Word: filterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.M.A., which banned all tobacco advertising from its publications Jan. 1, swung hard last week on a manufacturer who had cited A.M.A. findings in cigarette ads. In 80 newspapers last month, P. Lorillard Co. had advertised: "The A.M.A. . . . tests proved that of all the filter cigarettes tested, one type was the most effective for removing tars and nicotine.-This type filter is used by Kent . . . and only Kent...
...Until the clinical relationship between the amount of nicotine and tars and their effect on the individual smoker is conclusively established, no filter can offer a panacea except one that possesses 100% efficiency. The hard facts of the matter are that a completely efficient filter would permit the smoker to inhale nothing...
...Based on a preliminary report published by A.M.A. researchers in July 1953, that an asbestos filter (actually Kent's "Micronite") removed about 40% of nicotine and tar from cigarette smoke...
Mixing the Vaccine. In a rambling pharmaceutical plant beside the Detroit River, the Parke. Davis technicians perform more alchemy. Using both Toronto-grown virus and their own crop, they filter the brew (to get rid of kidney cells, which might cause nephritis), make up 12½-gal. lots in steel tanks and add a dilute formaldehyde solution. When they are satisfied that the formaldehyde has killed every one of the billions of virus particles in the tank, they are ready to mix the vaccine...
...FILTER-TIP cigarette competition will get hotter when R. J. Reynolds brings out its new king-size Winston at just 2? a pack above the price for its Camels. Most filter tips sell for 6? to 9? more than regular cigarettes...