Cigarette Additives - Doubts About Their Safety

January 6, 2012 According to an analysis published in PLoS Medicine, scientific research conducted by the tobacco industry on the safety of cigarette additives cannot be taken at face value. Research leader Stanton Glantz from the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California in San Francisco and his team re-examined data from “Project MIX”, a study that was conducted by the tobacco company Philip Morris, in which the company’s scientists preformed a chemical analysis of the potential toxicity of 333 additives in cigarettes. The results of their study were published in Food and Chemical Toxicology in 2002.

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