Medicine: Tobacco Smoking

The American Medical Association published in its Journal last week an analysis of the nicotine content of certain specific brands of pipe, cigar and cigaret tobaccos.

Nicotine — Pipe, Cigar & Cigaret Tobaccos. To verify the claims of "denicotinized" tobacco manufacturers the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment made quantitative chemical tests for the actual nicotine content of certain treated and untreated brands. The percentage :

PIPE TOBACCOS

Blue Boar 1.45 Lucky Strike Plug 1.76

Craven Mixture 2.84 Old English Curve Cut 1.94

Gilbert's Mixture 2.09

Hudson's Bay Imp. Mixture 1.95 Prince Albert 1.82

Tuxedo 2.22

DENICOTINIZED PIPE...

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