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...your article "Making Cigarettes Safe" [April 22]: Has Researcher Wynder tried ethyl alcohol (possibly in the form of bourbon or Scotch) for extracting the natural waxes from the tobacco leaf? One could have a smoke and a drink all in one and eliminate the need for the hip flask...
...Leaf. In Madison, Wis., the State Bureau of Personnel offers a $325-a-month summer job: "Shade Tree Inspector...
Tentative Conclusion. Could the original substance from which the cancer agent is formed be pinned down and removed from the tobacco? Wynder & Co. closed in on a natural waxy substance that is known to coat the tobacco leaf. In the wax are "aliphatic hydrocarbons.'' which, burned at high temperatures, produce "polycyclic hydrocarbons," and these in turn can cause cancer...
...filter boom is doubly gratifying to manufacturers. Filter cigarettes sell for 2? to 10? a pack more than regulars, but cost less to produce. Chief reason: they use a low-grade, high-nicotine, heavy-bodied tobacco to get the taste through to the smoker. This darker, heavier leaf wholesales for only 42? a Ib. (up from 25? before the big switch to filters), but far less than the 62? a Ib. for the lighter tobacco that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same...
Manufacturers are also trimming tobacco bills by salvaging the stems and scraps they once threw away, pulverizing them into homogenized tobacco to mix with regular leaf (TIME, June 18). As a result, makers bought 35 million lbs. less tobacco last year than in 1955, and tobaccoland farmers are howling. In North Carolina, where two-thirds of U.S. cigarette tobacco is grown, the state senate recently urged Congress to order that cigarette ingredients be stated on every package. Complained State Senator Henry G. Shelton: "What is happening to the cigarette is a shame. It is scrap tobacco at one end, cellulose...