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KENT CIGARETTES are being rationed to jobbers by P. Lorillard Co. because recent promotion of company's nicotine-and tar-cutting filter has lit up sales. Kent, which last year was far down the list, is now challenging top filter brands. Lorillard's stock has puffed from year...
Scored for Tar. The Minneapolis will also première Cowell's Persian Set, a haunting, eastern-flavored piece originally scored for twelve instruments, including the three-stringed Persian tar. Cowell was also able, in the past year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...
...extract tobacco tar from cigarettes for their cancer-tracking experiments on mice, doctors use strange contraptions that smoke cigarettes incessantly. Latest and biggest such smoking robot was installed last week in Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Puffing 600 cigarettes every ten minutes-100 cartons a day-the machine's rotating drum takes ten drags, ejects the butts and begins smoking new ones blown into place by compressed air. The smoke inhaled by the machine is broken down in refrigerated condensers to produce the tar...
Wanted: Rules. Dr. Wynder pointed out, however, that a 40% filter would be effective only "provided that the smoker does not decide to smoke twice as many cigarettes, and provided, too, that the tobacco selection, cut or packing, is not altered to yield increasingly more tar ... Regulations must be passed that establish criteria for the amount of tar which may pass through a given filter, and require the manufacturer to state the effectiveness of the filter...
...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...