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Just eight months after proudly announcing its support of the Strickman cigarette filter-for which it received a major financial interest in return-Columbia University last week did an embarrassed about-face. Acting at the request of the inventor, New Jersey Chemist Robert L. Strickman, who felt that the university was dragging its feet on the product, Columbia backed out of the deal. The university said that it had made "a well-intentioned mistake in entering a highly controversial and competitive commercial field." It had indeed, suggested Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. The outspoken tobacco industry foe charged...
...that finish the filter? Far from it. Strickman supporters insisted that Magnuson had misinterpreted a Columbia-sponsored test that, in fact, showed the invention to be more effective in eliminating tar and nicotine than the cellulose acetate filters used on the most widely smoked filter cigarettes. Not only are some U.S. cigarette makers continuing to express interest in the filter, but last week both Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada Ltd. (du Maurier and Player's), and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., negotiated licenses to use the filter. The companies are two of the biggest in Canada, and they...
Chief Beneficiary. Before that happens, however, further research on the filter will be performed. Though Strickman's device may be more effective than the cellulose acetate variety, there are other filters already on the market -including those on such cigarettes as Marvels and Cascades-that probably rival it in reducing tar and nicotine. But most such brands have enjoyed only moderate success among smokers, many of whom feel that the filters diminish taste and make it harder to "draw." While the Strickman filter may likewise be hard on the draw, a consumer study for Strickman by Market Analyst Virginia...
...TIME is happy to print President Finch's rebuttal, but the conclusion was formed by Robert Strickman, and clearly attributed...
...Your story "Smoking & Safety" [Sept. 1] misleads in regard to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. On Aug. 25 we tested some filters made by the Strickman group in order to be informed of the present state of development. Such testing does not indicate, as you aver, that Brown & Williamson is now "satisfied with the Strickman device." That is a conclusion that you formed without any verification from...