Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that cigarette makers boosted filter-tip sales from 1.4% of the market in 1952 to better than 40% today by playing on the cancer scare with "deceptive" and "misleading" ads. Actually, said the committee, "the filter cigarette smoker is, in most cases, getting as much or more nicotine and tar than he would get from the regular cigarette the advertisers have persuaded him to abandon-for his health's sake...
...filters were loosened to permit a larger number of smoke particles to get through. Second, the blend was changed to include more of the stronger, heavier-bodied tobaccos." In 1952 P. Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine and tar content. Similarly, Liggett & Myers' L & M brand had only 1.5 milligrams of nicotine, 11 milligrams of tar in 1955; two years later...
Every major cigarette maker did the same. R. J. Reynolds changed the filter on its Winston brand until in 1957 it let through 3.8 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar v. 3 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar for unfiltered king-size Chesterfield. The percentages are similar for Marlboro, Viceroy, Tareyton, Parliament and the rest of the popular filters. Net effect: "The public has paid premium prices of 2? to 6? per pack . . . for 'protection' they did not receive...
...them, at least, are carcinogens (i.e., can cause cancer). The result, says Dr. Ivor Cornman in Cancer Research, is that the U.S. is "submerged in carcinogens, few of which we can recognize." Biologist Cornman, of the Hazleton Laboratories in Falls Church, Va., is not exercised about coal-tar derivatives used in dye-making, some oil products, chromate and uranium ore dusts: their hazards are recognized and it is up to industry (with a prod from government) to see that they are used safely. Neither is he alarmed by chemicals added to food: these are being tested for safety (though...
Headquarters. In Mexico City, José Miguel Belio, arrested with wife Isabel for fishing pesos from a church alms box with a stick dipped in tar, told police: "I am innocent. Isn't money from the alms box given to the poor? Well, we are poor as hell...