Word: ammonias
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According to internal reports from the nation's third largest cigarette maker, tobacco companies have been enhancing nicotine delivery for smokers by adding ammonia-based compounds to cigarettes. The confidential studies, which were obtained by the Wall Street Journal, came from Brown & Williamson (makers of Viceroy and Raleigh). One of them points out that while the company introduced no extra nicotine in its cigarettes, adding ammonium hydroxide appears to provide "increases in impact and satisfaction...
...ammonia leak in the refrigeration system of the Haviland Candy factory forced the evacuation of homes in the area and the closing of several streets, limiting access to the Cambridgeside Galleria on Saturday afternoon...
...Ammonia tends to drive people away," he said. "When it comes you usually don't have to tell people to leave. They tend to run in front...
...order to contain the leak, the Fire Department cut off the ammonia feed to the factory's refrigeration system in the basement...
...Oklahoma City bombing was not merely two lunatics with Ammonia Nitrate and blasting caps. It was a symptom of our violent society, but it was also a product of allowing private citizens to possess dangerous weapons, whether blasting caps or hand-guns...