Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...markedly reduced risk of lung cancer (compared with the much higher risk for those who smoke two packs or more). So, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute told the committee, a filter that stops 40% or more of tar from a regular cigarette made of good tobacco "will be a partial answer." But during the five-year boom in filters, no such tip has been marketed. Testified Dr. Wynder: "Some companies have taken advantage of the public's desire for filtered cigarettes and its equal wish for good tobacco flavor by marketing increasingly ineffective...
Added-"Easy Draw." Wynder's and other laboratory studies have shown that most filter-tip brands are as bad as. in many cases actually worse than, old-fashioned untipped cigarettes of regular length, because 1) the filters catch only a minimum of tar. and 2) to get the flavor through the filter, the manufacturers have taken to using stronger tobacco, which produces more...
...last week announced that it had improved the filter in its Kent cigarettes to give "significantly less tars and nicotine . . . plus easy draw." Though Lorillard did not mention the word "health" in its ads. or Dr. Wynder's specifications, it appeared to meet those specifications. A Kent regular, it claimed, passes 17 milligrams of tar and 1.36 milligrams of nicotine through its filter; the king size passes 21 milligrams of tar. 1.7 milligrams of nicotine (an independent laboratory got slightly higher readings for the tar. lower for nicotine). This put Kent regulars 36% to 44% lower in tar yield...
...first of two articles on filter-tip cigarettes, Reader's Digest reported this month that American Tobacco Co.'s king-size filter brand, Hit Parade, actually contains 15% more tar and 33% more nicotine than the same company's unfiltered, regular-size Lucky Strike, which sells for 2? less a pack. Said the Digest: "It is entirely possible to manufacture filter tips much more efficient than any now on the market." They 1) "would cost no more to produce," and 2) would give smokers "a significant reduction in cancer risk" (see MEDICINE). Last week, after 18 years...
...Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available free to electronics firms, saved $4,200,000 in lower prices for electronic circuits...