Smoking: Tar, Nicotine & Filters

Cigarette smokers who wanted to pick a winner in the tar-and-nicotine sweepstakes got a form sheet last week from one of the nation's leading cancer research organizations, the New York State-supported Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo. Director George E. Moore reported that machine smoking and chemical analysis disclosed the following yields (in milligrams) for 56 brands:

Brand Type-Tar Nicotine Marvels. . .KF. . . 8.3. ..0.32 Cascade. . KMF. 9.1. ...0.34 Carlton . . . .KF . . 9.7. .. .0.74 King Sano. . KFD . 12.0. . . 0.39 Duke KF .12.3. . . . . 0.46 Life...

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