V
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Notebook pages : none
Previous Reports :
RDI4, 1954) No.
RDM, 1955 , No .
RDK, 1956, No .
RDR, 1959, No .
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No . of pages :
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1
TIZ SMOKa1G A_IiEALTH_ PBOBLEM,-A
AND OBJECTIVE
.. CRITICAL
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The cigarette smoke-health problem is discussed, and it is related to
the potential involvement of the members of the Company's Research Department .
Special emphasis is placed on the lung cancer problem . Arguments by those
claiming cigarette smoke as a health hazard are prese~tedp as well as the
i
oounter-arguments of those not in accord with such views . The weight of the arguments
and counter-arguments is discus ed . An attempt has been made to present the
o
v
several recommendations
arguments objectively . the rguments,
are 4iade .
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This memorandum presents my position as briefly and as concisely as possible .
Id a companion memorandum with V& identical schematic organization, the same
thoughts are presented in more detail . If requested, a thorough, fully documented
exposition of the ideas will be prepared .
=fORANDUI~
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Alt0ough the major part of the sales of this Company consists of cigarettes, N
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Company,
therafore,
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what the Company As se,i}V se113" is arette smoke
should be posfty concerned with the physiological ppperties and composition of N
cigarette smoke . The benefits antbio* from such '.cr.owledg3 are obvious, particularly
if it anticipates possible future governmental regulation . During16 past two decades,
cipgarette smoke has been it :1e target of a host of studies relating it to ill nealth
i I
and particularly to lung cancer . The majority of these studies incriminate cigarette
smoke from a health viewpoint .
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_I. The Evidence - Pro and Con
The cigarette smoke-lung cancer problem has been investigated
epidemiologically, pathologically, biologically, and chemically .
Each discipline has yielded pertinent information .
L- NP1d44o1oZiaa1 Rata_ •
~ The results of 34 different statistical studies show that cigarette
smoking increases the risk of developIng lung cancer . Mbny authorities
,;; :_believe the relationship to be one of cause-and-effect,
Contradictory data have been provided by limited statistical studies
which suggest that cigarette smoking is linked to a constitutional factor .
The results of these studies can, however, account for only a small
fraction of the difference in lung cancer incidence observed between
smokers and nonsmokers .
The statistical data from the smoking-health studies are almost
universally accepted . After more than ten years, criticisms of the studies
have been reduced to the dictum A st~at~istioal sjW,y ctannol „nrove a c~gsQ ;
and-ef o,C rel,ationsl•Ip~b_2tXeen two factors .
k. _Patho_lggi_cLl. Dg,tL
qIt has been observed that cigarette smokers' lungs show profound cellular
changes which are proportional to cigarette consumption, that fluorescent
const3ituents of cigarette smoke are absorbed into respiratory tract cells
(although fluorescence dnd . :cercinogenicity are not synonymous), that cigarette
smoke and some of its constituents cause ciliary paralysis, and that
cigarette smoke collects in the lungs at cilia-free areas and at areas
with paralyzed cilia .
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Contradictory evidence indicates that the above-described cellular
changes can be caused by respiratory diseases and other illnesses, that
these changes occur to a degree in infants, in nonsmokers, in the windpipes
of smokers (although cancer of the windpipe is rare), and in residents of
areas of extreme air pollution, and that ciliary paral,ysis can be caused by
air po].hutants like industrial and automobile exhaust gases . Also it is
not known whether such changed cells ever become cancerous .
These findings may be summarized as follows : Si1ce cellular changes in
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Cigarette smoke condensate is carcinogenic to mouse skin . Mch is made of
the fact that the dosage level used exceeds that of the human exposure . Other
investigators, using nominal dsage levels, did not obtain positive results .
Some interpret this as an indication that cigarette smoke is not carcinogenic .
It should be noted, however, that many attempts were made to induce cancer i~z
animals with .coal tar prior to the first success with unrealistic dosages .
Inhalation studies with cigarette smoke have yielded an increased incidence
of adenomas in adenoma-susceptible mouse strains . No hAman-type carcinomas have
been produced although the previously mentioned cellular changes and bronchitic
conditions have .
These findings are interproted by sone as an indication that cigarette
smoke is not carcinogenic to human lung tissue . Two facts offset such thinking . Ln
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resistant to the #nduction of carcinoma of the lung and whose usual lung
cancer is the adenoma . Secondly, the ratio, lung cancer deathsstotal cigarette
smokers in the United Statds, is approximately 1 :1700, hence an inhalation
experiment would require about 1700 mice for the production of one lung caroinoma,
assuming the response of mousd and human lung tissue was the same . The biological
dindings are often dismissed with the statements Dfice are not men and bfoM
4413,1g,,no hji.man lung tisr,sue.
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Cigarette smoke contains at least 17 compounds carcinogenic to mouse skin .
Cigarette smoke also contains promoting (or cocaroinogenic) agents . These findings,
at first impugned, are now accepted but dismissed as unimpoe3tant because none of
the compounds has been shown iZ X&M to be carcinogenic or cocaroinogenio to
human lung tissue . It is unlikely that such experiments will ever be carried out .
e_ . Thg XvIdgnge to_ D_ate_
Obviously, the amount of evidenoe accumulated to indict cigarette smoke as
a health hazard is overwhelming . The evidence challenging this indictment is scant .
Attempts to shift the blame to Ither faotors, e .g., air pollutants, necessitates
acceptance of data similar to those denied in the cigarette smoke case .
IIt Igtgruret_ ;Ltjqpy of the Evidence
After reviewing this evidenoe, goversmental health agencies and medical Ln
societies throug9 world have concluded that a cause-and-effect relationship G
e.-dsts between cigarette smoke and lung cancer . It is predicted that the recently m
J
appointed Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smokinp and Health will reach the "'
same conclusion.
It has been repeatedly stated that some scientists discount the cigarette smokelung cancer theory . This is true . But it should be noted that many of those quoted in
this regard are on record with contra\ np views, e .g ., Berkson,the statistician, has sqc
stated " . . .t:Ze definitive important finding of th3se statistical studies is not that
tiier3 is an a3sociation between smo :cing and lua?, cancer, but that there is an
association between amoking and deaths from all causes generally . . . . .", and Kotin, '
member of the Scientific Advisory Board, TIRC, stated "The statemeiti . . .to the effect
that 'The sum total of scientific evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that
cigarette smoke is a causal factor in the rapid]y increasing incidence of human
epidermoid cancer of the lung' represents a view with which we concur .~
M. The T_, b,g,_aaco Indus_t_,ry, !s Cont ibu ion
To investigate the tobacco smoke-health situation the Tobacco Industry has given
about five million dollars to TIftC since 1954 for research . According to Little, its
Scientific Director ., the puppose of TIRC is " . . .to encourage and support qualified
research scientists in their efforts to learn more about these complex problems ~Cancer
and heart disease
.'' Through December 1961, TIRC grantees published 197 papers ; 36
on the chemistry of tobacco an~tLts smoke, 47 on cancer research, 13 on human lung
studies, 78 on heart and circulation studies, 4 on gastrointestinal tra ct studies,
5 on psycho-physiolo4ol studies, and 14 miscella neous studies (lung cancer reviews,
tobacco-health textbook) .
I believe that much ofi^this research, particularly that on the chemical, biochemica]
and biological study of tobacco and its smoke, could have and should have been carried
out in the research departments of the tobacco companies . The members of this Company's
Research Department are as qualified, as ob3ective, and g,s_ Inter~ _e tqd in learning " . .~
more about these complex problems . . . . .'as scientists not employed by a tobacco manufacno
turer . Any findings made byt us could'iave any more adverse effect on the Tobacco Industry~
than those reported by TIRC grantees~~
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This Company is studying in detail the composition of cigarette smoke, but much
data remain unptblished because they are concerned with carcinogenic or cocarcinogenic
compounds or with patentable material . This raises an
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plead "Not guilty" or Not proven" to the charge that dig,•rette smoke (or one of
its constituents) is a~~ factor in the causation of lung cancer or
some other disease, can the company justifiably take the position that publication
of data pertaining to cigar.ette smoke composition or properties should be
withheld because such data might affect adversely the company's economic status
when the company has already implW in its plea that no such etiologic effect
extsts?
It ls not my intent to suggest that this Company accept the cigarette smokeKV--.
health data at face value, but I do auggest that active participate
in cigarette smoke-health studies .
B . RECOP MNIDAT IONS
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After consideration of the evidence available on the cigarette smoke health
problem and the Company's obligotion to its customers, stockholders, and •employees,
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1. Facilities, animals, and personnel (where necessary) be a•cquired *s soon as
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possible to study biologically cigarette smoke, tobacco, and tobacco additives .
Data from such stddies ma y be invaluable if gover an ~ 1 restrictions are
imposed as a result of the conclusions of the Surgeon 14eneral's Advisory
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2 . W14- ~ata ahm..ig available 6n cigarette smoke constituents with adverse
physiological effects be published .
3 . Data on analyt.ical pnocedues concerning such constituents be published .
4 . The Compan7's supervisory personnel be provided with reports like the
Royal College of Physicians' 4_mwoft Smoking and He9lth and the AnauAl Renort
of the Scientific Director (TIs1C) just as they were provided with Science
Looi:s at -mokina 0?orthruv),
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Department are intensely concerned about the cigarette smoke-health problem and eager to rarticipate in h4m study and solution
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Mr. Kenneth H . Hoover
Re: RDM, 1963, No . 1 and RDM, 1963, No . 4
It is my understanding that if I sign and
approve these reports I am subscribing to gl] of the
opinions, conclusions, recommendations, and the like contained
therein . I believe that these reports are factually
correct, and I agree, in general, with the interpretations and
conclusions presented . I-further believe that these_
reports are useful and timely, and should be allowed
to see the light of day . I do not, however, agree
fully with all of the statements, particularly certain
of the recommendations, made therein, and on this basis
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probably should not "approve" these reports under the
existing definition of "approval ."
The health question has no easy answer and
generates many points of view . It would be remarkable
indeed, if my views on this complex and controversial
question coincided exactly with those of Dr . Rodgman.
I believe he has a right to be heard despite my
honest disagreement with him on certain minor points .
Accordingly, I recommend that the reports be accepted
and distributed . I might also suggest that copies
be made available to members of our Legal Department .
C.E. Teague, Jr.
L : :o_ : r.lan Rodg:::an February 12, 196 4
Divisio :.: Chemical Research
Aotebool: pages :
See Appendix I
RDR, 1964, No . 1 0
Previous reports :
See Appendix I I
No . of Pages : 70
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDE' XSATE . MV .
A SUMMARY OF AN EIGHT-YEAR STUDY
OBJECT :
To summarize without experiment detail the results of a study of cigarette smoke conducted in this laboratory from August 1955 to date .
SUMMARY :
During the past .eight years an intensive investigation in our laboratory
on the composition of cigarette smoke from various tobacco types and blends
has permitted identification of many compounds and classes of compounds .
These include the following :
1 . Saturated hydrocarbon fraction
Very little work was done on this fraction in our study since this
material had been investigated extensively by others . This fraction
was isolated from thecigarette smoke of a11•types and blends of
tobacco studied .
2 . Phytadienes and neophytadien e
Neophytadiene was identified unequivocally as the majc .:- phytadiene
in the cigarette smoke :--om WINSTON blend, CAMEL bler._, Turkish
blend, flue-cured and i. .•.ley tobacc
. The remainder of the
phytadiene fraction, also present i . =he smoke from these tobacco
types and blends, consisted of at least three and possibly a s
many as 12 phytadienes .
3 . Squalene and isosqualenes
The squalene-isosqualene fraction isolated from WINSTON blend
tobacco smoke consisted of at least two, and possibly three isomeric
hydrocarbons .
4 . Solanesene t
The exper : .:ental data indicated the presence of'at least two
solanesenes . These were present in th . smoke from WINSTON blend,
Turkish blend, flue-cured and burley zobaccos .
:. . Polycyclic arosatic hydrocarbons
To date, 43 polycyclic hydrocarbons have been identified in kI.;STON
cigarette smoke . 0! these, 14 iaere '__~antified unequivocally . Those
were as follows : naphthalene, 1-methylnaphthalene, 2-mcthylnaphthele .^.e,
acenaphthene, acenaphthylene, fluorene, pizenanthrene, anthracena,
pyrene, fluoranthene, benz[a)anthracene (1,2-benzanthracene),
benzo[a)py~ene (3,4-benzpyrene), and dibenz[a,h)anthracene (1,2,5,6dibenzanthracene) . The remaining 29 hydrocarbons were identified
solely on the basis of ultraviolet absorption data . Included were
the following : 1-methyl-3,4-dihydronaphthalene, 2-phenylnaphthalene,
9-methylanthracene, 9-methylphenanthrene, 1-methylpyTMene (3-methylpyrene), 2-methylpyrene (4-methylpyrene), 4-methylpyrene (1-methylpyrene), 3-methylbenz[a]anthracene (3-methyl-l,2-benzanthracene),
benzo[ghiJfluoranthene, benzo[j]fluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene,
benzo[c]phenanthrene (3,4-benzphenanthrene), perylene, benzo[e]pyrene
(1,2-ben .-yrene), benzo[jh_i]perylene (1,12-benzperylene), cholanthrene,
naphtho[2,3-e)pyrene (2!,3'-naphtho-l,2-pyrene), naphtho[2,3-a]pyrene
(2',3'-napht,ho-3,4-pyrene), dibenzo[a,l)pyrene (1,2,3,4-dibenzpyrene),
dibenzo[a,h]pyrene (3,4,8,9-dibenzpyrene), dibenzo[a,i]pyrene (3,4,9,10dibenzpyrene), dibenzo[df, mno]chrysene (anthanthrene), coronene,
2,3-dihydro-1_A-benzoja)pent[h]anthracene (5,6-cyclopenteno-l,2benzanthracene), 10,11-dihydro-9_H-benzo[a]cyclopent[i)anthracene
(6,7-cyclopenteno-l,2-benzanthracene), dimethylphenanthrenes, methylfluoranthene, methylchrysene, and a methylbenzo[a]pyrene (methyl-3,4benzpyrene) .
In a limited study of CAMEL cigarette smoke, the following 12 polycyclic
hydrocarbons were identified : naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene, pyrene,
1-methylpyrene (3-methylpyrene), fluoranthene, acenaphthylene, benzo[a)pyrene
(3,4-benzpyrene), benz[a]anthracene (1,2-benzanthracene), benzo[~lperylene
(1,12-benzperylene), anthanthrene, and dibenzo[a,h]pyrene (3,4,8,9-dibenzpyrene) .
Of these 12, five were identified unequivocally - naphthalene, anthracene,
pyrene, fluoranthene, and benzo[a]pyrene (3,4-benzpyrene) .
It has also been demonstrated that the cigarette smoke from Turkish blend,
WINSTON- and CAMEL-type flue-cured, WINSTON-type . . .ri2v, SALEM blend, Kent
blend, Parliament blend, Lark blend, and G-7X tobaccos contain the following
five polycyclic hydrocarbons : anthraeene, pyrene, fluoranthene, chrysene,
and benzo[,g]pyrene (3,4-benzpyrene) . It is highly probable that all of the
polycyclic hydrocarbons isolated from WINTSTON cigarette smoke could be found
in the smoke from any tobacco type or blend.
The effect of various factors on the polycyclic hydrocarbon content of
tobacco smoke was studied . Such factors as (a) the use of additives on the
tobacco, the`eigarette paper or the filter tip material, (b) more efficient
filter tip materials, (c) the use of porous cigarette papers, (d) the use of
tobacco ieaf selected from specific areas of the plar.i ., and (e) solvent
extraction of the tobacco prior to smoking produced a reduction in the `n
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At least three of the precursors in tobacco of the polycyclic hydrocarbons in the smoke,have been defined . These were as follows : the
phytosterols, e .g ., 15-sitosterol ; :the terpenes, e .g ., solanesol ; and the
saturated hydrocarbon fraction .
6 . Aliphatic ester fraction
Degradation of an aliphatic ester fraction isolated from the
smoke of WINSTON blend and Turkish blend tobaccos yielded 16
normal long-chained primary alcohols ranging from dodecyl
alcohol to 1-heptacosanol, inclusive, and 17 known acids
ranging from myristic to octacosanoic acid, inclusive, plus
oleic and linolenic acid . Thus, the ester fraction could conceivably consist of a total of 272 different esters . This ester
fraction was similar to that isolated from extracts of .flue-cured,
burley, and Turkish blend tobaccos .
7 . Solanesyl esters
Degradation of a solanesyl ester fraction yielded solanesol and
five known long-chained aliphatic acids indicating that the
solanesyl ester fraction consisted of at least five different
solanesyl esters . This fraction was present in WINSTON blend,
Turkish blend, flue-cured, and burley tobacco smoke . Solanesyl
acetate has been identified in the smoke of WINSTON blend, Turkish,
f lue-cured, and burley tobaccos .
6 . Phytosteryl ester fraction
Degradation of a phytosteryl ester fraction yielded stigmasterol
and 13-sitosterol plus six known long-chained aliphatic acids .
Thus, the phytosteryl ester fraction could consist of as many as
12 different phytosteryl esters or as few as six . This fraction
was .present in WINSTON blend, Turkish blend, flue-cured, and
burley tobacco smoke .
9 . Lactones
Turkish tobacco smoke has yielded the lactones sclareolide,
cx- and p-levantenolide . ;
10 . Alcohols and Hydroxyethers
The following alcohols from the tobacco smokes indicated have been
identified unequivocally ; solanesol (WINS=Z blend, CAMEL blend,
Turkish, f lue-cured, burley) ; stigmasterol .:nd A-sitosterol
(WINSTON blend, CAMEL blend, Turkish, flue-cured, burley) ;
12cX-hydroxy-13-epimanoyl oxide (Turkish) ; and phytol (Turkish) .
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WINSTON blend tobacco smoke has also yielded a normal, longchained, primary alcohol fraction containing eight alcohols,
1-heptadecanol to 1-tetracosanol, ir.clusive .
Turkish tobacco smoke has yielded an isoprenoid alcohol fraction
containing phytol and other acyclic unsaturated isoprenoid
alcohols in the C15, CIO, C25 and C30 series . Also isolated were
the macrocyclic hydroxyethers, cx-5,8-oxido-3,9(17),13-duvatrien-l-ol
and Cx-5,8-oxido-3,9,13-duvatrien-l-ol .
11 . Phenols
The follow~ng phenols from tobacco smoke have been characterized :
CX-tocopherctl (WINSTON blend, Turkish, flue-cured, burley) ; phenol,
o- and p-ckesol (WINSTON blend, CAMEL b lend, SALEM blend, Turkish,
flue-cured ; burley, G-7X) ; hydroquinone, 1-naphthol, eugenol, and
isoeugenol (Turkish) .
It was also shown that the amount of phenols in tobacco smoke
exceeded that in the tobacco smoked . An attempt to define the
precursors in tobacco of the simple phenols in tobacco smoke,
e .g ., phenol, o-, m-, and g-cresol, indicated that these precursors are not extractable from tobacco by the most efficient
tobacco extractant, methanol . Pyrolysis studies indicated that
the known major tobacco constituents, cellulose, pectin, lignin,
and glucose plus fructose (as invert sugar),*yield phenol and
p-cresol on pyrolysis . Similar studies indicated that various
tobacco types, under controlled pyrolytic conditions, also yield
phenol and P-cresol .
12 . Aldehydes and Ketones
CAMEL cigarette smoke has yielded the following aldehydes and
ketones : acetaldehyde, acetone, propionaldehyde, 2-furaldehyde,
glyoxal, pyruvaldehyde, 2,3-butanedione, 3-heptanone, and 2,3pentanedione .
13 . Heterocyclic Nitrogen Compounds
Turkish tobacco smoke has yielded the following heterocyclic
nitrogen compounds : pyrocoll, indole, 3-methylindole (skatole),
dimethylindoles, trimethylindoles, carbazole, and methylcarbazoles .
14 . Miscellaneous compounds
The following miscellaneous compounds from tobacco smoke have been
characterized : 6-acetyl-2,3,4-tris-d-p-methylvaleryl-S-D-glucopyranoside (Turkish) ; furan (CAMEL blend) ; benzene (CAMEL blend) ;
and the 4-(2-butenylidene)-isophorones (Turkish) .
II Filter Tip Materials : Effect or. Nicotine,
Total Solids, Tota~ Polycyclic Hydrocarbons
and Benzo[a]pyrene in WINSTON Blend
Tobacco2 Smoke (15)
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III Effect of Porous or Aluminized Paper on
Nicotine, Total Solids, and Total Polycyclic
Hydrocarbons in WINSTON Blend Tobacc lo
Smoke (18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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IV Effect of Additives to the Tobacco, to the
Paper, and to the Filter Tip Materials on
Nicotine, Total Solids, Total Polycyclic
Hydrocarbons, and Benzo(a]pyrenel in
Cigarette Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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V Position of Leaf on Stalk : Effect on Fats
and Waxes, Flavorants, and Nicotine in
Tobacco and on Nicotine, Total Solids,
Total Polycyclfc Hydrocarbons, and2
Benzo[a]pyrene in Cigarette Smoke (15) . .
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VI Solvent Pretreatment of Individual Tobacco
Types and Tobacco Blends : Effect on Total
Polycyclic Hydrocarbons and Benzo(a]pyrenel
in Cigarette Smoke (12, 13, 15) . . . . . .
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VII Effect of Tobacco Constituents and Other
Orgsr.ic Compounds on the Total Polycyclic
Hydrocarbons and Benzo[a]pyrenel in
Cigarette Smoke (22) . . . . . . . . . . . .
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VIII Known Constituents Obtained by Degradation
of Aliphatic Ester Fraction (LXVIII) from
Tobacco Smoke (45-47)
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IX Known Constituents Obtained by Degradation
of Solanesyl Ester Fraction (LXXTC) from
Tobacco Smoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Known Constituents Obtained by Degradation
of Phytosteryl Ester Fraction from Tobacco
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:~ . T' ;i:07L'C^IOiy
At present, the R . J . Reynolds Tobacco Cr. . .pany is recognized as the
ioading company in the Tobacco Industry of the United States . The Company's
s ::olcin ; products constitute over one-third of those sold througnout this
country . Since the major part of the domestic sales of this Company consists
o .: smoking products, e .g ., cigarettes and pipe tobacco, it should be reme :r.bered
that the customer's main interest is not in the cigarettes and/or pipe tobacco
Der se but in the smoke derived therefrom . For this reason alone, the recogr.ized sales'leader of the Tobacco Industry should also be the recognized
leader of the Tobacco Industry in its contribution to scientific knowledge
concerning the composition of tobacco smoke .
Tobacco smoke is a mixture whose precise composition has never been
defined . During the past eight years, we have conducted an intensive investigation of the composition of tobacco smoke - particularly cigarette smoke .
The results of this study of cigarette smoke together with the pertinent
experimental data have appeared in a series of Research Department reports
and memoranda dating from 1955 to the present . In addition, selected portions
of these results have been published from this Research Department . The present
report will summarize for ready reference, omitting the experimental detail,
the results presented in the various publications, reports and memoranda .
References pertinent to each topic will be found in the original reports,
publications, and memoranda .
The following sections describe briefly the various compounds or series
of compounds isolated and/or identified in our study of cigarette smoke :
I . Hydrocarbons
a._ Al.jphatic Hydrocarbons
1 . SATURATED HYDROCARBON FRACTION
A saturated hydrocarbon fraction, m .p . 62 .5-64 .5°, was isolated
from the smoke of cigarettes fabricated from flue-cured, Turkish,
burley or blended tobaccos (16, 17, 48-50) . Presumably, this
fraction was similar to that represented by I (n L 20 to 34) and
II (n - 17 to 30) .
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A series of phytadienes consisting of hydrocarbons with molecular
formula C20H38 and whose structures may be represented by III, IV, V,
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the most polar phytadiene, could be isolated in pure form from
this series . Neophytadiene was the major component of the phytadiene fraction . The presence in cigarette smoke of at least one
representative of each of the structures III, IV, V, and VI was
demonstrated by the reaction sequence shown below . This involved
the Diels-Alder reaction of the phytadiene fraction :or subfraction
with 1,4-naphthoquinone (VII), air oxidation of the adducts (VIII,
IX, X, XI), followed by oxidation of the resulting mono- (XII),
di- (XIII, XIV), or trialkyl substituted anthraquinone (XV) to
the correspondingly substituted anthraquinone mono- (XVI), di(XVII, XVIII), or tricarboxylic acid (XIX) . Anthraquinone-2carboxylic (XVI), 1,2-dicarboxylic (XVII),
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obtained .
No evidence was obtained for the phytadienes XX (m = 0,1,2)
and XXI (m @ 0,1,2) since these will not yield anthraquinonecarboxylic acids in the reaction sequence shown .
Discounting the optical isomers and the ais, trans, cis-cis,
.trans-trans, cis-trans, and trans-cis isomers, nineteen phytadienes
are possible . It should be noted that III (n - 0) and IV (n s 0)
are identical .
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The evidence indicated that at least four of the isomeric
phytadienes were present in cigarette smoke . These were as
follows : neophytadiene (III, n- 3) ; 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-1,3hexadecadiene (IV, n - 3) ; 2,6,10,14-tetramethyl-1,3-hexadecadiene
(III, n - 0 or IV, n - 0) ; and a 1,2,4-trialkyl-l,3-butadiene . As
many as thirteen of the nineteen isomers may be present ; namely,
III (n - 0,1,2,3), IV (n - 1,2,3), V (m - 0,1,2) and VI (m - 0,1,2) .
The phytadienes, other than neophytadiene (III, n - 3), are present
in the smoke condensate in relatively small quantities compared to
the amount of neophytadiene .
The phytadiene series was obtained from the cigarette smoke
condensate from Turkish, flue-cured, and burley tobaccos and from
several different commercial blends of tobacco (WINSTON, CAMEL,
SALEM, Kent, Parliament) (16, 17, 48-50) .
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(XXII) and isosqualenes, presumably XXIII and XXIV, was isolated
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in the smoke was 2 .4 mg . per 1000 cigarettes .
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Treatment of this fraction with hydrogen chloride yielded a sample
of squalene hexahydrochloride which was identical with an authentic
sample prepared from squalene .
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A series of solanesenes, C45H72, the major portion of which
appeared to consist of XXV and XVI, was isolated from WINSTON
cigarette smoke (53-55) . .
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Similar series of hydrocarbons were obtained by the dehydration of solanesol (XXVII) at 70° using potassium hydrogen
sulfate and by the pyrolysis of solanesyl acetate (XXVIII) at
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Ozonization of the solanesenes obtained either from ci ;a:ette smoke or by dehydration of solanesol, followed by reductive
cleavage of the ozonide, yielded formaldehyde,-acetone, levulinaldehyde, and methylglyoxal . These cleavage products were identified as their 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones .
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1 . ISOLATION OF POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS FROM
CIGARETTE SMOKE
Fractionation of the smoke condensate from 20,000 WINSTON
blend cigarettes permitted the identification of 43 polycyclic
hydrocarbons (28) . Of these, 14 were characterized by chemical
and physical properties in addition to ultraviolet absorption
spectra . These 14 .included the following : naphthalene (XX]X),
1-methylnaphthalene (XXX), 2-methylnaphthalene (XXXI),
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and dibenz(a,h)anthracene (1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene) (XLII) . The
remaining 29 polycyclic hydrocarbons were identified solely on
the basis of ultraviolet absorption . These 29 included 1-methyl3,4-dihydronaphthalene (XLIII), 2-phenylnaphthalene (XLIV),
coroner.c : =~:V), 2,3-diZydro-'_;i-banzo[_ ;cyclope .,t[h]Enthracene (5,6cycloper. :.a :io-1,2-benzanthraczne) (iXVI), and 10,11-dihydro-9Hbenzo[ a]cyclopent[ ijar. ;.hracene (6,7-c .•clopenteno-l,2-benzanthra- ,
cene) (LXVII) . In addition, ultraviolet spectral evidence was
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obtained for dimethylphenanthrenes, a methylfluoranthene, methylchrysene(s), and a methylbenzo[a]pyrene (methyl-3,4-benzpyrene) .
The polycyclic hydrocarbons found in our study, but not
reported elsewhere, include 1-methyl-3,4-dihydronaphthalene (XLIII),
2-phenylnaphthalene (XLIAV), cholanthrene (LVIII), and naphtho[2,3-e]pyrene (2',3'-naphtho-l,2-pyrene) (LIX) . Of these, cholanthrene
(LVIII) is known to be carcinogenic to mouse epidermis .
Fractionation of the smoke condensate from 10,500 CAMEL blend .
cigarettes permitted the identification of 12 polycyclic hydrocarbons
(11) . Of these, five were characterized by chemical and physical
properties in addition to ultraviolet absorption spectra . These
five were naphthalene (lQCIX), anthracene ()3 :XVI), pyrene (XXXVII),
fluoranthene (XXXVIII), and benzo(a]pyrene (3,4-benzpyrene) (XLI) .
The remaining seven hydrocarbons, identified solely on the basis
of ultraviolet absorption spectra included acenaphthylene (XXXIII),
phenanthrene (XXXV), 1-methylpyrene (3-methylpyrene) (XLVII),
benz[a]anthracene (1,2-benzanthracene) (XXXIX), benzo[phi]perylene
(1,12-benzperylene) (LVII), dibenzo[ def,mno] chrysene (anthanthrene)
(LXIV), and dibenzo[ a,h]pyrene (3,4,8,9-dibenzpyrene) (LXII) .
Table I lists the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons identified
in cigarette smoke to date in this laboratory and the approximate
amounts of these compounds found in the cigarette smoke from
various tobacco ble,nds and tobacco types .
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POLYCYCLIC AYUROCARL'ONS IN CIGAIti';.rJ'B SMOKE
Polycyclic ilydrocarbon
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257
212
269
299
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152
190
247
205
266
330
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205
208
Benzo(a]pyrene (XLI)
64
84
65
67
63
77
119
33
60
82
5.
Chrysene (XL)
44
+
10
31
23
19
18
6
30
•t•
6.
Benzja]anthracene (XXXIX)
17
7.
Benzoj hi]perylene (LVII)
17
8.
Dibenzoja,h]pyrene (LXII)
trace
0 .9
9.
1-Methylpyrene (XLVII)
3
trace
10 .
Dibenzojdef,mno]chrysene (IXIV)
7
trace
11 .
Acenapht-hylene (XXXIII)
500
+
12 .
Pltenanthrene (XXXV)
140
+
13 .
Naphthalene (XXIX)
2280
+
14 .
1-i`ic thy 1naph tha lcne (XXX)
15 .
2-i•icthylnahiithalene (XXXI)
1.
Anthracene (XXXVI)
2.
Pyrene (XXXVII)
3.
FluoranL•hene (XXXVIII)
4.
,. .
.c,
2 .5
+
360
1000
00TS OTLZS
TABLE I (Cont'd)
Quantity, Micrograms per Kilogram of Tobacco Smoked, in the Cx_f;arrt:er Smolsr Frol :1
CAMEL- WINSTONType Type WINSTONWINSTON CAMEL SALMi F lue- F lue- Type Turkish
2 . REDUCTION OF TFI r*!XNT OF POLYCYCLIC Hl'OROCai.EONS
IN CIGARETTE S"'•OI:E
It has been demonstrated in this laboratory that the amount
of the total polycyclic hydrocarbons in cigarette smoke can be
reduced by the following methods :
(a) by use of r.:ore effective filtering agents
(b) by use of porous or s .iuminized paper`
(c) by addition of certain compounds to the tobacco, to the
filter tip material, or to the cigarette paper
(d) by choice of tobacco leaves
(e) by solvent extraction of tobacco
i . By Use of Ilore Effective Filtering Agents (15)
Table II illustrates the results obtained in studies to
determine the effect of various filter tip mate=iels on the
amounts of nicotine, total solids, total polycyclic hydrocarbons, and benzo[a]pyrene (3,4-benzpyrene) in WINSTON blend
tobacco smoke .
ii . By Use of Porous or Aluminized Paper (15, 18)
Tab le III illustrates the results obtained in studies to
determine the effect of porous or aluminized paper on the
nicotine, total solids, and total polycyclic hydrocarbons in
WINSTON blend tobacco smoke . The aluminized paper had very
little effect on the quantities of these in the cigarette
smoke .
iii . By Addition of Certain Compounds to the Tobacco,
to the Filter Tip Material, or to the Cigarette
Paper (15, 18, 19, 22, 29, 30)
Table IV shows the results obtained in studies designed
to find suitable additives (usually inorganic compounds) which
could be placed on the tobacco to reduce the amount of the
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly benzo[alpyrene
(3,4-benzpyrene), in cigarette smoke . It should be noted that
alumina (29), hydrated alumina (18, 22), catalytic rhodium,
palladium, and platinum supported on alumina (29), magnesium
nitrate hexahydrate (22) and aluminum nitrate nonahydrate (22)
were quite efficient . Hydrogen peroxide (22), am .~nonium
2 ) , C` . _ .:i: ( 22 ) ~ m et :1J^. i ^i: t= 2), , . . ~ .. :: i :1L•~:: ;)Cr~7 ~•
chio_,. ;: e ^.or.ahydr_t„ ~--i
, and a :.ur., :nu ... a c ;;tcta tet :ahycrate
'22 )
ve i . --C-~e c :.a::ft: .
:Cle ''••4 ..• 4- 10'
n o~ sL'1~L• r
n
r
in total p
ly r J ca r ./ o ^s and
c.c^.cc'_ ;pyrene (3,'+-bencpyreze) in the smoke (22) .
O:• :EL'a . ..
Ll:v4-r~•
.•6•- .•
G':.
.i .
r . . ..
.•. .iJe
olyYyc
rc
i{
.-
The use a s filter t :.p additives of agents such as chlor a r.il
2 ,=:, 7 -t r i ::it :c t 1L'o :e :.one (1 10 , 30) which are known to co mp leX
with the polycycac : ydrocarbo :a ciC not result in any marked
decrease in the total polycyclic aydrocarbons at nominal levels
of the comple: : :.: g agent (0 .6 or 0 .> .:.o . per filter tip in the
case of the tr :n_ :_ofiuorenone) . At a high level, chloranil
(6 .0 mg . per filter tip) produced a 23 percent reduction in
total polycyclic hydrocarbons . However, chloranil is a mucous
membrane irritant in the human .
Mixtures of sodium and potassium salts of citric acid
applied to cigarette paper resulted in a decrease in the total
polycyclic hydrocarbons in WINSTON cigarette smoke (15) .
iv . By Choice of Tobacco Leaves (15)
Table V shows the effect of position of the tobacco leaf
on the stalk on the amount of the po7rcyclic hydrocarbons in
the cigarette smoke derived therefrom . Although there may
be a discrepancy in the results obtained in the case of the
burley tobacco samples due to a possible interchange of
samples, it is obvious from the data obtained that tobacco
leaves can be chosen to give low values of total solids and
polycyclic hydrocarbons in the smoke derived therefrom .
TAP,LE I I
FILTER TIP MATERIALS : EFFECT ON NICOTINE, TOTAL SOLIDS, TOTAL POLYCYCLIC
HYDROCARBONS AND BENZO[a)PYRENE 1- IN WINSTON BLEND TOBACCO SrIOKE (15 )
Nicotine3 Total Solids 3
Filter Tip in Smoke in Smoke Total Benzo[aJp)'renc l
Length, Mg . / Red' n Mg . / Red' n Mg . /kg. Red'n y/kg . Red' n
%
men. Ci . % Ci . % Smoked % Smoked
Materia l
Nil.
--
1 .97 --
Estron 8/70
17 1 .48 25
81
58.3
20 .7 20 50 .5 13 77
5
50 .5 13
Estron 8/70 17
Estron 8/70 17
26 .0
46 .2 2 1
_
Estron 8/7 0
17 1 .43 2 7
20 .5 21 51 .6 11
Estron 8/70 plus
2% DOW ET 358
17
1 .44 27
20 .7 20 50 .2 12
Estron 8/70 17 1 .44 27
19 .7 24 50 .2 12
Estron 3 .3/66 17 1 .22 38
16 .0 38 33 .5 4 3
Dico 230 17
30.9 47
Dico 240 17
-- -- 32 .3 45
Ecusta TOD 705 10 1 .19 40
16 .4 37 39 .4 32 63 29
Ecusta TOD 705 17 0 .94 52
13 .6 48 26 .8 54 52 36
Ecv -t:a TOD 705 24 0 .65 67
9 .6 63 23 .3 60 43 4 7
Nil
--
1 .60 --
22.2 -- 58 .3
--
81
--
Ecusta TOD 17 0 .88 45
13 .5 39 26 .5 55 52 3 6
Ecusta TOD plus 207.
polyethylene
13 .5 39 22 .8 61 48 4 1
17 0 .83 4 8
13, 4-Ben'l.pyrene
3Analyses conducted by Analytical Division
268-Ien . WINSTON tobacco rod ; Type 543 paper
(See Tab1e IV, Footnote 21 for description )
4Analyses conducted by Chemi.cal. Dixi.si.c~n
•
S0T5 OTLIS
23
EF73"T OF
•
P .:per
T%-,e
Filter Tip
Materi al
. .•
:r1C
coti:: a; ~ ~
ReG'n
*s ./
Cic
%
-._ ...:
Total So1ids
in Smoke
::g . /
Red' n
Cia .
9.
Total
Polycyclic 3
Hvdrocarbons
Mg . /kg .
Red' n
Sr•^.oked
°G
50.2
543
Estron 8/70
1.44
--
19 .7
552
Estron 8/70
1.17
19
15.7
543
Estron 3 .3/66
1 .22
-(15) 4
16 .0
-(19)4
33.5
-(33)4
552
Estron 3 .3/66
0 .76
38(47)4
13 .1
18(33)4
25 .4
24(50)4
543
Estron 8/70
1 .58
--
18 .7
--
48 .1
Aluminized
Estron 8/70
1.50
5
19 .4
-4
49 .5
20
32 .4
35
168-mm . tobacco rod ; 17-mm. filter tip .
2Analyses conducted by Analytical Division .
3Analyses conducted by Chemical Division .
4Values in parentheses represent percent reduction from that obtained for
WIl`STO\ cigarette smoke [type 543 paper (see Table IV, Footnote 21 for
description) ; 68-m . tobacco rod ; 17-mm. Estron 8/70 filter tip) .
.
TABLE IV
EFFECT OF ADDITIVES TO TllE TOBACCO, TO 17IE PAPER, AND TO THE FILTER IP i•i~T F,RIALS
ON NICCYrINE, TOTTAL SOLIDS, TOTAL POLYCYCLIC HYROC.ARBONS, ANI) BEN2O[1]RENE: IN C :IC.Aitl•:7:1'i: Si :`)i :l:
Mg. /g .
Tobacco
Nicotine 2
in Smokc
Mg . / Red' n
Cit; .
%
--4
20 .0
20 .04
20 .04
20 .04
1 .17
1 .00
0 .78
0 .90
1 .04
Additive
Material
Polycyclic Ilyd rocrirbo ns3
Total Sol } ds
in Smoke
Mg . /
Ci .
Red' n
%
-15
33
23
11
15 .2
'13 .6
11 .6
10 .5
10 .2
-11
24
31
33
Total
Mg . /kg . Red' n
Smoked %
13enzo[ a ] py rcttc r
y/kp, .
Red' n
Smoked
_
To WINSTON Blend Tobacco :
Nil (29 ~
Alumina s6 (29)
5% Rhodium on alumina5 ~29)
57. Palladium on alumina (29)
5% Platinum on alumina5 (29)
Polycyclic llydr.ocarhou ::3 _
Total P.en•r,o[aJpyr.i•nr.l
Mg . /k8 .
Red' n y/kp. . ILcd' n
Smoked
%
48.1
39. 5
-18
-- ?"f 31 .3
1P?"`I'' : 26 .0
17
24
Siwl:cd 7,
. ;
i?
To CArU:L Blend Tobaccol2
-250
Nil (182
Alumina (18)
2 .27
1 .63
-27
25 .7
21 .3
.' ^
To Flue-Cured Tobaccol3
4
1191 .5
.rh'!
Nil
Aluminum nitrate nonahydrate
-
1.91
--
24 .4
--
20 .0
1 .83
5
25 . 0
-2
7).l
To Filter Tip Mater.ia116 (30) :
Filter Tip Additives
Mg . /
Material
Filter Tip
Nil
Chloranil
-6 .0
Nil
Trinitrofluorenone
0 .6
Nil
Trinitrofluorenone
-0 .9
g0Z5 OtLtiS
Triacetin
mg• /
Filter Tip
43 .0
33.0
12
12
12 •
12
1 .10
1 .11
-0
15 .9
15 .9
18
1 .11
--
15 .3
18
1 .06
5
15 .2
0
43.8
40 . 3
0
41 .6
38 .9
23
7
-31
„
-
}
TABLE IV (Cont'd)
To Cigarctte Paper (15) :
Paper
Nicotine
in Smoke2
Mg . / Red' n
Tvne
Ci . %
polycyclic llych-oc arO
honc3
Total So l ids
J:enza[ a] pyi-cnr. 1
Total
in Snpke2
.
/
Red'
n
Pig.
/k8
.
Rcd'
n
y/lcg . l.ncl' n
Mg
Cis%~ Smokcd
% - Sitwked %
_
_
A17,18
AAA 17,19
A17,18
AAA 17,19
65 .3
55 .2
71 .3
-15
--
63 .7
11
A 17, 18
AAA 17,19
M17, 20
65.3
-22
22
54321,22
50 .5
51 .1
51 .3
r~
13 , 4-Benzpyrene
.
2 Analyses conducted by Analytical Division .
3 Analyses conducted by Chemical Division .
1368-mm. tobacco rod .
14The Analytical Division, ti s .inf; an entirel.y di .ffc•r,'i,t-
468-mm. tobacco rod ; 17-mm. Estron 3 .3/66 filter
tip ; type 556 paper .
15The Analytical Division reported 58 Y/kl ; . of t,+boccc,
•smoked, for a reduction of 21 percent .
50bt:ained from Engelhard Industries, Inc .,
ir',twark 2, N . J .
16WINSTON blend tobacco ; 68-nxn .
6The alumina employed was that used as catalyst
support in the experiments involving rho d ium,
palladium and platinum .
tobacco rod ; 17-nnn .
Estron 3 .3/66 filter tip .
17WINSTON blend tobacco ; 70-mm . tobacco rod ; 15-nn,r .
Estron 8/70 filter tip .
18Type A paper contains no citric acid ,s :rlts .
7 70-nun . tobacco rod ; 15-mm. Estron 8/70 filter
tip ; type AAA paper (see footnote 19) .
19Type AAA paper contains 1 .4 percent of citric acid
equivalent (1 :1 sodium:potassium) .
8 68-mm . t-blcco rod ; 17-mm . Estron 8/70 filter
tip ; type AAA paper (see footnote 19) .
9 0bt a in.•cl from Reynolds Metals Co .
10 5% of a 357~ solution of hydrogen peroxide, v/w .
11Equoent to 0 .25 mg . of sulfur per g . of tobacco .
1270-mm . Ynhnrrn rnfi .
20Type AA paper contains 2 .0 percent of citric acid
equivalent (1 :1 sodium :potassium) .
21Type 543 paper contains 0 .87 of citric acid equi . va lc•nr
TABLE V
POSITION OF LEAF ON STALK : EFFECr ON FATS AND WAXES,
FLAVORANTS, AND NICOTINE IN T013ACCO AND ON NICOTINE, TOTAL
SOLIDS, TOTAL POLYCYCLIC IYI)1tOCA12130NS, AND BENZOfa]1'Y121 :NTIN CI(:Ar.r.~rrl~: Sri01 :1:/- (15)
~
?~ ~ o
Smoke
Position of Nicotine3
Leaf on mg :/
Stalk ci3; .
Lower Quarter
b,~ ~~~ 1,)
2 .34
1 .56
Ether-Solubl.c Platcri n 1 :;3
Fats
Total Polycyclic
Benzo[a]Solids3 Hydrocarbons4
pyreneT94
y/kg .
mg•/ mg ./kg .
cig . Smoked ,
Smoked
Y
Flue-cured Tobacco :
Upper Quarter
01
Tobacco
.~ ,~
29 .0 ti '
- ., . . g~
40 .2 l
.
: •. . • .
23 .1 1t' ~
31 .7
f.
Nicotine3
54
F lavoran t :s
•
69
./
and
Waxes
Total
.•
:,
2 .06
7 .93 6 .ti4 „
1 .39
1 .54
5 .63 ~: .51 1
1 .12
.
Burley : •
Upper Quarter5
5 .14
32 .2 ~2t
Lower Quarter5
2 .82 ~
21:4
/
t•~{
60 .0 I , ~gi,
85
3.60
8 .03 6 .65
43 .6 '
63
3.91
6 .90 5 .44
f
13,4-Benzpyrene
eb
2Type AAA paper (see Table IV, footnote 19, for description) ; 68 mm . tobacco rod .
3Analyses conducted by Analytical Division .
4Analyses conducted by Chemical Division .
5It is possible that these samples were interchanged with respect to designation during srnne hhase c,L tatc
several analyses . However, the important fact is that thpre is considerable difference betwc:ru the
amounts of the total polycyclic hydrocai
k ~leaves situated differently on the tobacco
plant .
OtZS OZLIS
30
v . Ey Solvent Exz :act ;on of' =o ::acco (12, 13, 15)
The results of t : e of =^a e-__ect of solvent
e}:trac; ion of tobacco on the poly cyciic hydrocarbon of the
smoke condensate are su=Gr_ced in Table VI . The following
conclusions ^ay be drau~r, fro ., these data :
(a) Solvent extraction using ?entane, hexane, or ether
of a particular tobacco t~pe reduced the polycyclic
hydrocarbon content of t :L smoke .
(b) Solvent extraction of a blend of tobaccos, e .g .,
CAMEL or WINSTON blend, resulted in a decrease in
the total polycyclic hydrocarbons in the smoke
condensate .
(c) Solvent extraction of the constituent of a blended
tobacco type, e .g ., the Turkish blend, flue-cured
blend, or burley blend, in WINSTON blend, followed
by incorporatiorn of the extracted tobacco with the
other two components (non-extracted) still yielded
a reduction in total polycyclic hydrocarbons in the
smoke . In this respect, extraction of the Turkish
blend portion of the WINSTON blend produced greater
reduction in total polycyclic hydrocarbons than did
.similar extraction of the flue-cured blend . Extrac- ~
tion of the burley blend yielded the lowest reduction .
(d) Hexane extraction of a tobacco type or a tobacco
blend followed by partition of the hexane extract'
with aqueous alcohol permitted separation of the
generally nonpolar and nonflavorful tobacco components from the generally polar and flavorful
components . When the polar, flavorful fraction
was returned to the hexane-extracted tobacco and
the resulting tobacco was smoked, a pronounced
reduction both in the amount of the total polycyclic hydrocarbons and in the amount of benzo[ .Rj- Ln
pyrene in the smoke was observed (1) . These values )-A
were not too different from those obtained with the m
smoke from the hexane-extracted tobacco itself . It v,
was concluded from these findings that the polar, ~_A
flavorful fraction from tobacco did not contribute ~'
markedly to the polycyclic hydrocarbon content of
the smoke (See also Section A .I .b .3 .) .
In every experiment in which solvent extraction was carried
out, either on the whole or on a portion of the tobacco constituting the cigarette, a reduction in polycyclic hydrocarbon and
benzo(aJpyrene (3,4-benzpyrene) content of the smoke was observed .
A patent on the extraction procedure plus the partitioning of the ~
extract has been issued to the Company (1) .
TABLE VI
SoLVENT PnE'rICFATi`IENT OF INDIVInUAL TOBACCM TYPI :S AND TOBACCO BU.NDS : ErTI:("r ON T(r'rA) .
POLYCYCLIC ItYDROCAR1i0NS ANl) BENZOI a]PYRENEI IN CICARETl'1 : St101C1: (12, 13, 15)
Extraction
Tobacco State of
Extracted Subdivision
Solvent
Polycycl.i.c IydYorarban :: in Siaolu_ Tota 1 - L cnvc, a] l! >_rV
-n
WINSTON-tYpe Burley Tobacco (70-mm, tobacco rod, 15-mm . Estron 8/70 f.ilter ti .p . ty pe _AAA3 raJ~~r
Nil strips
Burley strips
ether
24 .0
25
49 .4
23 .9
-52
75
56
,
5
13,4-Benzpyrene ; data for other individual polycyclic
hydrocarbons were obtained but are not reported here .
50ne equivalent of Turki sh b letxl tvbTc•co cxt rac : t:
was returned to the extracted Turkish blend .
2See Table IV, footnote 18, for description of Type A
cigarette paper .
6Pive-t-hirds equivalent of Turkish blend t-obacc :o .
3See Table IV, footnote 19, for description of Type AAA
cigarette paper .
40ne-third equivalent of Turkish blend tobacco extract
was returned to the extracted Turkish blend .
extract was returned to the extracted Ttirkish
blend .
7An average of 54 .0 mg . of polycyclic hS•dror.,n-botis
per kilogram of tobacco smoked was usccl as c.ontrol.
value .
8An average value of 83y bcinzC)( .-ijpyrr.ne (3,4benzpyrene) per kilogram off tobacco suwkec] wasc
used as control value .
~tit5 01 Lt5
3 . Pkr,CU :SORS 0:
On the .csis o_ .:':e : esu :ts o :.tc : ncd in the above-described
studies, the pri:cursv~s .. .n tob~,i:cco o-z :.e polycvciic ilydrocarbJns
in snloke were studied . Solve :a extraction studies indicated th : t
a considerable proportio :: of c : ase precursors ;:er e re : :ovable from
the tobacco by organic solver.ts (12, 13, 15) .
Addition o,: a pents ne e ::tract of CAMEL blend cabacco to nonextracted CAN;:::" bland tobacco resulted in a 20 parce,t increase in
total poiycyclic nyd :-ocarbons and a 33 percent inc :•o ::se irn the
amount of benzo[ajpyrene (3,4-benzpyrene) in the sma, :e . Similar
increases were noted when an ether extract of Turkish tobacco was
added to nonextracted Turkish tobacco . Partition of a pentane
extract of CAr2EL blend tobacco between equal volumes of hexane
and 9 :1 ethanol :water followed by addition of the 9 :1 ethanol :watcr
concentrate to an equivalent amount of CAMEL blend tobacco indicated,
on the'basis of no increase in total polycyclic hydrocarbons or
benzo[aJpyrene (3,4-benzpyrene), that the bulk of the precursors
was in the hexane layer from the partiticn . This was confirmed by
the observation of a substantial increase (about 40 percent) in
total polycyclic hydrocarbons in the smoke when the hexano fraction
from the partition was added to an equivalent amount of CAML blend
tobacco prior to smoking .
The structures of the known components of a pentane extract
of tobacco, which, in turn, would appear in the hexane phase of a
hexane-alcohol :water partition were considered in an attempt to
define the precursors in tobacco of the polycyclic hydrocarbons
in the smoke (22) . At least three types of compounds were shown
to be involved . Additiorn of a saturated hydrocarbon fraction
(typified by n-hentriacontane), 0-sitosterol (as representative
of the tobacco sterols), and solanesol (as representative of v,
tobacco terpenes) to tobacco increased the amount of the poly- ~
cyclic hydrocarbons in the smoke therefrom . Sclareolide (a con- ~
stituent of Turkish tobacco) and the substituted malonic acids
appeared to make no or negligible contribution to the polycyclic Ln
hydrocarbon content of tobacco smoke . These results are shown N
in Table VII . It is possible that sclareolide would yield
dibenz[a,h]anthracene (1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene) (XLII) on
pyrolysis during the smoking proces's .
XLII
Sclareolide
•
.! J
It is v er y ,: .Q .^.i.: :: ~ ,.s :. :a .`.
o - i. ob .^. .•Co ot :itlr
than those studied :..: .' :, a p recursors oi the polycyclic
'r. y drocarbo ::s i n the tob a cco sr..o k e .
T
ALB.T+:'+ M
EFFECT OF :"~ ~?CC0 CJXSTITuE~;_s r,'A o : ::Fi. 0?:G : •IC
CJ.:POJ\~S 0:' z :: T0' = ?O' 'C :'CLIC F:7i OC:. .'aOriS :`:D
EENZO ;a)?Y:E:iEI~?'X CiGAFW'!'= S ::DI:E (22)
Additive
Mg ./g .
Nata_ ial Added Tobacco
?olvcvalic Hvdroca_ bons2
Ber.zo[ajpyrene
Total
increase
y/kg .
Increase
ag ./kg .
%
Sr..oked
%
S .:.ol:ed
13,4-Benzpyrene .
2Analyses conducted by Chemical"Division .
3Type A4A .paper (see Table IV, footnote 19, for description) ; 15-mm. Estron
8/70 filter tip ; 70-mm. tobacco rod .
4Type 543 paper (see'Table IV, footnote 21, for description) ; 68-r.im. tobacco
rod .
~ ~
(,!1
, . .~.
so
T :1a O-: ei . . : .: :.~y ~ .:S:~i: are t:•:0 ^^'`': me cG . ... . ._5~S i:rF:D~• :.a Ja c c o
components rz .• conve_ ced tr, polycyclic 'r.ydrocar bons du_ ing
z1tie si .'J+Li ::".:e : :.i :. :., and ^.~re obvious r. :icaa nis^,
involves ta .? _ .. :
- . .~ po :yJ"c«c : ydrocarbO :.s from _ClaClveiV
_ .._'~e rr,oiecu :es structLrally _,, :atsd to the poivcyclic hrdrocw_oons by an essentially unir..oiecuiar reaction . E . g . , :~3:e,:triacon tar.e could be conve:-ced to ber.zo[ .g ;py_-ene (XLI) by
appropriate cyclizatioa, dehyd .oger.ation, :.nd fragnentation,
and ;-:-sitosterol could bz cor.verted to c:^.olar.threne (LVIII) by
a?propr :.ate cycl :.zation, dehyd. .~tion, dehydrogenation, and
f :war.u::~tation . The possible conversion of sclareolide to
dibanz[a,h]anthracene (1,2,5,b-dibenzanthracene) (XLII) has been
mentioned previously .
-H %
(CH2) g_n
n-hentriacontane
2
XLI
2, -H20
HO
p-sitosterol
LVIII
Indeed, individual pyrolysis of large molecular weight components
of tobacco does yield significant amounts of the polycyclic
hydrocarbons .
The second mechanism of polycyclic hydrocarbon formation
involves the degradation of tobacco components to small, highly
reactive entities which recombine at the elevated temperature
to form polycyclic hydrocarbons . E .g ., a tobacco component such
as n-hentriacontane at a temperature of 870° could yield acetylene
molecules, which in turn, could recombine to form benzo[a]pyrene
(3,4-benzpyrene) (XLI) ; terpenoid compounds such as neophytadiene
or solanesol eould yield isoprene, which in turn, could form
?o?ycyclic hydrocarbons . It has been known for four decades
that pyrolysis of acetylene or isoprene will produce polycyclic
hydrocarbons .
•
: c-_c 1•• ;4 r OCc.•: b J .^.S
I t _s auite p_ob a :. le _ :.Ft : .:,:.
tobacco F. m JiCe a r ise b 4 bOL'.: f.lc c :+ : ::is .^.s ;` w C C .7nside r the fi r st
i^.'.c .^.a ::is :' descr i bed above t0 :. a t he :'J : e =-'p Jrt .: :lt of t *h e two .
TT T`sta i s
F- . -
A1^o_a_ic tster ~:_ction
An aliphatic ester fractio :: was isolated from t:I\STO\,
Turkish, and bu:lay cigarette s-:oke (45-4?, 51, 52) . The constitution
CH3(C_'2)n+200CR
L?:VIII
of this ester fraction was elucidated as follows : Saponification of
the aliphatic ester fraction (LXVIT) yieldad a series of acids (LXTX)
and a series of norr.al lona-chained primary alcohols (T.}OC) . Treatment
of t ::e acids L}:IX with diazomethane, followed by vapor-phase-chromatogrep : y and/or mass spectrometry of the methyl esters LXXI, indicated
the ::.ethyl esters of the follow :.ng acids : The saturated acids, myristic
to octacosanoic, inclusive ; the unsaturated acids, oleic and linolenic ;
several unidentifiable acids . Palmitic acid was the major constituent
of this acid fraction with myristic and/or stearic acid the next most
plentiful .
?e=manganate oxidation of the alcohols LXX, followed by treatment
of the resulting acids LXXII with diazomethane, yielded a series of
methyl esters LXXIII . Vapor-phase chromatography and/or mass spectrometry of LXXIII indicated the presence of the methyl esters of the
straight-chained acids varying in chain length from that of lauric
(C12) to that of heptacosanoic (C27) acid, inclusive . The alcohol
portion of the aliphatic ester fraction (LXVIII) must, therefore,
consist of the alcohols from dodecyl (lauryl) alcohol to 1-heptacosanol, inclusive . 1-Docosanol comprised the major component of the
alcohol portion of the aliphatic ester fraction (LXVIII) .
1.. / . %~ : :I
RCOC:i - + C::%(CH~14-- , C:i20H
LX?:IV
LXIX
l
CH2N2/Et20 IKMn04/CSHSN
V
V
RCOOMe CH3(C"2)n+1C00H
LXXI
LXXII
CH2N2/Et20
v
CH3(CH 2)n+1C00Me
LXXIII
CH2N2/Et20
LXXV
I
KMn04/Me2C0
NY
W
RCOOMe CH3(CH2)nC00H
LXXVI
LXX VII
CHZ2/Et20
v
CH 3(C"2)ri OOMe
LXXVIII
•
P .• r oi ., sis of I:::VIII Et 4 75° in En iner : atmosphere yielded a
:: nd a s er ies of .. - El[Ce ::es " .. :1XV) . The co^:p osition
series
o:
:.cidS
of
. . :e : c~Gj
. . . . 'Ali ::2 to be SiaJSiE:.tiEll•,i the Sam~e as ti: t of : ai3
acics C ::i_ction o : Ml'V y ielded a series of acids l ;nich
was converted to a series of me :.'r.y1 esters Lfi}:VIII . Vapor-phase chrom.atoo:-ap :.y ,::. ::!or mass spectrometry :.ncicated the pr esence of the methyl
esters of undecanoic (Cil) to 'r.exacasa :~oic (C2U) acid, inclusive . The
methyl ester found to be present in cile greatest amount was methyl
heneicosanoate indicating, on the basis of :he loss of one carbon from
the chain, that 1-docosanol comprised the major component of the alcohol
portion of the aliphatic ester fraction (LfiVIII) .
On the basis of these findings, the aliphatic ester fraction may
contain as many as 272 combinations of the acids LXIX and the alcohols
LXX since degradation yielded 16 known alcohols and 17 known acids .
Table VIII su=arizes these findings .
TABL:: VIII
MOk'\T CONSTITUENTS OBTAINED BX DEGRADATIOr
OF ALIPHATIC ESTER FRACTION' Ly :VIII
FROM TOBACCO SMOKE 4( 5-47 )
Alcohols
Acids
1.
Dodecyl alcohol (LXX, n=9)
1.
Myristic
2.
1-Tridecanol (LXX, n-10)
2.
Pentadecanoic
3.
1-Tetradecanol (L)M, n-11)
3.
Palmitic
4.
1-Pentadecanol (LXX, n-12)
4.
Heptadecanoic
5.
1-Hexadecanol (LXX, n=13)
5.
Stearic
6.
1-Heptadecanol (Ly.', n-14)
6 .' Oleic (9-Octadecenoic)
7.
1-Octadecanol (LXX, n=15)
7.
8.
1-Nonadecanol (LXX, n-16)
Linolenic (9,12,15-Octadecatrienoic)
1-Eicosanol (LXX, .n-17)
8.
Nonadecanoic
9.
9.
Eicosanoic
10.
1-Heneicosanol (LXF., n=18)
11 .
1-Docosanol (LXX, n-19)
12 .
1-Tricosanol (LXX, n-20)
13 .
1-Tetracosanol (LXX, n-21)
14.
1-Pentacosanol (LhM, n=22)
15 .
1-Hexacosanol (LXX, n=23)
16 .
1-Heptacosanol (LXX, n=24)
10 .
Heneicosanoic
11.
Docosanoic
12 .
Tricosanoic
13.
Tetracosanoic
~
14 .
Pentacosanoic
F+
15 .
HexacosanoiF
16 .
Heptacosanoic
17 .
Octacosanoic
Ln
J
m
Ln
~
N
m
1.
.~.V .~''..1GS~~T i~Ti
Solfinesyl
:1
C.
iw .
.. :.
T_
-`.
acetate
.-1 ~
R
G)
was isolated
from
the
Cra~ ..(Cii 3 )=l, :C.:-I J g00CR
"LY:iL.l'
cigarette smoke from WINSTON, Turkish, burley, and flue-cured
tobaccos (23, 24, 48-50) .
2 . SOLANESYL ESTER FRACTION
A solanesyl ester fraction (LXXIR, R~ Me) was isolated from
the cigarette smoke from WINSTON, Turkish, burley, and flue-cured
tobaccos (48-52) .
Saponification yielded solanesol (LR}IX) and a series of acids
which were converted to the corresponding series of methyl esters
by treatment with diazomethane . Vapor-phase chromatography of
these methyl esters yielded the acids listed in Table 7X .
H[ CH2C(CH3)-CHCH2190H
TABLE IX
KNOWN CONSTITUENTS OBTAINED BY DEGRADATION OF
SOLANESYL ESTER FRACTION LXXIX FROM TOBACCO SMOKE
? pizytostcr .'1 ester _raction t•:as ^_solated _ron the ciSarette
-~o^ iUriCis : , :+'.: : ley, and I :Ue-CL : e d C3b'uCCOS (~~+5'-57)
..-57)
Saponification yieldad a :'aytosterol fraction plus a series
of acids . Conversion of the acids to the corresponding serias of
::a{~ :~y'i esters, :c.llowed by vapo .-p :-ase chromatoorapny of the r..ethyl
esters yielded acids listed in~Table X . Chronatographic fractionation oi the phytosteryl f_action in3i cated the presence of stigmasterol
(L=I) and ;.-s :.tosterol (L?:,t:-xIl.) .
TABLE X
'sC~OW\ CO\STITiJJEETS DB I TED B :.' DEGRADATIO\
OF W'YTOSTERYL ESTER FRACTION FROM TOBACCO SMOKE
Acids
43
: :us, the phytostc_yl ester __,. .. :_ . . . - . :v contairn as r.cny as
12 co ::binations of the acids showri ? : :'ab'la X Er,d the phytosterols
<?. .\?:_XI ar.d ?-MN:Ii) since degr ;:cat :or. , :eicec six kr.oc::z acids and
two ? ::ytosterols .
d . h-Acetyl-2,3,4-tris-c-~.'-,- .:s_ :: .•livaleryl---D-alucopyr4noside
The sugar ester, c-scetyl-3,3,~:-t : :s-c-~- ::ath~*ivaleryl-,^.-Dgiucopyranoside was isolatec :_o^ Turkish tobacco cigarette
smoke and characterized on the basis of ir.frEred absorption, melting
point, and mixrure melting point studies (33) . Approximately 1 .4 g .
of this ester was isolated from the ss.oke for 20,560 Turkish tobacco
cigarettes (97 mg . per kg . of tobacco smoked) .
LXXXIII
0
MV s CH3CH2CH(CH3)CH2-CIII . Lactones
a._ Sclareolide
Sclareolide (=IV) was isolated from the mainstream smoke of
cigarettes fabricated from Turkish tobacco grown in the Souyalissian
IXCXIV
region of Greece (27) . The sclareolide in the mainstream smoke
represented 28 .7 percent of that found in the tobacco, considered
on a^.oisture- and sand-free basis .
The sclareolide from the smoke (0 .736 g . from 20,560 Turkish
tobacco cigarettes ; 51 mg . per kg . of tbbacco smoked) was identified
on the basis of melting point and mixtu . :. melting point studies,
infrared spectra, . and elemental analyses of the isolated material
and its dimethylamide derivative .
•
~
~Gt
:ZCJ
rrin l."h°.ric diter~,^ri:T:G :. .,
r.-leva: - e .^.olide
trere
.c::C :.o ::es,
i
soia :.ed froti
m
(L.~ XXV )
z 1:e
c :. ;aret :.e
a .^.d
smoke
'0~
~ ~._1 . . .
0
=V
=VI
of Turkish tobacco grown in the Souyalissian region of Greece (2, 3) .
The identity of these lactor.es was confirmed on the basis of infrared
absorption data, optical rotation, and malting point studies . The
amount of cx-levantenolica ("'V) isolated reDresented 0 .0019 percent
of the tobacco smoked (19 mg . per kg . of tobacco smoked) ; the amount
of P-isomer (LXX}.'VI) represented 0 .00014 percent of the tobacco smoked
(1 .4 mg . per kg . of tobacco smoked) .
IV. Alcohols
a . Solanesol
The terpenoid alcohol solar .esol (=) has been isolated from
the cigarette smoke from WINST0\, Turkish, burley, and flue-cured
tobaccos (23, 24, 48-50) .
b._ rormal Long-chained P_rimary Alcohols
A series of normal long-chained primary alcohols (LXXXVII) was
isolated from WIhSTOh cigarette smoke (5, 6, 31) .
CH3(CH2)nOH
Oxidation of this series of alcohols yielded the corresponding
series of carboxylic acids . These acids, on treatment with diazomethane,
yielded a series of inethyl esters . Vapor-phase chromatography of the
esters indicated the presence of octadecanoic (C18) to tetracosanoic
(C24) acid, inclusive . Mass spectrometry of the acetates of LXXXVII
suggested the presence of 1-heptadecyl (C17) to 1-tetracosanyl (C24)
acetate, inclusive . These mass spectrometric and vapor phase chromatographic results indicated that the series of alcohols contained 1heptadecanol to 1-tetracosanol, inclusive .
44-
c.
Cigcrette s .;.o :cc __;,rm burley, and ilue-cur ed
t'ae major Dart of which was
:.obacccs yiel4ru a series o' : nycostero_s,
.
. . . T ) (4S- 5 0)
,_
. ..OS : Z o,
1+:1r~..
.l
.
.S{.-? .:r : .~i~..el .~l ~ : . . .. .1. - ) QnQ r-Fl i
r l k
u . 12y-Hvcxoxv-l3-evirwnovi 0::idL
' 3w::iydro :;y-13-eDi manoyl o ::ide (=i1') was isolated from Turkish
tobacco smoke by - ; .o,uid-liquid pa:tirio : anc column chromatograp ;:y
(4, 34) . it was identified by its point, mixture melting
=IX
point, optical activity, infrared absorption, n .m.r . spectrum,,,and
mass spectrographic data . Approximately 0 .140 g . of LX}gCIX waa
obtained from the smoke from 20,560 Turkish tobacco cigarettes,(9 .7 gm.
per kg . of tobacco smoked) .
e .,_ Unsaturated Ao,yclic Isoprenoid Alcohols
Turkish tobacco smoke has yielded an acyclic isoprenoid alcohol
fraction (39, 41-43) . The presence of phytol in this fraction was
demonstrated as follows (39) : Acetylation of this fraction followed
by column chromatography gave phytol acetate (XC, R- Ac), saponification of which yielded phytol (XC, R- H), identified as its
3-nitrophthalic acid ester . No evidence for isophytol in this
fraction was obtained .
Ln
~
~
~
m
CH2OR
XC
~
p :es,: :ac ;, c_ .. : s :. .. . .~ :,-c C13, C^5, and C30 _sop :enoid
av_•
.
r ` :, - .ri 1 • " c
. s i e. s-o :. ::-de :•c ^ ~ ccr.c• ~ _ .~ . .__ ~•
:: s :clo~ demoas~_ated-~_'-ated as
.c11o: ;s (41-43) : Cs.por -paasc: c :: .c :7_-tc~ : ;:-' .•ie : :;ed foar f_ac ;ao :.s .
_ :+e er..ar ;er.t ti:aes of the f_rsrt a : d secc ::d corresponded to those of
~arac:svl
.:nC p7yto1, respect :vi: :y .
. :0 .:, in_ : Fl: ed EbSOrpziOri and ttle
die ::crcr.ces between the cr..a : ;;on'. t: :-c s of gerr:r.iol, fwrncsol, and
ph .•tol, it was concluded .. . . ., t::e cr•d =ourth fractions from
t :.is c : .oaatograr.-. cor.cainedyC,)$ and 0,3 isa ; _a: oid alcohols,
respectively . 'So evidence for the CIO, C35, or C40 alcohols was
obtain ed .
r':cetylation of the smoke-derived alcohol fraction followed by
column and vapor phase chror,stography yielded four fractions whose
emergent times and mass, ultraviolet, and infrared spectra indicated
that (a) the -first fraction contained the acetates of the C15 alcohols
farnesol and a dehydrofarnesol with conjugated double bonds, (b) the
second fraction contained the acetates of the C2p alcohols phytol (XC,
R - ~) and dehydrophytols w'..th four and five double bonds (two of which
are conjugated), and (c) the third and fourth fractions contained
acetates of C25 and C30 isoprenoid alcohols, respectively . No evidence
for acetates of the C10, C35, or C40 alcohols was obtained . The ratio
of the amounts of the acetates of t :.e C15 :C20 :C25 :C30 alcohols was
appro ::i :nately 1 :2 .2 :1 .2 :0 .8 .
Chromic oxide-pyridine oxidation of the smoke-derived alcohol
fraction yielded a series of unsaturated aldehydes . Vapor-phase
chromatography of this aldehyde fraction yielded four fractions
whose infrared absorption and emergent times suggested the presence
of C15, C20, C25, and C30 isoprenoid aldehydes, respectively .
Catalytic hydrogenation of the smoke-derived alcohol fraction,
potassium permanganate oxidation of the perhydroalcohols to acids,
fo11owed by treatment of the acids with excess diazomethane yielded
a methyl ester fraction . Vapor-phase chromatography of this yielded
four fractions whose infrared absorption and emergent times suggested
the presence of the methyl esters of C15, C70, C25, and C30 isoprenoid
acids . The ratio of the amounts of the methyl esters of the C15 :C20 :C25 :C30
acids was approximately 1 :2 .5 :1 .5 :1 .
Thus the data on the smoke-derived alcohol fraction, its acetate,
its corresponding aldehyde fraction, and its corresponding saturated
methyl ester fraction suggested the presence in Turkish tobacco smoke
of unsaturated isoprenoid C_5, C20, C25, and C3p alcohols ; no evidence
was obtained to indicate the presence of alcohols in the C10, C35, or
C40 series .
f ._ Macroc_vclic Aydroxvethers
Ln
N
_J
~
m
Ln
~
N
Ol
The two macrocyclic diterpenoid alcohols cx-1,5-dimethy1-12-isopropyl9-met:.ylene-5,8-oxido-3,13-cyclotetradecadien-l-o1 (XCI) and cx-l2-isopropyl5,8-o::ido-1,5,9-trimethyl-3,9,13-cyclotetradecatrien-l-o1 (XCII) were
isolated from Turkish tobacco smoke by liquid-liquid partition and repeated
column chromatography in amounts of 15 .3 mg . and 6 .4 mg ., respectively, per
'T J
?.C I
XCII
kg . of tobacco smoked (40, 60, 61) . \ .m .r . data for the dehydration
products from XCI and XCII permitted assignment of the structures
shown for XCI and XCII .
V. Phenols
a ._ _Isol_atio_n of Phenols_from C ;~_arette Smoke
1 . a-TOCOPHEROL
a-Tocopherol (Vitamin E) has been isolated from WINSTON
cigarette smoke (25, 26) . Confirmation of the identity of
HO
H
this compound was provided by infrared absorption studies of
the compound itself and by mixture melting point and infrared
absorption of its p-nitrophenylurethan . a-Tocopherol was also
detected in the smoke from flue-cured, burley,and Turkish
tobaccos .(48-50) .
2 . EUGENOL AND ISOEUGENOL
The two phenols eugenol (XCIII) and isoeugenol (XCIV) were
isolated from Turkish tobacco smoke (38) . The identity of XCIII
was established by vapor-phase chromatography and infrared
OH
CH2CH-CH2
XCIII
CH-CHCH3
XCIV
F: .:sO"?tr0 : st,:i._i:S O~
: t: „$ :Li:l.z
L`l :.raviolet
aosoipr :o n 5 ;., : ;.•: o= rL ^L : .h%.- e . .
i:s t abi-F.:led w
s t udies Of
th e
of •:CsV was
v ;:.p o r - ;, :asv
isolated :.1ateria 1, by
a :: :.
u•lzrav iol at
absorption
study
cf i ts meth}•1 ether, ar,d :.\• r.elt_^.g poi :~t, : ixture r..elting poin : :.
End infrared c.bsorpt :on scudies c_
-nap :.ta y lureti:a:n derivative .
The amoun ::s of ea g :: ::o : ( :: ;,_I=) .:. ::d i soL .:aor.o'- (}:CIV) isolatod
were 5 .7 mg . and 21 :+g . , respact :vely, ?ar. ;:a . of tobacco smoked
its
3 . 0`HER ?iir.i;O:.S
A study conducted with Turkish tobacco smoke indicated the
presence of hydroquinone (XCV), 1-r.aphthol (XCVI), and a series
of xylenols (XCVII) .
.
OH
I
OH
OE
I
XCVII
XCVI
b.
:nalvsis for Phenols in Ci2arette Smoke
The quantities of the phenols, phenol (XCVIII), o-cresol (XCIX)
and a-cresol (C), have been determi :ad in the cigarette smoke from
WI\STO\, WWL, SALEM, C9 flue-cured, cased and uncased K4 burley,
Turkish blend, and special G7 tobaccos (32) . Tab1e .XI indicates the
results obtained in this study. Also included are the results of
the determir.ation of these three phenols in the smoke from cellulose
filter rods and from cigarettes containing methanol-extracted C9
flue-cured tobacco .
OH
OH
OH
CH3
XCVIII
XCII:
C
O1
F-~
N
Co
4S
?s.~r\..n T.
~. . . . .~- .~ } .~ n_ .
?'tii : =
iC :1: C C y
MTo bacco
C9 Fluecured 229
v / 1_ .
Y
/ c'
L•
•
S :..J: -
L 1 n-C -JJ
c-Cr,:sc_
,!C+{ . . .
T .m e
...nr.~-
t _ ~ _ .;.
T ^VLVJ .,~
o-Crzso_
Y e.
-~, //cii. .
y
/a.
(32)
M otal of phonol,
o- and v-cresol
y/ciC .
Y
326
61
86
88
125
378
537
310
82
103
127
159
457
572
K4 Burley,`° `
Cased 134
196
59
86
116
170
309
452
K4 Burley,
Uncased 130
246
55
104
72
136
257
486
Turkish
Blend
192
278
41
60
77
111
310
449
Special
G-7
45
87
17
32
31
59
93
178
---
---
---
---
---
---
9
23
43
65
10
15
33
49
86
129
WINSTON,
no filter
tip
159
241
38
57
70
107
267
405
CArEL
183
269
57
84
81
119
321
472
SALEM
33
48
8
12
26
39
67
C9 Fluecured, 248
Methanol
Extracted
Cellulose
ZdIIN STO\
•
99
c ._ Precursors in Tobacco of Phenols in Tobacco Smoke
A study was conducteu cc ar.swer fcl'..owing questions (59) :
1 . Is the difference in amount of phenols in tobacco and tobacco
smoke as disparate as reported previously?
2 . Do the phenols in tobacco str.oke result from the thermal
decomposition of simple phenol derivatives like phenol glycosides,
salts or esters? If such derivatives are present in tobacco, are
they decomposable by chemical reaction?
~
~
~
3 . Do tobaccos contain a^y cor.stitua :rs wnich, on py~-olysis,
.•ieid paenols?
4 . Does robacco _ .. ..,.=f, orn py:alysis under the same conditions
as i :: 3, yield p : a : ols?
5 . Does any con stit : :L ::r added to tobacco during cigarette
:;a:vfactu.e yield phenols on py~ol .~s_s?
6 . Does spinach as rep :._ :.ad p :Lv :.ousiy : n smoke studies yield
less phenols on pyro=ysis does tobacco?
The answers to Questions 1 and 2 were obtained by an analysis for
the phenols phenol and,p-cresol in a steam distillate, in a chloroform
extract, in an alkaline hydrolysate, and i :n an acidic hydrolysate of
tobacco . Since none of these treatments yielded detectable quantities
of these two phenols, we concluded :
1 . The di fference in amounts of the ?henols phenol and P-cresol
in tobacco and tobacco smoke is as dispara :.e as reported previously .
2 . The concentration, of the glycosides, salts, or esters of
phenol and Q-cresol in tobacco must be negligible or zero since neither
alkaline nor acidic hydrolysis of tobacco released any appreciable
quantity of these two phenols .
The answers to Questions 3 to 5 were obtained by analysis for
the phenols phenol and u-cresol in pyrolysates of the tobacco constituents cellulose, pectin, lignin, and glucose plus fructose (as
invert sugar) ; in a pyrolysate of the additive invert sugar (glucose
plus fructose) ; and in the pyrolysates of C9 flue-cured, K4 burley,
and Maryland burley tobaccos . Since appreciable quantities of phenol
and Q-cresol were obtained in each instance, we concluded :
3 . Tobacco constituents like cellulose, pectin, lignin, glucose,
and fructose may be precursors in tobacco of phenol and P-cresol in
cigarette smoke .
4 . The pyrolysis of C9 flue-cured, K4 burley, and Maryland burley
tobaccos does not proceed in a manner substantially different from the
pyrolysis of the individual tobacco constituents listed in 3 .
5 . The tobacco additive invert sugar (glucose plus fructose)
may be one source of phenol and 2-cresol in cigarette smoke .
The answer to Question 6 was obtained by analysis of phenol and
_v-cresol in a pyrolysate from powdered spinach . Per gram pyrolyzed,
the spinach yielded approximately the same total quantity of phenol
plus v_-cresol as did the Maryland tobacco in 4 and about 60 percent of
the total quantity of these phenols obtained by pyrolysis of the C9
flue-cured and K4 burley tobaccos in 4 . We consider that our findings
agree substantially with previously reported data that spinach smoke
condensate contained about one-half the phenols found in the smoke
condensate from a cased commercial blend of tobaccos . Table XII
summarizes the findings from the pyrolysis studies .
Ln
~
~
~
m
Ln
r
w
m
~ . ,
- . .-Jw
-. .--
nn•. .,
~ ..~'. : ..Il
.. .i
= . . .. .nT n . . .r.- .-..
.~ . '.~ ./ v .~ ..- .. ~-
srWhatman Cellulose Powder, W. and R . Balston Ltd ., England .
**West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company .
~
m
u,
~
w
~
VI . Acids
The smoke condensate from 20,560 Turkish cigarettes yielded in excess
of 20 g . of long-chained acids (45-47) . Infrared absorption data indicated
the possible presence of both saturated and unsaturated acids such as palmitic
acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, etc .
VII . Aldehvdes and Ketones
Examination of the smoke condensate from C .~ML cigarettes indicated
the presence of acetaldehyde, propionaldehyde, acetone, furfural (CI),
3-heptanone (CII), glyoxal (CIII), methyl glyoxal (CIV), biacetyl (CV),
and 2,3-pentanedione (CVI) (8) . Identification was based on infrared and
melting point studies of the 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazones of these compounds (7) .
Zi
0
C'r.3C:
~
C : `C :~C H3
Ci:O
C:
OC::CHO
CII
CIII
XCIX
C::3COCH0
C
CH3COCOCH3
C :V
CH3COCOCH2CH3
CV
CVI
VIII . Heterocvclic Nitro¢en Cor,roounds
The ::eterocyclic nitrogen compounds pyrocoll (CVII), indole (CVIII),
3-mazhyl :ndole (skatole)(CIX), dimethylindoles, trimethylindoles, carbazole
i~
0
CVII
CVIII
CIR
CX
(CX), and methylcarbazoles have been isolated from Turkish tobacco smoke by
liquid-liquid partition and column chromatography (35-37) .
The separation of indole from its homologs and the carbazole from its
homologs was accomplished by vapor-phase chromatography . Identification of
pyrocoll (CVII), indole (CVIII), 3-methylindole (skatole) (CIX), and
carbazol ;. (CX) was made in each case on the basis of melting point, mixture
melting point, infrared and ultraviolet absorption spectra, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum (except for carbazole (CX)), and mass spectrometric
data .
Per 1000 Turkish tobacco cigarettes, the amounts in milligrams of these
compounds in the smoke were as follows : pyrocoll, 1 .3 ; indole, 1 .4 ; 3-methylindole (skatole), 4 .3 ; dimethylindoles, 0 .8 ; trimethylindoles, 0 .5 ; carbazole,
0 .7 ; and methylcarbazoles, 0 .15 .
IX . Miscellaneous Comnounds
The following miscellaneous compounds have been isolated : furan (CXI)
and benzene (CXII), from CAMEL cigarette smoke and the isomeric 4-(2-butenylidene)isophorones (CXIII) (44) from Turkish tobacco smoke .
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X . Cc :nnErison of Different Tobacco Tvwes
Since the smoke condensates from burley, flue-cured, Turkish, and
ZdINSTO\ blend tobaccos were available at various times during our 8-year
study, we considered that the determination of some of the major componants of the so-called neutral fraction from these condensates would
urovide useful information concerning the relative composition of these
smoi:e cor.ca^.sates (48-50) . Unfortunately, the findings were not strictly
comr;a=abi,e because of the differences in the filter tip length on the
tobacco rods . However, the findings are presented in Table XIII despite
the limitations imposed on the comparative aspects of the various smoke
condensates .
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225
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a7'0-mm . tobacco rod, no filter tip .
b70-mn . tobacco rod, 15-mm. Estron 8/70 filter tip .
e68-r.Lm . tobacco rod, 17-nm. Estron 8/70 filter tip .
dlncludes neophytadiene .
e?:ateriul w:zose infrared absorption agreed with that of pure neophytadiene .
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f(?ualities for individual polycyclic hydrocarbons represent average values G
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to specific diseases . This evrua::ca consists of four t ;,-pe ;. ;
na :~c1y,
.
statistical, pathological, bs.o1c ;;=cc?, and clie ::ical . Our Studi4s
h .^.ve been co :l,^.l^r ned solely ttiit :l the ia : t .3_ C.S :.a - the cCe" ic,^ i
oi t ;Db .,cco f',^~+ :e . For a consistent pic=ure to be Daint6d of cilJ : .`b :iCCo
s ;.yoice-d :sease problem, the evidence from each discipline m, :st a,-reo u•itii
that from .. :1a other three .
:it . . _espect to the co .:.position of tob ;icco
smoke, ciell' cEl Cy : ;.i:':CE and the che :'ical evidence r eA :lrti't! by
othc:-s consis ::ent with the reoo_ted statistical, nathological, and
bioloeical data? To answer this question, let us first review briefly
the statistical, pathological, and biological data available .
The statistical data consist of the following : The results of some
29 retrospective statistical studies based on clinical findings have
indicated that the risk of developing lung cancer, especially opidermoid
or squamous cell carcinoma, increases with the amount of tobacco smoked
as cigarettes . When the tobacco is smoked as cigars or in a pipe, the
risk is m.:ca less . Presumably very few pipe and cigar smokers inhale ;
most cigarette smokers do inhale . Of these 29 retrospective studios,
none by itself proves a significant association between cigarette smoking
and lung cancer, but the combined evidence from the 29 studies is highly
suggestive of a significant association . This suggestion is bolstere d
by the results from seven prospective statistical studies whose results
indicated a significant association not only between cigarette smoking
and .lung cancer but also between cigarette smoking and heart disease and
several oz:er diseases . Although the results from these thirty-odd
retrospective and prospective statistical studies cannot prove a causeand-effect relationship between cigarette smoking and specific diseases
and although these results are not considered to be extrapolatable t o
the smoking population as a whole, the statistical evidence itself, without contradictorydata, is irrefutable . At least four of these studies
have shown that inhalation of the cigarette smoke increased the risk of
developing lung cancer . However, the interpretation of this evidence
from the thirty-odd studies may and does vary . In these studies, each
one dealing with a relatively small study group (compared with the total
number of smokers in the population), the evidence indicates that the
heavy cigarette smoker in each study group has a greater risk than the
moderate smoker, the moderate smoker has a greater risk than the light
smoker, and the light smoker has a greater risk than the nonsmoker of
developing certain specific diseases .
Pathological data indicate that the number of sites of hyperplasia
and metaplasia in human bronchi is proportional to the amount of tobacco
smoked as cigarettes . Similar pathological conditions have been produced
in e :;perimental animals by exposing them repeatedly to cigarette smoke
under conditions requiring the animals to inhale the smoke . It has also
been shown that inhalation of tobacco smoke results in absorption of
fluorescent tobacco smoke components by cellular components of the
respiratory tract . The exhaled cigarette smoke is less fluorescent tha n
the inhaled smoke ; microscopy in ultraviolet light of the intact respiratory
tract exposed to cigarette smoke reveals fluorescent areas in the cells .
Of course, fluorescence is not synonymous with carcinooenicity . It has
also been shown that exposure of extirpated respiratory tract tissue to
whole cigarette smoke reduces the ciliary beat frequency with a concomitant
slos•ing down of the outward and upward flow of mucus . Thus the protective
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Biological studies involving skin pa :.nting have indicated that cigarette smoke is carcinogenic to the skin of the mouse, rat, and rabbit .
Inhalation studies have indicated that exposure of lung cancer-susceptible
mice to cigarette smoke _esulted in an increased incidence of adenomas in
the exposed mice . Such experiments are criticited because no carcinomas
have been produced ; but the type of lung tumor cc.aracca :istic of the mouse
is the adeno :na, not the carcinoma . Other studies have i :Tdicated that both
whole cigarette smoke and certain cigarette smoke fractions are cocarcinogenic
(or promoters) for known carcinoger.s like the polycyclic hydrocarbons . Biological studies on the respiratory tract of an intact host have also shown,
as in the pathological studies described previously, that whole cigarette
smoke and certain of its subfractions are powerful ciliastats . Although
animal data on carcinogenesis or cocarcinogenesis are not extrapolatable
to humans, there are many instances where industrial ores, tars, and oils
(suspect on the basis of statistical data) have yielded biological data
comparable with those obtained with cigarette smoke . Institution of preventive measures based on these data concerning industrial materials
resulted in a decreased risk for the industrial population exposed . Thus,
precedents do,exist for the institution of preventives measures with
materials whose risk was first noted statistically and whose adverse
physiological action was then demonstrated biologically .
Irregardless of its interpretation, we have the following evidence :
(a) Statistics - both retrospective and prospective studies indicate
a significant association between cigarette smoking and certain
specific diseases .
(b) °athoioav - fluorescent cigarette smoke components are absorbed
by respiratory tract cellular components ; whole cigarette smoke
and certain of its subfractions . product metaplasia, hyperplasia,
and ciliastasis in experimental animals ; the extent of metaplasia ~
and hyperplasia in cigarette smokers is proportional to the ~
amount smoked .
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answored as follows :
The known composition of tobacco smoke is not inconsistent with the
statistical _inding that cigarette smoke may be associated with lung cancer,
heart disease, etc . Cigarette smoke contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and asterocyclic nitrogern co :lpou nc:s - several of wnich are known
carcinogens ; phenols and fatty acids - several of which are known promoters ;
phenol, aldehydes and ketones, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia all known ciliastats ; .nicotine and related alkaloids - many of which have
demonstrable effects on .the .cardiovascular system .
The known composition of tobacco smoke is not inconsistent with the
patizological .findings that fluorescent components of cigarette smoke are
absorbed .by respiratory tract,tissue, or that metaplasia and hyperplasia
are produced in the respiratory tract by cigarette smoke, or that ciliastasis
is produced by cigarette smoke . Cigarette smoke contains about a hundred
highly fluorescent components - the polycyclic hydrocarbons and the . heterocyclic nitrogen compounds ; many of these will produce metaplasia and
hyperplasia and .even carcinoma`in experimental animals . Cigarette smoke
contains several known ciliastats .
The known composition of tobacco smoke is not inconsistent with the
biological findings that cigarette smoke is carcinogenic, cocarcinogenic,
and ciliastatic . Cigarette smoke contains at least a dozen polycyclic
hydrocarbons`known to be carcinogenic . It contains at least three
heterocyclic nitrogen compounds known to be carcinogenic . It contains
nitrogen oxides, which are known to be carcinogenic and emphysematogenic .
It contains arsenious oxide(As203), long suspected as a carcinogen ; it
contains polonium-210, and it very likely contains carcinogenic epoxides
and dialkylnitrosamines . Cigarette smoke also contains promoters like
phenol and many of its homologs and the saturated and unsaturated fatty
acids . It contains ciliastats like formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein,
ammonia, nitrogen dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, and the low molecular weight
carboxylic acids .
A logical sequence for the activity of factors pertinent to the carcinogenic risk accompanying the inhalation of 'carcinogenic aerosols and irritants
present in cigarette smoke and polluted air has been outlined . The ability
of the respiratory, tract to prevent the retention and accumulation of
foreign particulate matter,by means of ciliary action and mucus stream
*It has never been ascertained whether cigarette smoke condensate wDulL be
more or less carcinogenic if the volatile components (aldehydes, etc .),
lost during processing of the :. ;:zoke, were still present during the carcinogenesis studies .
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amounts of t : e carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons plus the amounts of
the carcinogenic heterocyclic nitrogen co,:aour.ds plus the amount of arsenious
oxide plus the amounts of the cocarc :.nogenic phe ::ols and fatty acids are
sufficient to account for the.observed biological results . Calculation
has indicated that the kr.oc•m carcinogens and cocarcinogens in cigarette
snoke can account for about 90 percent of the observed activity . Such a
nixture could behave synergistically, additively, or ir.hibitively . It
is obvious that concern with the relative concentration in cigarette
smoke of one, or at most, of a few of the components is ridiculous . As
an absolute criterion of safety insofar as health is concerned, chemical
analysis of cigarette smoke, while highly suggestive, is physiologically
meaningless . The scientific community only accepts biological data as a
criterion of the healthfulness or harmfulness of a particular material .
The pharmacological properties, whether good or bad, of cigarette smoke
cannot be deter :ai ned fro .:~ chemical data which indicate the smoke from
Cigarette A contains more or less Carcinogen X, more or less Proa ;oter Y,
and more or less Ciliastat Z than the smaRte from Ciaarette B . The only
meaningful assessment of the relative tor:icity of the smokers from
different cigarettes is a biological assay .
O :•.
Although it has not been attributed directly to the mounting evidence
on the health question, a gradual change in cigarette smoke has occurred
during the past ten years . For the first five or six years of this period
the amount of particulate matter in cigarette smoke was reduced by the
use of more efficient filter tip materials . More recently, efforts have
been directed toward a search for methods of removing specific components
or types of components from cigarette smoke with particular attention
being directed at present to the removal of promoters and ciliastats . Of
interest is the fact that the most successful results in selective filtration - the use of Carbowax-type compounds to remove the cocarcinogenic
phenols, the use of the Keith charcoal filter'or other types of charcoalimpregnated filter tip to remove the ciliastatic aldehydes - have arisen
where cOr^.lementarv chemical and 'cioloaical data were available .
Our chemical studies have shown that the concentration of specific
smo ::e com:onents can be altered by specific treatment of the tobacco .
1'.e ::c ::e and ether extraction of tobacco decreases the total polycyclic
hydrocarbon and the benzo[aJpyrene content of cigarette smoke ; alcohol
extraction decreases the total polycyclic hydrocarbons and benzo[a)pyrene
but increases the phenol content of the smoke ; increasing the porosity of
the paper decreases the polycyclic hydrocarbon content of the smoke .
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polycyclic hydrocarbons in the smoke . This appeared to be confirmed by
biological data (reported by other workers) on the carcinogenic activity
of the cigarette smoke from extracted and nonextracted tobaccos . However,
the decrease in caicinoger.icity o° the sr..o : ;e was generally less than the
decrease in the benzo[aJpyrene content of the smoke . The results of later
chemical studies ihdicated this improvement may not be so marked tecause
alcohol extraction of tobacco resulted in an increase in the phenol contentt
of the smoke . Let us compare the exposure oi a host to the cigarette smokes
frorm extracted and nonextracted tobaccos . As mentioned previously, the
biological data on the activity (carcinogenic and sebaceous gland suppression) of the smokes indicated the smoke from the extracted tobacco
was less carcinogenic . But is the smoke from the extracted tobacco less
cocarcinoeenic when the host is exposed to this smoke together with
carcinogens from some other source, e .g ., polluted air? Our chemical
data suggest it is not .
Any change of the tobacco or the cigarette (extraction, tobacco
additives, filter tip materials, t :,lter tip addit-:.ves, paper porosity,
tobacco blend) will necessarily a :.ter the relative composition of the
tobacco smoke . How do we relate this composition change to the change,
if any, in the pharmacological properties of the cigarette smoke? For
what components of the cigarette smoke do we routinely analyze? Do we
determine the concentration of the carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons
(benzo[.k ;p ;.rene, dibenz[a,i]pyrer.e, and dibenz[a,hjanthracene), the
ca.cino~cr::c heterocyclic nitrogen compounds, the lactones, the cocarcinogenic phenols, the cocarcinogenic fatty acids, the ciliastatic aldehydes
(formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein), or other pharmacologically active
smol:e components like carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide,
nitrogen oxides, arsenious oxide, nickel or nickel carbonyl, polonium-210,
dialkylnitrosamines, low molecular weight epoxides, and/or nicotine and
related alkaloids? A chemical analysis which indicates a decrease in the
concentration of each and every one of these components or groups of components does not necessarily demonstrate, in any way, that the cigarette
is safer biologically to the host . Some smoke components not determined
may have increased in concentration to cause a totally unexpected effect .
At the risk of being repetitious - the only meaningful assessment ssmnt of the
relative toxicity of the smokes from different cigarettes is a biological
assay .
oxides, phenols, hydrogen cyanide) (7, 8, 32, 38, 59), and
irrizants %'aldehydes, nitrogen oxides) (7, 8) .
3 . ' :Ze composition of cigarette smoke can be altered by the following
:.r eatr„ents .
a .- Pretreatr:ent of tobacco by solvent extraction : Solvent
extraction of tobacco reduces the polycyclic hydrocarbons
content of the cigarette smoke ; the extraction increases
the phenol content of the smoke (1, 11, 12, 13, 15, 32) .
b . PretreEtrent of tobacco b,~ the use of additives : Addition
of inorganic compounds like cupric nitrate to tobacco decreases
the polycyclic hydrocarbon and benfo[aJpyrene content of the
smoke (1$, 22, 29) . Addition of sulfur to tobacco increases
the polycyclic hydrocarbon and benzo[a1pyrene of the smoke (22) .
Addition to tobacco of organic compounds like sclareolide and
the salts of substituted malonic esters improved the cigarette
smoke flavor by increasing the concentration of flavorful
components in the smoke . Addition to tobacco of organic
compounds like solanesol, the saturated hydrocarbons, or the
phytosterols does not alter substantially the cigarette smoke
flavor, but does increase the polycyclic hydrocarbon and
benzo[ajpyrene content of the smoke (22) .
c . The choice of filter tiu materials : The composition of cigarette smoke can be altered by the choice of filter tip materials
(15, 18) . Cellulose acetate and cellulose have different
affinities for the particulate phase and its components ;
charcoal, alumina, and silica gel, have different affinities
for the vapor phase and its components .
d . Pretreatment of filter tias : Certain compounds added to filter
tip materials can alter the composition of cigarette smoke ;
e .g ., agents. like 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone or chloranil which
form stable complexes with polycyclic hydrocarbons when added
to the filter tip material reduce the polycyclic hydrocarbon
content of cigarette smoke (19, 30) ; various Carbowaxes on
filter tip material reduce the phenol content of cigarette
smoke .
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of
ci ;arette smo ::e a_tered by alterir.g zize porosity of
the cigarette , " nd/or tae use of an a :;r.i ;:ive such as
sodium and po :.assi~- cit_ates on tze paper
. Tobacco contains compounds V :ich ::aven been demonstrated to be
precursors of carcinogens ir. smol;e . Solanesol, the saturated
hydrocarbons, and the p :.ytosterois in =obacco are precursors of
various polycyclic hydrocarbons in s:r.oke (11, 12, 13, 15) ; nicotine in tobacco is a precursor of carcinogenic heterocyclic
nitrogen compound in smoke (35) . Plausible mecnanisms for the
formation of these two classes of co .-apounds from their precursors
have been advanced .
5 .. Tobacco contains compounds which have been demonstrated to be
precursors of the cocarcinogens (or promoting agents) in smoke .
Pectin, cellulose, and lignin .in tobacco are precursors of the
cocarcinogenic phenols in smoke (59) .
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6 . Tobacco contains compounds which have been demonstrated to be
precursors of the ..ciliastats .in smoke . Cellulose and glycerol in
tobacco are precursors of ciliastatic aldehydes and ketones in
smoke . Cellulose in tobacco is also a precursor of phenol, a
known ciliastat,• in smoke (7, 8) .
7 . None of the chemical data acquired in our studies or in studies
conducted elsewhere is inconsistenz with reported biological,
pathological, or statistical data indicting cigarette smoke as
a health hazard .
8 . Although considerable data are available on the chemical composition
of cigarette smoke, much more data are required to define completely
both the chemical and physical nature of cigarette smoke (59) .
E . Rr.COr~~k'DATIOAS
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During the period June, 1954 to May, 1963 many recommendations con-
cerning the study of cigarette smoke were made . Many of these recommendations
ware followed up by research which was subsequently reported . Some recom- ~
mendations, stili pertinent, are as follows :
1 . A : .l additives to tobacco should be tested biologically for their
adverse effect, if any, on a host (11a) .
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. . . _ . r_ . . Vt .: Yl :t . . Sicsoorc ;.._ aG . .a (V, _3, _S, 59) .
of . . . . ;) f y siCo - C : e :ac3_ of aerosols as they
.:o to~a ..co s ::o ::e and its 'i_t:ation would be valuable .
(T ::_s stc :c:y is in progress) .
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5 . The study of the compos__'_on of cigarette smoke by the isolation
and characterization o .-' _ts components should be reactivated as
soon as possible .
II . Patentabilitv
The patentability of various ideas and findings has been discussed
in the appropriate sections of our earl_er reports .
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Alan Rodgman:
Distr ;bution•
Mr . Kenneth H . Hoover
Mr . E . H . Harwood
Dr . Murray Senkus
Dr . Claude E . Teague, Jr .
Dr . Alan Rodgman
Library (2)
Dr . Fred T . Williams
First Draft Submitted : October 24, 1963
Completed : February 14, 1964
From manuscript :ww :pws
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2 . COo'.., L . C . , and Rodgr.;,n, r:• , T ::e An" lvsis of Citar ette S ::zo ;cC
Condensate . }:.l'II2 . a- ar~.d 6-Levantanolide Tu : ki sh Tobacco
Sn:o :ce . RDR, 1961, No . 12 (Apr . 28) . .
3 . Cook, L . C ., anr: Rodgman, A ., T:^.e Co,::osition of Cigarette Smoke .
VIII . o'- and S-Levantenolide from Tu_ :cish Tobacco Smoke . TOBACCO
SCIENCE, 6, 32-33 (1962) .
4 . Cook, L . C ., and Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke
Condensate . XXV . 12a-Hvdroxv-13-evimanovl Oxide from Turkish
Tobacco Smoke . RDR, 1961, No . 44 (Sept . 22) .
5 . Cook, L . C ., Rodgman, A ., and'1'oung, G . W ., The Analysis of
Cigarette Smoke Condensate . XVI . Normal Lona-Chained Primar,y
Alcohols . RDR, 1960, No . 22 (July 1) .
6 . Cook, L . C ., Rodgman, A ., and Young, G . W ., The Comoosition of
Cigarette Smoke . VII . Normal LonR-Chained Primary Alcohols .
TOBACCO SCIENCE, 5, 6-10 (1961) .
7 . Fredrickson, J . D ., Chappell,C . K ., and Rodgman, A ., The Preuaration of Reference 2,4-Dinitrovhenvlhydrazones for Ninety-one
Carbonyl Comoounds . RDR, 1956, No . 6 (Apr . 27) .
8 . Fredrickson, J . D ., Chappell, C . K ., and Rodgman, A ., The Analysis
of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . }LXX . Volatile Aldehvdic and
Ketonic Constituents . RDR, 1963, No . 12 (Feb . 8) .
9 . I'.od"man, A ., The Use of Potassium Bromate as an Oxidant to Convert
Carcinoeenic Hvdrocarbons to Noncarcinogenic Quinones . CIM, 1954,
No . 34 (Nov . 17) .
10 . Rodgman, A ., The Fractionation of Cigarette Smoke and Tar . RDM,
1955, No . 13 (Apr . 29) .
11 . Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . I . The
Isolation and/or Identification of Polvcyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
in CAMEL Cigarette Smoke Condensate . RDR, 1956, No . 9 (Sept . 28) .
lla . Rodgman, A ., The Prevaration of Some Phenolic Flavorants . RDR,
1956, No . 10 (Oct . 1) .
12 . Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Ciaarette Smoke Condensate . II . The
Pretreatment of CA.*EL Blend Tobacco . RDR, 1956, No . 12 (Nov . 1) .
13 . Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Ciearette Smoke Condensate . III .
Flue-Cured Tobacco . RDR,,1957, No . 4(A:arch 14) .
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R:.dor:.an, A ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . X . The
r :: :ect of Porous Paoer and/or Filter TiD Materials or Aluminized
?sver and/or Alumina Additive fRevnolds Metals Cor .:oanv) on Total
Polvcvclic Hvdrocarbons . RDM, 1959, No . 80 (July 16) .
19 .
P.odgman, A ., An Additive ::or Filter Tiv Materials . CIM, 1960,
No . 4 (July 13) .
20 .
Rodgman, A ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . }:I}C .
_::e Determination of Pol .•cvolic Aro, :atic Hvdrocarbons . RDR, 1961,
No . 1 (Jan . 6) .
21 .
Rod ;rzn, A ., The Ar.alvsis of Cigarette Smoke Condensate . XXXIII .
P :.lvcvclic Hvdrocarboi:s in Lark Cigarette Smoke . RAM, 1963, No . 37
(=~'Y 1~)~ •
22 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., T'.:e Ar.alvsis of Cigarette Smoke
Condensate . V. The Polvcvclic Hydrocarbon Precursors in Tobacco .
RDR, 1958, No . 18 (Dec . 1) .
23 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analysis of Ciearette Smoke
Condensate . VII . Solanesol and Solanesvl Acetate . RDR, 1958,
INo . 22 (Dec . 31) .
24 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Comoosition of Cigarette Smoke .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analvsis of Cigarette Smoke
Condensate . XI . a-TocoDherol . RDR, 1959, No . 23 (Sept . 29) .
26 .
:;odgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Cor:oosition of Cigarette Smoke .
_V . ^>.•.-Tocooherol . T03::CC0 SCIENCE, 4, 7-8 (1960) .
'27 .
Rodgman , A . , and Cook , L . C ., The Analvsis of Cigarette Smoke
Condensate . XIII . Sclareolide from Turkish Tobacco Smo ::e .
:.DR,
1; 60, 'x o . 8 (Apr . 1) .
28 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke
Con ::er.sa _e . XIV . Polvcvclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons . RDR, 1960,
No . 20 ( ::ay 26) .
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Condensate . ?.VIII . C ::?o_F ::i1 and 2 .4 .7-__•i~nitrofluorenone as
Filter Tia Additives . C7 R, '900, No . 58 (Dec . 7) .
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Condensat }^ : . ? ;ote on i:he Lc .a.-Chained Pri~r~arv
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(Jan . 26) .
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Rodgx.s.n, A ., :::.d Cook, L . C ., The Analrsis of C!__arette Smoke
Condensate . }:: ;I . Phenols . RDR, 1961, No . 10 (Feb . 23) .
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Rodgman, ak ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke
Condensate . XXIV . 6-Acetv_-2 .3 .4-tris-d-B-methvlvalervl-6-DelucoovranJside from Turkish Tobacco S .;.oke . RDR, 1961, No . 42
(Aug . 18) .
34 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Coroosition of Cigarette Smoke .
X . 12o:-Hydroxv-13-euiraanol+l Oxide from Turkish Tobacco Smoke .
TO?ACCO SCIENCE, 6, 123-124 (1962) .
35 .
Rodoman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analysis of Cigarette Smoke
Condensate . XA'ATI . Heterocvclic Nitroeen Comnounds from Turkish
Tobacco Smoke . RDR, 1962, No . 14 (June 21) .
36 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Comoosition of Cigarette Smoke
XI . Heterocyclic Nitro¢en Compounds from Turkish Tobacco Smoke .
Paper presented at 16th Tobacco Chemists' Research Conference,
Richmond, Virginia, September 26-28 (1962) .
37 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Comoosition of Cigarette Smoke .
XI . Heterocvclic Nitrogen Comoounds from Turkish Tobacco Smoke .
TOBACCO SCIENCE, 6, 174-177 (1962) .
38 .
Rodgman, A ., and Cook, L . C ., The Analysis of Cigarette•Smoke
39 .
Condensate . )MVII . Phenols from Turkish Tobacco Smoke : Eugenol
and Isoeugenol . RDR, 1962, No . 15 (June 21) .
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Condensate . }OZ1X . Phvtol (3,7,11,15-Tetramethvl-2-hexadecen-l-ol) .
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Tobacco Smoke . RDR, 1963, No . 24 (Nlar . 25) .
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G . td . , Tae Ar. ..lvs ; s of Ciearette Smoke Condensate . XXII . The
ar. :;lio :^.a :ic Ester Fractiorn from Tobacco and
^Jbacco Sr :,ice . RDR, 1961, No . 15 (Mar . 27) .
46 .
:; :,dg .nan, A ., Cook, L . C ., Bellin, S . A ., Mims, S . S ., and Young,
G . W ., The Comoosition of Cigarette Smoke . M The Comoosition
c : an Aliohatic Ester Fraction from Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke .
Paper presented at 15t'r. Tobacco Chemists' Research Conference,
P ::iladelphia, Pennsylvania, October 4-6 (1961) .
47 . Rodgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., Bellin, S . A ., Mims, S . S ., and Young,
G . W ., The Cor, .oosition of Cigarette Smoke . IX . The Comnosition
of an Aliv'.:atic Ester Fraction ::rom Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke .
TOBACCO SC-6ENCE, 6, 42-49 (1962) .
48 .
::odgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Chappell, C . R . , The Analysis of
Cigarette S-:oi:e Condensate . V . Comoarisorn of Different Tobacco
TS es . RDR, 1960, No . 21 (June 30) .
49 .
:.odgr.%an, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Chappell, C . K ., The Comuosition of
CiQarette Smoke . VI . Carmarison of Different Tobacco Tvoes .
Paper presented at 14th Tobacco Chemists' Research Conference,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 13-14 (1960) .
50 . i.odgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Chappell, C . K ., The Comoosition of
C=2arette Smoke . VI . Cor.marison of Different Tobacco Tvices .
TOBACCO SCIENCE, 5, 1-5 (1961) .
51 . Rodgtr.an, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Latimer, P . H ., The Analysis of
C_sarette Smoke Condensate . VIII . Solanesvl Esters and Phvtostervl
Esters . RDR, 1959, No . 2 (Feb . 10) .
52 . Rodgman, A ., Cook, L . C ., and Latimer, P . H ., The Co :noosition of
C : . .arette Smoke . ?I . Solanesvl and Phvtostervl Esters . TOB.=.CCO
SCIENCE, 3, 125-128 (1959) .
53. TJ ;; ;man, A ., Cook, L . C ., and 'Mins, S . S ., The Analysis of Cifiarette
Condensate . XII . Saualer.es and Solanesenes . RDR, 1960,
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Sra ::e . RJa., I c o0, No . 47 (May 27 ) .
57 . Rod ;man, A ., Aienz, W . W ., Huffr, .zn, F . E ., and Smith, E . N .
Co ;zonents Recorted in Tobacco Smoke . RDM, 1962, No . 43 (May 21) .
58 . Rodgman, A ., Menz, W . W ., and I:onstanti :.aia, G . A ., Comnonents
Reaorted in Tobacco Smoke . Suauiemer.t 's . Comoonents ReDorted
from May 1962 to S-)_ii 1963 . RDM, 1963, No . 32 (May 2) .
59 . Rodgman, A ., and Mims, S . S ., The Analvsis of Cigarette Smoke
Conaer:sate . )MVIII . Possible Precursors in Tobacco of Phenols
in Tobacco Smoke . RDR, 1963, No . 1 (Jan . 9) .
60 . Rowland, R . L ., Rodgman, A ., Schumacher, J . h ., Roberts, D . L .,
Cook, L . C ., and Walker, C,T . E ., Jr ., Macrocyclic Diterpenes .
Hvdroxvethers from Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke . Paper presented at
17th Tobacco Chemists' Research Conference, Montreal, P . Q .,
Canada, September 23-25 (1963) .
61 . Rowland, R . L ., Rodgman, A ., Schumacher, J . N ., Roberts, D . L .,
Cook, L . C ., and Walker, W . E ., Jr ., ~iacrocvclic Diterpene
Hydroxyethers from Tobacco and Cistarette Smoke . J . ORG . CHEM.,
?9, 16-21 (1964) .
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RDR, 1961, Nos . 1, 5, 10, 15, 21, 42, and 44
RDDf, 1962, a\To . 42
RDR, 1962, Nos . 14 and _5
F,DM, 1963, Nos . 32 and 37
RDR, 1963, Nos . 9, 12, 15, 24, and 35
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CONFIDENTIAL
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R !4 D LONG-RANGE PLANNING
SMOKING AND HEALTH: PROt1UCT AND St4OKE COMPONENTS
Dr. Alan Rodgman
Director of Research
October 8, 1976
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
On the following pages is presented a discussion of Key Issues
for long-range planning in the area of Smoking and Health,~ :_ Product
and Smoke Components .
In reading this n:inuscript, the reader should be aware of the
following :
(1) The author does not necessarily agree with or accept
any or all of the data, claims, statements, allegations,
etc ., advanced by proponents of the smoking-health
theory with regard to the components considered .
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(2) For each product or smoke component, the bleakest
possible outlook has been presented•. In many •
instances there are substantial data to contradict
some or all of the claims advanced by proponents
, of the smoking-health theory .
(3) For most of the product and smoke components . I
have included in the discussion the use of such
~A"' as " . . .proponents claim . . .," " . . .proponents
c~ ~~+nn . . . . . " . . . Proponents allege . . .," " . . .proponents
• ~f~`#~ t . . . ." " . . .the alle9ed activities . . . ." " . . .the
• ;Xlaiiped properties . . .," etc. In parts of the
ssion where I may have inadvertently omitted
.'41M•qualtfying words or phrases, their presence
* be underbtood by the reader .
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(4) 1YR7references cited in each of the position
s should be considered as representative .
ome sc~oke or product components such as
nic0tine, "tar", or carbon monoxide there are
hundreds of references available .
(5) Several product or smoke components are-discussed
In the introductory text but do not appear in a
Position Paper or in the Key Issue tabulation .
These were included for the sake of completeness .
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R & D LONG-RANGE PLANNING
SMOKING AND NEALTfi : PRODUCT AND SM0KE COMPOtiENTS
MISSION STATEMENT
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To define those components in the Company's products and/or in the smoke
from the Company's products which will be implicated either positively or
negatively in the smoking-and-health controversy .
r, It is anticipated that past and present trends to indict various components
ojjtobacco products and/or their smoke as contributors to ill health will
ntinue till 1989 but at a highly enhanced level during the decade 1979-1989 .
~• Past and present indictments will continue .in the future to concern not only
direct exposure of the smoker to the components of the mainstream smoke
~ '" at wc
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exposure of the nonsmoker or .
ker cohort to the components of environmental smoke . Environmental smoke •
defined as the sum of the sidestream smoke (the smoke liberated to the
sphere between puffs) plus that portion of the mainstream smoke exhaled
•
the smoker .
Attacks will be mounted against proprietary and other flavorant systems,
sing formulat , .•'etc
. whose
. components appear on the GRAS list which was
generated prima y to permit inclusion of various materials in edible or
~• osmetic produc, he GRAS list in general does not cover inhalation of
` se com?oundmor .eir decomposition products generated during the smpking
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also likely that certain product or smoke components*now
nera%ons ~ snfe, or at least not indicted as harmful, will eventually
considered l because of the acquisition of new information on their
hysiological pr
:ties .
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4It is visuali2 d that claims concerning a given component may be viewed
s either an "opportunity" or a "threat" or in some cases, both an "opportunity"
nd a "threat" ; e. g ., some health authorities may claim (as some already have
one) that the nicotine level of the smoker should be increased to satisfy the
moker's physiological requirements and deter him from inereasing his consumption
f low-"tar" cigarettes . This presents an "opportunity" to the first company
hich attains a realistic goal of a"tar" :nicotine ratio substantially less than
0 . This concept may also be a "threat" since other health authorities may claim
hat both nicotine and "tar" should be reduced simultaneously to the eventual
__ eaninn aoint .
.
.
To combat the anticipated situation with regard to the components .of
Compa•iy products and•their smoke, R & 0 will need the following : '
1 . Increased awareness and intelligence on the activities
of various governmental agencies (NCI), medical
societies (Americtn Cancer Society), and popular
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publications (READER'S DIGEST) devoted to the
curtailment and elimination of the smoking
habit .
2 . Logical anticipation of which components,
either product or smoke, will be indicted
and the sequence of their indictment .
3 . Increased staffing with highly competent
people, acquisition of appropriate instrumentation,
and generation of advanced technology to quickly
and accurately answer any or all claims against
a specific component . (It would be highly
desirable to have the necessary answers in hand
or to the time an attack is mounted against
griTven component) .
:4 . Alternative product components to replace those indicted and for which no satisfactory rebuttals
are available or forthcoming .
The numbe nown components (excluding propriEtary flavorants) in the
ou~pany's tobacn ~`oducts exceed 1200 while, that for smoke exceeds 2300 .
r~er f th se c ponents are cortmon to both tobacco and smoke . For smoke,
t is te the number of known components is less than 10% of those
ctu .a~,1 :
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ese
,
Kher~ thes ers are considered, it is obvious that no detailed account
n be given of 'total known composition of smoke and/or tobacco in terms
f anticipated g=term indictment of all the specific smoke or tobacco
Jitherebesindic%ted or 5ebtheisub3ectiofsconsiderablenworkaandsadwhich versewill
iscussion between 1976 and,1989 .
A brief discussion of these areas and their status as ofOctober ' 1976
oltows .
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b . Licorice
c . Cocoa
d . Glycerol and Other Humectants
6. Flavorants
7 . Contaminants
a.
Pesticides
b. Dust and Sand
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Materials
Additives
!lasticizers
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C . Paper
1 . Paper'AddStives : Dyes
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SMOKING AND HEALTH : SMOKE COMPONENTS
.A . Mainstream vs Sidestream Smoke
B . Environmental Smoke
C . Smoke Phases and Their Components
1 . Particulate-Phase Components
a . FTC "Tar"
b . Nicotine
c. Pesticides
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d. Polycyclic Hydrocarbons
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e.
J•te tal l tc Components
f.
i . Polonium-210
ii . Cadmium
Nitrosamines
2 . Gas-Phase Components
a.
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c.
d.
e.
D.
Carbon Monoxide
Nitrogen Oxides
Hydrogen Cyanide
Hydrogen Sulfide
Other
Smoke "Stran ers" Generated b Uni uel
Processed TobaccoProducts
~Un gi- u~ eFil er an ter avorant ystemc, an , n que aper pye
S,ys tems
I . Tr~atco f;~MPG MYS
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Tobacco yyoe
8efore 1989 flue-cured'may be indicted as a smoking-health
hai.ord and recom~endations for its removal from tobacco products
be odvbnced .
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8ecause of the high incidence of respiratory tract cancer at
no,,,,f nal per capita consumption of smoking products, it is alleged
tho't flue-cured tobacco (by far the major tobacco component of all
r . Products) is a major contributor to respiratory tract cancer
in the U• K . These allegations are based on vital statistical ~>
~ Wa which are interpreted to show that the death rate frcm
O reoPirdtory tract cancer is much higher in the U . K, than in the
~ U, 5 . A . at essentially the same per cigarette consumption . Propo,f,ants of the smoking-nealth theory claim that dilutiori of fluecur ed tobacco with burley, Maryland, Turkish, and G7-type' stem
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re4qoR`1for the activity of the smoke are the waxes
~(a1 e9 cursors of carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons)
anil t~6 s ars . Also, flue-cured tobacco usually generates
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;.ba4rc = e . Flue-cured differs markedly from burley in its
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F or more than a decade it has been known that inclusion
of stem materials (usually in sheet form) in a cigarette blend
dporea :es the alleged specific activity of smoke condensate in
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ini'lusion of stem materials in cigarette products throughout <k~ `
tht+ Affierican industry gradually increased, arod at the same time,
thh alleged specific activity and the benzo(aagyrene content of
th is S mo ke from such products gradually decreased .
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~ it was alleged that G7-typra sheet a :aterials (high stem content) ~
m,nufactured by Schweitzer and At•S&F showed some apparent advantage m
ovar CUt tobacco filler in specific carcinogenicity in mouse '• 3L,
sklii-Painting experiments . The Company has used G7 at a grccually Ln
iil, rea .ing level for over 25 years and thus provided products ~ .hose oD
sn,nkes . according to the thesis adti'Mnctai by some smoking-health pitipon6nfs, would alleqedly be lowor in
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than those of its competitors . Much of this alleged advantage has ~
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materials in general generate higher levels of certain smoke
• gas-phase components than does cut tobacco filler . These gas-phase
components, because of their volatiiity, are not involved in mouse
skin-painting tests with smoke condensate . It probably will be
claimed before 1985 that excessive exposure of the respiratory
tract to such gas-phase components impairs the respiratory tract
defense mechanisms (ciliary and/or macrophage activity) against
"tar" elimination . Pres,:nt evidence suggests that at nominal
exposure levels, much of these indicted gas-phase,components
are "scrubbed" out of the smoke stream by upper respiratory tract
(mouth and throat) secretions . However, excessive levels of
these gas-phase components generated from high level inclusion
of stem material in the smoking product may saturate the
upper respiratory tract "scrubbers" thus permitting these
components to reach the lower respiratory tract (lung) .
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The results of experiments conducted by NCI on three
..types of expanded tobacco (RJR (expanded with Freon 11),
PP1 (expanded with ammonia/carbon dioxide), NCSU (expanded
by freeze-drying with water)) and the results of experiments
contracted to IBT by RJR on its G13-expanded tobacco
demonstrated in each case that the smokes from the expanded
toba ~ossessed slightly less specific activity (but
not ~~aA'°.`i••ficantly so) ir. mouse skin-painting than did the
smogisixon a control, nonexpanded tobacco . In a macrophage
actf~ity inhibition study, the RJR G13-expanded tob~+cco smoke
004 sh ed 1 s inhibitory effect presumably due to lower levels
of g ase components than did the control tobacco smoke .
•Thes 'logical findings are in accord with detailed smoke
co on studies conducted by RJR .
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'RJR proprietary expanded tobacco is the only one
of 'three wf .ich. introduces 'into the smoke an unnatural
componen or "stranger," .Freon 11 .' Although this is present
at very low levels, future indictments of Freon 11 in a
health and/or environmental situation may seriously compromise
our use of this expansion agent .
3. Tobacco Substitutes
Several tobacco substitutes are now available in the
market . The two most important are Celanese's Cytrel and
ICI's NSM . Within the projection period, a tobacco
substitute such as these will be used successfully in the
U. S. A . to control smoke composition as a health-related
measure . '
The development within the Company of the substitute
J10, a puffed grain, will permit rapid response by RJRT to
this situation when it occurs . J10 offers several advantages
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J10 are less than 10% of those expended by Celanese and
ICI, no royalty payments are needed since J10 is an in-house
developed and patented product, the raw material cost for
J10 and the cost of manufacture are much less than those
for Cytrel and NStd, J10 has an expanded structure and
volume-for-volume replacement of tobacco by J10 is about
a 1 :3 replacement on a weight-for-weight basis, J10 on
admixture with tobacco introduces no "strangers" into the
smoke, and the present status of a biolcgical study on J10
smoke condensate in a mouse skin-painting experiment
indicates no problem . (This study will be completed by
the end of the 3rd quarter, 1977) .
Should the situation arise in that the consumer
desires a tobacco substitute in his cigarette, the use
of J10 by RJRT presents a real "opportunity" from both
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A ._ Nicotine ,
Nicotine in tobacco products may be subjected to two
s by proponents of the smoking-health theory :
Because of claims that nicotine is allegedly
involved in cardiovascular problems, to
decrease nicotine in the product so that
reduced levels of nicotine will appear in
the smoke.
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I so that increassd levels of nicotine will
appear in tht. smoke at a lowered "tar"
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physiological requirements at a lower
level of "tar" intake . Part of this
physiological satisfaction can be
accomplished by control of smoke pH but •
this approach has definite limitations .
Solution of a . is the simpler since "tar" and nicotine
usually parallel each other in the smoke since nicotine is a
particulate-phase or "tar" component . Systems such as blend,
filtration, air dilution, paper porosity employed to lower
"tar" delivery usually lower uicotine delivery by roughly the
same percentage .
Another facet of a . is the recent and consistent indication
in studies conducted by NCI on three series of experimental
cigarettes that the specific carcinogenicity of smoke condensate
in mouse skin painting is proportional to the nicotine content
of the condensates .
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Solution of b . presents a real challenge : to increase
• the nicotine content of smoke while maintaining or lowering
the "tar" delivery . Possible ways to accomplish this include :
the use in the blend of high levels of high-nicotine tobacco
(usually not readily available in quantities needed), enhancement
of the nicotine content of the blend by addition of nicotine
salts, development of a unique air dilution-filtration system
to lower "tar" levels but not nicotine levels (a highly unlikely
concept) .
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of nicotine in its natural configurationa . Possible sources ,
include : synthesis (problem here is that unless a stereospecific synthesis is available, 60% of product is in the
unn2tural configuration, hence is unusable), extraction of
nicotine from specially grown, generally nonusable tobaccos
such as Rustica, genetic development (probably requiring 5
years •o gf eneM work) of high-nicotine . low-"tar" delivery
tobaccos, biosynthesis of nicotine by specific microorganisms,
recovery of nicotine at all process points involving heating
of tobacco throughout the Company . The latter presents the
bestt "op~ortunity" . Each drying operation in our tobacco
.g line decreases the nicotine content about 5%, 613
reduces nicotine content, etc . PH, in its new
n Richrr.ond, recovers all volatile effluents and
. ~. .,_---- them to recover both the tobacco flavorants and
which then are returned to the Pti products .
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major casing materials (sugar, licorice, cocoa,
hw~ rits) have a long history of use in tobacco products .
Unticently, no serious question was raised or evidence
obtained on their involvement in the smoking-health issue .
However, within the past few years, health claims against sugar
and cocoa in the blend have appeared . It is, however, anticipated
that these claims may become more serious during the projection
period . As "tar" and nicotine numbers have been reduced by
blend adjustment, use of porous paper, use of improved filter
and air dilutfon systems, etc ., future attention will be
directed to those items previously considered minor in comparison
but which will eventually attain an important place tn thg
smoking-health issue .
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These casing materials, presently acceptable according to•
the GRAS list for ingestion and/or cosmetic use, present '
diverse problems when their inhalation or inhalation of their
decomposition products is considered .
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As noted previously in I•A•1, the sugar content
of flue-cured tobacco is alleged to be in part the
tobacco component whose decomposition products are
responsible for the higher carcinogenicity of the
smoke from flue-cured cigarettes over that of the
smoke from a blended cigarette . The evidence for this
is primarily statistical, e . g ., higher 1ung .cancer
death rates in U . K. where wholly flue-cured cigarettes
are smoked vs lower lung cancer death rates in the
U. S . A. and elsewhere where blended cigarettes are
smoked.
This epidemiological evidence appears to be
confirmed by biological studies (mouse skin painting)
which show that the specific carcinogenicity of flue-cured smoke condensate is substantially greater
than that of the smoke condensate from Maryland or
burley dnd essentially the same as that of Turkish
.tobacco smoke condensate . Turkish, like flue-cured,'
has a high sugar content, averaging about 10% .
ver, an NCI study in the 3rd Series of cigarettes
icated that neither sugar nor humectant added to
experimental control blend affected the specific
cinogenicity of the smoke condensate, but sugar •
s hunectant did correlate with higher seecific •
cinogenicity . Sugar added at the 5x level also
reases the "tar" and nicotine delivery of a
en tobacco blend .
Results of studies conducted in-house indicate
t the sugar levels in Compar~y products could be
subistantially reduced without serious impairment
of smoking qual i ty .
b . Licorice
Licorice was originally used in chewing tobacco
and its use was transferred to pipe tobacco and
subsequently to cigarette tobacco . It imparts a
certain sweetness to the smoke . Its active ingredient
is glycyrrhizin, a salt of the triterpenoid glycoside,
glycy rrhizic acid . Neither of these has been detected
to date in smoke . It has been speculated that during
combustion glycyrrhizic acid can form carcinogenic
polycyclic hydrocarbons such as benzota) pyrene from
the triterpene moiety and phenols from the sugar
inoieties . To date, the only evidence in partial
support of this claim is that pipe tobacco containing
high levels of licorice (and thus glycyrrhizic acid)
yielded substaotially higher levels of oenzo[alpyrene
than did cigarette tobacco smoked under identTcal
conditions .
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It is anticipated that at some time during the
projection period governmental regulations may require
the listing on the label of the leyel of licorice
in the smoking product . This would necessitate
Company compliance, the use of an alternative to
licorice, abandonment of its use, or generation of
data to show that the premise for labelling is
invalid .
The labelling regulation is viewed as a""threat",
the discovery of a successful alternative as an
"opportunity" .
c. Cocoa
In a recent study by NC1, results in a mouse •
skin-painting experiment indicated that inclusion•of
1% cocoa in the experimental blend increased the
specific carcinogenicity of the smoke condensate
obtained therefrom .
Regulations to label for cocoa content of the
~ing product would result in compliance by the
,mpany, replacement of cocoa with a suitable
• rnative, abandonment, or generation of data to
rsho)y that the premise for labelling is invalid .;Glycerol
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m will be levelled at one or more humectants and/or
decomposition products in smoke, and a regulation
wil be proposed requiring the listing of such added
ingredients on the-label .
The NC1 study on the 3rd Series of cigarettes
demonstrated w':;.t glyccrol added to the control blend
had no effect on specific activity in'mouse skin-painting
of the smoke condensate but sugar plus glycerol did .
All other evidence from 1960 to date suggests that
humectantsdo not play a significant role in tobacco
smoke carcinogenesis .
6 ._ Flavorants
The use of additives to enhance tobacco flavor was criticized
more than ten years ago on the basis that possible prectirsors of
irritants and/or toxic substances were being introduced into the
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are rarely tested in biological assays . From this, the question
was raised : Should not such flavorants be subject to regulation
by governmental health authorittes as are artificial food
fiavorants?
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Within the projection period, the use of flavorants - even
proprietary flavorants - on tobacco products will be attacked
on a greater scale as contributors to the alleged adverse
properties of tobacco smoke . In general, proprietary and other
flavorants added to Company products fall into two classes :
They are known components of tobacco and are added to enhance a
specific flavor characteristic or they are on the GRAS list
which, as mentioned previously, is a list of compounds considered
safe for ingestion or use in cosmetics . The GRAS list in
general does not cover inhalation of the listed compounds or
their decomposition products produced during the smoking
process .
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Awareness of this situation ts already evident in that
NCI has already contracted a study on flavorants .to A . D: Little .
Proposals for future work by NCI include inhalation studies
on s e enerated from tobacco treated with a variety of
know • cco flavorants .
f the Company's proprietary and patented Turkish-type
flav 'rant have tremendous potential economic ad'vantage to the
ompa articularly as the cost of Tur'a sh tobacco continues
77to es• 1•e . One of these is a known component of Turkish
oba nd its use will probably present no serious'problem7 rhe , N13, is structurally similar to a sugar ester
isola rom Turkish tobacco but to date, N13 has not been
demo ted as a Turkish tobacco component. Demonstration of
thc*,,res~ce of M13 in Turkish tobacco is an "opportunity" to
protect the Company's right to use this flavorant in the face
of future regulations and to preserve the economic advantages
inherent in the use of M13 .
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7._ Contaminants
a . Pesticides
Various pesticides have been banned from use •
on tobacco plants over the past several years . .
Those permitted at the present time may, at seme '
time in the future, be banned on the basis of some ,
environmental or health-related hrzard such as •
occurred in the banning of DDT (concentration of
DDT in mammalian fatty depots and liver) . Usually
it requires years for soil once impregnated with a specific
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pesticide to become essentially depleted of the
pesticide . As a result the pesticide appears in
subsequent years' crops of tobacco even though the
banned pesticide is no longer in use . Post pesticides
are transferred intact to some degree from the
tobacco to the snooke during the combustion process .
This will probably present no problem with the
sale of the Company's domestic products but may
present a problem in international products
marketed in some European countries such as Hest
~Germany where pesticide residue regulations are
very strict .
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This is not precisely a problem with the
Company's flroducts but is a health-related problem
in the work areas where Company raw materials are
processed (stemmery, blending, etc .) . The Company
has diligently followed OSitA regulations to control
sand and dust levels in the work areas, but it is
anticipated that these regulations will become even
Wk* demanding during the period 1976-1989 .
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use of the traditional filtration material, cellulose
acet• , ill continue through the projection period . Nowever,
increa emphasis on gas-phase components such as aldehydes,
hydr eyanide, hydrogen sulfide, etc ., may result in the
design a d ~tilization of more efficient carbon filters .
Carbon, of course, does not absorb either carbon monoxide or
nitric oxide, the predominant (>98x) component of the nitrogen
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a . Plasticizers
Since every plasticizer•currently used on a
filter tip Is entrained to some•dEgree in the smoke
stream and thus appears in the mainstream smoke
inhaled by the smoker, claims concerning the
hazard of these components will appear during the
projection pericd . The plasticizer most commonly
used in the American tobacco industry is triacetin .
which, on exposure to smoke and entrainment in the
smoke stream, does react to form diacetins and
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monoacetins plus acetic acid, an alleged ciliastat and
inhibitor-of macrophage activity (impairment of
respiratory tract defense system) . The filter-tiN
suppliers will probably deal with this type of problem
and the development of alternate plasticizers .
However, the effects of alternate plasticizers on smoking
quality will require detailed evaluation within the
Company,
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Most flavorants added to filter-tip materials
are transferred unchanged to the smoke stream and
appear in the mainstream smoke . Decomposition
products, such as are Inevitable with flavorants
added to the tobacco filler, are of little concern
here . The major concern is that most filter-tip •
flavorants, while on the GRAS list, have not been
cleared for inhalation . The work proposed by NCI
to examine In an Inhalation system the effects of
•tobacco flavorants•and their decomposition products
in test animals may eventually result in indictment
~~pnTy of some tobacco flavorants but also some
er-tip flavorants .
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jPaeer Additiv_es :_ Dyes
If the Company develops new smoking articles which
i~ude a dyed paper system, then detailed investigation
he effect of the dye system on smoke composition
be required to answer the question : Does the dye
system contribute "strangers" to the smoke? : Fortunately,
we are in an excellent position technologically to
perforni this type of comparison study . We can compare
the smoke composition from a control and a test cigarette for over 1800 smoke components to determine
the presence of "strangers" .
Two such studies have•already been carried out to
investigate the contribution of the WINCHESTER paper
dye system and several MORE paper dye systems to smoke
composition with a clear demonstration that no smoke
"strangers" were generated . At present, it is unlikely
that apy.other laboratory can perform this type of
study as rapidly or as accurately as we can . However,
the time may come .when technological advances elsewhere
will permit'others to duplicate this or to extend it
to a greater number of compounds present at very low
levels in the smoke . One research objective is to
assure that we can define smoke (or tobacco) composition
to a greater degree than anyone else .
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A . Mainstream and Sidestream Smoke
Mainstream smoke is that smoke generated during puffing and is
inhaled by the smoker . Sidestream smoke is that generated during the
nonpuffing or free-burning part of the smoking . Sidestream and
mainstream smoke are qualitatively the same but differ substantially
quantitatively ; e' g ., both smoke streams contain carbon monoxide,
nicotine, nitrogen oxides, ammonia, benzola) pyrene, etc ., but the
mainstream vs sidestream yield per cigarette varies widely depending
on the component . The levels of some components in the sidestrean
are a bou t th ree t imes the l eve l i n the ma i nstream smo k e ; for oth ers,
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B . Environmental Smoke
Environmental smoke is that smoke to which a nonsmoker or a
nonsmoking smoker is exposed when in close proximity to a smoker in
the act of smoking It consists of the sidestream smoke evolved by
the smoking article between puffs plus that portion of the mainstream
smoke exh~~~y the smoker . Thus for a given room volume, environmental
smoke wil dependin ; on the number of smokers in the act of
smoking, ~
.'particular smoking habits such as puff volume, puff
frequency pu duration, nuqiber of puffs per cigarette, degree of
inh~latio~i, et . . clus the degree of ventilation in the given room .
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is on environmental*smoke will increase substantially
WMg th
y part of the pro3ection period (from 1976 to 1980)
as propon
f the smoking-health, theory continue their attenpts to
combat smok *by depicting it as a"dirty" habit which not only is
harmful
e`participant in the smoking act but also has a harmful
(and annoyin
effect on persons - whether smoker or nonsmoker -
in close proximity to the smoker.
This aspect of the smoking-health problem must be viewed as a
real "threat" to the tobacco industry in general and RJRT in
particular . Even the increase in market share of low-"tar" cigarettes
projected for the next decade will not detract from the attack on
environmental smoke . The quantity of sidestream smoke is not
substantially reduced by blend adjustment, unique filtration or air
dilution systems, paper porosity adjustment used specifically to
produce a 1ow-"tar" cigarette .
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proponents' stressing that the nonsmoker is involuntaril exposed•
to a host of allegedly hazardous compounds inOuding car on monoxide,
nicotine, benzota~pyrene, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and
sulfide, aldehyd-es, acids . The health condition (such•as allergy,
cardiovascular strength or weakness, respiratory tract condition)
of the nonsmaker so exposed will be stressed as well as the effect
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~ allegedly harmful smoke components ; e . g ., a person with a chronic
cardiovascular condition, it will be claimed, may be pushed over
the brink of a cardiovascular incident by his involuntary exposure
to carbon monoxide and/or nicotine .
C. Smoke Phases and Their Components
Cigarette or pipe smoke is an aerosol consisting bf small liquid
spheres or droplets suspended in a gas stream . The spheres are the
~ particulate phase of smoke, the gas stream is the gas phase . At
present there are about 1950 parti :ulate-phase components known
and about 400 gas-phase components . The definition of the co~ osition
of the gas-phase is almost complete but it is estimated that the
Eno number of components known in the particulate-phase represents only
about 10% of the total present . About SO components are co ;nnon to
both smoke phases, water and phenol being two examples .
1 ._ Particulate:,Phase ComQonents
a . FTC "Tar"
While not a component er se but a complex
~€:i~A,#re, we will consider tFeFT "tar" as a
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e weight of total particulate matter
the weight of nicotine and water . Because
tar" contains many components (certain
cyclic hydrocarbons, their nitrogen analogs,
samines, metals, lactones, phenols) alleged'
b•e harmful to the smoker, the smoking-health
cla~ against "tar" will continue unabated during
the projection period despi te the fact that 1ow"tar" cigarettes will command an increasing share
of the market . tlany smoking-health proponents
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will push inexorably for lower and lower "tar"
values and the accompanying decrease in nicotine
until the smoking population in effect weans itself
from smoking . This must be considered a serious
"threat" .
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The future controversy concerning nicotine in
smoke will involve two separate premises by
proporrents of the smoking-health theory : One group
of proponents will claim that nicotine in smoke •
together•with "tar" should be lowered progressively
if not immediately and thus wean smokers from the
smoking .habit . The second group of proponents will
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to obtain the nicotine physiological satisfaction,
the nicotine in smoke should be increased while
"tar" should remain stationary or be decreased,
thus decreasing the number of cigarettes per day
required to provide the smoker with his nicotine
requirement and lowering his daily "tar" intake .
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Host previous evidence has not incriminated
nicotine as a health hazard although some authorities
considered nicotine to be harmful to the cardiovascular
system. As recently as 1964, the Surgeon General's
Report on Smoking and Health, which evaluated all
evidence to that date, gave nicotine a clean bill
of health . It is now alleged that recent evidence
demonstrates nicotine to indeed be involved in
cardiovascular problems
. Also, data collected byNCI on three sets of experimental cigarettes whose
smoke condensates were studied-in mouse skin-painting
experiments indicate in all three studies a correlation
*between specific carcinogenicity and nicotine content
f . . .the enndensate_
The decision as to which of the two routes
~o 'llow with nicotine (simultaneous "tar" and
;nico~ine decrease or "tar" decrease, nicotine increase)
~ be a difficult one . Whichever route is selected,
preciable segment of the smoking-health proponent
ation in the other camp will be embittered and
bly deluge the press wit4 unfavorable comments .
To generate increased levels of nicotine in smoke
at -4duced or stationary "tar" levels requires a
source of nicotine. This has been discussed at some
• length under Tobacco Filler (Section I . A . 4 .) .
If one examines what is required of an ideal "
cigarette in terms of "tar", nicotine, and carbon
monoxide deliveries according to the low "tar"-increased
nicotine-low carbon monoxide delivery theory, it is
apparent that a real challenge and "opportunity" are
presented . In the following table, the deliveries
of several typical cigarettes are summarized together
with the corresponding ideal situation .
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c. Pesticides
Over the oast decade, several pesticides
previously used on tobacco have been banned and
subsequently replaced with acceptable compounds .
It is anticipated that during the next decade some
of the currently acceptable pesticides will be
found to exert some health or environmental hazard
and they too will be banned . Soil impregnated with
a pesticide usually requires several years for complete
dissipation and the pesticide will appear in subsequent
years' crops but at a decreasing level . This might
be a problem with products exported to countries
such as West Germany whose•pesticide laws are very
strict . Most pesticides on tobacco are transferred
intact in some degree to the smoke stream ; the
balance appears as decomposition products in the .
smoke stream and butt .
d. Polycyclic Hydrocarbons
Concern with cigarette smoke polycyclic
ocarbons allegedly carcinogenic to man has
axed and waned for over 20 years . Some dozen
cyclic hydrocarbons, typified by benzo(alpyrene,
a inogenic to mouse skin, are present in
to~cco smoke . In addition, several carcinogenic
~ro9en analogs are aresent in•tobacco smoke .
It is anticipated that during the projection
od these polycyclic hydrocarbons will again be
~asized. With regard to mouse skin carcinogenicity,
~cco smoke is a unique mixture of .tumor inhibitors,
tumor initiators, and tumor promoters which may exert
their activity either additively or synergistically .
It is conceivable that some government or medical
agency will investigate in detail this additive
and/or synergistic effect, an experiment that has •
not been conducted to date .
Since the polycyclic hydrocarbons are "tar"
components, reduction in cigarette "tar" levels
effectively reducesthe levels of these allegedly
harmful polycyciic hydrocarbons . Selective removal
of polycyclic hydrocarbons from the "tar" by
fi l trati on is very unl i kely . However, a1 terati on
of the burning characteristics of the tobacco
rods to decrease polycyclic hydrocarbon formation
is a distinct possibility . Burning characteristicS
can be changed by blend selection, paper porosity,
additives, air dilution, etc . Most additives
studied in this regard to date have imparted an
undesirable quality to the smoke .
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e . Metallic Compounds
1 . Polonium-210
The concern over polonium-210 in smoke
as a causative factor in lung cancer first
surfaced in the early 60's, and effective
counterargument : and data were presented to
offset the original thesis and thd ensuing
publications . Recently this argument has
again been publicized, but to date no serious
concern appears warranted .
Because of the ease with which the public
can become concerned with things "radioactive"
the claim of the hazard of polonium-210 in smoke
will continue sporadically throughout the •
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ii . Cadmium
Several dozen papers on the carcinogenicity
of cadmium and its presence in tobacco and smoke
have appeared during the past decade. The
publicity concerning the hazard to the smoker
has been relatively low level . However, this
material - as an item of concern to the industry might be emphasized extensively within the next
decade, probably near the end of it .
Nitrosamines
The presence of nitroeamines in tobacco and smoke
demonstrated, and claims concerning the hazard to
the smoker in terms of respiratory tract cancer were
advanced . Even the major proponents of the theory of
lung cancer causation by cigarette smoke are divided
in their estimate of the role of this class of
comAounds in respiratory tract cancer . Many nitrosamines,
including several present in tobacco smoke, are
carcinogen :c to laboratory animals, but the dosage
required to demonstrate activity is fairly high in
comparison .to other carcinogens ; e. g ., benzo(alpvrene .
Claims about the hazard from nitrosamines in smoke
will surface on and off during the pro3oction period . It
is also possible that similar claims will be levelled at
nitrosamines in chewing tobacco since at least one brand
(a European one) analyzed showed relatively high levels .
of several nitrosamines in comparison to the others . At
has been demonstrated in laboratory animals that ingcstion
of nitrosamines can initiate cancer not only in the digestive .
tract but also at other sites .
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a . Carbon Monoxide
It is claimed that carbon monoxide in the mainstream
smoke from a smoking article has a harmful effect on the
cardiovascular system of the smoker . Carbon monoxide
combines with the blood hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin,
and hemoglobin thus bound cannot transport oxygen . lhis
places a higher work demand on the heart to pump more
blood to provide the same oxygen level to the system . The
sidestream smoke also contains carbon monoxide at a
substantially higher level per cigarette than the mainstream smoke . Thus, considerable publicity has appeared
with regard to the carbon monoxide levels in environmental
smoke and its effect on nonsmokers in close proximity to
the smoker in the act of smoking . Carbon monoxide and
nicotine are the two components in environmental smoke
which have received the most adverse publicity . '
At least one country (Sweden) has legalized the
labelling of cigarette packs with the per cigarette
on monoxide delivery (to be in effect 1-1-77) ;
eral other countries (West Germany, France, Finland)
~~ considering such legislation .
~ in the U . S. A., the FTC is conducting pieliminary
Ou )1k to devise a system for determination of i'TC "tar",
. tine, and carbon monoxide on the same smoking sample .
•is predicted that the FTC system will be in operation
.the end of 1978 if not before, and attempts to require
: on monoxide labelling will follow soon thereafter .
Carbon monoxide levels in smoke cannot be controlled
inex ensivel by any known filter system which does not
ncrAase the pressure drop across the cigarette . Claims
that certain filter systems do reduce the carbon monoxide
level have been found to be inaccurate because the
pressure drop a :ross the filter system and overall
cigarette was increased to such a value that all smoke
products were reduced . This is symptomatic of high
pressure drop systems . The same effect observed with
special filter additives (which markedly increase the
pressure drop) claimed to be effective against carbon
monoxide can be obtained with cellulose acetate filters
at the same high pressure drop .
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The most effective way known to date to reduce
carbon monoxide levels in cigarette smoke is air dilution .
As noted in II .C .1 .6 ., this also substantially reduces
both the "tar" and nicotine in smoke .
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, many articles in the popular press on carbon monoxide
in automobile and truck exhausts that it probably
understands comments on this compound much better
than it does similar comnents on nicotine .
The concept of labelling for carbon monoxide is
fraught with dangers for the industry as it will
represent the first riedge (after the "tar" and nicotine
labelling regulations of several years ago) of a continuing
attack . It is predicted that once regulations on carbon
monoxide delivery are forthcoming, a systematic plan to
require labelling of other smoke components will be
proposed . The predicted sequences will be : carbon
r.anoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen
sulfide, aldehydes . At the same time this is occurring
attempts will be made to require labelling for such
product additives as sugar, licorice, cocoa, etc .'
b. Nitrogen Oxides
As indicated in the previous section, it is
predicted that nitrogen oxides will follow carbon
boxide as the target for labelling regulations .
There are five nitrogen oxides in cigarette smoke,
nitric ixide accounts for more than 98%of the
s~~al (usudlly about 300 u9 ver cioarette) . Traces
nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide (laughing gas),
w . trogen trioxide, and nitrogen pentoxide are also
sent . The mafor concern with the nitrogen oxides
i the properties of nitrogen dioxide, which generates
trous and nitric acids with water . Nitric oxide in
~.tr or oxygen can-generate nitrogen dioxide .
Because of the methods of determination of
nitrogen oxides (usually the nitric oxide and nitrogen
dioxide), the oxides of nitrogen have historically,
been expressed as nitrogen dioxide . This is contrary
to the state of affairs existing in the smoke since
over 90% of the nitrogen oxides is nitric oxide .
Expressing the nitrogen oxides as nitric oxide will
serve two purposes : It more closely describes the
content of smoke in terms of the actual smoke component,
and it will reduce the value reported as nitric oxide
to 30/46 or 0 .65 of the value reported as nitrogen
dioxide . Thus a 300-pg delivery of nitrogen oxides
expressed as nitrogen dioxide would be a 195-Ug
delivery expressed as nitric oxide .
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c . Hydrogen Cyanide
The toxicity of hydrogen cyanidE is well-known .
In an industrial atnosphere, the permitted Threshold
Limit Value (TLV) for hydrogen cyanide is 10 ppm .
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The TLY is defined as that average concentration to which
a worker may be exposed for 8 hours per day, 5 days per
week for his working career . 10 ppm of hydrogen cyanide
is equivalent to approximately 11 ng/ml .
The mainstream smoke from an average cigarette
contains from 200 to 400 ug of hydrogen cyanide ; if
a 10-puff cigarette is assumed with 35 ml/puff, then the
hydrogen cyanide concentration per ml is 5,0'to 1140 ng/ml .
The sidestream smoke contains higher levels per cigarette .
Early in the projection period, claims about the
hazard of hydrogen cyanide to the smoker and in environmental
smoke will increase . A publication already is imminent
in that the READER'S DIGEST plans an article on hydrogen
cyanide in cigarette smoke sometime in the very near
future . Hydrogen cyanide, like carbon monoxide, is a
compound that the general public is mere aware of than
say, nico tine .
Hydrogen cyanide in mainstream smoke is controllable
several methods : The use of air dilution, the use of
ic filter additives, and/or the use of carbon filters .
One of the classical treatments for hydrogen
nide exposure where distress is .observed is the
alation of nitrites such as a 1 nitr,ite . It
Id be argued (as a last resort) thet the hydrogen
nide in inhaled cigarette smoke is much less
2ardous ttan the same level of hydrogen cyanide in
because cigarette smoke contains substantial
uaantities of several nitrites (methyl nitrite, ethyl
n'~trite, etc .) whose simultaneous inhalation with the
cyanide may affect in part its toxicity . It is
predicted that before 1985 attempts to require labelling
of the cigarette pack for er cigarette hydrogen cyanide .
delivery will be implement~
d. Hydrogen Sulfide
The public generally identifies hydrogen sulfide
with the odor of rotten eggs . Most do not realize
that the toxicity of hydrogen sulfide, as in its TLY,
is the same (10 ppm) as hydrogen cyanide . 10 ppm of •
hydrogen sulfide Is about 14 ng/ml . Its level in
cigarette mainstream smoke is slightly less (50 -150 vg/cigarette
than that of hydrogen cyanide . If a 10-puff cigarette is
assumed with 35 ml/puff, then the hydrogen sulfide
is 140 to 280 rg/ml . The levels in sidestream smoke are
also higher than those in mainstream smoke .
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The level of hydrogen sulfide in mainstream smoke 00
should be controllable by air dilution, basic filter a~
additives, carbon, and/or inclusion of nontoxic metallic
compounds able to form sulfidcs'in the filter .
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It is predicted that attempts to require package
labelling for the Mrr ci arette delivery of hydrogen
sulfide wt11 follow the successful implementation of
such labelling with regard to hydrogen cyanide .
e . Other
Before the end of the projection period, the
aldehydes, ketones, and acids in•cigrrette mainstream
smoke will again be emphasize d as health hazards to the
smoker and those in the sidestream smoke wili .be claimed
as hazards to the nonsmoker exposed to environmental
smoke .
In the mainstream smoke of a cigarette delivering
about 15 mg of "tar", the acetaldehyde and acetone
contents are about 900-1000 and 450-500 ug, respectively .
The sidestream smoke levels are at least three times
these values .
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It is alleged that the al-dehydes, ketones, and
acids interfere with the lower respiratory tract defense
mectranisms by ciliastasis and inhibition bf macrophage
~~~ vity . There is, however, evidence to suggest that
1ts obtained in in vitro systems with detached
tissue are not ent7apo ab,1e to an in vivo system . Pas~"sa - of acetaldehyde in smoke through t~ ora cavity .
:~ectively "scrubs" out much bf this aldehyde frn^~ the
A ke stream ; thus very little reacges the smokeres lungs
ntcrfere with the two defense*mechanisms noted above .
?~ has been demonstrated both in laboratory animals
humans .
€ Ten or twelve years ago the concern about aldehydes,
etc., and their interference with the lung defense
mechanisms was high and led to the surge of carbon
filter cigarettes in the mark~t . Subsequent studies
blunted many of the original claims . However, it ts
predicted that near the end of the projection period
(1985-1989), this theory will again be emphasized .
. Smoke "Stran ers" Generated b Uni uel Processed Tobacco Products
stems
Filler and Filter avorant ystems, an n que aper Dye Systems
As the complexity of RJRT pro4ucts increases in terms of the use of
uniquely processed tobacco materials, unique filler and filter flavorant
systems, and unique paper dye systems, the need for detailed smoke comparison :
studies to satisfy the Legal Department requirements that no smoke "strangers
be generated will increase . It is predicted that the marketability of a
new product involving one or more of these systems will ultimately depend on
such a demonstration even when consumer acceptability, esthetics of packaging :
design, etc ., are high .
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Five years ago such studies were run sporadicallx in our laboratory,
but since then, the number of analyses has substantially increased :
Fortunately, we are in an excellent posttion to conduct such comparison
studies to search for "strangers" in smoke . During the past folir years,
we have shortened the turn-around time from about nine months to less than
a month, increased the detail of the total analysis (1400 components vs
500 components), and improved the quanti•tation . It is anticipated that
improved technology and•increased staffing will permit such comparison
to be carried out with even shorter turn-around time, in greater detail,
and with improved quantitation .
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To disprove our claims that such systems as those mentioned above
introduce no "strangers",in the smoke, other laboratories (government,
competitor, medical agencies) would have to be able to perform such
analyses in at least the same detail as we . At present, no other
laboratory is in such a position to do so . Hopefully, we will maintain
our lead in analytical expertise for such comparison studies : With
this technology at our disposal, we will always be able to claim that
we expended more than a cursory effort in our search for "strangers"and were indeed diligent in our investigations
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Some investigators claim that the level of flue-cured tobacco in a smoking productt
is, through its smoke, related to respiratory tract cancer ; e. g ., in epidemiol.ogical
studies, the U . K., whose smoking products are essentially a11 ftue-cured, has a much
ig~ier incidence of respiratory tract cancer than the U . S. A., whose smoking productsi
conin
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Turkish ius substantil
a percen ages
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material . The claim is that the flue-cured is .diiuted in the American blend by
riclusion of tobaccos or tobacco materials which generate less active "tar" . Laborato
allegedly support this premise since the specific activity of flue-cured "tar" I
greater than those of burley, stem sheet, Maryland and slightly greater than
of the Turkish . The activity of flue-cured smoke is alleged to be due to the
wax and sugar content of the tobacco . Waxes in the tobacco are alleged to be
ursors of carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons ; sugars, which constitute 12 to 20x'
fte tobacco, are precursors of phenols which are alleged to promote the activity of ;;
the*%!arcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons .
Flue-cured usuall y g enerates an acidic
e which is more readily inhalable than the more basic smoke from burley or a
~d containing ntiai levels sf burley .
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geneti%a
eal t claims against flue-cured tobacco will escalate dramatically .
ema anced that the current flue-cured types should be altered
to 0 0 0 pe flue-cured types with reduced waxes and sugar content .
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If these cla bbcome too vociferous and the requests for altered flue-cured
ccos become too nding, chaos in the southeastern tobacco growing area could
olt . In addition, all blends in RJR products would require re-evaluation when
pft flue-cured types or reduced levels of flue-cured tobaccos are included . ,
ft wNEN WILL IT HAPPEN , '
Toward the end of the projection period : between 1983 and 1989 .
. . SOURCES S OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSESIFORECASTS AND RATIONALF .
now
C Results of the biological study of the specific activities of the flue-cured
aiy, . Maryland, Turkish, and stem sheet material are summarized in Ftyndcr and
Noffmann', "Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967, pp . 516-518, 531-532 .
The role of smoke acidity from various tobacco types, ease of inhalation of these
smokes, relationship to respiratory tract cancer are sur,niarized in Larson and Silvett
"Tobacco : Experimental nnd Clinical Studies , " Suppl . I , Nilliams . and Wilkins, 1968 ;
pp. 612-615 . The claims that the use of flue-cured in smoking products is relaterto ;,
respira :ory tract cancer appear in articles by Passey and Elson, DifferPrct SmokingRssks of Flue-cured and Air-cured Tobaccos, J . FATttGL . . 101, xviffi
assey et a ., mo ng, s s o D erent obaccos, BRIT . MED . J ., 1971 (4) 19R-zot .
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ING AND HEALTH : PRODUCT AND SMOKE COt1PONENT .S
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1 . TREND, ISSUE OR EVENT IDEtJTIFIED/DESCRIBED
It has been alleged that inclusion of G7-type sheet in tobacco products decreases
specific carcinogenicity of smoke condensate . Uowever, increasing stem sheet content
to a very high level will eventually be criticized because stem sheet, on smoking,yields
excessive quantities of gas-phase components alleged to be detrimental to respiratory
tract defense mechanisms . Thus inclusion of additional stem materials in smoking
p?IS'du_qs may be 1 imi ted .
several expanded tobaccos jRJR (Freon 11), PN (ammonia/carbon (1ioxide), NCSU
freeze-drying)) , only the RJR product contains a non-tobacco component (Freon 11
rocessing . In the future, our use of Freon 11 and its residual level in tobacco
attacked on the basis of health . It is unlikely that such an attack will be
ful because of the demonstrated low toxicity of Freon 11 and the low residual
1~ of Freon 11 in expanded tobacco, but the attack itself may provide Omrelcome
p ~~ relations problems .
RJR's use of Freon 11 as an expansion bgent for tobacco becomes more widely
; governmental ~' Oedical agencies will question the safety of Freon 11-containing .
tobacco. Such ende
:J ill not .substantially affect sales, but considerable public
re~#.o~ns work will . 1~ uired to discount and offset ensuing publicity .
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.CT/IMPLICATION
' If any ffftfut ~0vidence is presented that fluorocarbons in aerosol products pres,
bscure he .~lth~x~€:~em and the public is aware of this evidence plus the fact that
RJ .Wproducts contain F on 11, a decrease in sales mi ght occur . Ban on fluorocarbon
use~ii~ tobacco expan~ould have a serious economic impact .
4 . ti .ti ,~EN WILL IT HAPPEN
Zoward the middle of the projection period - 1982 to 1985 .
URCES OF ENVIROtudENTAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
he beneficial effect of inclusion of moderate levels of stem sheets :n smoking pra~
cribed in Wynder and Hoffma m,"Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967,
2 ; in N I Re rt No . 1 . Tr*tard ess Ha ardous Ci aret s . The First Series o7
~imental i ar s (1976) . Increase in levels of gas-phase components in smo e fr
pr° s containing increased levels of stem materials is described in in-house reports ;;`
e.c ., e .kman (1974) . Impairment of respiratory tract defense mechanisms by gas-phase :
components is described in Larson and Silvette, "Tobacco : Experimental-and Clinical Stud:i
, Suppl . 111, Williams and Wilkins, 1975, 150-152,170- 173 .
The alleged effect of e!ccessive exposure to Freon 11 on the cardiovascular system f
described by Taylor and Harris, J . AM . MED . ASSOC ., 214, 81-85 (1970) but discounted by :'
Azar et a1 ., ibid, 215, 1501-1502 (1971) . t1ouse skin-painting experiments and chemistr,
of Freon 1'i=expande3 Lobacco smoke are described in NCI Re ort No . 2 . Toward Less Hazardcus
Ci ag rettes . The Second series of Ex erimental Cioarettes, n press , oagman, - x_pande
_acco an
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NGAN p,~ HEALTH : PRODUCT AND SMOKE COt1PONENT S
PRODUCT C^MP014Et1TS : A . Fi l 1 er . 3 . Tobacco Substi tute s
1 . TREN-9, ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDENTIF1E0 DE S( CRIQED
Several tobacco substitutes are now available in the market . The two most importan t
for which considerable data are available are Cytrel (Celanese) and NSM (Ii,I) .
NSti sho:.s excellent smoke chemistry and in the NCI study and .biological studies
privat~ly contracted by ICI its smoke shows lower specific activity in mouse skin-paintin
thn to~acco smoke. Much of this lowered specific activity disappears at about an
80'k~ 5acco :IiSN nix .
ytrel smoke chemistry is satisfactory although our early studies indicated som e
ers" in its smoke . Biological data in skin-painting studies with Cytrel "tar "
eq'vivocal
: contracted studies indicate lower specific activity than tobacco smol :e ;
ar~,
ies indicate about the same activity as tobacco smoke . Studies to resolve thi s
are in rrogress .
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s ., ; ::~ ute admixed with t bacco . No health benefits will be claimed but will be
imi'ed .
MZ e use
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. to su6stitute by a competitor will prompt RJR to market a cigarettE
.opri ary. substitute J10, a puffed grain . This will nave substantia l
c adO ge f :#f~ since' the J10 is much less expensive than tobacco, Cytre l
a9m~
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12" nt smoke composi n properties, smoking quality, and preliminary data indicate
nt biologicalq~~erties allegedly related to health .
4 . .~.~, N WILL IT HAPPEN
. fore 1982 .
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. RCES OF ENVIRON1101TAL ANALYSES/ FORECASTS AND RATIONAL E
emical and biological data on the smoke from NSM and rytrzl tobacco substitute s
ei~ alone or admixed with tobacco appear in NCI Report No . 2 . Toward Less Hazardous
Ci ~ttes . The Second Set of Experimental CiQarettes n press), NC Report No . 3.
arettes . The Third Set of Experimental Cigarettes . ug . 976
n ormat on s ava a e n CONFIDENTIAL memoran a from Celanes e
and-ICI: Detailed J10 smoke studies are described in in-house reports by Lloyd et al .
(1974), Green et al . (1974 , 1976) . Our work showing "strangers" in Cytrel smokeis
described by ScTiu-ma-c-her et al . (1969) .
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SMOKING AND HEALTH :
PRODUCT AND SMOKE Ca•1PONENTS
C1 CO!1PONENTS : A . Filler . 4 . Nicotine
1 . TREND, ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDENTIFIED/DESCRIBED
The Mierican tobacco industry will find itself on the horns of a dilemna . It will
be pressured by two separate groups of proponents of the smoking-health theory . One
group claims that the nicotine content of the filler should be reduced so that the
nicotine transferred to smoke is at a reduced level . This group claims that nicotine
is~, .in olved not only in cardiovascular problems but is also a factor in respiratory
tract ancer . The other group claims that the nicotine content of the filler should
b eased so that the nicotine transferred to smoke is at an increased level for
t~e sams "tar" delivery . They will assert that, since people will continue to sroke
r" is the harsiful smoke ingredient, the smoker's physiological requirement
nicotine should be satisfied at the lowest "tar" delivery .
use of filter and/or air dilution systems with existing tobacco blends it is
le to fabricate low "tar"/la,r nicotine delivery cigarettes Hithout inte-tionally
Me content of the filler ; however, low "tar"/medium nicotine delivery cigarettes
wa "tar"/high nicotine delivery cigarettes will probably require addition of
e to the blend or use of specific high-nicotine tobaccos which yield low "tar" .
~, Solution of th .~.~tine problems as described above will result in further
pr~~~ation of th~br d mix in thp .market . Low and medium "tar" delivery cigarettes
wi ori an~dium}nico ine delivery, respectively, will continue to proliferate during :
rst p . .of t"' . jection period . Low and medium "tar" delivery cigarettes
inediu~ . hig tine delivery, raspectivEly, will appear and proliferate
the . le p the projection period if RJR or a competitor solves the
m of reducing 'tar" :nicotine ratio to 6 or 7 .
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. Q*4T WILL BE IT : PACTjMPIICATION
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urther proliferation of brands in the market place with low"tar"/lor+ nicotinc
cigai*ttes and low "tar"medium nicotine cigarettes commanding an ever-increasing share
ofXMA total market .
.
EN WILL IT HAPPEN_
ressure by the smokinq-health proponents of the lower "tar"/loarer nicotine
t'po will continue frcxa the present through 1985 . The proponents of the other
th~~y (low "tar"/medium nicotine cigarettes) will become more vocal after 1980 .
RCES OF ENVIRO(it1ENTAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
A typical proponent of the low "tar"/low nicotine concept is Hammond (paper
presented at meeting on "The Origins of Human Cancer," Cold Springs Harbor,
September 1976) ; typical proponents of the low "tar"/medium nicotine or medium "tar"/hi
nicotine concept are Russell , BRIT . MED . J . 1976 (1), 1430-1433 (see also references
therein ; and Goldfarb et al . , CLIO PHARt•IACOE.-MIER ., 19, 767-772 (1976) ; PSYCHOPHAk!laC4ii':`
17, 89-93 (1970) .
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Casing Materials . a .__.SuQar
1 . TRENDL ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDFNTIFICD/DESCRIBED
For several years, sugar either occurring naturally in flue-cured tobacco or used to
case tobacco has been indicted as a contributor to the alleged hazardous nature of ci3are ;
smoke . It is claimed that increasing the levels of sugar in the tobacco rod increases
the levels of certain polycyclic hydrocarbons (alleged tumor initiators) and phenols
(~le ed tumor promoters) in smoke, decroasss the smoke pH thus increasing its inhalabili
a~fid ireases the levels in smoke of several gas-phase comQonents alle9ed to be detrito the respiratory tract defense mechrnisms .
Insofar as the specific carcinogenicity of smoke from sugar-treated tobacco
enstes is concerned, the recent tICI study on various types of cigarettes containing
t ividual or combinations of casing ma terials showed no significant effect from sugar
a :• lone. However, it is alleged that sugar plus glycerol added to,the tobacco did
i ~se the specific-activity of the "tar" from such cigarettes .
2OWMT WILL HAPPEN
oponents of the smoking-health theory will further press their claims that the
a~,~;'n of sugar t end either as it occurs naturally in the flue-cured component
or as casing mateM Aesults in a product r :hose smoke is hazardous to the smoker .
Injotry rembers wi <- •empt to reduce sugar casing levels in their products while
-i~ing smoking ~ua ty and consumer acceptability .
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he i1preY of ssue will eventually involve the reduction or complete removal
ed sugar •from ; ny product formulations . This will require some manipulation o
Com y blends to ma+ n uniformity of smoking quality before and after sugar removal
or• uction . Fort e .y, we do have in-house data which show that the sugar casing
leye may be reduced su•ttantially without serious impairment of smoking quality .
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laims against sugar are already being made, but additional pressure on the
n dry will be exerted between 1980 and 1982 .
CMURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL AttALYSES/FORECASTS AriD RATIONALE
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Wealth claims against sugar in ttibacco products are described by Elson et al .
L . CANCER INST ., 48, 1885-1890 (1972), INTL . J . CANCER, 9, 666-675 (1Q72)
ditional references therein) . Chemistry of snoke from. tobacco cased with sugar
at vari'ous levels is rcported by Wynder and Hoffmann, "Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke,"
Academic Press, 1967, 484-486 . In-house study of the effect of sugar on smoke
chemistry and quaTffy Is described by Best (1969) . Skin-paintiny studies with "tar"
from sugar-cased cigarettes are described in flCI Report No . 3 . Toa,rard Less Hazardous
.
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! NG AND itEALTH : PRODUCT AND SMOKE COt4POtlCNTS
PRODUCT COt1P0yENTS : A . Filler . 5 . Casing Materials . b . Licorice
1 . TREND, iSSUE OR EVENTS IDENTIFIED/DESCRIBED
During the projection period, health claims will be levelled at licorice used as a
casing material in snaking products .
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To date, no serious allegations concerning the hazard of liccricb as a casing rrateri :
i ot acco products have appeared . However, several years ago the question was raised :
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1ic~rice, because of the polycyclic structure of its•active co~,aonent, a contributor
egedly) haraiful carcinogenic polycyclfc hydrocarbons, prona ting compounds such as
p nol, and irritating gas-phase components in smoke?
one study it was alleged that pipe tobacco containing high levels of licorice
a sr,~bked in cigarette form yielded substantially higher levels of benzo(a)oyrene
i s»*ke than did licorice-free cigarette tobacco smoked under ideotical conditions .
t were obtained on the lavels in t!:e snoke froM the licorice-cased tobacco of
eno~s, aldehydes, or acids allegedly involved with health, but it was suggested that
f~"~"work should include such analyses .
_, T NILL HAPPEN
roponents of tKVI'Making-heal+h theory will allege that licorice used as a casing
Pat•e,rial in the smol~ roducts is the precursor of several toxic components in smoke
an~~V demand rema,ya ;f licorice from smoking products .
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.compliance, discovery of an alternative to licorice, or
tion of data to count the allegations . Compliance with these demands to delete :
uce licorice, or use of an alternative will require detailed evaluation of
Company blend formulat s .
4.P#IEN WILL IT HAPPEN
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tween 't982 and 1985 .
5 . OURCES OF ENVIROrJNENTAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
Comments on possible health-related problems from the use of licorice as a casing
a~~ial and suggestions for future research appear in Wynder and Hoffmann . Tobacco
bacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967, 484-486 .
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AtID HEALTH: P:".ODUCT AND SttOY.E CONPQNENTS
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1 . TREND,_ ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDENTIFIEC/DESCRIBED
In a recently connleted NCI study on various types of cigarettes, several additives
and/or casing materials were investigated . Among these was cocoa, The results from
this mouse skin-painting study were alieged to indicate that the inclusion of 1% cocoa
in~the~tobacco blend increased the specific carcinogenicity of the "tar" from such
ci'are ~tes over that observed for the "tar" from the control, non-cocoa treated
i : tes . It is anticipated that proponents of the smoking-health theory will eventual
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n of cocoa in smoking products . ,
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;oponents of the smoking-health theory will al lege that cocoa used as a casing
in smoking products is the precursor of several . toxic components in smoke as
ed by biological and chemical data and will demand removal of cocoa from smoking
3.-, UHAT !lILL BE ITS ;.iMPACT/1t•SPLICATI4N •
nds by .srrok.ft g-h altl : proponents for removal of cocoa from the casing formulatio
ecessit-M Comompliance,•discovery of an alternative, or generation of data
:tttount thOalleg V ns . Compliance with demands to delete cocoa or the use of an
alternativot-Mreq*iXWM4etailed evaluation of Company blend formulations .
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. RCES OF ENVIRONJiENTAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
e results from mouse skin-painting studies which allegedly show increased
'>aic carcinoc+enicity of "tar" from cigarettes containing 1% added coco3 are
sixo'nized in the NCI Re ort No . 3 . Toward Le_s Hazardous Ci arettes . The Third
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SWK Exnerimenta parettes ra t, ugust
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'N i*ING AND HEALTH : PRODUCT At1D St4OKE CEN•1P4NENTS
UCTS Ca1P Ot1EtlTS : A . Filler. 5 . Casing Materials . d~
. Glycerol and Other Humectants
1 . TREND, ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDENTIFIED/DESCP.IBED
Past allegations against the use of glycerol as a humectant have involved the
possibility that it generated acrolein, an alleged ciliastat and irritant, during
the smokin; process . The recently completed NCI study on various,types of cigarettes
containing added glycerol or added glycerol plus sugar gave resultf alleged to indicate
~at addition of sugar plus glycerol to a tobacco blend increased the activity of the
tar "i nouse
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s ki n-pa i n ti ng exper i nen t s Additi on o f glycero l a l one h o<ever gave
.,Vs~ialythesamrultashecontrl .
Humectants other than glycerol but not generally used by RJRT have also been
troi~ed for their contribution to allegedly carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons in
bacco smoke and generation of ciliastats on pyrolysis . Diethylene glycol has been
sed as a possible bladder carcinogen, but the data were obtained•from laboratory
s fed this compound and not from animals exposed in tobacco snoke•inhalation •
roponents of king-health theory will allege that glycerol and other polyols
used"as humectants king products are precursors of several toxic conponents in
srpoke or are hazar4mw'An smoke in themselves on inhalation and will demand the removal ;;
ooffi'bo humectants ~r A smoking products .
T !' E I1~ACT 1NPLJCATI(1N Deman s, s health proponents for removal of glycerol and other humectants >`
moking produ"11 necessitate Company compliance, discovery of alternatives < ;:;
n ub3ect to criti , or generation of data to discount the allegations . Complianc~:,
w these demands ~~ d~lete glycerol or use of an alternative will require evaluation
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o~ Qmpany blend formu tions . Glycerol is also used to facilitate tobacco cutting
s~3~is aspect of the manufacturing process will have to be examined in light of no
g~yorol or use of an acceptable alternative .
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IAW& Between 1982 and 1985 .
jj_SOURCES OF Ei1VIROtn•1EtITAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
Discussion of humectants and their health-related problems appears in . tlynder and
F{,'inn, "Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967, 480-484 . 'The results of
mouse skin-painting studies involving "tar" from glycerTor'glycerol/sugar-,treated
tobaccos appear in NCI Re ort No . 3 . Toward Less Hazardous Cioarettes .'__Th_e Third
Set of Exverir,ental darettes ., ra t,, ugust
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PRODUCT C0t1PANENTS : A. Filler . 6 . Flavorants
1 . TREND, ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDENTIFIED/DESCRIBED
Flavorants used on the tobacco filler not only may be transferred directly to the
mainstream smoke but also may yield decomposition products in the mainstream smoke
rket." NCI in its continuing examination of "less hazardous cigarettes" has
sc*..ed an intensiV,.L&vestigation of flavorants used currently .
2 .~,_Wr1AT VILL HAPPELft
~ropon of khe s king-health theory will allege that sorle flavorants used on
bacco ~ ..ler ftwr filter are contributors of toxic components to the smoke and
dema~ ~her they not be added or that all flavorants used be evaluated for
effec co
; ion and ~+iological properties of smoke : They may also attempt
e the use of lavora :ts in tobacco products regulated by a governmental
he h agency .
3 T''ILL BE ITS IAVACT IMPLICATION
he Company's use of proprietary flavorants will be seriously disr-ipted is such
depWs .succeed . Appreciable effort will be required to demonstrate the safety of a
T number of specific compounds . Those not cleared will be removed from flavor
f
lations, and this will necessitate substantial evaluation of our smoking products
w regard to quality . Economic advantages of the use of our proprietary Turkish-type
f ants on low-cost tobaccos may be lost or delayed because purchase of expensive
T~- i.sh tobacco will continue at the same or an increased level until at least one of o
TdMsh-type flavora~~ts (the tetraester) is cleared .
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N WILL IT HAPPEN
Soon after 1980 .
5 . SOURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIOyALE
The concern by some proponents of the smoking-health theory about adCed tobacco
flavorants is suRrnarized in Wynder end Hoffmann, "Tobacco and Tobacco Siroke," Academic
Press, 1967, 486-488 . Comr,~ents by Hammond et al . appear in the text of a paper presented
the meeting on "The Origins of Human Cancer'7n Cold Springs Harbor, .Sept . 1976 . The
eposal to conduct research on the effect of flavorants added to tobacco on the biological
properties of smoke was presented at a September 1975 meeting of the NCI Tobacco Working
Group .
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~ AND HEALTH : PRODUCT NZD S OKE COt•1PONEtrTS
PRODUCT COMPONENTS : B . Fi 1 ter . 1 . Fi', ter t9aterials
1 . TREND, ISSUE __OR EVENTS 1DENTIFIED/DESCRIBED
The anticipated emphasis on gas-phase components such as aldehydes alleged to he
harmful to health will result in a resurgence of the interest in carbon filters . The
interest in gas-phase components by proponents of the smoking-health issue declined
peve al years ago, particularly when it was demonstrated that such components were
Leffe~tively "scrubbed" out of the smoke stream by passage over the mucous films
ng the oral cavity and therefore did r+ot reach the lower respiratory tract where
gt Has alleged they interfered with the respiratory tract defense mechanisms .
.
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WILL
HAPPEN
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Proponents of the smoking-health theory will claim that increaseduse of stem
ia1s, while lowering the alleged carcinogenicity of the "tar", is increasing the
of gas-phase components that allegedly impair respiratory tract defense
nisms . In response to this, industry members will market a carbon-filter
tte whose smoking quality does not suffer from carbon-filter off-taste .
. NHAT WILL BE
YTr'YNPACT/INPLICATIOlI
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jhe impact w rl the development of a superior carbon-filter cigarette . This
on fi~":r~ wil be esigned to minimize the carbon-filter off-taste so prevalent
eariip~rbon- •er cigarettes . Another alternative will involve modification
the s4-ijj;;j~eetjWW. ial to minimize generation of the allegedly harmful gas-phase
onents .
WHEN WILL IT H
~$*6efore 1985 .
., SOURCES OF ENVIROMENTAL AtiALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
Charcoal filters and their effect on the gas-phase composition are discussed in
er and Hoffmann, "Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967,'S34-543 .
crubbing" action of oral cavity secretions on gas-phase components in humans
h*.been described by Dalhamn, EINVIROU . HLTH ., 16, 831- 835 (1968) . Increase in the
yp1s of various gas-phase smoke components with ' increasing stem content is
cribed by Heckman (1974) .
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'"WKIN6 AND kEALTH : PRODUCT AND SMOKE Ca,1PONENYS
PRODUCT C0MOPIENTS : C . Paper . 1 . Paper Additives :byes
1 . TREND, ISSUE, OR EVENTS 1DEHTIFIED/DESCRIBED
While very little has been written by proponents of the smoking-health theory on
the use of dyes in smoking products, it is anticipated that RJRT's success with the
WINCHESTER and MORE products will eventually direct the attention of the smoking-health :
;Pproppnents to the dyed tirn?pers . Allegations will be advanced that the dye systeris
'tneect chemical and biological evaluation, tlew dyed systems introduced in the future by
or other industry members will also fall into this category .
FJHAT WILL HAPPEN
g ? Proponents of the smoking-health theory will either allege that dye systems such
hose employed in WINCHESTER and t10RE are hazardous or will demand demonstration
eir safety .
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. d WHAT HILL BE ITS If4PACT/IMPLICATIOy
Other than a~ftio- ble flurry of adverse publicity which might temporarily hurt
sales of the F10RE •re in an excellent position to rebut any claims against the
#~c~>d~Hrapper of e •the b :ORE or WINCHESTER . Detailed smoke comparison studies
voWing over 150 colmoonents in the smoke from the MORE blend wrapped in regular
qr vs isK"10REel wrapped in dyed paper indicate no "strangers" in the sr.ake of
£ ciga~tires ma ~d in the U . S. A . or U . K. Similar evidence is available for
e WINCFIE-STA.R.
1JHEN WILL IT
Prior to 1980:
SOURCES OF ENVIRONIIENTAL ANALYSESIFORECASTS AND RATIONALE
Comrnents on the use of dyes in smoking products appear in liynder and Hoffmann,
acco and Tobacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967, 486, in which a study by Kroller
Ptited . Experimental work conducted in-house on the absence of "strangers- trom rwr .i
4%"ke is described by Green (1973 1974), Best et al . (1976) and their .absence from
W-WCHESTER smoke by Green et al . 11971) .
POSITION PAPER - FOnUIL DOCUFIENTATION
~ING AND HEALTH : PRODUCT AND STIOKE C014PONENTS
SMOKE COMP0NENTS : B . EnyiPonmental Smoke
1 . TREND, ISSUE, OR EVENT IDENTIFIED/DESCRIBED
Proponents of the smoking-health theory will allege that exposure of the nonsmoker~" :.
involuntarily is subjecting him to an unwarranted health hazard . Yhey will claim that
jis~is particularly harmful when the nonsmoker is alreedy suffering soaheeilment such
s a• allergy, cardiovascular problem, respiratory problem . The arguments will be
ed that the environmental smoke contains the same allegedly noxious components to :
ch the smoker is exposed ; i .e ., carbon monoxide, nicotine, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen ;~
s, hydrogen cyanide, and the like .
These proponents will apply the same health-related arguments about the hazards
vironnental smoke components to the nonsmoker involuntarily exposed as they
V *been for the hazards of mainstream smoke inhaled by the smoker .
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By constlsnt repetition of their claims on the alleged hazard of involuntary
sure to envirohina-tal smoi:e and its components, the proponents of the smoking-heaiti
theory will convi cesmore and more nonsmokers that they are being imposed upon and the "
~omokers in tur '•~h the help of various health agencies, t•itll push for additional
)itions to barrsmoking in more and more public places, business areas, work areas,
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If more ind r:rokers are restricted in their smoking regime by such regulatiori'
their daily ons .ption of cigarettes and other smoking products will decrease .
t he regulation
~ . n on smoking eventually extends to the workplace in any business :
~ern, the sncl:e , w01l have a great portion of his possible snoking time deleted froq' : .
e~ork day . This usually accounts for half a person ' s active day . This situation `
Meventually result in a decline in cigarette consumption, fewer new smokers, and
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ation of smoking by many light smokers (less than 10 cigarettes/day) .
F~"WHEN 19ILL IT HAPPEN
The condemnation of environmental smoke will continue but at an increased level
ftthe present until the proponents of this theory have obtained regulations
llannin9 smokin9 in almost all comrnunity_areas such as restaurants, work places, publi
rldings, etc . Eventually one nonsmoker in a given work area will be able to control
,0._*san,wking habi ts of the rest .
5 . SOURCES OF ENYIROh!tENTAL A .Nf:LYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIVIlALE
A host of references on this subJect have appeared over the past few years with
special emphasis on exposure of the nonsmoker to nicotine and the amount inhaled
involuntarily and appearing in the bloodstream ; e .g ., Russell et al . . LANCET 1975 (1) ;1;
179-181 ; Hinds et al .,, NEW ENG . J . t~~ED ., 292, 844-845 (1975) . ~nvo untary exposure to~
ot~ier smoke com`porents has also beun the subfect of numerous articles ; e . g ., "Tobacco :
Experimental and Clinical Studies," Supp1 . III, Williams and Wilkins Co ., 1975, 288-291 .
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c..~OKING AND ttEALTH : PRODUCT AND SF10t ;E • C0.IPONENTS
~ICE CO'tP0l;EpTS : C : 1 . Particulate-Phase Comaonents :' a . FTC "Tar"
1 . TREND, ISSUE, OR EVENT IDEtlTIFIED/DESCRIBEO
Because of the allegations that the "tar" contains many co~~ponents harmful to the
smoker, many consumers have shifted their smoking habits from high_,,tar" to mediun-"tar
cigarettes or from nediun-"tar" to lori="tar" cigarettes ; i . e ., a•gradual downshift to
e next lower "tar" category . This trend has continued for over a decade ; the 30- to
S-mg~delivery cigarette is almost nonexistent ; 25-mg delivery cigarettes are at the
~ the "tar" scale .
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nce more and more smokers•to shift dotirn to lower "tar" levels ; the manufacturers
~11#-espond with products geared to match this trend and capture the market .
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1T WILL HAPPEPI •
ventually the "tar" delivery will be lowered until the top "tar" delivery is 20 ng`= : :"'
~e 5 mg, then 10 mg, and so on . The pro onents of the smoking-health theory tiill still
nue their efforts to have the "tar" values lowered even more . It is obvious where
-trend will end 'ventual weaning of the smoker .
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article with both flavor and nicotine satisfaction at lower
11 require considerable expenditure of time, money, and effort'
an efi~o~~o di
appropriate blends, filter and air dilution systems, flavor
cost of producing a satisfactory smoking article will rise
ms, etc . 1hu
'inually as the
ar yield decreases ; i . e ., the profit margin for such products
decrease . To
~ain the prosit margin, price increases will be necessary .
~ This fact, coup~drwith the gradual weaning of the smoker, will'result in a decline :,
( ~~ette consumption , fewer new smokers, and cessation of smoking by light smokers (less :
10 cigarettes/day) .
NNEN WILL IT HAPPEN
The scare tactics presently used by the smoking-health proponents to persuade the
r to smoke lower "tar"-delivery cigarettes will continue to be used well into the
07ection period . By 1985, cigarettes delivering 12 mg "tar" or less will represent
j3sabst half the mar :.et .
6J§QURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
Recently Hammond et al . (paper presented at Cold Springs Harbon in September 1916) ..
extolled the benefits o' sm",ko ing 1ow-"tar" cigarettes . Additional reports of this type :;;
will continue to appear in the future . NCI . as a result of its work on .the fabricatio6:
of less hazardous cigarettes, has also commended the lon-"tar"'cigarettes to the publi .4
in various TV appearances by NCI personnel (Gori, Rauscher) .
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b. Nicotine
1 . TRE!ID, ISSUE,_OR EVENT IDENTIFiEDIDESCRIBED
Cl.inical and biological studies on nicotine in smoke will result in one or other of
the fulloaring : nicotine will be glven a clean bill of health or nicotine will be
considered a hazard .
Some smoking-health proponents already allege that nicotine is involved in cardiov~s cu ar problems and is as hazardous as the "tar" ; other smoking-health proponents
a'Ileg that nicotine is essentially harmless and the hazard to the smoker resides in
t~t ar", not the nicotine .
7he first group clairr.s both the " tar" and nicotine should be lowered ; the second
~ suggesting that people smoke for the nicotine satisfaction, claim that the "tar"
be lowered but the nicotine increased so that the smoker will smoke fewer ci5arett
e same daily nicotine intake, and thus be exposed to less "tar" .,
ecent evidence fron the NCI studies on various sets of experimental cigarettes is
Rd to de:onstrate that nicotine level of the "tar" correlates with*tumor yield in
rkoft~kin-painting experiments .
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i+o groups of ke EFC bents of the smoking-health theory will remain at cdds on the
alleqed harnful eff~- .,1
putr~ to its point~l
nicotine In smoke . Each group will attempt to persuade the
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y wi • e to decide whether to pursue products with lowered "tar",
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d nt~cr` fie, o• ____ _ ducts with lowered "tar", increased nicotine, or both . . Nhicheve;
s selectc+d onP p of smoking-health proponents will be critical of the choice . :
owering both "t and nicotine delivery is possible with existing technology
, paper porosI a eir dilution and filtration, etc .) but lowering the "tar" while
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r1c asing the nicotin"elivery will be a challenge .
4 .umWEN !iILL IT HAPPEN
fSone time during the profection period, evidence allegedly demonstrating that
~ine is harr.~ful to the smoker wi11 be presented .
5 OURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL At :ALYSES/FORECASTS {4"ID RATIONALE
~ Hammond et al„ proponents of the loN-"tar", low-nicotine theory, outlined their
tWaaty in a paper presented at a neeting on "The Origins of Human Cancer" .
nted at Cold Spring Harbor, September 1976 . Russell, a proponent of the
r", high-nicotine theory, outlined his ~`easoning in an article in the BRIT .
. J,M~D ., 1976 (1), 1430-1433 . Involvement of nicotine in "tar" carcinogenesis is
discussed-WNCI Reports 1 2and 3 . Tcxrard Less Hazardous Cinarettes, and also
by Bock (paper presente at ee ng, _,
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~NIO ING AND HEALTH : PRODUCT AND SMOKE COIIPONENTS
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.CO'1P0NENTS : C . 2 . Gas-Phase Con2onents- a . Carbon Monoxide
TREND, ISSUE OR EVENT IDEflTIFIED/DESCRIQED
It is alleged that carbon Fanoxide in tobacco smoke is hazardous to the smoker as
are "tar" and nicotine . The sr,r,* critics of the smoking habit and its alleged hazard
to the smoker who succeeded in having the "tar" and nicotine levels in smoke reported
by a government agency (the FTC) are now pursuing similar efforts'for carbon monoxide .
Thk-FTq, in fact, is working on the analytical procedure for simultaneous determination
ta, nicotine, and carbon monoxide .
e country (Sweden) has already implemented legislation to report carbon monbxide
iver.ies ; several other European countries'are now in the process of implementing
'4gislation .
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;'gislation to require the reporting of carbon monoxide delivery of each A+*rican
11 be vnacted . The FTC will probably handle the analysis for carbon monoxide
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as_it Dbes the "tar" and nicotine analyses .
is flow of events will eventually lead to a carbon monoxide "derby" similar
W""tar" derby .
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e"d~rby" will require research to discover more efficient ways to
the ~ . :gn mori~Tlx~e de1 ivery of a cigarette . At present the most effective
~~~is ~luti t air dilution also reduces "tar" . In view of the publicity
.. les on carbon monoxide in smoke, the company that can discover
ted 5y recent
a~o reduce carb
. oxide without reducing "tar" at the same time will have a
dec .ed advante9e .
verse public M~~~ta~ons concerning carbon monoxide in smoke will be a problem ;
rhon monoxide del"Tvery cigarettes will lose market'share .
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porting of carbon monoxide delivery of each brand will be required by 1980 .
URCES OF ENVIRU'C!ENTAL AlIALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
Of the hundreds of articles In the scientific literature on carbon monoxide in
_ i i'`tte sr :oke and its alleged hazard, the one with the greatest impact on the
puVM is the recent READER'S DIGEST article (October 1976) .
POSITION PAPER - FORM/lL t)nCUt4EIiTATION
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PRODUCT COt1PONEtITS : C . 2. Gas-Phase Components . b . Nitrogen Oxides
1 . TREND . ISSUE, OR EVENTS IDEkTIFIED/DESCRIBED
It Is alleged that nitrogen oxides in tobacco smoke are hazardous to the smoker .
Cigarettes deliver beNeen 200 and 400 ug of nitrogen oxides per cigarette, and of these
n ro~,en oxid:s, over 98% is nitric oxide . Reporting of "tar" and nicotine deliveries
b the~FTC is an established fact ; requirements to report carbon monoxide delivery will
p~ y be next, followed by requirements tc report nitrogen oxides delivery .
,4gislation to require the reporting of nitrogen oxides delivery o.f each American
ill be enacted . The FTC will probably handle the analyses for nitrogen oxides
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3. ~t~' WILL BE ITS It1PACT/IMPLICATION
Nnitrogen oxid "c rby" will result .
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Articies in th •~ic press will inform the smoker of the nitrogen oxides
eeq~nt of tobacco ~4and its alleged hazard . At the present time most smokers
3r ~ too•knowlE .: .ab1 q' about nitro en oxides .
kklic•~tio s pro`bleras will arise .
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5 . ~#URCES OF ENVI .O ~~~'i,TAL ANALYSES/FORECASTS AND RATIONALE
'%wt.n the READER'S DIGEST article (October 1976) on carbon monoxide, it was noted
thW* foilow-up article will discuss nitrogen oxides in tobacco smoke much in the
sa~anrer as carbon r.wnoxide was discussed in the October article . Presumably the
d hazards of exn^sure to nitrogen oxides will be outl•ined in great•detail . The
ef ~ of nitric oxide on the cardiovascular system is discussed by Larson and Silvette
"T :, co : Experimental and Clinical Studies," Suppl . III, Williams and ::ilkins Co .,
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SG AfiD I(EALTH : PR(1DUCT AND SMOKE C014PO1JENTS
PRO l1CT COMPONENTS : C.2 . Gas-Phase Components . c . Hydrooen Cyanide
1 . TREND, ISSUE . OR EVENTS IDEfiTIFIED,fDESCRIBED
Hydrogen cyanide in tobacco smoke is alleged to be hazardous to the sonoker . The
public is probably mre knovrledqeable about the toxicity of hydrogen cyanide than it
is about many other smoke components . Cigarettes deliver between 200 and 400 u9
p#T cfi9arette, but levels as high as 800 ug/cigarette have been reported . Methods to
the hydrogen cyanide content of cigarette snoke are available . The Threshold
Yalue for the comoound is 10 ppm or 11 nanograms/ml (about one one-hundredth of the
level in cigarette smoke)• .
:3egislation to require the reporting of hydrogen cyanide delivery of each Aaerican
6~;,~i11 be enacted . As in the case of "tar" and nicotine, the FTC will probably ,
conduct the analyses for hydrogen cyanide in smoke .
WILL BE ITS IMPACT/I!!PLICATION
~.F A hydrogen cya
"derby" will result .
king product~
; w 1 be manipulated to reduce hydrogen cyanide deliveries by
o us~ f~ppro te aTr d lution and/or filtration systems, filter-tip additives,
ate bl . ...d•s, e .
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ubiic ~ ~atiomor blems will arise .
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EN WILL IT HA
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5 .~ ~XIRCES OF ENVIRONMENTAI ANALYSES FORECASTS AFID RATIONALE
awd n the READER'S DIGEST article (October 1976) on carbon monoxide, it was noted
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n":L.1a folla~r-up article will discuss hydrogen cyanide in tobacco smoke In the same
as carbon monoxide was discussed in the .October article. The alTeged hazards
drogen cyanide in cigarette smoke are discussed by Wynder and Hoffmann in "Tobacco
bacco Smoke," Academic Press, 1967, 451-453 ; by Larson and Silvette in "Tobacco :
and Clinical Studies, "~pl . III, Williams and Wilkins Co ., 1975,
~1 ~<. .'; 163, 279, 292, 298 ; Suppl . II, 1971, 112, 115, 205 ; Suppl . I, 1_968, 1N; 136,
0
275, 606, 613.
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POSITION PAPER - FORMAL GOCUMENTATION
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SHOKING AhD HEALTH : PRODUCT AND SMOKE C01•1PONENTS
PRODUCT CO;IPONENTS : C.2 . Gas-Phase Ca•mponents . d . Hydro_yen Sulfide
1 . TRENDs, ISSUE, OR EVENTS IOENTIFIEn/DESChIBED
To date very little has been written concerning the alleged toxicity of hydrogen
su id in cigarette smoke . Early reports on hydrogen sulfic'e indicate levels between
15 and 390 ug/cigarette, but more recent studies indicate levels of less than
10 '` igarette . Hydrogen sulfide in'the usual acute and chronic toxicity laboratory
teft s r1ith laboratory animals is found to be as toxic as hydrogen cyanide and has the
sa
itted Threshold Limit Value of 10 ppm in the work place .
2. WWILL HAPPEN
is predicted that proponents of the smoking-health theory, if sJccessful .in
th -••empts to obtain le3islation for the reporting of carbon monoxide, nitrogen
ox s and hydrogen cyanide, will turn their attention to hydrogen sulfide .•
Ev ____._ ...__. ly, legislation will be enacted for the required reporting of this corrponent .
.
3 . Y.FL'1T ::ILL SE ITS ~I/iMPLICATION
~».
drogen sulfi)ft " erby" will result .
be manipulated to control hydrogen sulfide deliveries
~)king proOuct ili
NO f aoppip#late I dilution andJor filtration systems, filter additives,
Fnate bVep ft;, etc•~
lic rela•.ion oblems Mi11 arise .
ut 1985 .
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3, RCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSESlFORECASTS AND RATIONALE
POW
drogen sulfide in cigarette smoke is discussed by Larson and Silvette in
"iofiwio : Experimental and Clinical Studies," Suppl . III, Williams and Wilkins Co .,
decliae .
• flew brand opportunities .
• Decline in smoking satisfaction 1n terms of both flaror
and physiological i .pact.
• Oeelfne of unit growth of Industry .
• 8rana proliferation .
,
•. Low-nicotine tobaccos cotiw+Q prei .ius price .
~ C~qlexity of low-'tar"/lox-ntcotine products 1n terms of
Some s.~oking-fr,~alth pro-
~
-
1971
~ t••6owere0 'tar' and nicotine on established brands ; If
lowerin9 of •tar` and nicotine progresses too far,
customers weaned froa~ smoking with subsequent sales
aarqin .
• I~nproved flavorant systems repvired as 'tar• delfrery
lowered.
• Rccovery systems for nicotine and flavorants lost during
tobacco processing (613, drying) .
• AOw~rse PR from smoking-health proponents who recoaa~end
increase0 nieotine .
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In
Estimated Iapact Impiications (+ or -)•
Probability of Occurrence
Earliest
Posssble
Year of
Occarrence -
. . Kqy Issaes
~~
0% 30% SGZ 70% 90%
c%
L8 . PROplfCT
Many smokers continue to
smoke despite health
clales ; recognizing tMs,
some smolr.ng-Aealtn proponents reccmeend low;0 and aeedivo-•tar' cigc_ arettes with 'tar'/
N
nicotine ratio less than
8: tliqt,-nicotine •tobacco
~ and/or nicotine source
N
` "epoired.
00 (cf . pp . 7-8 . 28)
T
~r 4
4
X
1978
~
• New brand opportunities In low-•tar', increased nicotine
ute9ory.
a Smoke nicotine delivery should not exceed that in
tull-flevor cigarettes .
a Decline Sn smoker satisfaction Sn term of flavor but
Saprovement in terms of pl8rsioto9ful Smpact .
• Ni9A-nieotine tobaccos reQuired .
• Nicotine sonrce repuired : synthesis should selectively
.
provide correct Ssomer.
• laproved flavorant systems required as •tar" delivery
lowered .
. Recovery systems for nicotine and flavorants lost
SypOCX
dMrtn9 tobacco processin4 (G13, dryinq, etc .) '
Some smoking-health pro-
a Adve* PR froo smoking-health proponents who
ponents allege smoke
nicotine harmless but
-tar' harmful ; since
QualStattve
,
reccmmend decreased nicotine.
~
s1EClcers cCntinUe to
smoke despite health
claims, lowered 'tar•
delivery and tncreased
nicotine delivery
recanaended by these
proponents•
NOTES ON KEY ISSUE I
(1) Because of the interrelationship between nicotine
in tobacco and nicotine in sr.•oke, the smoking-health
aspects of nicotine'`as both a product and smoke
component are discussed in this section . •
(2) It may appear anomalous to indicate both lowand high-nicotine as key issues, but the consumer's
consideration of nicotine as either harmful or harmless
will be the force dictating his cigarette selection
in terms of nicotine delivery at a given "tar" level . ,
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Q' n ~ S '~ive : Effect
on Sa"tet~?rofits
year of
Qualitative
Occurreccc
Flarorants . added to tobacco ana/or
filter but not naturally occurring
• Mandatory labelling for all flarorants not occurringi
naturally in tobacco or saaks .
,
In tobacco or saoke, alieyed by
sacktnq-health proponents to
increase smoke toxicity because of
their transfer intact to smoke and/o#
their decoaposition to alie9edly
har+eful smoke components during the
sm*in9 process .
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•+Government interrention for complete evaluation
fi
of a1l flavorants .'e . 9. FOA .
• Decline in smoking flaror satisfaction if certain t
proprietary flarorants dlleted from cavany products~
19E0 •
• oamonstration that certain proprietary flavorants
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are Indeed tobacco or smoke canponents .
• Legislation to Place flarorant use under 9orernaenta
health agency (FDA) .
• Loss of profit pro1eeted from replacea:ent of 1owcos
~ tobacco treated with Turkish-type flavorant for j
high-cost Twrkish : prohibition of Turkish-type
flavorants necessitates continued purchase of
Turkish .
.cf . pp . 10. 13,33)
• Cemonstration of safety of specific flarorants
Oy Inexpensive short-term In vitro test (Ames Test) .
11 Estimated Iapact Implications (* or -)•
Qv~nti`i 1ve : Ettect
.
on Sales/Profits Qualitative
• Lowered •tar• on established brands .
• dnnd proliferation
. • itaw brand op ortunities .
~ III . 'Tar• condeined by siaoking-health
proponcnt, as prime risk factor
in siaoking ; publicized at
continually increasing level by
anta9onistic 9overnfnental and
ffedical agencies despite further
reducttons In •tar" deliveries .
Realization by smoking-health
proponents that 'tar• nuabers
Senerated by machine smoking
• Oecllne in smoker satisfaction (flavor) and unit
growth in tndustry .
• Cantfnual lowering of •tar• delivery weans light
saakers (less than half pack/day) to quitting
point; loss of sales .
not aean :n9ful In terms of humen
smoking Labtts .
• fSandatory labelling for •tar• delivery at
Increased puff volume.
• Uaproved flavor systems required as "tar' lowered .
(cf . pp . 15, 37)
.
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Earliest
Possible
Est mated •Impact Implications (+ or -)•
Qq ' tative : Effect
Qualitative
I on Sales/Profits
50% 1 70% 1 91
Year
urv va
ProOability of Occurrence .
tcey Issues
1 0%
30%
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1
19?9
: extensive
a Carbon monoxide "derby' .
IY . Carbon mrnoxide indicted by smoking-
health proponents as harmful
i'nqredient of mainstream (and
environoental) smoke and publicized
by antagonistic governmental and , .
medical agencies .
year of
Occurrenr
.
.
.
.
(cf. pp . 20-21, 39)
•mandatory labelling on cigarette package
involvement of R & 0 , Legal . in assuring correcthess of analytical and reporting methods .
• Reduced carbon monoxide levels on estabtished b rands ,
• Proliferation of brands with claims specifically
~
directed at :carbon monoxide level .
,.
• Decline in unit cigarette growth .
•?remenaons advantage to industry member discovering
effective and practical sidestrean carbon monoxide
control system .
/
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I. Envtroesnental smoke eonde`rr+ed by
smoking-health proponents as
hazardous to both the lutlft
and ailing nonsmoker .
.
x
1979
. Increased re9ulations on smoking in public places :
work places, etc .
• Cecline in sales because of smoker's consumption
limited to lunch, coffee breaks . during work Aours . !
• opportanities for new brands with reduced sides 'trea%
' smoke . 'tar", nicotine, carbon aonoxide . hydrogen '
cyanide, etc .
• Srand proliferation.
• tiandatory labelling for sidestreaai •tar", nicotine,
carbon eonoxide .
.
(cf . pp . 14-1s . 36)
.
• + • opportllnity
- • threat
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Probability of Occurrence
Key Issues
. mitative : Effect
on Sales/Profits
10: 30%
S0:
.
Estimated Impact Implications (* or
31
.
70S 90
Earliest
Possible
year of
O:cnrrenc
Qvalitatire
ur~c va
YI . Tobacw substitutes endorsed by
smoking-health proponents as
effective means to reduce alleged
health hazards from smoke .
• RJR profit margin substantially greater than that ~
of competitor because of cost of J10 relative to ,
other substitutes (Cytrel, NSti), expanded natu itre
ot J10.
El
Y11 . Nitraqdn oxides indieted by smokinghealth procronents as harmful
ingredients of .rinstream (and
enyiroanental) smoke and publicized
by antagonistic yoveraoental and
oedtat agencies .
(cf. pp. 21, 40)
•
• 1H tro4en oxides •derby` .
1983
• Mandatory labelling on cigarette packs9•st extensive .
involvement of R : 0, Legal In assuring correctness!
of analytical ud repprting Methods .
• Reduced nitrogen oxides on established brands . .
• Pro1lferation of brands with c1aim specifically
directed at nitrogen oxides level .
f
• Decline in unit cigarette growth .
• TreeenftA advantage to ind:atry member discovering
effective and practical nitrogen oxides control
system.
Probability of Occrirrence
Key Issues
10% V3ox I sos
Qualitattve
~o•.~i Sa1es%PrWofiLifect
VIII . Hydrogen cyanide indicted by
smoking-health proponents as
harmful Ingredient of mainstream
(and environmental) smoke and
publici=ed by antagonistic
9overnmental and medical agencies M
(cf . pp. 21-22, 41)
.
Earliest
:ossible
year of
Occurrence
1983
• Hydrogen cyanide 'derby" .
• Manaatory labelling on cigarette packages ; extensi
involvement of R & 0, Legal in assuring correctness of analytical and report :n9 methods .
.
• Reduced fUrdro9en cyanide on established brands .
• Proliferation of brands with claims specifically
directed at-tqrdroqen cyanide levels .
• Oecline in unit cigarette growth .
i
• Need for alternate way to utilize steals .
IX . Use of stem sheet in exc4ss of
2SZ criticized by smoking-health
proponents as contributor to
allegedly harmful gas-phase
oomponents tn smoke .
1901
• Modification of steps of stem sheet to reduce
generation of gas-phase conponents .
• Reduced profit margin if complete return of steo
hampered by these clat,cs .
•
R etonvu,atton
of ex,sttn9 D1ends .
Search tor acuptable coooa altcrnate .
• Kandatory cocoa labelli n g on cigarette package .• Ilew brand opportunltles .
X . Wcoa , used as casing a+atertal 1n
smokS "9 products, condemrKd h'
snokfng•healtA proponents .as
' t precursor
a11cged1y
Aarmfu1 •
o
coqonent in smoke .
4
(cf . pp . 10, 31)
Etrllest
PossSble
year of
Occurrencc
~ Estimated Impact LplScattons (+ or
J
• Provision of data to discount clatms .
X1 . Dye systans, used to color '
(-~
X
cigarette or cigar wrapper,
condemned by saoktag'realth
proponents as precvrsors ot
allegedly harmful eompontnts
tn smoke.
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•
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• Mandatory labeilSng for qye system on cigarette
' 19E0
package.
• Yaltdatton ot futvre ay systems .
~
•'Opportunttleslror new brandt with yred wrapper .
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(cf. pp. 13, 3S)
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Qualitative
• Alternate expansion process .
• Reduction in use level of Freon 11-expanded
tobacco with accompanin9 reduction in profit In
both in-hwm and licensee payments .
XII . Residual Freon 11 le :als In prodwc
,containin4 expanded tobacco
coMennea as health hazard by
smoking-health proponents .
(cf . pp . S-6, 26)
V
• Reduction of resi0ual Freon 11- to level acceptable
to smokin9-tealth proponents .
I
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1965
• lRyQro3en sulfide •derby' .
• Mandatory labellin9 on cigarette packages ; extensive
involvement of R & 0, Legal in assuring correctness of an3lyticas and reportin9 methods .
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• Reduced Iprdro"n sulfiQe on established brands
XIII . Hrdrogen sulfide Indicted by
saokinq-bealth proponents as harmfu
Ingredient of mainstream (and
environa~ental) smoke and publicized
by antagonistic 4overnxntal and
medical agencies .
.
(cf. pp . 22-23,42)
` + a opportunity
- - threat
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RTC
Key Issues
Qlta •tfitttve : Effect
1~
XIV . Previously used or new filter
materials effective in reducing
~
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2~
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d
qas-phase components appear in
response to allegations by
saokin9-Aeaith proponents that
such components are harioful .
(cf. pp . 12,
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~ Qualitative
on Sales/Profiu
r r
va
. X
-
Earliest
Possible
year of
Estimated Iapact Implications (r or
Probabiltty of Occyrnnce
•
34)
~
.
occvrrence
• Canpetitor SntroducM s/perior carbon-filter with
1983
no urbon-filter, off-taste .
!
• New brand opportunities .
components
~
Mandatory
labelling
for
alieyed
harmful
a
(e .Q ., aldehydes) readily removed by carbon. ,
filter brands .
~
• Proliferation of
carbon
Decline in sales of conventional filter brands .
to
4 as
XY . Svgar, a ded
cusin9 material
saqktn9 products, condeaned as preof all .yedly harmful coaponents in smoke by
' proponents .
cf .
. 9 29
cursor
XVI.
X
Reformulation existing
(-i
•
of
blends .
~
• Reduction of profit sr9in (tobacco aore costly than;
s~r .
t
1
• New brand
• Manda s ar labeili on cS rette acka t .
,
•
revision blends .
• Restrvctartnq of
boprinq Prograe~s .
• Alteration of
practices
:stia~ated Impact Implications (+ or
t~Zative : Effect
Qualitative
on Sales/ProfSLs
:
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• lte+r brand .opportunities .
• Mandatory licorice labelling on cigarette pacta9l•n9l
• provision of data to discount claims .
.
(ct. pp . 9-10, 3D)
~
C;U
Earliest
poss ible
i yttr ot
+/Occrnnce
• SearcA for acceptable licorice alternate .
by smoking-health proponents
as precursor of alle9edly harmful
XVIII . Glycerol and other hunectantt
. T
• Reformulation of existing blends .
(•_
Sn smokinq prodacts, condenned
cwponents in saalce .
C
X
1982
• Mandatory Mumectant labelling on cigarette ackage.
• Reformulation of existing humectants and blends .
a Search for acceptable s•bstitute both for use in
product and aanutacturSrA operation .
• Provision of data to discount claims .
'
(-)
currently used in smokin9 products
condeer.ed as precursors of
allegeQly lumful components in
sinoke by smokin9-tKa1tA proponents i
(cf . pp . 10. 32)
,
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- • threa t
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RDR, 1954, Nos . 1-13 - DESTROYED
if- 9- 4"7
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT REPORTS RDR - 1954
.•
1%, to .
+
Date
Title
Author
1
4/26/54
DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPRESSOMETER FOR MEASURING THE
FILLING CAPACITY OF CIGARETTE CUT TOBACCO
E .Barnhardt
2
6/7/54
PREPARATION OF CYCLOPENTANECARBOXYLIC ACID
6 .E . Teague
3
7/2/54
THE PREPARATION OF 3-METEiYLVALERIC ACID
C .E . Teague
4
7/6/54
DETERMINATION OF TOTAL REDUCING SUGARS IN TOBACCO
AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS BY THE SOMOGYI PROCEDURE
Cundif f
5
7/14/54
DETERMINATION OF ALKALOIDS IN TOBACCO AND TOBACCO
PRODUCTS
® Cundiff
6
7/16/54
SYNTHESIS OF FATTY ACID CARRIERS
Rowland, Giles,Aasic
7
8/20/54
TURKISH :TOBACCO . PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ISOLATION
11ND IDENTIFICATION OF SOME OF ITS CONSTITUENTS
Latimer, Ashburn,Jonc
8
8/23/54
INVESTIGATION OF THE ANTHRONE COLORIMETRIC PROCEDURE
FOR SUGAR DETERMINATION
1 1/6/55 alpha-SUBSTITUTED-gamma-BUTYROLACTONES AS FLAVORANTS
Tompson, C . G
~(
2 3/28/55 SYNTHESIS OF FATTY ACID CARRIERS
Hosick, T
~(
3 2/11/55 TREATMENT OF BURLEY TOBACCO WITH WATER AS A MEANS
OF DECREASING HARSHNESS
Tompson,C .G•
x
Elliott 3 . 8 . tl-
4 3/3/55 THE POTASSIUM, CALCIUM, AND SOLUBLE ASH CONTENT OF
AGING TOBACCO
5 3/21/55 FLUORESCENT COMPOUNDS IN TOBACCO
Bellin
6 3/29/55 QUATERNARY AMMONIUM HYDROXIDES AS TITRANTS FOR
ACIDS IN NONAQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
Cundif f
7 4/8/55 FLAVORING ACIDS IN TURKISH TOBACCO
Schumacher `+
8 8/4/55 DETERMINATION OF ACIDS IN SMOKE
Cundiff
9 8/22/55 J TURKISH TOBACCO SECOND PROGRESS REPORT ON THE
ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF SOME OF ITS
CONSTITUENTS
Henley &
Mays
.
' r10 8/31/55 THE PREPARATION OF POLYVINYL ESTERS OF SOME FIVE- Teague, C .E . ~C
~ AND SIX-CARBON FATTY ACIDS
0 11 10/17/55 THE COMPOSITION OF THE VAPOR PHASE OF CIGARETTE SMOKE Laurene
~
Smeby & Bellin *C
12 11/9/55 ORGANIC ACIDS IN THE GROWING TOBACCO PLANT
13 12/7/55 QUANTITATIVE STUDIES OF THE MICROBIOLOGICAL FLORA Flanders Y,
OF TOBACCO DURING AGING
Laurene &
Harrell
14 12/27/55 J A7*SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD4OR THE DETERMINATION 0F
VICOTINE IN CIGARETTE SMOKE,
15
SYNTHESIS OF AMIDES AND RELATED NITROGEN-CONTAINING
COMPOUNDS FOR USE AS TURKISH-TYPE ACID CARRIERS
,,y . . . . ... _.. .
rp):fiARMX,NATION ' OF ; . TOTAL' BAS ES ,. ~N CIGARETTE SMOKE
3
3/22/56
PUNCH CARD CODE FOR AGING STUDY DATA
Smeby X
4
4/4/56
PHENOLS AND PHENOLIC PIGMENTS IN TOBACCO Smeby
5
6-29-56
THE DETERMINATION OF MOISTURE IN TOBACCO BY Laurene & ~
KARL FISCHER REAGENT Sullivan /`
6
7/31/56
DETERMINATION OF MENTHOt IN MENTHOLATED TOBACCO
Harrell >(
7
8 -8 -56
THE REACTION OF ISOBUTYL BROMIDE WITH M6 .LONIC ESTER
Snyder, Harry , x
8
9 -7 -56
ISOLATION OF NEOPHYTADIENE FROM FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
Rowland
9
9-28-56
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . I . THE
ISOLATION AND/OR IDENTIFICATION OF POLYCYCLIC
AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN CAMEL CIGARETTE SMOKE
CONDENSATE
Rodgman
Sullivan &
Harrell
_
.
11116 Jsl. 42~t %9~J
10-1-56
THE PREPARATION OF SOME PHENOLIC FLAVORANTS
Rodgman
11
10-31-56
THE REACTION OF SEC-BUTYL BROMIDE WITH DIETHYL SECBUTYIMALONATE
Snyder, Harry x .
12
11-1-56
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . II . THE PRETREATMENT OF CAMEL BLEND TOBACCO
A STUDY OF THE AGING OF TURKISH TOBACCOS
:: : .
1/30/57 ~I TURKISti -4O8A"CC0 . THIRD PROGRESS REPORT ON THE•ISOLATION AND
IDENTIFICATION OF SOME OF ITS CONSTITUENTS
0
1/10/57
2
Latimer x
SchumaC
3
2/1/57
PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF DISODIUM sec-BUTYL-MALONATE AND
DISODIUM ISOPROPYIMALONATE ; LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT
Mays & ?\agu
E.
4
3/14/57
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . III . FLUE-CUREDToBACCO
F . T. a, S-it • .t'7 ) a,1Z . 7• ; 9- d;7
Rodgma ~~
•5
3/15/57
DETERMINATION•OF NITRATES IN TOBACCO AND TOBACCO STEMS
Harrell
6
5/21/57
VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DISODIUM sec-BUTYL MALONATE AND
DISODIUM ISOPROPyIMALONATE
Cundiff X
5/30/57
METABOLIC PRODUCTS FORMED BY THE ACTION OF ARTHROBACTER OXYDANS
ON NICOTINE
ZimmermanX
8
6/7/57 /THE ESTIMATION OF PENTANOIC AND HEXANOIC ACIDS IN TOBACCO AND
TOBACCO SMOKE USING GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
Latimer 37-
6/13/57,/ TURKISH'TOBACCO - FOURTH PROGRESS REPORT - ISOLATION AND
IDENTIFICATION OF SCLAREOLIDE
Schumacti .~,dr
.
Giles ® F
~ 6/13/57 FATE OF ALKYIMALONIC ACIDS DURING SMOKING
11 9/24/57
INVESTIGATION OF DILUTE SOLUTIONS OF TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE
AS BASIC TITRANTS IN NONAQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
12 10/2/57 DETERMINATION OF 2,4-DINITROPHENYPiYDRAZONES BY TITRATION WITH
TETRABUTYLAMHONIUM HYDROXIDE ~
Sensabaugh Cundiff X
Sensabau* 6
Cundiff j `Rodgma
13 10/7/57 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . IV .
3,4,8,9-DIBENZPYRENE IN CAMEL CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE
10/10/57 `' THE. .FATE'OF"DISODIUM .ISOPROF~LMALONATE DURING SMOKING . •A`STABLE
ISOTOPE STUDY .
14
.;
Latimer ¢t~~ 1
Gilesx
15
10/10/57 PREPARATION OF SOME TERPENOID ETHERS
16
10/11/57 THE PREPARATION OF SCLAREOLIDE BY THE OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL
SchumacherX
17 10/23/57 ' Cb[~USTION-ZONE TEMPERATURES OF CIGARETTES
Tompson
18 10/28/57 EVALUATION OF THE SARGENT_MAIMSTADT AUTOMATIC TITRATOR
~
Cundiffxr
,
19 ~`a {{~ 0~ 0 E" D~ . ISOLATION OF STEROLS FROM FLUE-CURED TOBAC~, (VOID - SEE RDR, ;
~y!*" .1958, No . 1) .,~~. ':I
'ti3 :a .. r
.
. ..
'.7' 12/16/57 DETERMINATION OF TRIACETIN IN FILTER ,PLUGS
. .. .
p
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12/17/57 ANALYSIS OF 3,5-DINITROBENZOATES BY TITRATION WITH TETRABUTYLAZ4fONIUM HYDROXIDE
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~
.
2/10/58
Rowlan&
AN ISOTOPE DILUTION ANALYSIS FOR ISOPROPYLMALONIC ACID Latimerx
3
2/18/58
~ ISOLATION OF a-TOCOPHEROL & SOLANACHROMENE FROM FLUE-CURED
TOBACCO
Rowland
4
3/14/58
PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF CIGARETTE TASTE TESTING METHODS Bellin & Nyst~om
5
3/19/58
ANALYSIS OF SUBSTITUTED MALONIC ESTERS BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY Latimer (`e~C
6
3/19158
A STUDY OF THE AGING OF THE 1952 TURKISH TOBACCOS . THE
THIRD
YEAR
Latimer
X
7
4/29/58
TURKISH TOBACCO ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DEHYDROGiles &
~
SCLAREOLIDE
Schumacher
8
6/2/58
DETERMINATION OF PROPYLENE GLYCOL AND GLYCEROL IN TOBACCO
9
6/13/58
AN IMPROVED QUATERNARY AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE TITRANT FOR STRONG
ACIDS
10
6/13/58
REACTION OF SOLVENTS WITH STRONG ACIDS AS DETERMINED BY
TITRATION WITH TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE
''
6/13/58
DETERMINATION OF STRONG ACID MIXTURES BY TITRATION WITH
TETRABUTYLAMhIONIUM HYDROXIDE
~
1% 6/19/58
13
7/9/58
.
Rowland b~+''~timez
VIISOLATION OF SOLANESYL ESTERS FROM FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
REDUCTION'OF ALKALOIDS AND AMMONIA IN TOBACCO WITH THE AID
OF MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE
Ashburn ~`;i .
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7/30/58
THE HEAT TREATMENT OF TOBACCO IN THE LEGG DUNMURRY ROTARY
PANNER~
~
m
kSawyer
15
7/30/58
NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF INORGANIC SALTS WITH TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM
HYDROXIDE
x
Cundiff
16
10/6/58
AN ISOTOPE DILUTION ANALYSIS FOR SECONDARY-BUTYI2•lALONIC ACID
17
11/7/58
ANALYSIS OF 3,5-DINITROBENZOATES
18
12/1/58
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . V . THE
POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBON PRECURSORS IN TOBACCO
Rodgman & Coo
ANALYSIS OF 2,4,7-TRINITROFLUORENONE-POLYNUCLEAR HYDROCARBON
COMPLEXES BY TITRATION WITH TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE
Cundif f
N
ANALYSIS OF SCLAREOL BY ISOTOPE DILUTION
Newel lx
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12/12/58
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Robinson*
12/31/58
STUDY OF TOBACCOPRETREATMENTS
Ashburn ~'r'? o
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SOLANESYL ACETATE
Rod n& Cook
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1 . 1/29/59 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . VI . THE INFLUENCE
OF SOLVENT PRETREATMENT OF TOBACCO AND OTHER FACTORS ON THE
POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBON CONTENT OF SMOKE CONDENSATE .
2 2/10/59 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . VIII . SOLANESYL
ESTERS AND PHYTOSTERYL ESTERS
Rodgma
3 3/16/59 THE USE OF IBM METHODS FOR HANDLING AND INTERPRETING DATA WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE AGING OF TOBACCO
Bellin x
4 3/23/59 / FURTHER STUDIES ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LIPID FRACTIONS OF
FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
Rowland
5 4/17/59 AN .APPARATUS FOR THE COLLECTION OF MAINSTREAM AND SIDESTREAM
SMOKES : THE ANALYSIS OF THE SMOKE FRCht CIGARETTES MADE WITH
A SPECIAL POROUS PAPER
Haefele
6 4/27/59 THE PREPARATION OF REFERENCE 2,4-DINITROPHENYLHYDRAZONES FOR
NINETY-ONE CARBONYL CONIPOUNDS
Fredrickson
Chappell4s,
Rodgman
7 4/28/59 THE DETERMINATION OF MOISTURE IN LICORICE BY KARL FISCHER
REAGENT
Sullivan x
~ 5/12/59 PILOT PLANT STUDY OF THE PRODU,CTION OF DISODIUM ISOPROPYLMALONATE AND DISODIUM sec-BUTYIMALONATE
Teague + x
Mays
9 5/15/59 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SCLAREOLIDE FRCM SCLAREOL : LABORATORY
. DEVELOPMENT
10 5/18/59 V TURKISH TOBACCO - THE ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF SCLARAL
Henley, W~sc
.
& Teague
t~s
Schumaches~. ; t
®
11 5/18/59 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . IX . PHYTADIENES
I
12 5/21/59 TURKISH TOBACCO . ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AMBREINOLIDE
Schumact~d.' .. &
Bernase~'~' ~
13 5/21/59 A RAPID OPTICAL METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF SCLAREOL
i
Laurene & X
Greene
14 6/22/59 MODIFICATION OF THE EXTRACTION PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINATION OF
ALICALOIDS IN TOBACCO
Cundif f A
15 6/24/59 / SCME VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS OF CELLULOSE SMOKE
Fredrickson
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7/13/59
TURKISH TOBACCO . CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOUNDS II AND III
Gi1es„
17
7/21/59
ATTEMPTED SYNTHESIS OF SCLAREOL
Giles
18
7/22/59
TITRATION STUDIES OF ALKyL AND PHENYL 3,5-DINITROBENZOATES AND
PHENOLIC ESTERS WITH TMABUTYLAt4i0NIUM HYDROXIDE
Robinson,~,Ir .
19
8/31/59
A COMPARISON OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
OF THE 1954 THROUGH 1958 CROPS
Bellin x
20
9/4/59
THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE, PART I .
21
9/11/59
DETERMINATION OF CR GANIC HALIDES BY TITRATION WITH TETRABUTYLArMONIUM HYDROXIDE
Cundiff x
22
9/28/59
DETERMINATION OF ACTIVE HYDROGEN BY TRITIUM EXCHANGE
Giles X
23
9/29/59
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE XI . a-TOCOPHEROL
Dat e
DETERMINATION OF THE DILUTION OF MAINSTREAM S OKE BY AIR PASSING P~_'
i ~
THROUGH A POROUS CIGARETTE PAPER `y ~ ',
L
SYNTHESIS OF AMBREINOLID E
1
1/7/6 0
2
2/4/6 0
3
2/10/6 0
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XII . SQUALENES AND
SOLANESENES .
4
2/18/6 0
SUPPLEMENT - THE USE OF IBM METHODS FOR HANDLING AND INTERPRETIN G
DATA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE AGING OF TOBACCO
(See RDR, 1959, No . 3 - dated 3/16/59)
Haefel e
Bernasek
odgman
ook & Mims
x
5
2/29/6 0
DETERMINATION OF SCLAREOLIDE CONTENT OF TOBACCOS BY ISOTOPE , ;Newe11
DILUTION
6
3/21/6 0
CORRELATION OF CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND~AGING CHANGES OF Bellin
BURLEY TOBACCO
7
3/30/6 0
A PROCESS FOR RECOVERY OF SCLAREOL FROM CLARY SAGE CONCRETE Teague,
Jame s
8
4/1/6 0
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XIII . SCLAREOLIDE $ . odgman &
Cook
FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE .
Ir~
4/11/6 0
THE RAPID DETERMINATION OF SCLAREOLIDE BY INSTRUMENT ANALYSIS Laurene, Youn .
Moser
10
4/20/6 0
THE PYROLYSIS OF AMBREINOLIDE AND THE RELATED SYNTHESIS OF AN Mims x
UNSATURATED LACTON E
11
4/21/6 0
THE OXIDATIVE NATURE OF POLYMER FORMATION IN FLUE-CURED TOBACCO Elliott ~C
12
4/22/6 0
THE DETERMINATION OF SUGARS IN TOBACCO Elliott
13
4/26/6 0
THE ABSORPTION OF OXYGEN AND THE LIBERATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE Elliot t
BY AGING TOBACCO - l~
14
4/27/60
THE DETERMINATION OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC SULFUR IN PROCESSED Elliott
9
TOBACCO AND HYDROGEN SULFIDE IN THE SMOKE - ANALYTICAL METHODS
AND RESULTS
15 4/29/60 FLAME PHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF POTASSIUM IN CURED TOBACCO Dobbinsx
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5/16/60 ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS VIA THE SCHONIGER OXIDATION . I .
DETERMINATION OF ELEMENTAL SULFUR .
Cundiff ~(
20
5/26/60 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XIV . POLYCYCLIC
AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
~;~,odgman & Cook
21
6/30/60 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XV . COMPARISON
OF DIFFERENT TOBACCO TYPES
f~~~Rodgman, Cook &
`~ Chappell
22
7/1/60 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE .SMOKE CONDENSATE . XVI . NORMAL
LONG-CHAINED PRIMARY ALCOHOLS
-A
23
&
25
~A~Cook, Rodgman &
Young
7/8/60 NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF ORGANIC HYDROXYL GROUPS
Robinson x
7/27/60
Latimer & :ikl 'ser
/ THE DETERMINATION OF FIVE-CARBON AND SIX-CARBON ACIDS BY
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
7/27/60 ATTEMPTED SYNTHESIS OF DEHYDROAMBREINOLIDE
Z{7z*
Bernasek ~" .
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A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE HIGHER FATTY ACIDS IN
FLUE-CURED, BURLEY,
TURKISH TOBACCOS
~.. : ; AND
.; .
CHANGES IN FATTY ACID COMPOSITION DURING GERMINATION,
GROWTH, AND,,CURING OF HICKS VARIETY TOBACCO PLANTS
ORGANIC ACIDS IN AGING FLUE-CURED AND BURLEY TOBACCOS WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CITRIC, MALIC AND OXALIC ACIDS
30 9/1/60
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SCLAREOLIDE FROM SCLARF.OL . PART II .
CHRCMIC ACID OXIDATION OF MIXTURES OF METHYL KETONE,
CYCLIC OXIDE AND SCLAREOLIC ACID
Bernasek X
A RAPID DETERMINATION OF MANOYL OXIDE AND 13-EPIMANOYL OXIDE
IN ISOMER MIXTURES
Laurene &,fi~Younl
r -;~
31 9/6/60 DETERMINATION OF ALKOXYL GROUPS
32 9/19/60 41 DEHYDRATION OF SCLAREOL . I . THE EPIMERIC MANOYL OXIDES
33 10/20/60 A METHOD FOR SYNTHESIS OF SCLARAL : LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
4 10/20/60 /BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . I'. ISOLATION PROCEDURES,
0 PREVIOUSLY KNOWN COMPOUNDS AND DITERPENIC GLYCOLS
Bernasek & Henl
35 11/8/60 SYNTHESIS OF DIHYDROSCLAREOLIC OXIDE
36 • 12/2/60 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XVII . THE EFFECT
OF ALUMINA-SUPPORTED .CATALYSTS ON TOTAL POLYCYCLIC HYDRO- Rodgman~ ook
CARBONS, TOTAL SOLIDS AND NICOTINE
37 12/6/60 ISOTOPIC FATE STUDIES WITH TO~CCO CONSTITUENTS . I . THE Haefele & Gilee
FATE OF n -H ENTRIACONTANE - 16 - C DURING SMOKIN ~G
38 12/7/60 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XVIII . CHLORANIL :411odgman & Cook
, AND 2,4,7-TRINITROFLUORENONE AS FILTER TIP ADDITIVES
39 12/7/60 TURKISH TOBACCO . ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF Giles &3*umac
12a-HYDROXY-13-EPIMANOYL OXIDE
40 12/16/60 /TURKISH SAND . PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ISOLATION OF SOME 0 , Schumache
ITS CONSTITUENTS
IE ~ iG
41
12/19/60 ~
SMOKING QUALITY OF BURLEY STRIPS DENICOTINIZED BY F
1/6/61 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XIX . THE DETERMINATION OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
2
1/9/61 V THE DISTRIBUTION OF PHENOL BETWEEN DIETHYL ETHER AND AQUEOUS
SOLUTION .
Laurene 6
Lewallen
3
1/12/61v( IMPROVED PROCEDURE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ACIDS IN TOBACCO
SMOKE .
Sensabaug
4
Alh
1/13/61 V/ DETERMINATION OF COUMARIN IN TOBACCO AND TURKISH DUST BY ISOTOPE '
~~[ewell
DILUTION .
1/26/61
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XX . A NOTE ON THE
NORMAL LONG-CHAINED PRIMARY ALCOHOLS : AN ADDENDUM TO
RDR, 1960, No . 22
6
1/27/61 /PHOSPHORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
7
2/3/61
8
2/6/61
EFFECT OF OZONE ON BURLEY TOBACCO
Rodgman d
m Cook
df Walker
Giles
'~ps ,'(k4j(o -
,HIGHER FATTY ACIDS IN THE SMOKE CONDENSATE OF BURLEY & FLUE-CURED
I/ TOBACCOS . A FACTORIAL DESIGN EXPERIMENT SHOWING THE EFFECT OF
VARIATION•OF CIGARETTE MOISTURE, WEIGHT & TOBACCO TYPE
Bellin,!
•
2/14/61
GROSS SEPARATION AND DETERMINATION OF THE PHENOLIC FRACTION FROM
TOBACCO SMOKE CONDENSATES
10
2/23/61
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXI . PHENOLS
11
2/23/61 /THE PYROLYTIC FORMATION OF POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS . I . ~° ~ Mims
EXPLORATORY STUDY
12
3/3/61
V/TURKISH TOBACCO . ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DEHY9R0AMBREINOLIDE AND THE ISOLATION OF COMPOUNDS XVI AND XVII
Cundiff
,~Rodgman +
• ~' Cook
~~~ Schumachei
13
3/22/61
OXIDATION OF MANOYL OXIDE . I . SYNTHESIS OF SCLAREOLIDE
~CGi1es
14
3/27/61
SAMPLING PROGRAM FOR THE AGING PROJECT
~ Shiffert
15
3/27/61
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXII . THE COMPOSITION Rodgman,
OF AN.'ALIPHATIC ESTER FRACTION FROM TOBACCO AND TOBACCO SMOKE . ® Cook, Belli
Mims, Young
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3/30/61
QJALITATIVE STUDY OF THE MICROBIOLOGY OF STORED CIGARETTE Long, Margaret~
TOBACC 0
/ `
17
4/4/61
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SCLAREOLIDE FROM SCLAREOL : LABORATORY
DEVELOPMENT : SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT
18
4/11/61
ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY OF AMINO ACIDS IN TOBACCO ~James, W . B .
19
4/24/61
ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS VIA THE SCHONIGER OXIDATION . III . if Robinson X
DETERMINATION OF ELEMENTAL CARBON
20
4/25/61
POLYPHENOLS OF TOBACCO . II . DETERMINATION OF CHRLOROGENIC ftystrom
ACID, RUTIN, AND SCOPOLETIN IN CIGARETTE BLEND TOBACCO
FRACTIONS
21
4/28/61
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXII . AND 4L
LEVANTENOLIDE FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE
Mays, Hen1x &
Wilson
~~~k & Rodgman
~a
22 -'' ~~/9/G1
THE-D4ygRMIN&,iON-0$_P1iENOL" XSIGAREtTE SMO QN~~~NSAT
23
5/11/61
TOBACCO FERMENTATIONS : DENICOTINIZATION OF BURL~LEAT' .
~
5/15/61
THE INVESTIGATION OF NONAQUEOUS TITRIMEfiRIC SYSTEMS USING
TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE
• 25
5/16/61
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE "COCONUT-OIL" 02thumacher
FRACTION IDENTIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF MARIOLIDE ~
(COMPOUND XIII)
26
5/16/61
FREE AMINO ACIDS IN AGING TOBACCO ~ James
27
5/17/61
POLYPHENOLS OF TOBACCO . I . THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION j W ystrom
OF CHLOROGENIC ACID, RUTIN, AND SCOPOLETIN IN TOBACCO AND
l ,tl~%, G ~
*uires & Hayes
Sensabaugh
X
TOBACCO PRODUCTS
28
5/23/61
BIOCONTROL OF LASIODERMA SERRICORNE BY BACILLUS PULVIFACIENS
29
5/31/61
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE VOLATILE ESSENTIAL
OILS OF TOBACCO . I . PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF BURLEY La timer®
TOBACCO
NICOTINE RECOVERY FROM DILUTE AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS BY
DISTILLATION OF NICOTINE AZEOTROPES AT PRESSURES ABOVE
ONE ATMOSPHERE • ,
Author(s)
Neal
x
32
6/28/61
ATTEMPTED NOMAQUEOUS TITRATION OF DDVP (0,0-Dimethyl-2,2dichlorovinyl Phosphate) IN PYRIDINE AND ETHYLENEDLAMINE
WITH TETRABUTYLAt4tONIUM HYDROXIDE
33
6/28/61
THE DDMERIC PEROXIDE OF SCLAREOL OXIDE AND ITS DECOMPOSITION PRODUCTS
34
7/6/61
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . IL . CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO
DITERPENOIDS, - AND -1,3-DUVENDIOL, AS CYCLOTETRADECYL
GLYCOLS
35
7/14/61
DETERMINATION OF FATTY ACIDS IN TOBACCO - QUANTITATIVE
STUDIES OF'THE PROCEDURES USED FOR SEPARATING THE FATTY
ACIDS AFTER SAPONIFYING HEXANE EXTRACTS OF TOBACCO
Bellin ~'
THE QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF CARBOHYDRATES IN AGING
TOBACCO
Shiffert'~
/ `
7/17/61
9
37 7/25/61 V/ THE DETERMINATION OF PHENOL IN CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE
Robinson ~
oberts
R
Latimer ~
38 7/25/61 J THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASS SPECTROMETIC ANALYSIS OF PHENOLSrurene & Young
IN TOBACCO SMOKE
r
39 8/1/61 POLYPHENOLS OF TOBACCO . III . FACTORS INFLUENCING THE __ 6hifz"
CHLOROGENIC ACID, RUTIN, AND SCOPOLETIN CONTENT OF FLUECURED TOBACCO
40 8/3/61 NICOTINE,FERMENTATIONS, PROCESS FOR THE CONVERSION OF
Squires & Hes
TO 3-SUCCINOYLPYRIDONE-6 BY DEEP-CULTURE BACTERIAL FERMENTATION
41 8/3/61 STABILIZATION OF THE HEOPFNER REACTION WITH ALUMINUM IONS ; Nystrom
REACTION OF ALUMINUM NITRITE WITH ORTHO-DIHYDROBENZENES
42 8/18/61 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXIV . 6-ACETYL2,304-TRIS-d-B-METHYLVALERYL-B-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE FROM TURKISH 'ftbdgman & Cook
TOBACCO SMOKE
~3 8/21/61 TURKISH TOBACCO CHARACTERIZATION OF i~-LEVANTANOLIDE Giles to
4 9/22/61 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE, 70CV . 12qHYDROXY-13-EPIMANOYL OXIDE•FRCM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE .
3010/20/61 EVALUATION OF MALEIC HYDRAZIDE (MH-3Q) TREATED BURLEY
TOBACCO
ok & Rodgman
Shiffert
Harrell-Latim
Ln
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1961
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'FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARATION AND UTILIZATION OF
QUARTERNARY AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE.
Cundiffx
TITRANTS l'
i1/7/61
INVESTIGATION OF MEANS FOR DETERMINATION OF THE ACETYL GROUP Cundiff (`
11/9/61
TOBACCO FLORA : •QUANTITATIVE STUDIES •
..
11/14/61
EXPERIMENTAL GROWTH OF CLARY SAGE IN FORSYTH COUNTY, N . .C .,
FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SCLAREOL
50
11/15/61
THE PYROLYSIS OF MIXTURES OF HEXANE AND ETHANOL-1-C14
51
11/15/61
RDR, 1961, NO . 31 . TITLED "NICOTINE RECOVERY FROM DILUTE Neel ~
AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS BY DISTILLATION OF NICOTINE AZEOTROPES A l`T
PRESSURES ABOVE ONE ATMOSPHERE"- SUPPLEMENT TO
52
11/16/61
OXIDATION OF MANOYL OXIDE . II . A STUDY OF OXIDANTS OTHER THAN •Giles x
PERMANGANATE IN THE SYNTHESIS OF SCLAREOLIDS
53
11/17/61 .
REVISION OF THE OPTICAL METHOD FOR THE DETERMI&TION OF SCLAREOL Laurene-v
Moser 6f N
Drummong
11/27/61
THE ANALYSIS OF CONTAMINANTS ON CAPACITOR FOIL
Laurene-LyerNv &
Lamb
12/4/61
ISOLATION OF SOLANESOL FROM FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
Rowland-Le.fAmer•
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12/6/61
VAPOR-PHASE REMOVAL OF NICOTINE FROM TOBACCO
Ashburn &~"'
57
12/11/61
BURLEY TOBACCO CONSTITUENTS . I . SURVEY OF SEPARATION AND
ISOLATION PROCEDURES OF THE METHANOL EXTRACTABLES
Rohd
58
12/27/61
VAPOR PHASE REMOVAL OF NICOTINE FROM BURLEY TOBACCO IN
PILOT PLANT AND PLANT-SCALE COMMERCIAL EQUUPMENT .
NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF INORGANIC PERCHLORATES WITH TETRA- ~ Sensabaugh
BUTYLAM4IONIUM HYDROXIDE
2
1/10/62
EVALUATION OF THE MODEL 29 COLEMAN NITROGEN ANALYZER ~ Robinson
3
1/12/62
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE MOLECULAR DISTILLATION OF TURKISH AfA Schumacher
TOBACCO EXTRACT . THE ISOLATION OF TWO TOBACCO FLAVORANT
PRECURSORS (SCLAREOL OXIDE AND COMPOUND XXIII)
4
1/15/62
CORRELATIONS OF MASS SPECTRA OF BIOYCLIC AND TRICYCLIC ' Laurene b~(
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DITERPENES WITH THEIR MOLECULAR STRUCTURE ~~S
5
1/29/62
IDENTIFICATION OF C15 AND C17 SATURATED FATTY ACIDS, AND C15, Bellin ~
C16, C17, UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN TOBACCO AND IN SMOKE
2/15/62
DEHYDRATION OF SCLAREOL . III . THE SCLARENES AND RELATED ENOL F~~ Mims
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2/19/62
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3/5/62
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3/12/62
THE DETERMINATION OF CARBAMATES BY HYDROLYSIS WITH PERCHLORIC
ACID
11
4/19/62
COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF SCLAREOLIDE AND RESOLUTION OF r Cundiff
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SCLAREOLIDE-ACETOXY ACID MIXTURES
12
5/1/62
CHARACTERIZATION OF M-II-b, AN UNSATURATED GLYCOL ISOLATED ,Rowland
FROM FLUE-CURED TOBACCOS, AS 12-ISOPROPYL-1,5,9-TRIMETHYL3,8,13-CYCLOTETRADECATRIENE-1,5-DIOL
13
5/8/62
EFFECT OF AGII~G ON THE SCLAREOLIDE CONTENT OF TURKISH TOBACCOS Newe11A
14
6/21/62
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THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXVI . HETEROCYCLIC ~<
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NITROGEN COMPOUNDS FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE
. .
15
6/21/62
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXVII . PHENOLS FROM4~odgman &
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6/21/62
FLUE-CURED TOBACCO . VOLATILE COMPONENTS, 1962
17
6/25/62
CARBOHYDRATES IN COMPETITIVE BRANDS OF CIGARETTES
18
6/25/62
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE
ESSENTIAL OIL OF TURKISH TOBACCO DUST
19
6/27/62
PREPARATION AND NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF THE p-NITROPHENYLHYDRAZONES OF ALDEHYDES, KETONES, AND CARBOHYDRATES
Author(s)
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Giles
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20
6/28/62
FATTY ACIDS OF TOBACCO LEAVES . FRACTIONATION AND SAPONIFICATION &',,Bellin ~
OF THE HEXANE EXTRACT OF TOBACCO
21
6/29/62
THE DEGRADATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF PALMITIC ACID-C1400H
DURING AIR CURING DETACHED BURLEY LEAVES
22
7/5/62
OCCURRENCE OF SCLAREOL IN BURLEY TOBACCO-C14
23
7/6/62
FLUE CURED TOBACCO . THE K-I AND K-II COMPOUNDS
Rowland &
Cabiness
24
7/10/62
EXTRACTION OF SCLAREOL-C14 FROM CLARY SAGE-C14 AND ITS
CONVERSION TO SCLAREOLIDE-C14
Newell A,
7/12/62
CONDENSATION OF ALDEHYDES WITH ISOPHORONE q-4-Rowland &
t' `'~Cabiness
26
7/19/62
ELUTION COLUMN PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR FLAME PHOTOMETRIC
CALCIUM DETERMINATION
27
7/19/62
THE QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF TOTAL ALKALOIDS, NICOTINE, TOTAL ,~F~,,,Shiffert
NITROGEN, POTASSIUM, CHLORIDE AND pH (SLURRY) IN AGING TOBACCO ~
28
7/31/62
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE CHARACTERIZATION OF BOVOLIDE Schumacher
(COMPOUND XXXI)
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29
8/1/62
CHARACTERIZATION OF M-II-f AS A-3,8,13-DUVATRIENE-1,5-DIOL `4Roberts &
Rowland
30
8/7/62
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NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF HYDRAZIDES WITH TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM
HYDROXIDE
Sens abau'il
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32
8/16
COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF SCLAREOL
Cundiff ~~
33
8/21
SUBSTITUTED MALIC ACIDS AS TOBACCO FLAVORANTS
Fredrickson
34
9/10
TOBACCO PRODUCT FROM THE SMOKABLE COMPONENTS OF BURLEY STEMS
Ashburn 40
35
9/27
SYNTHESIS OF (-)-6-ALKOXYNICOTINES AND THEIR TARTRATE SALTS
Bernasek `i.,
36
10/10
MA`CROCYCLTC .`:DITERRENES, a- AND 5-4,8,13-DUVATRIENE-1,3-DIOLS
FROM TOBACCO
THE~~.FATE`l OF,jTH,E_:;,FLAVORANTS OF TOBACCO DURING SMOKING . I .
SCLAREOLIDE
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11/2
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11/2
THE PREPARATION OF MARIOLIDE FROM S-IONONE
39
11/6
SHREDDING STEMS WITH A DISC REFINER FOR USE AS CIGARETTE CUT
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11/15
SCLAREOL FROM CLARY SAGE - AVOCA FARM, .1962
41
12/11
I'SOLATION OF LONG-CHAINED ALIPHATIC ESTERS OF S-AMYRIN FROM
TURKISH AND BURLEY TOBACCOS
42
'12/17
EXTRACTION OF NICOTINE FROM BURLEY TOBACCO
Ashburn %
43
12/28
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OF THE ODOROUS CONSTITUENTS OF BURLEY SMOKE CONDENSATE
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Date
TITLE
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1/8/63 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXVIII . POSSIBLE
a PRECURSORS IN TOBACCO OF PHENOLS IN TOBACCO SMOKE
2 1/14/63 THE STUDY OF BURLEY SMOKE CONDENSATE . II . THE ISOLATION OF
DISUBSTITUTED MALEIC ANHYDRIDES FROM STRONG ACID FRACTION
Fredrickson
3 1/21/63 DEHYDRATION OF SCLAREOL . IV . MISCELLANEOUS COMPOUNDS DERIVED
FROM SCLAREOL
4 1/24/63 NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF INORGANIC SALTS FOLLOWING REACTION,WITH
8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE
Robinson
5 1/30/63 FRACTIONATION OF EXTRACTS OF TURKISH BLEND TOBACCO
Fredrickson
6 1/31/63 THE FATE OF FLAVORANTS DURING SMOKING . II . CO UMARIN
Newell' . ..
7 2/1/63 DETERMINATION OF CONSTITUENTS OF TOBACCO BY ISOTOPE DILUTION .
III . PHENYLACETIC ACID
Newell,
8 2/6/63 GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE VOLATILE ESSENTIAL OILS OF (l~'.
TOBACCO . V . INVESTIGATION OF 1960 BURLEY TOBACCOS .BEFOREiAGING
AND AT THE END OF ONE YEAR OF AGING
Latimer-Moser
9 2/6/63 THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXIX . PHYTOL
(3,7,11,15-TETRAMETHYL-2-HEXADECEN-1-OL)
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ALDEHYDIC AND KETONIC CONSTITUENTS
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11 2/8~/63 EFFECT OF TOBACCO TREATMENTS ON POLYNUCLEAR HYDROCARBONS IN
CIGARETTE SMOKE
13
2/15/63
SCHARDINGER
CYCLODEXTRINS
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Sinfert
14 2/15/63 ANALYTICAL EVALUATION OF LICORICE . I . COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION
OF GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID . II . DETERMINATION OF REDUCING, NON-REDUCING
AND TOTAL SUGAR CONTENT
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THE LOSS OF SCLAREOL DURING HEAT DRYING OF CLARY SAGE FLOWERING
PARTS
' Hhefele
THE RECOVERY OF SCLAREOL FROM CLARY SAGE FLOWERING PqTS BY A
DIRECT EVAPORATION CONDENSATION PROCESS
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THE INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY OF NICOTINE DERIVATIVES AND RELATED
,COMPOUNDS AGAINST THE GREEN PEACH APHID
,
Haefele,~o
3/13/63 SYNTHESIS OF (-)1-ALKYL- AND (-)-[p-(,h1~k1)phenoxyethoxyethyl]5-(N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)-2-pyridones
20 3/1YI63 CULTIVATION OF BACILLUS MACERANS FOR PRODUCTION OF AMYLASE
Long, Marga`
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT REPORT - RDR - 1963
Date
TITLE
Author
0
3/15/63
AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME POSSIBLE METHODS OF ISOLATING TOBACCO
CONSTITUENTS
22
3/19/63
INVESTIGATION INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF DETERMINING ACTIVE HYDROGENXobinson
UTILIZING GRIGNARD REAGENTS AND NONAQUEOUS TITRIMETIC TECHNIQUES
23
3/25/63
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . III . STUDIES ON CONDENSATE FROM ~
DENICOTINIZATION PROCESS
24
3/25/63
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXXI . -1,5-Dimethyl ; r odgroan-Cook
12-Isopropyl-9-Methylene-5,8-Oxido-3,13-Cyclotetradecadien-1-0L
and -12-Isopropyl-5,8-Oxide-1,5,9-Trimethyl-3,9,13-Cyclotetradecatrien-l-ol from Turkish Tobacco
25
3/25/63
COLUMN ELUTION OF HUMECTANTS FROM TOBACCO AND DETERMINATION BY MCundiff-Greene
VAPOR CHROMATOGRAPHY
26
4/4/63
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOUND XI . A MACROCYCLIC ~ RobertsDITERPENE ISOLATED FROM TOBACCO Schumacher
27
4/5/63
NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIC COMPOUNDS WITH ASensabaugh
TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE
ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION & SYNTHESIS OF COMPOUND XXVI . WSRoberts_JNS
37
5/14/63
PILOT PLANT STUDY OF PROCESS FOR CONVERTING SCLAREOL TO SCLAREOLIDE Henley et a1V10
38
5/15/63
BY-PRODUCTS FROM OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL . I . NEUTRAL BY-PRODUCTS
39
5/15/63
GROWING TOBACCO IN A GREENHOUSE . I . GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS, CURING
& CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF BURLEY & FLUE-CURED VARIETIES
~
5/23/63
IMPROVING THE SMOKING QUALITY OF BURLEY STEMS
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41
5/24/63
BURLEY STEM TREATMENTS
42
5/28/63
FIVE- AND SIX-CARBON ACID CONTENT OF TURKISH TOBACCOS
X Dobbins
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33
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GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF VOLATILE ESSENTIAL OILS OF TOBACCO . Latimer
VII . EVALUATION OF GREEN LEAF SAMPLES OF 1961 & 1962 BURLEY CROPS
44
6/6/63
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . IV . ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND qgRoberts
SYNTHESIS OF COMPOUND BV-20
45
6/7/63
EFFECT OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATOR (2 CHLOROETHYL) TRIMETHYL- Bellin ~
AMMONIUM CHLORIDE ON HEXANE EXTRACTABLES OF CURLEY BURLEY LEAVES
46
6/7/63
BY-PRODUCTS FROM OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL . II . OXIDATION OF BY-PRODUCTSY\ Giles
47
6/21/63
DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF TOBACCO HUMECTANTS IN eene6undiff
CIGARETTE
SMOKE
Waureneo
48
7/8/63
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE QISOLATION OF ACID CARRIERS FROM TURKISH ~Schumacher
TOBACCOS
49
7/18/63
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . V . ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND ~ Roberts
SYNTHESIS OF COMPOUND BV-21
50
8/22/63
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9/3/63
SYNTHESIS
9/6/63
THE F1TE OF FLAVORANTS OF TOBACCO DURING SMOKING . IV . (A) MENTHOLvewell-Latime
53
9/27/63
RAPID METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF FIVE- AND SIX-CARBON ACID CONTENT~~iystromOF SUGAR ESTERS AND SUGAR ESTER FRACTIONS ISOLATED FROM TOBACCO . Sizemore
UTILIZATION OF ALCOHOLYSIS REACTION FOR PREPARATION OF ETHYL ESTERS
FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
54
9/30/63
SYNTHESES OF DIMETHYLMALEIC ANHYDRIDE BY CATALYTIC, VAPOR PHASE,~'~,,~ Mims cnN
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DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLUE-CURED TOBACCO QUALITY AND TOTAL ~ Nystrom
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1963
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ISOLATION OF A TOXIC FRACTION FROM BACILLUS PULVIFACIENS Jackson
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11/20/63
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . VI . ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION
AND SYNTHESIS OF 2-ACETYL-5-METHYLPYRROLE
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SYNTHESIS OF 2_•ACETYLPYRAZINE
61
12/11/63
NICOTINE FERMENTATIONS : CHARACTERIZATION OF CULTURE .B43-3 AS
PSEUDOMONAS NICOTINOLYTICUS, N .S .P .
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Date
TITLE
1/6/64
BURLEY TOBACCO CONSTITUENTS . VIII . ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AN
SYNTHESIS OF TWO PYRROLE CARBOXALDEHYDES
2
1/8/64
BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL . III . NEUTRAL BY-PRODUCTS ',_ Giles
3
1/8/64
~~Mays-Henley
RECOVERY OF SCLAREOL FROM CLARY SAGE CONCRETE THROUGH THE USE OF `~~`
SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS
4
1/9/64
THE FATE OF FLAVORANTS OF TOBACCO DURING SMOKING . IV . (B) MENTHO• ewell'=LatimE
CONTENT OF MAINSTREAM VERSUS NUMBER OF PUFFS Moser
5
1/9/64
THE STUDY OF BURLEY SMOKE CONDENSATE . III . CONSTITUENTS 0 THE
STRONG ACID FRACTION
6
1/10/64
GROWING TOBACCO IN A GREENHOUSE . PART II . A COMPARISON OF GENERAL Bellin
ELECTRIC POWERGROOVE LAMPS AND SYLVANIA GRO-LUX LAMPS FOR
ILLUMINATING CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT GROWTH CHAMBERS a .'~-e-o /11 . S•
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PILOT PLANT PROCESSING OF CLARY SAGE CONCRETE FOR SCLAREOL Henley X
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2/3/64
4S,YNTHESIS OF FATTY ACID CARRIERS`
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2/11/64
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . IX . FURTHER ISOLATION AND SYNTHESIS Woberts
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OF 2-ACETYLPYRAZINE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS
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THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXXV . A SUMMARY OF }ri V~~ Rodgman
AN EIGHT-YEAR STUDY
11
4/12/64
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENTAL METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ~ Laurene-Greer
A TRIACETIN IN FILTER PLUGS
12
2/14/64
THE USE OF DRI-DIE 67 SILICA FOR PROTECTING STORED TOBACCO FROM Bellin ~s
DAMAGE BY THE CIGARETTE BEETLE
13
3/13/64
PREPARATION AND NONAQUEOUS TITRATION OF THE DIPHENYL-ACETYL- Sensabaugl~
1,3-INDANDIONE-I-AZINES OF ALDEHYD$S AND KETONES
14
3/17/64
AN EVALUATUON OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY . I . HERBICIDAL ACTION OF Bellin ~ .
NICOTINE~'DERIVATIVES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS AS DETERMINED BY
TESTS WITH LEMNA MINOR (DUCKWEED)
15
3/17/64
AN EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY . II . THE TOXICITY OF Bellin
NICOTINE'"AND~•ITS DERIVATIVES+TO MINNOWS
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3/20/64
ISOLATION OF C14-LABELED NICOTINE FROM C14-LABELED BURLEY TOBACCO
BY A PROCEDURE RELATIVELY NON-DESTRUCTIVE TO OTHER CONSTITUENTS
17
3/27/64
POLONIUM-210 IN TOBACCO . I . EVIDENCE THAT A MAJOR PORTION
ORIGINATES FROM ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION OF TOBACCO PLANTS
i
4/1/ 6 4
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THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE . PART II . Laurene-Greene-Drunmo
4/8/64
DEHYDRATION OF SCLAREOL . V . THE DEHYDRATION OF SCLAREOLIC ACID
20
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START-UP AND OPERATION OF AVOCA PROCESSING PLANT
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4/16/64 SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT : THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE AM'Laurene-Lyer7
Greene-Harbir
SMOKE . PART II .
22
4/22/64 DETERMINATION OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE IN CIGARETTE SMOKE ®rbin-Lyerly-Yot
23
4/30/64 THE FATE F DISODIUM ISOPROPYLMALONATE-3-C14 DURING SMOKING ® Haefele
24
5/5/64 AGRONOMIC RESEARCH ON CLARY SAGE AT AVOCA FARM, BERTIE COUNTY, f~ Collins• S'ta}lings-Ma11oi
N . C ., IN 1963 a-?.-Q /s'! • S . ~
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5/6/64 PREPARATION OF 4-(2-BUTENYLIDENE)-3,5,5-TRIMETHYL-2-CYCLOHEXEN_ ~ Bluhm
1-ONE (THE K-1 AND K-Z COMPOUNDS) p•," M• S .
26
5/6/64 BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL IV . OXIDATION ON ~~~"''~~~ ~ Giles
ACIDIC BY-PRODUCTS
27
5/6/64 ~ SYNTHESIS OF 2,3-DIMETRYLMALEIC ANHYDRIDE
14
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5/11/64 THE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE IN
CIGARETTE SMOKE d-~ m' S•
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5/11/64 BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL V . OXIDATION OF
COMPOUND B4G1
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5/14/64 SYNTHESIS OF DEHYDROIONONE . II .
32
EXPERIMENTAL GROWTH OF CLARY SGAE IN FORSYTH COUNTRY, N . C . FOR
THE PRODUCTION OF SCLAREOL . SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT .
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6/3/64 GROWING TOBACCO IN A GREENHOUSE . III . A COMPARISON OF FLUE-CURED
AND BURLEY VARIETIES OF TOBACCO GROWN BY NUTRICULTURE METHODS IN
A GREENHOUSE AND OUTSIDE
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6/5/64 NONAQUEOUS CONDUCTIMETRIC TITRATIONS USING TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM
HYDROXIDE
Sensabaugh
35
6/17/64 LABORATORY SYNTHESIS FOR BOVOLIDE AND DIHYDROBOVOLIDE .
(ALSO TWO-PAGE ADDENDUM TO THIS REPORT) `
36
7/13/64 DESCRIPTION AND OPERATION OF DENICOTINIZING PLANT AT SHED 131,
WHITAKER PARK - OCTOBER, 1962 - FEBRUARY 1964 .
37
8/12/64 SYNTHESIS OF SAFRANAL AND SM36C X Rowland-Roberts
38
9/2/64 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DIRECT VAPOR CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION
OF ACETYLALDEHYDE,ACROLEIN, AND ACETONE IN CIGARETTE SMOKE .
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~ Neel, R .M .
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9/8/64 MEASUREMENT OF ARREST OF RADIANT HEAT BY REFLECTIVE MATERIALS `'p,~ Laurene
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Author(s)
Date
9/9/64
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE INVESTIGATION OF THE STEAM CONDENSATE 4D;chumacher
43 .
9/16/64
SYNTHESIS OF N,N DIALKYL-N'-BENZYL-N'-[5-(1-METHYL-2-PYRROLIDINYL)2-PYRIDYLJ-ETHYLENEDIAMINES
BernasekX
44
9/24/64
BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL . VI . NEUTRAL BY-PRODUCTS
Giles X
45
9/29/64
BURLEY TOBACCO CONSTITUENTS . II . SURVEY OF SEPARATION AND ISOLATIONI~de
OF THE CHLOROFORM EXTRACTABLES
46
10/2/64
ACIDIC CONSTITUENTS OF BURLEY VOLATILES I . ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND SYNTHESIS OF COMPOUND S015C
47
10'/.2/64
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . XI . ISOLATION AND SYNTHESIS OF TOBACCO MWoberts
CONSTITUENTS
48
10/6/64
ACID CONSTITUENTS OF BURLEY VOLATILES . II . ISOLATION AND SYNTHESIS (1:1eRohde
OF S017C
10/7/64
THE FATE OF RADIOACTIVE LINOLENIC AND PAIMITIC ACIDS DURING THE
AIR-CURING OF BURLEY TOBACCO
10/28/64
Bellin- ~
POLONIUM-210 IN TOBACCO . III . FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT A MAJOR PORTION
ORIGINATES FROM ATMOSPHERIC CONTAMINATION OF TOBACCO PLANTS Nystrom-Sizemc
ohde
Bellin
51
11/4/64
11/4/64
EFFECT OF NICOTINE DERIVATIVES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS ON PLANT James",!GROWTH
~ ~
11/6/64
BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE OXIDATION OF SCLAREOL . VII . ACID BY-PRODUCTS
Giles%,4
12/4/64
SYNTHESIS OF DEHYDROIONONE . III .
Rowland)~
12/28/64
AN EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY . III . HERBICIDAL ACTION OF
NICOTINE DERIVATIVES AS DETERMINED BY ROOT IMMERSION TESTS WITH
SOYBEAN AND CORN SEEDLINGS
Bellin ~.+~
55
12/28/64
LABORATORY OPERATION AT AVOCA FARM - 1964 Robinson-Cundi~`~~
Vanl~'oy ,
56
12/28/64
INTERIM REPORT NO . 1 TO R . J . REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY - STUDY ~ 1 ;
OF THE CILIARY-DEPRESSANT ACTIVITY OF CIGARETTE SMOKE `'
57
12/28/64
INTERIM REPORT NO . 2 TO R . J . REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY - STUDY a Industrial
OF THE CILIARY-DEPRESSANT ACTIVITY OF CIGARETTE SMOKE w Bio-Test Labs
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Date
Title
Author(s)
1964
62
3/7
PENICK & FORD, LTD . - DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 1ST QUARTER, 19 4 Penick & Ford
63
3/7
PENICK & FORD, LTD . - DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 2ND QUARTER, 19 4 Penick & Ford
64
3/7
PENICK & FORD, LTD . - DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 3RD QUARTER, 1P64 Penick & Ford
65
3/7
PENICK & FORD, LTD . - DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 4TH QUARTER, 1P64 Panick & Ford
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RESEARCH DEPARTMENT REPORTS - RDR - 1965
Title
Date
2
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'Author(s)
1/4/65
DESCRIPTION AND OPERATION OF DENICOTINIZING PLANT AT BLDG . 60~XNeel, R . M .
WHITAKER PARK, FEBRUARY .1964 - SEPTEMBER 1964
1/13/65
DE AiT-OE .ANAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHOD TO DETERMINE /,
ARBON MONOXIBE I CIGARETTE SMOKE ~(
rly-Young-
urene
aredrickson
3
1/18/65
PROCESS FOR INCREASING THE VOLUME OF TOBACCO '
4
1/18/65
EFFECT OF CULTURAL PRACTICES ON QUALITY, YIELD AND SOME
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF THE 1963 BURLEY CROP
5
1/21/65
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . XII . SYNTHESIS ANb CHARACTERIZATIONORoberts
RELATED TO SM2C
6
1/28/65
DETERMINATION OF OXIDES OF NITROGEN IN TOBACCO SMOKE
7
2/4/65
9
2/9/65
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10
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INTERIM REPORT NO . 3 TO R .J .R . - STUDY OF THE CILIARY_
DEPRESSANT ACTIVITY OF CIGARETTE SMOKE
~ INDUSTRIAL BIOTEST LABS ., INC :
. BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . XIII . ATTEMPTED SYNTHESIS OF SM400wj" . Roberts
2/22/65
REPORT NO . IITRI-C8036-4 - DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS v"' .0~,IITRI Res . Inst .
2126/65
VARIATION OF ARTHROBACTER OXYDANS, a2
2/26/65
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . XIV . ATTEMPTED SYNTHESES OF ISO- g2 ;Roberts,
PHORENE-RELATED COMPOUNDS
Squires-Hayes
tJ1
13
3/15/65
DETERMBNATION OF FORMALDEHYDE IN THE GAS PHASE OF CIG . SMOKE WCundiff-VanHoy
~
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14
3/24/65
THE HYDRATION OF NITRILES TO AMIDES USING MANGANESE DIOXIDE . I . .,.~aefele
PRELIMINARY REPORT . SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
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3/24/65
INTERIM REPORT NO . 4 TO R .J .R . - STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF a Industrial BioCIGARETTE SMOKE ON CILIARY ACTIVITY Test Lab ., Inc .
16
3/24/65
INTERIM REPORT NO . 5 TO R.J .R . - EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON THE ~ Industrial BioeZ EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE ON CILIARY ACTIVITY Test Labs ., Inc .
17
3/25/65
INVESTIGATION OF AN IMITATION PEACH BRANDY FLAVOR
18
4/1/65
19
4/14/65
BY-PRODUCTS FROM THE 01 OATION OF SCLAREOL . . .VIII . IMPURITIES V,.Gi1es
IN THE AVOCA PRODUCT
~
20
2/9/65
•
THE SYNTHESIS OF LACTONES ISOLATED FROM TURKISH TOBACCO STEAM Vestal
CONDENSATE
y~44
5/4/65
BURLEY TOBACCO COMPONENTS . XV . AUTOXIDATION OF a-IONONE AND t~~ Roberts
DERIVATIVES
22
5/5/65
MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE . PART I : Young-Drummond
DETERMINATIONOF METHYL CHLORIDE AND CARBONYL SULFIDE '
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF THE WATER IN CIGARETTE
MAINSTREAM SMOKE AND TOTAL PARTICULATE MATTER (TPM)
Schumacher
Thome
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No .
0
Date
5/5/65
Title
Author(s)
DIRECT VAPOR CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF MENTHOL, PROPYLENE
GLYCOL, NICOTINE, AND TRIACETIN IN CIGARETTE SMOKE
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24
5/6/65
INTERIM REPORT NO . 6 TO R .J .R . _ 90-DAY SUBACUTE VAPOR INHALATION Industrial Bio
TOXICITY
OF
SR6C
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Labs ., Inc
25
5/6/65
INTERIM REPORT NO . 7 TO R .J .R . - 90-DAY SUBACUTE INHALATION Industrial BioTOXICITY OF THE PYROLYTIC PRODUCTS OF:,`SR6C Rk Test Lab .,Inc
26
5/19
FLAVORED CARBON AS AN ADDITIVE FOR TOBACCO PRODUCTS Vflarwood & Teague
27
5/20/65
SOLVENTS IN THE OONVERSION PLANT AT AVOCA FARM Ashburn ~,~
28
6/1/65
DETMN . OF EXPERIMENTAL NEMATOCIDE UC 21149 IN FLUE-CURED
TOBACCO AND CIGARETTE SMOKE
29
6/14/65
INTERIM REPORT NO . 8 TO R .J .R . - STUDY OF THE CILIARYDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY OF CIGARETTE SMOKE
30
6/21/65
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE XXXVI . PHYTONE
(HEXAHYDROFARNESYL ACETONE) AND SOLANONE (2 METHYL-5-ISOPROPYL1,3-NONADIEN-8-ONE)FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE
-kt
7/9/65
TURKISH TOBACCO . THE INVESTIGATION OF THE STEAM CONDENSATE,
PART II .
7/12/65
DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS OF PIPE SMOKE ANALYSIS : PROGRESS REPORT
33
7/14/65
INVESTIGATION OF IMITATION "SHERRY"
34
7/26/65
AN EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY . VI . GREENHOUSE TESTS OF
CHEMICALS FOR THEIR HERBICIDAL PROPERTIES
35
8/6/65
GROWING TOBACCO IN A GREENHOUSE . PART IV . EXPERIMENTS WITH
LIQUID CULTURE
36
8/18/65
SUBACUTE TOXICITY STUDIES OF SCLAREOLIDE IN RATS AND MONKEYS
37
8/18/65
THE ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXXVII . A PHYTYL
ESTER FRACTION FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE
38
8/23/65
REACTION PRODUCTS OF PHENYLACETONITRILE WITH ACTIVATED
MANGANESE DIOXIDE
39
9/7/65
AN INVESTIGATION OF NITROGEN OXIDES AND METHYL NITRITE IN
TOBACCO SMOKE
~r~q~~
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9/13/65
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD TO DETERMINE THE ACTIVITY OF
CARBON IN GRANULAR OR BONDED ROD FORM
r,o
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Whalen
Johnson
Industrial BioTest Labs ., Inc .
REM
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Bluhm
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9/17/65
42
THE SYNTHESIS OF VARIOUS COMPOUNDS ISOLATED FROM THE STEAM
CONDENSATE OF TURKISH TOBACCO
Vestal-
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~
42
Title
Date
9/21/65
;.MASS~SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKE, PART II .
DETERMINATION OF ACETYLENE, ETHYLENE AND ETHANE
43
44
10/8/65
CILIAS.TATIC ASSAY
Fluck-Kelly
45
10/11/65
FLU0R0ME .TRIC DETERMINATION OF POLYNUCLEAR HYDROCARBONS
INTERIM REPORT #10 TO R .J .R TOB . CO . - STUDIES ON THE CILIASTATIC _Industrial BioEFFECTS OF CAMEL CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA IN VIVO ~1Test Labs .,Inc .
2
1/13
AN EVAL . OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY . VIII . TESTS OF CHEMICALS FOR Bellin ~ .
THEIR HERBICIDAL PROPERTIES USING EIGHT SPECIES OF PLANTS
3
2/7
THE ANALYSIS OF CIG . SMOKE CONDENSATE . XXXIV . 4-(2-BUTENYLIDENE)odgman-Cook
~
ISOPHORONES FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE
4
2/22
INTERIM REPORT #11 TO RTR TOB . CO . - STUDIES ON CILIASTATIC ,l9h Industrial BioEFFECTS OF WINSTON CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA IN VIV '~'0
Test L ab s ., Inc .
5
2/28
INVESTIGATION OF MEANS FOR AUTOMATING THE PROCEDURES FOR CundiffDETERMINING THE SUGAR CONTENT OF TOBACCO X Robinson
6
3/9
PIPE SMOKE ANALYSIS : ACROLEIN, ACETALDEHYDE, ACETONE, HYDROGEN~YHarbin-Laurene
CYANIDE, OXIDES OF NITROGEN, NICOTINE AND TOTAL SOLIDS
7
3/10
BIOLOGICAL ASSAY OF RJR COMPOUNDS FOR INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY
8
3/18
INVESTIGATION OF NUTMEG OIL
9
3/29
~Schumacher
I
PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TETRONIC ACIDS FROM ~ . ~ W . B . James PENICILLIUM CHARLESII
r~ .Y Hayes
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~
4/6
THE
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4/5
12
4/13
EXAMINATION OF THE VAPOR PHASE OF CIG . SMOKE USING HIGH
I Thome
RESOLUTION GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH ELECTRON CAPTURE AND HYDROGEN ~
N
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DETECTION
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CIGARETTE SMOKE
13
4/13
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SMOKE
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4/19
DETERMINATION OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN VEGETABLE .OIL & PEANUT CHIPS ~.~: D . P . Johnson
SYNTHETIC STUDIES RELATED TO THE SYNTHESIS OF ABSCISIN II, A , ;`~,".Heclmtan, Robert
PLANT HORMONE - -
15
4/25
pH MEASUREMENTS OF TOBACCO SMOKE
16
4/28
INTERIM REPORT #12 TO RJR TOB . CO . - STUDIES ON THE CILIASTATIC
EFFECTS OF TEMPO CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA N VIVO
17
5/4
18
5/9
USE OF DRI-DIE SILICA DUST TO CONTROL THE CIGARETTE BEETLE IN
WAREHOUSES :
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PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF THE PYROLYSIS-GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
OF POLYMERS, TOBACCOS AND STARCH DERIVATIVES
ndustrial Bioest Labs .,Inc .
Bellin ~
4
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5/10
THE SYNTHESIS OF SEVERAL TOBACCO CONSTITUENTS FROM S-IONONE
Vestal ~~ ~QK~
5/16
THE EFFECT OF A FREEZING PERIOD BEFORE NATURAL AGING ON THE
QUALITY OF FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
Shif fertN
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.
No . Date
+ 1966
5/17
Title
Author(s)
SYNTHETIC ROUTES TO ABSCISIN II
Roberts
e,
Heckman . "'R .
22
5/23
THE OXIDATIVE COUPLING OF ACTIVATED METHYLENE COMPOUNDS BY Leffingwell~
METAL
OXIDES
'`
23
6/21
INTERIM REPORT #13 TO RJR TOB . CO . - STUDIES ON CILIASTATIC
EFFECTS OF SALEM CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA IN VIVO
24
6/27
STUDIES OF CIG . SMOKE IRRITATION I : DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOLOGICAL••• Loe
TEST AND SOME PRELIMINARY RESULTS
..
::.
• 25
6/30
TRIACETIN CONTENT OF CIG . SMOKE AS A FUNCTION OF THE AGE OF THE
FILTER
26
7/11
DETERMINATION OF THE BENZYL CONTENT OF BENZYLATED STARCH
(rec'd 2 copies - 1 filed in starch file ; 1 destroyed)
27
7/25
AN INVESTIGATION OF RANCIDITY AND OTHER FACTORS AFFECTING THE D . P . Johnm
.pQUALITYOFCKNGLS
28
7/25
POLYMERIC HYDRAZIDES AS SELECTIVE ABSORBENTS FOR CARBONYL CPDS .
29
~
7/26
INTERIM REPORT #14 TO RJR TOB .•C0 . - THE IN VIVO STUDIES OF
CILIASTATIC EFFECTS OF CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TR~CHEA
7/26
INTERIM REPORT #15 TO RJR TOB . CO . - SALIVA-SOLUBLE CILIASTATIC
Industrial BioCOMPONENTS OF TOBACCO SMOKE 4WTest Labs .,Inc .
31
8/4
STUDIES OF CIGARETTE SMOKE IRRITATION . II : ADAPTATION OF THE Moew
GRANULOMA POUCH TEST FOR VAPOR-PHASE IRRITANTS
32
8/18
THE CHEMISTRY OF CATALYTIC MANGANESE DIOXIDE
Piehi X
33
9/1
SYNTHESIS OF SOME GLUCOSE MONO-ETHERS
J . G . JonesA
34
9/2
4 Industrial BioTest Lab`s ., Inc .
35
10/19
INTERIM REPORT #16 TO R,JR TOB . CO . - THE EFFECTS OF SALIVASOLUBLE CILIASTATIC COMPONENTS OF TOBACCO SMOKE ON THE CAT
TRACEA IN VIVO
, . . . . , . ., : ,
T~F~,•.SYNTHESISF . .
OF FATTY ACID CARRIERS . II ;
36
10/21
INTERIM REPORT #17 TO RJR TOB . C0 . - STUDIES ON CILIASTATIC
EFFECTS OF LUCKY STRIKE CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA IN VIVO IBT NO . E4662
~ndustrial Bioest Labs ., Inc .
.
'dustrial Biost Labs ., Inc .
lelandrly
D . P . Johnibn
.
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ndustrial Bioest Labs .,Inc .
Bernasek '`
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37
10/25
SYNTHESIS OF Y-PHENYL-Y-[5-(1-METHYL-2-PYRROLIDINYL)-2-PYRIDYL]Id,N-DIMETHYLPROPYLAMINE
Bernasek ~r
N
38
10/26
STARCH SULFITE
Giles
~
11/14
INTERIM REPORT #18 TO RJR TOB . CO . - STUDIES ON CILIASTATIC
EFFECTS OF CHESTERFIELD NONFILTER CIG . SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA
IN VIVO IBT N0 . E4662
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51710 5241
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o.
Date
Title
Author(s)
1966
40
12/7
41
12/21
COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF OXIMES AND UNSUBSTITUTED
HYDROXYLAMINE
MICROBIAL BIOSYNTHESIS OF PRECURSORS FOR SPECIFIC TOBACCO
COMPOUNDS
.
Delwin Johnson
AVORZLong-Hayes
+Shiffert
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1747
" ., Date
101/9
v
Author(s) C
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Title
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS METHODS FOR CONTROLLING CIGARETTE BEETLE (LASIODERMA SERRICORNE) IN TOB . WHSES .
:• .
CONVERSION OF D-GLUCOSE TO A MIXTURE OF D-GLUCOSE AND D-FRUCTOSE
USING GLUCOSE ISOMERASE
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3 1/20 STARCH DERIVATIVES : DETERMINATION OF SUBSTITUTED PYRIDINIUM 1% Johnson, D . I
ALKYL HALIDE GROUPS IN MODIFIED STARCH
4 2/1
..`,:'.
ANORECTIC AND SUBACUTE EFFECTS OF MARIOLIDE '
_,~r Tompkins & Fluck
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS OF ORGANIC COATING ON FOIL
~~ Latimer
rt
DETERMINATION OF Q-39 SURFACTANT IN STARCH
,,1Johnson & Latimer
~~ ; .
PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF SMOKE
Weinstein & Sue Stevensc
SYN THESIS OF (-)-6-ALKYLTHIONICOTINES
9 3/17 DERIVATIVES OF 2,5-FURANDICARBOXALDEHYDE
.10 3/30
INTERIM REPORT #19 - STUDIES OF CILIASTATIC EFFECTS OF TEMPO
CIGARETTE SMOKE ON CAT TRACHEA IN VIVO - IBT NO . E-4662
CHEM . RESEARCH ON FLAVORANTS ~ PART I . CONSTITUENTS OF MAPLE SYRUP
;!~tohde
~,,
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INVESTIGATION OF STYRAX OIL
~~'~Ves
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tal
TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF (-)-MENTHOL
Shackelfof Leffingwell
14 4/6 IDENTIFICATION OF HOMOLOGOUS SERIES OF a,$-DIKETONES AND a-KETOALDEHYDES PThome
IN CIG . SMOKE BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION
15 5/3 MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CIG . SMOKE, PART III . DETERMINATION OF ",oung, G . W .
ACETALDEHYDE, PROPANE, PROPYLENE AND ACETONITRILE
16 5/24 COMPARISON OF ANALEPTICS I MOUSE EXPERIMENTS Crosby Tompkins
17 6/6 NEW SYNTHETIC METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF AROMATIC ALDEHYDES,
KETONES-- AND- SCHIFF-- BASES-- -- - - - --- ----- --- -- -- --- -
tt-Aeffingwell & Bluha
Schumacher
18 6/6 CHARACTERIZATION OF A COMMERCIAL SYNTHETIC FLAVORANT
6.
19 6/13 STARCH LEVULINATES
A
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Calley Eaton
Rob~~~ ts & B . Hege
20 6/28 ABSCISIN II RELATED COMPOUNDS
21 7/25 APPLICATIONS OF THERMAL ANALYSIS TO CARBOHYDRATES, TOBACCO AND
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS
Pi'~"Pieh1, D . H .
,
, . . . . .• , . . . .. ,: . : ..r f: .
8/8 GAS- CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHOD TO DETERMINE COUMARIN IN CIG . SMOKE Wyerly & Gi1lBlan
8/9 INORGANIC DERIVATIVES OF STARCH I . FORMATION, NATURE & APPLICATIONS
24 8/17 FAS'CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF PHENOL IN CIGARETTE SMOKE
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1967
0
Date
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8/18
STARCH DERIVATIVES . DETERMINATION OF ALLYL AND METHALLYL x Johnson, D . l
GROUPS IN MODIFIED STARCH
26
8/23
AN IMPROVED SYNTHESIS OF MARIOLIDE AND RELATED PRODUCTS x Schumacher, J .N .
27
8/31
POTENTIAL PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS RELATED TO ABSCISIN II
28
8/31
SURFACE AREAS OF•VARIOUS FILTER rows
29
9/5
30
9/19
SYNTHESIS OF HERBICIDAL PYRIDINE AND PIPERIDINE COMPOUNDS ~
Moates, R . F .
31
10/2
A STUDY OF THE CALOROGENICITY OF PAF-2006 ~
Fluck
32
10/2
ANALYSIS OF CIG . SMOKE CONDENSATE . XLV . BRANCH-CHAINED ACIDS ~;took & Rodgman
FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE .
Title
Author(s)
K
K
He ckman , R . .
Harbin, B . A
THE CHEMISTRY OF TETRAMETHYLSUCCINALDEHYDE • 1 Rice, Wm . Y .
v
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THE CHEMISTRY OF 2-METHYL-2-(2-METHYLPROPENOXY)-PROPIONALDEHYDE x Rice, W . Y . ~
33
10/13
34
10/23
PRODUCTION OF A THERMOSTABLE BACTERIAL a-AMYLASE x Lartigue r
J
~
10/20
CHARACTERIZATION OF CORIANDER OIL AND FURYLONE
36
10/23/
FJLTRATION EFFICIENCY OF VARIOUS FILTERS : PART I , MONODISPERSE AEROSOL tS
.fWeinstein
,
37
10/19
GROSS EFFECTS OF SYNTHETIC PLANT HORMONE, ABSCISIN II, ON PLANTS AND ABehlin
EFFECTIVENSSS OF RELATED COMPOUNDS FOR FLOWER ABSCISSION & ROOTING
10/24
BIOSYNTHESIS OF AMYLOGLUCOSIDASE BY A STRAIN OF THE MOLD ASPERGILLUS <Hayes &
AWAMORI
Lartigue
39
10/30
ANALYSIS OF CIG . SMOKE CONDENSATE . XLVI . GERANYL ACETONE AND ,.4k~ Cook & Rodgma
FARNESYL ACETONE FROM TURKISH TOBACCO SMOKE W- ;
40
11/22
STARCH DERIVATIVES . DETMN . OF RATIO OF TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY x Johnson, D . P
PYRIDINIUM GROUPS IN MODIFIED STARCH
41
11/29
STARCH DERIVATIVES . DETMN . OF HYDRO GROUP CONTENT OF MODIFIED STARCHxjohnson, D . P
N
38
•
Schumacher So
NICOTINE FERMENTATIONS, PROCESS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF (1)-6- A Squires &
HYDROXYNICOTINE BY FERMENTATION WITH ARTHROBACTER OXYDANS, a2, Hayes
VARIANT NO . 8
43 12/12 DETERMINATION OF NITRATE IN TOBACCO
42
12/6
44 12/14 INVESTIGATION OF AN IMITATION CHOCOLATE FLAVOR
•
12/26 SORPTION ISOTHERMS AND PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF SOME FLAVOR
RELEASE .CARBONS
,
46 12/27 STARCH DERIVATIVES . A STUDY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBSTITUENTS
IN MODIFIED STARCH
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Date
1968
1
1/2
TETRAMETHYLSUCCINALDEHYDE AS A STARCH INSOLUBILIZING AGENT
Kirby, K . W .K
2
1/3
SOLVENT-STEAM TREATMENT OF STARCH
Kirby, K . W . l(
3
1/5
HYDROPHOBIC STARCH DERIVATIVES
Kirby, K . W . l`
4
1/9
NEW METHODS FOR PREPARATION OF CARBALKOXYMETHYLENETRIPHENYLPHOSPHORANES
Roberts, D . L, )<
5
1/23
OXIDATIVE COUPLING REACTIONS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY . II . OXIDATION
OF KETONES, ALDEHYDES AND SCHIFF BASES WITH LEAD DIOXIDE
6
1/25
BLENDS OF BENZYL STARCH WITH PLASTICIZERS AND EXTENDERS
X
Kirby, K . W . X
7
1/30
HYDROPHILIC STARCH DERIVATIVES
8
2/1
RAPID ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT(S) OF CIGARETTE SMOKE
9
2/5
HALOGENATION AND HALOHYDRINATION OF STARCH DERIVATIVES CONTAINING
UNSATURATED GROUPS
Kirby, K . W .x Q
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10
2/14
SYNTHESES OF SOME POTENTIAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS
Heckman, R. A .x
10
2/14
INVESTIGATION OF DAVANA OIL
Schumacher Bw
12
2/27
CYCLIC SULFITES AND THIONYL CHLORIDE DERIVATIVES
Roberts-Hege (a'bni
13
3/4
THE CATALYTIC FORMATION OF OLEFINS FROM CARBONYL COMPOUNDS
USING A PULSED MICROCATALYTIC REACTOR
Piehl x
14
3/18
COMPARISON OF ANALEPTICS II GUINEA PIG EXPERIMENT
Tompkins, Cex sby
15
3/19
THE EFFECT OF REACTION PARAMETERS ON THE PYROLYSIS OF
1-HYDROXYNEOCAR9-^%.iENTHYL ACETATE
Piehl y
16
4/2
EXPLORATORY STUDIES OF OXIDATION REACTIONS
Rowland ~<
17
5/3
CATIONIC STARCHES BASED ON VINYLPYRIDINE . I . QUATERNARY
CATIONIC DERIVATIVES
Giles, Neuman411Jones (J . Glenwoo
18
5/9
THE 1,4-DIPOLAR BICYCLOADDITIONS OF N,N'-DIALKYL-2,2,3,3TETRAMETHYLSUCCINALDIMINES TO ISOCYANATES & ISOTHIOCYANATES
Young, Harve?Y\
19
5/13
PREPARATION OF COMPOUNDS FOR BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION
McKenzie, J . .A
~
5/20
DEVELOPMENT OF A METABOLIC SCREEN
.-
5/27
THE EFFICIENCY OF VARIOUS FILTERS TO MONODISPERSE AEROSOLS `
23
5/29
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTAL CIGARETTE BEETLE CONTROL PROGRAMS FOR 1967
Author(s)
Leffingwell
Kirby, K . W .YN
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Title
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1968
24
6/6
THE CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL MODIFICATION OF STARCH
25
6/21
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF X-CELOSE ; TOTAL SUGAR (PAF-2011)
26
6/25
NICOTINE FERMENTATIONS, PROCESS FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF
3-SUCCINOYLPYRIDINE BY FERMENTATION WITH CULTURE B43-3
X Squires-Hayes
27
6/26
A STUDY OF THE CALOROGENICITY OF SEVERAL HYDROXYPROPYLATED
STARCH DERIVATIVES
.
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A STUDY OF THE TOXICITY OF ACETYLPYRAZINE "~+ ." .
~ Fluck, E . R .
X Piehl-Whisnant
~( Piehl-'r/hisnant•et al
i " ;, . . .
%VF1uck & Doyle Johnso
28
7/11
29
7/23
FATE OF SMOKE CONSTITUENTS IN ANIMALS . I . COMPARISON OF METHOD
OF ADMINISTRATION ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF C-14 FROM PHENOL-C-14
PALMITIC ACID-C-14 , AND NICOTINIC ACID-C-14 IN THE RAT
30
7/23
THE OXIDATIVE COUPLING OF IMINES
Bluhm ,.
31
7/25
PREPARATION OF SUBSTITUTED PYRROLIDINES
Bluhm
32
8/1
STARCH DERIVATIVES : THE DETMN . OF HYDROXYETHYL GROUP
CONCENTRATIONS IN MODIFIED STARCH
S
9/13
ENZYMATIC CONVERSION OF D-GLUCOSE TO D-FRUCTOSE : ISOLATION &
IDENTIFICATION OF AN ACTIVE NEW BACTERIAL SPECIES
34
9/25
CONVERSION OF D-GLUCOSE TO D-FRUCTOSE BY ARTHROBACTER RJR 2453-2 X Pheil, C . G .
35
9/23
3-PYRAZOLIDINONES AND RELATED HYDRAZINO ACID HYDRAZIDES X Roberts & Hege (Bonit
36
10/18
TERTIARY PYRIDYLMETHYL STARCHES .
37
10/23
XYLOSE PRODUCTION FROM CORN HULLS AND SUGAR CANE BAGASSE ^ Rix-Eaton-J . G . Jone
38
11/6
CATALYTIC HYDRATION OF 3-P-MENTHENE TO (-)-MENTHOL x Piehl
39
10/30 -A TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF (-)-MENTHOL . II XI Shackelford-Leffingwell
40
11/21 RECOVERY OF NICOTINE FROM GREEN TOBACCO p,~Shackelford-Hudson, R .B
~
Piehl
11/26 THE USE OF NICKEL CYANIDE-AMMONIA COMPLEXES IN THE
SELECTIVE FIL"TRATION OF TOBACCO SMOKE OL
41
X
VColucci-Sizemore
x Johnson-D .P . &
'\Musselwhite
f' Long, Margaret
Neumann-Bernasek
42
12/10 A SELECTIVE SINGLET OXYGEN REACTION, II
< Roberts
43
12/11 SUTRO POLYOLS AS PLASTICIZERS
K
44
12/19 COLORIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF PERCENT CARBOXYL IN
CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE
Pratt, George W .
Rush-Sensabaughusse1white
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Author(s)
Title
Date
1969
i James Harris
1
1/3
STUDY OF SMOKE GENERATION, TRANSPORT AND FILTRATION IN
TOBACCO ROD
2
1/23
BIOSYNTHESIS OF GLUCOSE ISOMERASE BY A STRAIN OF ARTHROBACTER ~ L . E . Hayes
3
1/27
A GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF FREE FORMIC AND ACETIC ~ Lyerly & Goodale
ACIDS IN CIGARETTE SMOKE
4
2/19
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SPRAY CRYSTALLIZED SUCROSE, COMMERCIAL
SUCROSE AND AMEROSE
5
2/24
EXPOSURE OF RABBITS TO WHOLE SMOKE
6
2/26
A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE REGARDING CARBON MONOXIDE, WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS OCCURRENCE IN CIGARETTE SMOKE AND
REMOVAL FROM SMOKES AND GASES
~ J ~ Reynolds ~~
7
2/28
GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF THE OXYGEN PERMEABILITY
OF FILMS AND FILM COMBINATIONS
A Latimer & Clapp
8
3/6
THE IDENTIFICATION OF ACIDS FORMED DURING GLUCOSE-TO-FRUCTOSE
INVERSION
X Piehl
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d-
Johnson & Fluck
X Clapp
,Pik
Doyle Johnson
INITIAL ATTEMPTS AT EXPOSING RABBITS TO WHOLE CIGARETTE SMOKE
• 10
4/10
SORPTION OF PHOSPHINE BY TOBACCO, RESIDUES, AND FATE OF RESIDUESABellin & C . Walton
ON SMOKING AS DETERMINED BY MASS SPECTROMETRY AND RADIOACTIVE
ISOTOPE STUDIES
11
4/14
DEVELOPMENT OF MUTANT OF ARTHROBACTER PRODUCING GLUCOSE ISOMERASFY\ Chin Lee
WHICH IS CONSTITUTIVE AND INSENSITIVE TO CATABOLITE REPRESSION
12
4/15
OXIDATIONS OF a-IONONE
2('R . Heckman
13
4/18
CONTROL OF MICROFLORA OF FACTORY AIR CONDITIONING WATER -
K Squires & Hay.es
14
4/29
QUATERNARY 1-ALKYLPYRIDYLMETHYL STARCHES
~ Neumann, Giles &
Bernasek
15
5/2
NICOTINE FERMENTATIONS . BIOSYNTHESIS OF COMPOUND 350 BY ` l Squires & Hayes
FERMENTATION OF NICOTINE WITH ARTHROBACTER OXYDANS, a2, VARIANT #5
16
5/13
SYNTHESIS OF SUBSTITUTED PHENYLPYRROLIDINES
6/11
`\
~;*e
.
II
. Hay
THE HYDRATION OF NITRILES TO AMIDES USING MANGANESE DIOXIDE
K ..
Wendelboe
17
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~
Date
Item
Author(s)
1969
._
6/23
INTERIM REPORT NO . 20 TO R .J .R . TOBACCO CO . - RESULTS OF
PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF SR13C AND SR1A, IBT NO . E-5052
Industrial Bio-Test
22
6/23
INTERIM REPORT NO . 21 TO RJR TOBACCO CO . - RESULTS OF LC50
DETERMINATION OF SR13C, IBT
. ; NO . T6667
Industrial Bio-Test
25
7/11
SYNTHETIC TROPANE ALKALOID ANALOGS
26
7/22
THIRTY-DAY ACUTE TOXICITY STUDY OF GLUCOSE - RJR 2453-F
27
8/6
TOTAL SACCHARIFICATION PROJECT : EFFECT OF SACCHARIFICATION
CONDITIONS ON ACTIVITY OF GLUCOAMYLASE PREPARATIONS
x Lartigue & Ayers
28
8/20
PRODUCTION AND USE OF MALTOSE-FORMING AMYLASE FROM BACILLUS
POLYMYXA
~ Lartigue & Hayes
29
8/26
ENZYMATIC ISOMERIZATION OF D-GLUCOSE BY ARTHROBACTER CELLS
~ Lartigue
~
8/19
THE ALUMINA CATALYZED AIR OXIDATION OF 4-KETO-a-IONONE
~ Rice
31
9/16
SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS OF 1,2,3-OXATHIAZOLIDINE-2-OXIDES
`~ Heckman
AND 1, 2, 3-TETRAHYDROOXATHIAZINE-2-OXIDES -- . __~,~-_ ...---~
32
9/19
THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CIGARETTE SMOKE FROM'CELANESE
SMOKING MATERIAL
3333
9/29
AMIDOXIME STARCH
Il T . Edwards & C . Rix
34
10/23
KINETICS OF OXIDATION OF ALUMINUM FOIL DURING HOMOGENIZATION
)( Piehl
35
11/3
AZOMETHINE IMIDES AND RELATED PYRAZOLIDINONES AND PYRAZOLINONESK B . Hege
36
11/10
USE OF HOT GAS JETS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PUNCHING 16 HOLES IN
PLASTIC FILM
37
11/20
INSOLUBILIZATION OF BENZYL STARCH ASH
~ Rix & Pratt
38
11/20
BENZYL STARCH PRODUCTION USING CONTROLLED pH
t~ Pratt & Rix
40
12/9
NINETY-DAY FEEDING EXPERIMENT WITH PENSWEET
K
Fluck, Ridlon et al
~
12/16
SOLID-LIQUID CHELATION OF METALS BY AMIDOXIME CORN STARCH
~
Piehl
42
12/19
METABOLIC SCREEN
~[ Pluck ~
lll~~\ ro .
23
24
K Moates
Fluck, Ridlon, et a
~ Green, Vestal &
Schumacher . .
[\ Harris, Stowe &
39
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Date
Title
s
1970
r 1 1/9 SMOKING EXPOSURE STUDIES
Author(s)
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E. R.
AOL
2 1/14 THIRTY-DAY TOXICITY STUDY OF SRR4A ~9) /z •Fluck, Ridlon et a
3 1/22 PREVENTION OF SED MENT AND SUSPENSION FORMATION IN PURE x Dickerson, James
MAPLE SYRUP ' (14J /,3 ' `
r 4 1/26 AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINATION Tompkins &
OF A DRUG' S ADDICTING PROPERTIES ~O'r ~,Thornloe
5
6 1/30 SUGAR CONTENT OF FLUE-CURED TOBACCO AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO
TOBACCO AND SMOKE COMPOSITION
7 2/2 DETERMINATION OF TOBACCO FLAVORANTS PIPERONAL, ETHYL VANILLIN Martin, John &
& VANILLIN BY GAS-LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND FLUORIMETRIC Thacker, Aubrey
)4
THIN-LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY (,t,6
/
8 2/3 RECOVERY OF NICOTINE FROM TOBACCO ~ZZ, /2 x Hudson & Shackelfo~
/`~
2/9 LABORATORY PREPARATION OF BENZYL STARCH (/ L ~/6~ x Rix, Bruce & Edwar(
`!
/
2/10 SELECTIVE FILTRATION OF HCN IN TOBACCO SMOKE BY METAL -A)IID~O~X~MF~Piehl, Don
STARCH COMPLEXES (iLL
.ikn.
11 2/19 PILOT PLANT STUDIES OF THE PREPARATION OF BENZYL STARCH ~8v) 2 0~ruce, Sellers~,•et
Nelson, Nancyrx U
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12 2/24 PURIFICATION OF DEXTROSE SYRUP BY PREFERENTIAL ADSORPTION ON
A GRANULAR CARBON COLUMN (/z ) ~ S-
iehl & Woodsx\ nr
13 3/5 THE STRUCTURE OF NORMAL, DEHYDRATED AND REHYDRATED TOTAL SUGAR
USING SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC AND X-RAY DIFFRACTION ~
` TECHNIQUES
.
14 3/16 REMOVAL OF BENZYL ALCOHOL FROM BENZYL STARCH EFFLUENTS ~3r ) 2 0
r
J
Carey, et al
/ 15 3/19 DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SCREENING PROCEDURE WHICH DETECTS AND Tompkins, E . C .~(
DIFFERENTIATES MAJOR AND MINOR TRANQUILIZING AND SEDATIVE- f
HYPNOTIC ACTIVITY I~f ®7" !IJ )91 L0_
16 3/20 ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF PROTEIN FROM STARCH IN CORN FLOUR(0 Mazeika, W . A . eX
17 3/23 THE EFFECT OF VARYING JET DEFLECTION ANGLE ON THE EFFICIENCY
OF MULTIJET TYPE FILTERS &,t) l7
Harllee, Floria x
18 4/3 INVESTIGATION OF GLUE FAILURE IN THE C-1 FILTER, II : THE I~
~ ROLE OF FILTER TEMPERATURE (f S
r
Reynolds, J . H . 1w
~ . 4/17 FLUOROMETRIC DETERMINATION 0 SELENIUM ]1N CIGARETTE PAPER AND
TOBACC O
(Vacker & Stamey
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Date
Author s
Title
1970
~/Z
20
4/22
THE REACTION OF SUCCINALDIMINES WITH AMIDES AND SULFONAMIDES Young, Harvey ~(
21
4/22
CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATION OF FRUCTOSE AND GLUCOSE ON CATION Lloyd, Robert/ -~C
EXCHANGE RESIN (¢7) /j
22
4/28
AUTOMATED METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF NICOTINE ALKALOIDS IN Diffee, John~
TOBACCO, USING CYANOGEN BROMIDE (7,S 1 /3
24
5/22
DETERMINATION OF HUMECTANTS IN TOBACCO P4) /7 %les & Gilleland
,/25
5/25
NINETY-DAY TOXICITY STUDY ON GLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE SYRUPS
Ridlon'& Heise~
. ..
6/4
SOME 1,3-DIPOLAR CYCLOADDITIONS OF STABLE AZOMETHINE IMIDES Rice, William ~
(-I' /'d
6/18
THE ALKALI TRANSFORMATION OF GLUCOSE TO FRUCTOSE (/7
.
30
6/18
DETERMINATION OF CARBOXYL CONTENT OF CARBOXYCELLULOSE (lf) /A/
Sensabaugh, Ricey&
Musselwhit
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31
6/24
PREPARATION OF DISUBSTITUTED CYCLOOCTANONES ellt
Ezzell, Bobby (11
32
6/29
THE ISOLATION OF FRUCTOSE FROM INVERT SYRUP BY THE HARA PROCESS
Lloyd, R . & Br~e,l
33
6/30
REACTIONS OF SCHIFF BASES )/2
Roberts, D . x
23
26
27
28
0
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Bruce, Robert ; r,`,,
l /2
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W`
35
36
37
5/22
REPORT TO RJR TOBACCO CO . : NINETY-DAY SUBACUTE ORAL TOXICITY OF~~dustrial BioGLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE MIXTURE IN BEAGLE DOGS - IBT NO . C7809 (S1) (; Test Labs, Inc .
38
7/31
A SURVEY OF LITERATURE REGARDING HYDROGEN CYANIDE, ITS OCCURRENCE Andrews, Mary 011
IN & REMOVAL FROM CIGARETTE SMOKE & REMOVAL FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTE (14> /qL
39
8/17
NONAQUEOUS TITRIMETRIC DETERMINATION OF CARBONYL CONTENT USING
p-TOLUENESULFONYLHYDRAZINE C/q1 13
9/2
ISOLATION OF ESSENTIAL OILS -FROM/ FLUE-CURED TOBACCO
0.
Sensabaugh & ®
Musselwhite o,
0
dwards, et al
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Author(s )
(1 10
SYNTHESIS OF A 2,8-DIAZA-BICYCLO-[3 .2 .1]-OCTAN-3-ONE RING StEM X Harvey Youn g
42
9/ 9
43
9/1 6
1-(3-PYRIDYL)METHYLENE-3-OXOPYRAZOLIDINIUM INNER SALTS . A~ EW_
CLASS OF DIURETICS (9 ) /~3
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44
10/1 3
THE USE OF Cu(II)-AMIDOXIME STARCH FOR THE REMOVAL OF HP FROM Andrews, Mary4 p
CIGARETTE SMOKE f /7J
L
x Rice, Wm . Y .
/:
Rush, K. et a l
45
10/2 3
DETERMINATION OF AMMONIA IN TOBACCO SMOKE (3jr) /7
46
10/2 9
PRODUCTION OF PENSWEET ON DEAE-CELLULOSE BOUND ENZYME 'COLUMNS : xMays, Charles
11,
PILOT STUDY // (, ) /
47
11/1 3
SYNTHESIS OF 4-( 2J-OXOETHYLIDENYL)-3,5,5-TRIMETHYL-2-CYCLOHEXEN=~-,,,Rice, W . Y . x
1-ONE (SM29C) ( 71 l 3
48
12/ 4
THE SUTTON RESEARCH CORP : SMOKING MATERIAL S r "`'~ 3 ~odgman + 1 1
Y s•. . .i •t ; R• t~ ,•'d.~t..y+, ...e: ~ .. .~ 1 : i / f e
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50
12/3
A RAPID GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS FOR FLUORANTHENE AND
PYRENE FOUND IN CIGARETTE SMOKE (4 1 / S
/ Stowe, Mary &
4 Harris, James
Pr;
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Date
Title
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Author(s)
1/6
CATION-EXCHANGE COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY OF DEXTROSE FROM THE
ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS OF STARCH
Dickerson, JameA
1/11
AROMATIC CANE JUICE PROCESS
Heckman x
1/22
AUTOMATED METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF NICOTINE ALKALOIDS IN
CIGARETTE SMOKE USING CYANOGEN BROMIDE
Diffee
X
1/28
AUTOMATED METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF REDUCING AND TOTAL SUGARS
IN TOBACCO
Diffee
~C
vmlD
SMOKE BALANCE CONTROLi II . COMPARISON OF pH OF SMOKE FROM WINSTON AND
t"
•
6
2/15
MARLBORO CIGARETTES AND ANALYSIS OF THEIR FILTER MATERIAL
7
2/26
SMOKE COMPOSITION : PUFFED VS . UNPUFFED TOBACCO BLEND %.~
Green & Schumacher
8
3/19
DICARBOXYCELLULOSE AS A TOBACCO SUBSTITUTE 0
Schumacher, et al
9
3/23
COLORIMETRIC DETMN . OF DIALDEHYDE IN DIALDEHYDE CELLULOSE as,,
Musselwhite, et al
10
voto
11
v 0 l40
12
~
5/18
FLUbROMETRIC METHOD FOR DETMN . OF POLYNUCLEAR HYDROCARBONS IN
CIGARETTE SMOKE
5/27
STUDY OF SMOKE GENERATION AND FILTRATION ® Harris, James
6/24
INSTRUMENT & METHOD FOR ANALYZING PARTICLE SIZE OF CIG . SMOKE Q Harrington & Myse1t
VOI
15
Stamey, et a1
to
16
7/29
17
8/5
18
9/17
EVALUATION OF MACHINE-MADE "C" FILTERS
19
9/20
ACTIVATED BAUXITES AS CIGARETTE FILTER ADDITIVES 1M''b' rjoeynolds & Andrews
9/16
RAPID THIN-LAYER METHOD FOR FLUOROMETRIC DETERMINATION OF (Ptamey, et al
BENZO[aJPYRENE IN CIGARETTE SMOKE
21
9/27
SELECTIVE FILTRATION OF GAS PHASE OF SMOKE o- Andrews & Reynolds
22
9/29
PROCESS FOR CONVERSION OF ACRYLONITRILE TO ACRYLAMIDE USING A Haefele & Young~
MANGANESE DIOXIDE CATALYST
23
10/18
ADDITIVES TO ENHANCE FORMATION OF AMADORI COMPOUNDS DURING AGING Dickerson, JamesK
24
10/28
EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS & PRACTICES ON THE EXPANSION ~~ ;redrickson, et al
OF TOBACCO BY G13-TYPE PROCESSES . V . TOBACCO TYPE, MARKET,
COMPANY GRADE, PARTICLE SIZE, AND FERTILIZATION
20
.
REMOVAL OF CARBON MONOXIDE FROM CIG . SMOKE . II . DEVELOPMENT &'XOnolds & And rews
APPLN . OF RAPID METHOD FOR SCREENING PROSPECTIVE CO REMOVAL AGENTS I
' TOBACCO ADDITIVES FOR REDUCTION OF CARBON MONOXIDE, HYDROGEN~ Andrews & Reynold
1CYANIDE & OXIDES OF NITROGEN IN CIGARETTE-SMOKE ` Wp`
.,t_ ,Mwe, et al
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Author(s)
ivo . Date
1972
1 1/4 DERIVATIVES OF 3,3,4,4-TETRAMETHYL-2-IMINOPYRROLIDINE
(\
H . Young/Dickerson
2 2/25 PHYSICAL PROBLEMS OF G-13 CIGARETTES
Harris/Wheeler ^
3 2/29 FLOUVE ABSOLUTE : ISOLATION OF FLAVORFUL COMPONENTS
Edwards/Rix/L1dy2i
4 3/20 ANALYSIS OF COCOA ON TOBACCO BY INDIRECT DETERMINATION OF
THEOBROMINE
6 4/12 PREPARATION OF ARTHROBACTER WHOLE CELL AGGREGATES FOR THE
CONTINUOUS ENZYMATIC CONVERSION OF GLUCOSE TO FRUCTOSE
7 4/13 GAS CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF CHLORINATED PESTICIDE
RESIDUES ON TOBACCO
8 4/27 USE OF ADDITIVES TO ENHANCE FORMATION OF AMADORI COMPOUNDS
DURING AGING . II .
r 5/2 AMADORI COMPOUNDS AS FLUE-CURED TOBACCO FLAVORANTS
Dickerson, James ~
1_v 5/17 COMPOSITION OF THE CONDENSATE FROM STEAM FLOTATION EXHAUST
Moates ~
11 5/31 AUTOMATED METHOD FOR DTMN . OF TOTAL &REDUCING SUGARS IN LIQUID SUGAR
Diffee/Sheppard x
12 6/1 AUTOMATED METHOD FOR DTMN . OF TOTAL & REDUCING SUGARS IN LICORICE
Diffee/Sheppard x
13 7/21 A STUDY OF THE DTMN . OF NICOTINE ALKALOIDS IN TOBACCO
Diffee/Sheppard X
14
9/6 NICOTINE SALICYLATE AS A PRIMARY STANDARD FOR NICOTINE
Diffee/Sheppard x
16 10/4 SYNTHESIS OF HERBICIDAL PYRIDINE & PIPERIDINE COMPOUNDS II
Moates/Dickersonx
17 11/16 SYNTHESIS OF TOBACCO COMPONENTS AND FLAVORANTS
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~ Subject : Nicotjpe and Smoker Satisfaction Date : January 4, 1978
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To: Dr . Alan Rodgman
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From : D . H . Piehl
OBJECTIVES :
The ultimite goal of this research is to provide the means to maximize
smoker satisfaction for all RJR cigarette brands, with particular emphasis on
low''tar" cigarettes .
Specific 1977-78 objectives are :
1 . Determine the taste_ characteristics of nicotine and factors that
affect its perception .
Determine the means to alter and control "tar"/nicotine ratio and
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r3 .' Define the optimum nicotine level in cigarette sroke required to
maxi:mize moker satis action . etermine the existence of a minimum or
r"'"'thre*i value of nicotine required for satisfaction .
Identify any other factors that are important to smoker satisfaction .
, 1 . Nicotine Taste and Perception
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Good progress has been made on defining the taste and perception of nicotine
and this objective is nearly met . However, future work will be aimed at an
attempt to establish nicotine limits with respect to irritation and more direct
correlation with smoke .
•Nicotine is irritatin - All of the evidence on the taste of nicotine, '
eitherin solution or in aerosol form, supports the conclusion that it is harsh,
particularly in the back of the throat, and contributes to tongue bite and nasal
sting . The intensity of irritation is related to concentration . Panel tests with
a new monadic ballot also show that smokers highly associate perceived irritation
and nicotine strength with actual smoke nicotine level . Nicotine irritation can
be masked by the addition of certain acids and sugars, but high levels are required .
•Some nicotine irritation is necessar - Nost panel smokers describe their
ideal c garette as av ng some rr tat on and moderate nicotine strength . However,
most test cigarettes and competitive brands are rated as too irritating . This
suggests that there is a desired nicotine level for optimum taste, tw t it may or o
may not be related to the level required for optimum satisfaction .
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•There is a threshold value for detection of nicotine - Tests with
nicotine-water so utions s ow t at very low concentrat~ons of nicotine are
still detectable (ti .005% w/w compared to ti6x for smoke) and buffering capacity
of saliva is sufficiently great to offset any differences in pH of the solution .
However, when nicotine is in aerosol form, similar to smoke, a higher concentration is required to be detected . It is clear that nicotine taste is concentration dependent, but it is not clear how this relates to smoke, and the threshold
value for nicotine irritation has not been established .
•"Tar" masks nicotine taste - The "tar" level and "tar"/nicotine ratio
are important to t e-perce ve taste of nicotine . In triangle tests wtih small
panels and the Reynolds #1 cigarette, smokers can distinguish a cigarette with
11 .1 mg "tar" and 1 .4 mg nicotine (T/N = 7 .9) from a control cigarette with the
same blend without nicotine, but surprisingly cannot distinguish a cigarette
with higher "tar" (26 .5 mg) and nicotine (1 .76 mg) (T/N - 15 .1) from a control
cigarette without nicotine, due to an apparent masking effect .
•Puff volume affects taste - Harshness was found to increase linearly with
the concentration o per puff in controlled puffs delivered to smokers .
Nasal sting and tongue bite also increase, but not as sharply at large puff
volu Flavor and preference increase linearly up to the TPM level delivered
by t rage puff then preference decreases and flavor shows marked curvature
at 1 t-puff volumes .
{iLit le nicotine transfers to saliva - Experiments to neasure how much
s trans erre from t e smo e to the mouth have shown that an average
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difference) of the nicotine taken into the mouth remains there, but
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nly l-~ •of available nicotine transfers to the saliva . This residual nicotine
in t 1 cavity may be further implicated with taste or aftertaste .
2 . "Tar_*Nicotine Ratio and Nicotine Transfer Efficiency
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Good information on the contribution of individual blend components and
tobacco type to "tar" and nicotine delivery has been obtained . It has been
demonstrated that blending alone can greatly alter T/N ratio, while to date
other techniques, such as adding nicotine or other additives,have been less
expedient . No breakthroughs in substantially increasing nicotine transfer ~
efficiency were achieved . Work in 1978 is aimed at determining how nicotine is _j
bound in tobacco and transferred to smoke so that specific means for increasing m
transfer efficiency might be developed .
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still unresolved . Most of the evidence suggests that full flavor cigarettes
(>15 mg "tar") have sufficient nicotine . In fact, Marlboro continues to show
increased T/N ratio . At low "tar" delivery (<10 mg "tar") the most acceptable
experimental'blends, have T/N ratios no lower than 9 or 10 . Our best 1977 Research
low "tar" cigarette designs have T/N ratios of 10 and 11 at a "tar" delivery of
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%Flue-cured tobacco most im ortant nicotine contributor - Data collected
on major components show t at ue-cure tobacco has t e i ghest tobacco to
smoke nicotine transfer efficiency (14%) . Flue-cured tobacco also has the
lowest smoke T/N ratio (10) and is usually the largest blend component . Therefore, despite the fact that burley tobacco usually has a higher nicotine level,
flue-cured tobacco contributes more nicotine in most blended cigarettes than any other blend component . However, uncased burley tobacco has a nicotine
transfer efficiency comparable to that for flue-cured tobacco . G7 has the
lowest nicotine transfer efficiency (8 .4%) and a high smoke T/N ratio (23)
and therefore contributes the least nicotine to the smoke . Experimental blends
with T/N ratios Aown to 5 were prepared demonstrating that very low T/N ratios
can be achieved at low "tar" delivery, but all of these cigarettes were disliked
by smokers .
•Added nicotine transfers less efficientl - Experiments with nicotine
added as t e free base an as ma ate sa t to various blend components show that
it transfers less efficiently (6-8") than inherent nicotine and with little
difference between tobacco types . These results do not agree with some literature reports . However, much higher transfer efficiencies were achieved when
nicotine malate was added to the denicotinized tobacco used in the Reynolds #1
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ticed casing lower "tar"/nicotine ratio - A comprehensive P.SM-designed
casi" s u y sho .ved s~gni icant pre erence or a 4IINSTOy-tyce cigarette with
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sing . The cigarette design with a minimum "tar"/nicotine ratio and
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gas-phase delivery had approximately a 30% reduction in total sugar,
nd cocoa .
rw.%rlboro i ncreases T/N rati o whi 1 e WINSTON remai ns constant - A hi storical
stud 'IN T N and ~•;ar boro tar' a-n-a n cotine va ues s owzd that with the
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T/N rat o has remained relatively constant since 1972 . However, there have been
several apparently intentional major changes in Marlboro since 1969 that have
caused its 7/N ratio to increase significantly . This was achieved by reduction
in "tar", but even greater reduction in smoke nicotine . It would appear that
the Marlboro T/N ratio is trending in the opposite direction compared to WINSTON .
Compensation for an increased T/N ratio by increasing smoke pH and therefore
higher free nicotine is not'the total explanation, because WINSTON pH has increased
to the point that the free nicotine values for both WINSTON and Marlboro are now ,
much closer, the Marlboro still having a higher value .
Somehow annual crop variations are leveled out very effectively, in Marlboro
and although the changes that are probably intentional are seemingly in the
wrong direction, the consumer appears to have proven them right . We must admit
that they likely know something that we do not .
3 . 0 tp imum and Threshold Nicotine Values
Little progress has been made on defining the optimum nicotine value to
maximize satisfaction and no progress has been made on defining the existence
of a threshold or minimum value . However, a consumer study planned for 1978 is
intended to help shed some light here and progress has been made on designing
test cigarettes for this study .
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a.Ex erimental blends reoared - Ideally, a series of test cigarettes
with t e same tar de iveryan taste characteristics, but varying nicotine
level is required to determine optimum and minimum nicotine requirenents . The
same test series should then be repeated at different "tar" deliveries so that
both high and low "tar" cigarettes are evaluated . If possible, pH should also
be controlled as an independent variable . Except for Reynolds #1 cigarettes
with various levels of added nicotine, test cigarettes of this type, meeting
all requirements, have never been successfully prepared . In 1977 some success
was achieved in preparing test cigarettes at "tar" levels of 5, 10 and 15 mg/cigt
with various nicotine values and T/N ratios from M to 22 .5 . Taste characteristics
were held reasonably constant so that trends could be observed with the Research
booth panel and a new monadic ballot . As reported under the section on nicotine
taste a high correlation was observed for reported irritation and nicotine strength
with actual smoke nicotine level . No success was achieved in the variation of pH
independent of nicotine level .
•Preliminar o timum nicotine value identified - The preliminary data above
apparent y revea an opt mum n co ine eve o , mg/puff . These results
•should be regarded as unconfirmed at this point . However, it is of interest to
speculate since the value for tiINSTON has usually been over 0 .15 mg/puff and the
valutA wMarlboro 0 .13 mg/puff or less .
l . ioloQical response to nicotine difficult to quanti .fy - Measurement
of t p sioT-ogical response to nicotine by some rapt and non-invasive technique
r0oul be convenient indication of nicotine satisfaction . Nicotine is known to
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mber of small changes, such as increased pulse and heart rate, decreased
empee e of the fingertips, and altered EEG . Pilot studies on the measurement
f f .• ip temperature and pulse rate for a small group of Research subjects
showe i ferences before, during and after smoking, but they were almost impossible
.to qu ate . Individual differences and day-to-day variations are great . There
is li expectation that a successful technique will be discovered, but we will
continue~o search .
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•Consumer stud bein lanned - Together with Marketing Research a special
consumer stu yIs being eslgne t at will involve the use of the experimental
cigarettes described above . Smoking habits, cigarette consumption and preferences
will be followed for a large representative consumer panel with the aim of
establishing optimum and minimum nicotine levels as well as obtaining a better
understanding of smoker satisfaction . Final plans will be completed in January
with results scheduled for 4th quarter 1978 . We will work closely with MRD throughout this study and with•their consumer psychologist, if they hire one .
4 . Other Factors Important to Smoker Satisfaction
•Im ortance of smoke pH is unclear - The role of smoke pH in smoker satisfaction is no c ear . t s o v ous y important to taste, but how this relates to
nicotine level and T/N ratio is not well established . It has also usually been
assumed .that smoke pH determined "free nicotine" content of the smoke, and it
is calculated on that basis . However, recent evidence suggests that "free nicotine"
in the mouth is determined by the pH of the smoker's saliva . It is hoped .that ~,
experimental cigarettes can be designed with smoke pH as an independent variable . W
but the probability for success is low .
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9Smokin behavior is bein activel studied - An increasing amount of
research n the wor d is being devoted to smo ing behavior . Unfortunately
most of it is aimed at smoking cessation . The importance of smoking behavior
and basic motivations for smoking could be critical to understanding smoker
satisfaction . Unlocking the key to smoking pleasure or the positive motivations for smoking whether they be physiological or psychological, could mean
the difference between success or failure of future tobacco products . RJR is
funding some basic research on the relationship between personality and smoking
behavior and we will stay abreast of that research as well as staying up-to-date
through the use of outside consultants . Together with these consultants we will
decide on the desirability of hiring our own in-house behavioral scientist .
•~Nicotine pha~rmaco~loa - There are no plans to do any in-house research
relate to o icotine pharmacology, but 'recent research on brain chemistry suggests
that certain chemicals, some of which are nicotine-like alkaloids, act on the
"pleasure centers" of the brain . In fact, some researchers are actively working
on nicotine and its role in brain chemistry in an attempt to identify how it works .
This research could provide breakthroughs in understanding nicotine satisfaction
and we will at least try to keep up-to-date with the literature .
COPag.U$IONS :
?°"lde have yet to adequately understand smoking satisfaction . Obviously,
" nic in• is important but just how important has not been defined . The relation""ship een nicotine taste and nicotine satisfaction is not clear . Smokers
a ,app be able to identify nicotine on the basis of its taste, which they
ass with irritation, but surprisingly cannot detect, on the basis of taste
alo e, v ey high levels of nicotine when accompanied by high "tar" delivery and
'ther high T/N ratios . Whether upon extended smoking they would be able to
dist sh different nicotine levels on the basis of nicotine response alone
is not kriown . Nicotine taste and satisfaction may be totally independent responses .
Although it appears that T/N ratios below 10 are not required, these results
are based primarily on taste and limited smoking . An extended-use consumer study
hopefully will be more definitive in identifying optimum and minimum nicotine
levels . Increased nicotine may not be required in the near future, particularly
with record high nicotine values for flue-cured tobacco in 1976 and 1977, but
we must be prepared for those low nicotine crops that will surely come .
We have made substantial progress in obtaining general knowledge, but as
in all new research areas, we have probably raised more new questions than we
have answered .
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS :
The work to date represents the combined effort of several different
groups in two sections . The following individuals have contributed :
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Dr . W . M . Henley
Dr . M . E . Stowe
Dr . J . P . Dickerson
Dr . C . L . Neumann
Mr . M . D . Shannon
Dr . C . E . Rix
Dr . D. Lynm
Dr . T. A . Perfetti
Mrs . M-J . Wallace
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Authors : Thomas A . PerlfilEQi ~`°'~ Y anuary 30, 1978
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Division : Chemical Research Notebook Pages : 306351-306353
CIM, 1978, No .
No . of Pages :
.IMPROVED AMMONIATED RECONSTITUTED SHEET
SUMMARY :
Chemically bonding ammonia ;as the pectate amide and nicotine as the
pectate salt into ammoniated reconstituted sheet should improve the nicotine
transfer a vor of RJR•tobacco products .
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't.he pectate amida in reconstituted tobacco sheet . This may
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to breaak down the pectin in tobacco . It is believed that
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nicotinic sa
I-respectively . T.hese compounds, therefore, will be chemically
ium phosphate in the pulping process . It is known that
bound into the s•heet . The transfer•of nicotine may be enhanced by this
process since the nicotine pectate is relatively thermally stable . The
temperature needed for the release of free nicotine from this salt occurs at
a temperature higher than that needed for pyrolysis of nicotine . What this
may mean is that in our present reconstituted sheet where most of the nicotine : :
is sprayed onto the surface, pyrolysis of nicotine may be taking place before a :
sufficient quantity is transferred . The proposed ammoniated sheet should
resist nicotine pyrolysis and merely cleave the salt releasing more intact,
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adsorbed in some manner onto the sheet . This ammonia is released on standing
and can be removed entirely by heating at 80-90° C for a short period of time
(1 hr .) . The Philip Morris sheet also releases some aminonia but seems'to
transfer more nicotine than our sheet . It is our belief that a portion of the
ammonia and most of the available nicotine are chemically bound in the sheet .
The taste of WINSTON A using the ammoniated sheet resembles Phi1i Morris'
Marlboro but on heat treatment the WINSTON A reverts back to WINSTON while the
Marlboro retains its same taste .
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Dr . A . H . Laurene, Dr . M . Senkus(file)
Dr . A, Rodgman, Dr . H . J . Bluhm,
Library (file)
Mr . R.
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H. Pieh1, Dr . M . E . Stowe (file)
A. Giles, Mr . J . P. Clingman,
W. L . Clapp, Dr . C . T. Mansfield,
J . T . Dobbins, Dr. W . M. Henley,
J . N . Schumacher, Library (file)
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Considering the facts that :
1 . The blends of Marlboro and WINSTON are very similar
except for the type of reconstituted sheet,
2. WINSTON A and Marlboro both use ammoniated sheets and
resemble each other in taste, and .
3 . On heat treatment WINSTON A reverts to WINSTON but
Marlboro retains its identity,
the composition of the twb different reconstituted~sheels represent the
major difference .
It is our belief that if ammonia is incorporated into our sheet, in its
preparation, that both amidation and salt formation will occur and will afford :';
a better, more stable reconstituted sheet exhibiting the properties of the
Philip Morris sheet and hopefully increasing the nicotine transfer .
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• FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
TVaslilng ton, D.C. 20S80
OFFICE OF lNFORMATlON M-6800 Ext. 197 .
For ItCLEASE:It.4EDIAT%, Friday, tlarch 25, 1956 . ~, The Federal Trade Cosmission today announced that it has sent identical letters
~ to each of the nation's major cigarette manufactui•ers and to Mr . Robert D . Meyner,
: Administrator ot The'Cigarette Advertising Code, Inc ., in regard to factual statesunts of tar annicotino
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content on labels and in advertising of cigarettes .
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The text of the letter is as follows :
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. , Gentlemens
. The Cigarette Advertising Guides promulgated by the Commission in
, September 1953 provided that no representation should be made that "any .
brand or cigarette or the smoke therefrom is low in nicotine or tars * w* '
when it has not been established by competent scientific proof applicable
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at the ti wa o f di ssem i nation that the claim is true , and if true , that
such difference or differences are significant ." On the basis of the ~
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---•--••--••- •• facts now available to it, the Cosmission has determined that a factual
statement of the(ar and nicotine content (expressed in milligrams) of ~
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ce lrom a cigarette vould not be ! a vi ola tion of such
the mainstream ar.o
Guides, or of any of the provisions of law administered by the Co=sission,
so long as (1) no collateral representations (other than factual statemeats of tar end nicotine contents of cigarettes offered for sale to the ,
public) are made, expressly or by implication, as•to reduction or elimination of health haaards, and (2) the statement of tar and nicotine content
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is supported by adequate records of tests conducted in accordance with
the Cambridge Filter Method, as described in an article entitled " Deterrai nation of Particulate Matter and Alkaloids (as Nicotine) in Cigarette
Smoke," by C .,L . Ogg, which appeared in the Journal .of the Association ~ :
. of Of,ficial Agricultural Chemists, Vol . 47, No . 2, 1964 . It is the
Comission's position that it is in the public interest to promote the
• dissemination of truthful information concerning ,eigarettes which msy be
materi~al and desired by the consuming public .
~•~' . Hy direction of the Cosoaission .
Joseph W . Shea,
Seereteay.