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...Since taste is a big selling point, each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent mixed with the tobacco to attract moisture. In most cigarets the hygroscopic agent is glycerin; Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol. The result, it claims, with substantiation from many a doctor, is less irritation to the membranes of the throat...
...William D. McNally, University of Chicago toxicologist and lieutenant-colonel of the Chemical Warfare Reserve Corps, recommends a 0.4% solution of sodium sulphite in a mixture of 75% glycerin and 25% water as an antidote for tear gas in the eyes. For burns made on the skin by the gas, Dr. McNally recommends liberal dousing with alcohol, glycerin, or (best) a solution of sodium sulphite in 50% alcohol...
...machine is a small air conditioner which dries and warms air drawn from outdoors, and passes it over trays containing creosote, phenol, iodine, glycerin, oil of garlic, other essential oils. Victims of colds, bronchitis, asthma, sinusitis, or tuberculosis would be cured by breathing that medicated atmosphere three to 16 hours a day. So said Mr. Fingard...
Philip Morris sales boomed from the start. But to give them added impetus, President McKitterick speeded up research on a hygroscopic agent called diethylene glycol. A hygroscopic agent is what attracts and retains moisture in tobacco. Most cigarets use glycerin. Chemists discovered, however, that when diethylene glycol is burned, unlike glycerin, it does not give off an irritant called acrolein. That was a neat find indeed, and it promptly went into Philip Morris advertising, though Philip Morris claimed that it had been using the agent all along...
President McKitterick then took his diethylene glycol to Columbia University pharmacologists, had them experiment. They put a solution of smoke from cigarets containing the new hygroscopic agent under the eyelid of a rabbit. To President McKitterick's delight, it produced less swelling than a solution from cigarets using glycerin and, curiously, less than a solution from cigarets using no hygroscopic agent at all. How much this test really proved is still a matter of debate. A solution of smoke is not smoke, a rabbit's eye is not a human throat and almost nothing is known about...