Article: Up in smoke: Truth about tar and nicotine ratings

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Congressional Testimony;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... have long relied on these tar and nicotine ratings to determine which cigarettes ... Consumer Alert,` about their tar and nicotine ratings, which said, `Don ... numbers` and `cigarette tar and nicotine ratings can`t predict the amount ...

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Congressional Testimony;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... standardized information about the tar and nicotine yields of cigarettes ... practices - including claims about tar and nicotine ratings for cigarettes. For example, in ... Barclay cigarettes had only 1 mg. of tar. The FTC had previously revoked ...

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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 8, 2007 ;     428 words ... ... testimony that its "ratings tend to be relatively poor predictors of tar and nicotine exposure," noting how machine-measured tar and nicotine ratings are not an accurate reflection of tar and nicotine intake. The committee will also review the FTC ...

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Congressional Testimony;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... regarding the disease risk of so called low-tar or ``light`` cigarettes, and the challenges ... information to smokers about the levels of tar, nicotine, and other hazardous chemicals ... demonstrating that ``light`` and low-tar cigarettes do not reduce smokers` exposure ...

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Congressional Testimony;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... but were, in fact, not really lower in tar or nicotine and certainly were not any less ... machines using a technique for measuring tar and nicotine known as the FTC method. The ... misled consumers by marketing light and low tar cigarettes as having less tar and nicotine ...

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Congressional Testimony;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... findings: machine- measured yields of tar and nicotine are not informative with regard ... with lower machine-measured yields of tar and nicotine provides no clear benefit to ... decline since the 1950s in machine- measured tar and nicotine yields of cigarettes smoked ...

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Congressional Testimony;  November 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... does not provide accurate information about tar and nicotine exposure to cigarette smokers ... health: the 1960s to 1980s plummeting of tar and nicotine levels in cigarettes as rated ... reasonably believe that their exposure to tar and nicotine will be less from cigarettes ...