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Blowing smoke: how cigarette manufacturers argued that nicotine is not addictive
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"We show that the FDA is wrong on key factual and scientific points. Our comments review the many flaws in and evidence contradicting the FDA's allegations regarding such matters as tobacco growing, cigarette manufacturing and addiction."
Steven Parrish, senior vice president, Philip Morris. 2 January 1996.1
Despite the release of secret documents showing that many tobacco
industry scientists and officials have long considered nicotine to be
addictive,2 some industry executives still insist that smoking is just a habit that should not be classified with other forms
of drug dependency.3 In April 1999, cigarette manufacturer Brown & Williamson unveiled a web site <www.brownandwilliamson.com> that contests the modern definition of addiction and argues that "the
issue should be whether consumers are aware that smoking may be
difficult to quit (which they are) and whether there is anything in
cigarette smoke that impairs smokers from reaching and implementing a
decision to quit (which we
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