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Lorillard Tobacco Company document: The Concept of Less Hazardous Cigarettes
Author: D.M. Conning
May 15, 1978
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Page One
"Is it morally permissible to develop a safe method for administering a habit-forming
drug, when, in so doing, the number of addicts will increase?"
"...given that substantial numbers of people do smoke, and are seriously damaged by
it. It is thus in the best tradition of preventative medicine to find a mechanism
which allows the activity to continue less hazardously."
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Page Two
"All recorded civilizations have developed the means to cushion the harsh realities
by the use of drugs, and most have accepted this as a natural human function." The
disapproval of drug use "has been based on several different aspects of the problem,
from a quasi-religious approach ('an assault of the temple of God') to a fearful concern
for degraded humanity." "...we should not seek to expand but cannot dispel the habit; and, that our real
duty likes in diminishing the adverse consequences [of smoking]."
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Page Three
"The technical problem of achieving this is truly formidable, mainly because of the
complex nature of tobacco smoke, and our lack of knowledge of basic human toxicology.
Smoking is associated, classically, with three sets of diseases - pulmonary cancer, chronic
bronchitis and emphysema (chronic obstructive airway disease) and cardiovascular disease,"
"...we have little understanding of the proximate constituents of tobacco smoke which result
in these disease processes, or of the mechanisms involved."
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Page Four
To reduce the adverse consequences of smoking, there are a number of methods to consider.
These include "modification of the tobacco itself by prior extraction, or the use of
inert filters, or the use of synthetic smoking materials." One great advantage of simplification
of smoke by filtration is "that it reduces the particulate phase constituents of smoke
and the concomitant disadvantage that this includes nicotine."
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Page Five
"One important practical matter which underlies all of these procedures is the need to
develop a cigarette that will be smoked by the confirmed smoker. There is little point in
a safer cigarette which is not acceptable to the client."
"The main factor in cigarette acceptability is the nicotine content of smoke."
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Page Six
"In summary, once it is established that the smoking habit is another example of man's
attempt to control his environment by controlling his perception of it, it becomes
permissible to explore a number of ways by which smoking can be made safer."
"The habit can never be safe and we must guard against the introduction of new hazards by
an ignornant attack on those already defined."
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Page Seven
Cover Sheet -- only visible text reads, "Received Jun 23, 1978, A.J. Stevens"
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| | BACKGROUND NOTE: This report from the Lorillard
Tobacco Company provides us with what may
be the tobacco industry's operative philosophy: that drug-seeking and
drug-taking behaviors are a normal part of human existence, and that
administration of nicotine to treat stress is a "noble" action.
Quotes:
All recorded civilizations have developed the means to cushion harsh
realities by the use of drugs, and most have accepted this as a natural
human function. Only over the last 100 years has the use of drugs (with
the attendant risk for a small minority) been frowned upon. This
disapproval has been based on several different aspects of the problem,
from a quasi-religious approach ('an assault on the temple of God') to a
fearful concern for degraded humanity. Few have queried the underlying
reasons for this consistent human endeavor, the development of drugs
that induce tranquillity of euphoria.
Our view is that is it related to the state of receptivity of the human
mind, which is subject to a multitude of stimuli that evenually it
requires some dampening effect....We have also learned that certain
chemicals bring relief of the so-called 'stress' which enables the mind
to continue in a more enjoyable 'frame'. In this sense, the use of
nicotine is noble, for it is a truly ingenious solution to the
management of the internal environment....
Anne Landman
American Lung Association of Colorado, West Region Office
Grand Junction
Title: The Concept of Less Hazardous Cigarettes
Type of Document: Report
Author: D.M. Conning
Date: 05/15/78
No. of Pages: 7
Site: Lorillard Tobacco Co. Document Site
http://www.lorillarddocs.com/
URL:
http://www.lorillarddocs.com/getallimg.asp?DOCID=01414847/4853
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